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| | Every time I open up an Internet Explorer window, I get popups saying that I might have spyware and popups about free screensavers (screensavers.com), poker, and online matchmaking (like Tickle). I also get whole new Internet Explorer windows with some website, the most common one being Sandboxer. There is another …  |
| | Oh woe is me! This problem is just going on and on and nothing I do can solve it! Everytime I boot up, explorer.exe has a fit and has an error, and/or I get a message popping up saying that "The instruction at "xxxxxxxxxxx" referenced memory at "xxxxxxxxx". The memory … |
| | When I power up my HP Pavilion ze5300 laptop, I get the Welcome Screen "without" any user names to select. I "have not" recently loaded any new software from the internet or otherwise. I am running Windows XP Home which was installed by the manufacturer (HP). I have used the … |
| | mother-in-law has prob on computer.ran Ran M$ spyware removal software and removed some Ran SBS&D and removed stuff Ran AD AW and removed stuff. Did an AGV AV Full scan and now clean of all above with deep scan done When going to M$ update site it comes up blank. …  |
| | I noticed 3 things in there that say...... compatability-mode paging reduces overall system performance Drive A is using MS-DOS compatability mode file system Drive C is using MS-DOS compatability mode file system Any idea what to do and what this means?? :cry: I'm running Windows 98SE Thanks, Heidi |
| | lately my pc has been giving me loads of trouble even though i can fix these its still annoying, yet theres 2 problems i cannot solve. 1. whenever i try to boot in safe mode, even without networking my computer will restart after i have chosen the user, it works … |
| | if i am going to format my harddrive how can i back up some software that i dont want to lose (because ive lost the cd for it). cheers |
| | Hey I finally finished my new system. The specs are in my signature. I have Windows XP pro on a 40GB partion of a 60GB Maxtor SATA drive. I also have a 160GB Hitachi ATA drive divided into two partitions, 120GB (for storage and programs) and 40GB(for music only). First … |
| | I have A Compaq presario I am trying to install windows XP Home on I have Fdisk the hard drive formated it done a scandisk 0 all segments tried to install XP but half the files will not load this one has me lost.any help would be greatly appreciated have … |
| | I have SpyBot and Ad-Aware, and I run them multiple times a day. Today I got a huge virus anyway. When I start Internet Explorer, it goes directly to a 'homepage', or rather some virus lion's den called Home Search. A pop-up screams 'YOU ARE INFECTED!' No really. I tried …  |
 | I have had problems today with the ISTsvc & I think I have gotten rid of it by going to the Task Manager and ending the following: mmups.exe which then let me end and remove istsvc.exe through Spybot; however, I have searched in C:/Windows and have found these files that … |
| | Hello, I have unfortunately acquired a virus called "home search assistent"... I have noticed that it might be a pretty common virus. I was wondering if anyone could help me or maybe give some advice to remove the virus and it's compentents. My hotmail account is now disrupted, AOL instant … |
| | every time i try to surf i get taken back to a search site i do NOT want. address bar says abouy blank. how can i get rid of this and make it stop ? PLEASE keep in mind i'm computer dumb :o |
| | Hi, I used the recovery partition on my HP 762n PC to restore WinXP to the original state, since I plan on giving this computer to a friend. Then I went to Windows Update and downloaded about 25 updates and restarted my PC. Now when I go to Tools>Windows Update … |
| | Hi. The install disc for a game of mine is messed up and i cant reinstall the game. The reason is that a file in data2.cab is not the same size as it is on the hdd or somethign ? how do i open up the cab and install it … |
| | Panda antivirus have found some viruses. I ran norton as well, and Ad-aware and Spybot - Search & Destroy. Here is the hjt log (windows xp), please have a look and tell me what you think: Logfile of HijackThis v1.98.2 Scan saved at 19:57:16, on 10/12/2004 Platform: Windows XP SP1 … |
| | [COLOR=Navy]i have the same problem as gbear: "yahoo goes to about:blank, [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread14109-yahoo+about%3Ablank.html[/url]" But when i go to the first link you provided it works for a bit and then a messages comes up saying there have been a problem in internet explorer and then it works for a while longer … |
| | Alright, now this thing is beginning to get on my mean and ugly side. Everytime I open a file with images in it, whether it be, GIF, JPG, PSD, PNG, etc. It gets to the point where it just automatically closes, not even a second to look at the images. … |
| | My antivirus (AVG) finds trojan horse Downloader.Small.9.BV but it can't remove it! Here is my HJT log file: Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.0 Scan saved at 10:08:22 πμ, on 23/1/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106) 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:\Program … |
| | Hi there! This is my first post in this forum. I hope you could help me in my problem. The problem is: I have a friend who needs to restart her computer everytime she is disconnected from the internet. What could be the problem? This has happened to her since … |
| | I am using the latest Internet Explorer (6) on Windows XP. About couple days ago, I was using Internet Explorer with a breeze, but now any website or url sites i type it won't apperar. It takes me straight to the Cannot find Server screen. And at the bottom it … |
| | I recently had a computer made for me and my family. It was running perfectly for the first few weeks, but then it began to slow down. I know have numerous pop ups and the computer is slowing down. My guess is that my children must have downloaded files with … |
| | I have Norton. It gives a welchia scan warning. I traced the IP address to my ISP. Should I make Norton to allow the welchia scan? How should I do it? |
| | :lol: Hi there! Havent been here for a while! After the tremendous help I got last time on this forum, I thought I would see if you could help me with another one... Problem is quite simple. I connect to the internet, and after a few short seconds, it just … |
| | Microsoft has a great one but its ONLY for XP...Is there anything as good for windows 98 SE ? To TOTALLY remove Ad Ware & Spyware? |
| | Hi I tried this on usenet but no replies yet so I thought I'd try here...a couple of weeks ago I had an infection with Freshbar, I changed from Avast to Kaspersky which I thought removed everything but it has now found this Freshbar related trojan: [url]http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=VBS%5FPSYME%2EK&VSect=P[/url] it will also … |
| | I keep on getting this pop up. This popup does not allow me to access certain websites (i.e, american airlines or any other website with javascrpit running) I have run the HIJACK THIS. My log file is below. Please help. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.0 Scan saved at 4:09:15 PM, on … |
| | when i open Internet explorer the bottom of the screen where the graft to show the completion level is ( is flickering and will not stop) help |
| | I'm running Win XP SP2. On a regular basis the system runs at 100%. I've been able to identify a Process called Sect Up Free.EXE which often runs in multiple copies. Each of them deviding 100% of the CPU. I'm able to end the processes and then everything goes back … |
| | When trying to load any sites, a "res://znedl.dll/http_404.htm" message shows up in the address bar and a "the page cannot be displayed" message shows in the browser window. I have run a HiJackThis scan and can post when replied to. Any help is appreciated. |
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