I had alot of spy-ware on a computer and ran MS Spy-ware removal tool and now my Explorer.exe will not come up, no desktop no icons on noting. I can press crtl->Alt->delete and bring up task manager, that is it.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI am getting this Security Alter message saying that " Your computer is infected with last version of PSW.x-Vir trojan. I recently downloaded this program called Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool. Hopefully this program will help me remove this trojan, but if anyone can let me know about what programs i could use to remove or if anyone could help me remove this trojan that would be greatful. Also i am getting this message on my toolbar with an x and a question mark on top of it saying that your system detected virus activities and when i click on it, it sends me to this weblink http://www.virusburst.com/?aff=321.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI received advice that the following Updated Version is now available:-Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool <http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=3565848> I tried over the last three days to download it to my Desktop, but every time I get the following Notice: Cannot download this file.Invalid http server reply. Details MZ followed by a square
View 1 Replies View RelatedIve been told that the monthly tool doesn report if it finds OR removes anything is this true
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have attempted to run this software, but each time i do so, it cause my entire system to freeze. I have tried running it from the website as well as downloading it and then running it. Both cause my system to freeze, requiring a hard boot. i have a Dell Dimension XPS Gen 4
View 1 Replies View Relatedmy dad has been having these problems for months now - updates for net framework and Windows Malicuous Software Removal Tool... keep appearing in the tray as updates and when he installs them they re-appear - I think its summit to do with .NET Framework but i tried re-installing them all manually and it still happens..
View 9 Replies View RelatedI use to update my Xp SP-2 regularly from MS website. Now a days it is insisting to install "Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool (KB892130)" first to proceed for downloading update files.Is it a FORCE or I can bypass this tool. I do not want to install it, as somebody told me this is a tool by MS to takeout personal information on my OS (XP) and MS Office and other MS Software.I know I use genuine legal copy.But why should I allow MS to take more information ? Is not WPA through internet is not sufficient ? Can this tool take information on other products/3rd party software like NERO,MS OFFICE and ArcSOft ?
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy PC is lousy with viruses etc. I scanned with HijackThis, but I don't understand the results. It does not automatically fix problem files, I must choose what to remove. I'm positive that I'm going to remove something vital.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI hope this is the right forum. I have XP and I am tired of my homepage being taken over by a weird search site and free porn loaded up in my IE favorites section (even after I delete them). I ran spybot and ad-aware in safe mode. It cleaned out alot of junk, but what I mentioned is still there. I am using the XP firewall that came with the computer. So do I need to go and buy a spyware program and a firewall. The free stuff isn't working. And will this even fix the problem?
View 84 Replies View RelatedThe state of my computer has been in steady decline. It all started when i got a message from my nortons internet security that winlogon.exe was trying to contact the internet.I ran hijckthis, i ran spybot, i ran ad-aware. fixed items i thought needed to be fixed. I don't know if it was before or after all this, but i began getting pop ups from sites i know do not have pop ups, like my own. ran all the programs again. the same offenders keep popping up... i have posted my logs on this site but sadly no one had responded.anyway, now every time i restart my computer, I get a dll error. every time it is a different dll. also, when on for an extended amount of time, say overnight, i lose internet connectivity, even though my cable modem is showing that there is lots of activity going on.can anyone givew me a clue what's going on, or where i can begin looking? should i just scrap it all and reformat my computer?
View 14 Replies View RelatedMy friends computer is packed with spy-ware and viruses. I've been trying to clean it up and now I'm getting this message on start up. "Windows could not start because the following file is either missing or corrupt. windowssystem32configsystem You can attempt to repair this file by running windows setup using the originally setup CD-ROM. Select "r" at the first screen to start repair". What should I do. The computer won't even start up. I don't know if he is running a bootleg version of windows or not. And his setup disk doesn't seem to help. keep from wiping his hard drive.
