My system went haywire, and now im getting ad's like crazy and virus's coming up and for some odd reason i cant even look inside my recycle bin it says there is 2 items in there all the time then i go 2 open it an there shows nothing and i delete things and they just like disappear. By the way i tried the trial version of panda.
View 14 RepliesI wrote befroe but did not get an answer. Please help me to understand. I have windows xp with verizon/msn. my son has to 2 emails and I have 1. I have symantec virus protection and it is working properly. The problem I do not understand is everytime my son signs on to either email address the box from symantec comes up saying 32sasser has been successfully blocked. When I look at my log from symantec it shows it is blocking it constantly.I ran the sasser tool and shows no virus and did sybot and adaware, it showed 265 critical and i removed them. I understand this is being blocked but isn't there a way to stop them or it from trying to do this ?He gets emails showing from postman and RE-- emails and when we look there is nothing on the page.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI don't even know what the proper name for this problem is. I'll try my best to paint an easy picture: basically, the entire screen (not physical part) of windows xp os is flipped. the system tray/task bar is on my left side. EVERYTHING including my wallpaper, windows login screen, folders, programs, IE browser - all of them requires me to tip my head to the left side if i want to do anything. This is truly an odd incident and I didn't even know how to begin a google search without knowing how to even identify such problem.
View 4 Replies View RelatedEvery time I start the computer the folder System32 and all its files show up on the desktop. How can I stop this?
View 2 Replies View Relatedit first started with a trojan, i got one that keeps tryin to get through, but it keeps getting blocked by bitdeffender. now sometimes wen it starts up it gets very slow, and sometimes freezes so i restart and it will be fine. now i have had this for bout 3 months now cause i cnt find any way of getting rid of it, it was vundo trojan yesterday i tried to load it twice, first time it froze, so second time i tried to start it up it keep coming up with bitdeffender asking if i want to allow something, i didnt no what it was so i keep saying block, but it keep coming up again n again n again, i pressed allowed and it still keep coming up so i shut down the computer, cause i was in a rush
View 5 Replies View RelatedMy prob is a bit of a saga I defragged my Win XP Media PC a few days ago and then I noticed a clicking noise coming from the hard drive, I called PC servicecall managed to find a freephone number and the chap suggested I do a scandisk, he said to call back with the diagnosis later.
After the PC did two scandisks I managed to stop it when it was about to do a 3rd, I rebooted the PC and it loaded with no 'start' button or clock on the taskbar, so I rebooted. Then I got a message saying 'it can't load as a file was missing or corrupt windows/system32/configuration/system' it said to put in the original CD and type 'r' to repair.
Well the PC didn't come with any CD's and I only have one that I made after I'd had the PC for a month - a recovery disk.
So I called PC Servicecall back and told the guy what happened and I've got another harddrive arriving tomorrow - trouble is I need to get the info from my hard drive before I send it back to them.
I've looked at MS support site and there's options to do a manual repair (I'll copy and paste info here)
Method 1: Replace the SYSTEM Hive
Method 2: Restore the SYSTEM File from the SYSTEM.ALT Backup File
Method 3: Reduce the Size of the SYSTEM File
Method 4: Restore the SYSTEM Hive from Backup
Which all sound hunky dorey but I don't have any original bootable CD (the PC doesn't have a floppy drive), so I can't type 'r' to repair!!!!
In my possesion I do have an XP Pro CD, a Win2000 CD and a Win98 CD - my question is can I use these other CD's to try a 'repair' and get into the 'manual' area to try the methods above (the OS is Win Media Edition on the PC)?
Computer works fine except when doing this puzzle for awhile, usually late in the day. All of a sudden, screen goes white, with some black areas, taskbar disappears, toolbars too, and all I can do is move my mouse and the Start button will appear just long enough so I can close down. When I restart, all is well again. I know this is not much to go on without seeing it but hope someone can give it a try. I have a new Dell E310 Pentium 4, 512MB.
View 1 Replies View RelatedA curious problem I'm having. All dvd's, cd's, game cd's are showing as blank in explorer. I've upgraded the firmware on the drives, checked the connections etc but still nothing. Weirdly audio cd's seem to show and work in Itunes so I'm guessing it might be to with associations right or have i disabled a service by mistake?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am getting a pop up every few minutes. I also have a search bar that has installed in the lower right corner of my screen.
View 6 Replies View Relatedcan someone tell me whats going on,i was on computer when this message poped up saying i had blackworm virus ,win32 swena then a madoogali it said came from windows security center had a virus scanner to run i run it ,it had a lot of different things on it but to get rid of them i had to buy it,so i got rid of it.
I have a Dell Inspiron 2600, I have Windows XP. I don't remember anything particular happening, but one day the right click menu started coming up without me clicking, whether I was on the desktop, Netscape, AIM, Wordpad, etc. I re-installed my touchpad software, thinking that would solve the problem, but it has continued. It interfers with my typing, so checking and replying to emails is really difficult.
