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Hello, sorry to post straight away on a forum asking for help, but I'm afraid I have to admit defeat. First of all I work for my boss, and when I went away for christmas I was in the middle of setting up the network, and I came back to …

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My computer has been infected with somekind of spyware that leaves a yellow sign with exclamation mark in the notification tray. Every 30 seconds or so a dialog bubble appears from the yellow sign with the following message: Your computer is infected! Window has detected spyware infection. It is recommended …

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I'm embarassed to be posting this here, but I've been having a problem with my computer lately. It runs Windows Vista 64-bit and has a whopping 8 gigs of ram. However, for the past few weeks, there has been a constant RAM usage of 30-40% being eaten up by svchost.exe. …

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Dear all, I would like some help with my PC which seems to have been hijacked. I cant get into safe mode, into control panel and Ctl-Alt-Del doesnt work either. So no way to see what is causing the issue. I can open some programs randomly but the PC is …

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Hi, on my computer were installed the following programs: - avast antivirus - spayware doctor Today I noticed that my computer became very slow. When I checked the avas untivirus, I noticed that the exe file was deleted and the same happened with the spyware doctor. Please find attached hijackthis …

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When I boot up my computer for the first few minutes it is normal. Everything looks and works just fine. After 5 minutes, the taskbar changes to the old windows gray color and my voume doesn't work. Sometimes when I startup the computer, everything works fine, but the majority of …

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Hello, I was looking over running programs today when i found these programs running in the background ( HWKeyPlus.exe, and jwpen.exe) does anyone know what these are? Ive googled them and found nothing. Ran virus scan, and nothing, they are taking up a lot of memory and it is bugging …

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wow - finally I think I have arrived on the correct thread. here are my results: The only thing that I see that could perhaps be, odd, is an ATI hotkey poller? Index % of PCs with item Code Data 1 0.1% O16 {30528230-99f7-4bb4-88d8-fa1d4f56a2ab} (Installation Support) - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Common\Yinsthelper.dll 2 …

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Help me please! IExlorer keeps popping open with numerous ad sites even when I open FireFox. Installed numerous spyware/adware scanners without success. HiJAckTHis log here: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 10:16:50 PM, on 03/01/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) …

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i have the same problems i used hijackthis and found these: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.0 (BETA) Scan saved at 4:02:52 PM, on 1/4/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\LEXBCES.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe D:\Program Files\a-squared Free\a2service.exe E:\Program Files\ESET\ESET NOD32 …

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For the last 3 days my windows explorer and internet explorer have not been working properly. Window explorer will open but, when I click on a folder nothing happens. If there is a shortcut on my desktop I can get to the file that way. In internet explorer I can …

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I'm was having the problem a lot of others have had. (Just like thread post 98509) I keep geting the message "Windos Security Alert -Warning Potential Spyware Operation - Your computer is making unauthorized copies of your system and Internet files. Run full scan now to prevent any unathorised access …

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I'm Helping a Uncle Clean out his Laptop. We got this a few days ago Unable to start up and well we got there obviously :) .So then we took a whole load of viruses,spyware,Malware, ext... The task manager and Control Panel were disabled Most likely from the viruses I …

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Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 8:14:25 PM, on 1/2/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16574) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MsMpEng.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\LEXBCES.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VS7DEBUG\MDM.EXE C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MSASCui.exe C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_03\bin\jusched.exe C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe C:\PROGRA~1\YAHOO!\browser\ybrwicon.exe C:\PROGRA~1\YAHOO!\browser\ycommon.exe C:\PROGRA~1\YAHOO!\YOP\yop.exe …

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I am receiving the error message: "SYSTEM ERROR! your computer was infected by unknown trojan. it's dangerous for your system (critical files can be lost)! click OK to download the antispyware program to clean your system! (Recommended)" It pops up almost every time I go into windows explorer. I am …

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HI - new here, hope someone can help. I have read other threads re this problem, but still having same issue. I ran HJT after most recent attempt to have home page as sympatico.ca- log follows. I also ran the [url]http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/sUBs/ComboFix.exe[/url] as per another user's reply... Still the same issue. …

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When I open Windows Explorer, there are several directories with a blue arrow on the folder. When I try to access them, I get, c:\blah blah blah is not accessable. Access is denied. (where blah blah blah is the directory) I'm logged in as the administrator account (which is called …

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Hey guys, I was running some antivirus scans from my Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD, [url]www.ubcd4win.com[/url]) last night in an effort to find a solution for my inability to delete some folders on my D: drive (the problem persists, I have it posted under the Win XP forum) and I stumbled …

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I'm running Windows 2000 on a Compaq E500 laptop. I ran Adaware and Spybot Search and Destroy. Ithen installed Firefox and tried to connect to the internet. The connection is there but I cannot access any pages. I uninstalled Firefox and tried again with Internet Explorer with the same result. …

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My computer has gotten significantly slower over the past 3 or 4 months. I have done a lot of work since Saturday and cleaned off a bunch of stuff (using a variety of tools), as well as replacing my old Anti-Virus / Anti-Spyware / Firewall / etc. application with new …

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Hi. Am very new to this...so please forgive any mistakes I will make. I have been having problems with my pc ever since I installed xp sp2. Recently I tried to access [url]www.avast.com[/url] to download an antivirus program someone told me was good because I had removed spybot search & …

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It happens when I click on a link or even just activate a window on Firefox. A new IE browser opens up w/ an ad on it. Please help, below is my HijackThis log. Don't know where else to turn! Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 3:41:53 …

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hi everyone, i guess you already know this annoying little message that pops-up every few minutes - " CRITICAL SYSTEM ERROR your computer was infected by a trojan. it's dangerous for your computer, some files can be lost! click OK to download the antispyware program to clean your system! (recomended) …

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I have been having this problem - it just started today. I use an email/back office program for my business through a company called Earnware Corporation. (I don't know if that matters). I get this box that says "Internet Explorer Encountered a Problem and Needs to Close". When I click …

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Long story short I was surfing the web and this thing told me to vote three times before I could enter the site, and by the third "vote" my computer froze and the spyware troubles began. Okay so I've run ewido under safe moed, Spybot under safe mode, and ad-aware …

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Hi, First, Happy New Year!! Okay, I can not access my control panel or display properties. I had that virus/trojan horse the tried to force you to buy anti spiware, I used AVG to get rid of it, only I screwed up when it was asking me if I wanted …

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Hello, I am having virus problems. My spybot search and destroy keeps finding and removing adware etc. and my symantic antivirus keeps blocking trojans and adware also. I keep geting popups, not even online, and I cant access the add and remove programs on xp. I did a scan using …

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I really don't know why my PC always crashes when I play music, when I play NBA Live 08, sometimes when I open Yahoo Messenger, also mozilla firefox often had errors too. I already restored my system a lot of times but the problem is still there. Can u plaese …

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Hello, With peoplepc, when you get a bartshell error, you can't open the login screen or get on the internet. I heard that this bartshell is some kind of a virus? Is this true? And is it related to PeoplePC? I don't have peoplepc, I'm just trying to help a …

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When I first start up my computer a popup comes up that says windows has not allowed this program to open or something of that nature. i know its a virus or something of the sort. just dont know how to get rid of it. ive run anti-virus software and …

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