View 12 Replies View RelatedFor some reason my XP machine shows my CPU running at 100% all the time and when I look at the processes running these spike to 99%, but they never stay at 99% for more than a second: winlogon.exe, rundll32.exe, explorer.exe, system idle process. I just reinstalled XP to fix another issue and with just the operating system installed and no programs open it started doing this on the first bootup from the reinstallation. Before I reinstalled XP, this problem was happening and I ran every adware/spyware scanner I could get my hands, every virus scan and disable any funky looking programs in the startup. All this did not resolve the issue. Could this possibly be a hardware issue, cpu problem?
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy PC has started running really slow. I know this could be virus or spy ware related but I have Norton and have never had problems before. Just before it started I changed the desktop appearence on my display settings. It started running slow from this point.I then tried to start i-tunes and it crashed.The ususal whirring noise (hard disk?) now sounds like a ticking. Every so often it jumps into life and runs a t normal speed.My operating system is XP. 250GB HDD. Intel pentium four processor 540 (3.2ghz)
View 14 Replies View RelatedComputer is infected! Dangerous infection was detected on your PC. The system will now download and install most efficient anti malware program to prevent data loss and your private information theft. Click here to protect your computer from the biggest malware threats. This message keeps popping up near the bottom of my screen every four or five seconds. How can I get rid of this popup?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am currently using: Trend Micro PC-cillin, Webroot Spy Sweeper, Microsoft AntiSpyware, ewido anti-malware and I have Spybot Search & Destroy installed. All of this software (along with Windows) is kept updated and none of the software mentioned has found anything (except for the occasional tracking cookie) wrong with my computer.
when i boot from cd "Setup is inspecting your hard ware configuration" message displayed and blank screen monitor seen so what is the solution?
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but until it's solid I prefer IE6. Can I reinstall 6,
Back when I first installed x64 many months ago, I apparently installed the VIA USB 2.0 driver, before I knew that wasn't required on this OS. Looking for the cause of another problem, while looking through the Event Manager, I found a couple of system errors that turned out to be USB filters that the system was blocking. I didn't even remember installing the driver, and when I check in Add/Remove Programs, it's not listed. I decided to simply delete the filters and the USB driver folder. However, after rebooting, I wasn't able to use my mouse, so I couldn't restore the driver from the Recycle Bin. I ended up having to do a System Restore, which set things as they were. Still, I'm looking for a way to remove this that won't cause problems. The only thing that I can think of is to try a repair installation of the OS, but I'm unsure that would do this either. I'm guessing that the VIA driver fouled up the native USB on the system, and this is the root cause of some mouse problems that I have been trying to fix for a long time.
View 8 Replies View RelatedWe had pcguard as the defences provided by blueyonder, our broadband provide,r for about a year and it worked very well. They then announced a new version and when I downloaded it, the windows were too small for the screens behind them and the procedure was unusable. I asked blueyonder for help but ended up with a frozen pc. I managed to restart it myself and then, tried to uninstall the new pcguard but it won't go away. There is a possibility to instal a new version of the pcguard, but it will not install because the former version will not go. The computer has been behaving strangely since. e.g. :
1] Saying it has to configure HP1Z423 for some things like email or internet, which it did not do before.
2] Starting up in something which looks a bit like safe mode screen, but when enter is pressed, it starts up normally.
Desktop file folders (links from My Documents) suddenly appeared with *.lnk extensions. I have hidden known file extensions but these remain. How can I hide them?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI get alot of system crashes lately and completly being thrown off the internet. I then noticed blinking of the screen when asking to do certain tasks. I have Norton Anti Virus running and is up to date. Everything from AOL{my ISP} to main commands of the system act up and will not function. When I restart my computer, go into SAFE MODE, Click System Restore, the problem does not go away and keeps doing the same thing. I try running commands in the RUN box and the function comes up and then dissappears, I also try deleting some file's that may have currupted other tasks and it will not let me. I then had two viruses that Norton picked up and nothing happened and then deleted.." So either theres more I cant see" or, it's verry possible that my computer is being run by someone other than me
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