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View 14 Replies View RelatedI have a fairly new Gateway computer and have had several problems with it. As of a couple of days ago, I no longer have sound on my computer. None of my games have sound and I can no longer listen to the online radio stations. However, today when I was on a website, music did come out of the speaker (something the creator of the site built into his homepage). Gateway suggested I update my drivers, but none of them needed to be updated (when I attempted to update it told me I had the newest version). What can I do to see where the problem is coming from?
View 9 Replies View RelatedUsing XP Pro with SP2.The EN language bar which sits beside the System Tray keeps coming back no matter what I do.It goes away when I untick it but it's back the next time I start Windows. Have tried locking and unlocking Taskbar, no difference.Minor problem but very irritating.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI click on the little yellow shield, and it says there's an update waiting. I tell it to Express Install. It does, and says it's finished. Later, I click on the shield again, and the same update is waiting to be installed.
Message displayed during installation:
Initializing installation... done!
Installing Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework, Version 1.1 Service Pack 1 (KB928366) (update 1 of 1)...
I've "installed" this update at least three times. And I've already got SP 2 installed, so why does it keep wanting to install something from SP 1? How do I make it stop?
How can u get 2 or more web cams coming through to your own computer.while the
others can have 2 or more also.
If my computer is infected with a virus/worm and I system restore it to an infectionless date previous to catching the infection, can I safely say I no longer have an infected computer. In other words can I use my system restore feature to clean out a virus.
View 18 Replies View RelatedDid a regular system scan with Norton Antivirus, and it turned up a file "mmwview_101.dll." It also classified it as a "download.trojan" virus. Of course, as seems to always be the case, Norton was unable to fix, delete, or qurrantine the darn thing. So...I disable system restore, and restarted in safe mode. Did another system scan, exact same result. Depending upon where I look for the information, I get conflicting reports as to how serious this thing is. Nonetheless, I want rid of it. 2 questions, then: 1: what's the best way to go about getting rid of the virus, and 2: would it be completely stupid for me to just try to go in and delete the file manually?
After updating my version of iTunes this afternoon I was of course prompted to restart my laptop (an HP Pavilion dv6000), which I did. However upon start-up I noticed a variety of Windows menu texts to be completely missing - that is, the dialogue boxes and other such usually-text-containing shapes came out (albeit somewhat abnormally usually, often shortened to a few pixels) with no text in it at all. Internet pages themselves show up just fine, but any other text associated with internet explorer itself (i.e. tab and toolbar titles, dropdown menus like 'Page', etc.) is text-blank (icons still remain though, which helps a little)
View 7 Replies View RelatedFor some reason, sometimes when I start my computer, after having put it in hibernation, the screen is blank. This is as if the video card has put the monitor in standby or something. Sometimes a wake-up event, like the mouse and keyboard will fix it, but often it doesn't. In that case, I have to CTRL-ALT-DEL, then feel my way to the "restart" (and because Firefox always hangs when it quits, I have to guess when the "End Now" button comes up).
View 2 Replies View RelatedMy computer is always coming up with a message that says 'windows virtual memory is low' and yet I dont even run that many programs. granted my computer is old and I should probably buy more memory for it - though i can't afford it - but is there a program or process i should run for my computer to make the most of the memory it has and therefore run more smoothly, and therefore not flash the message 'low on virtual memory' up at me all the time?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've googled and googled and everything I've tried I either don't have the options or it didn't work. The issue is whenever I plug in my headset.. both my laptop's speakers and mic work.. as well as my headset's speakers and mic. I'm plugging the headset into the audio and mic jacks on the laptop.My laptop is an Acer.
View 7 Replies View RelatedSo a long time ago, my computer crashed when i was working with a folder I had made on my desktop. Now, no matter how many times I drop it in the recycle bin, and then empty the bin, or right click and delete it, or delete it from windows explorer. It keeps coming back It will be gone for a while... and then even within minutes. it just shows back up.
View 14 Replies View RelatedHave a relatively new J & N custom computer running Win XP-SP3. Has an Intel Core Duo E8400 CPU on an Intel mobo with onboard sound and video. 2GB RAM. Two weeks or so ago, after fooling around with some services (unchecking ones I didn't think I needed), the computer started doing something strange: When you bring it out of hibernation (not standby -- full hibernation), it comes back alive for maybe 20 seconds, looks and works normally.
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I've gone and set all the icons in my System tray, lower right corner, to ALWAYS BE HIDDEN, yet they keep coming back. Is there a registry tweak I can use? I'm using XP Home on a Compaq Laptop V5000.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI couldn't get rid of the "AlwaysUpdatedNews.com" Browser enhancer malware the conventional way through spy adware removal...so genius that I am I searched files and folders in C:drive for the specific date the "enhancer" took over and deleted every file that was CREATED on that specific date, Not Modified or so I thought.Now "Windows cannot find the file %SystemRoot%mediachord.wav" along with other .wav files.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI am in process of reinstalling XP on a pc full of viruses. Deleted the partitions and tried to create a new one. A message appeared on screen as follows:"your computer's startup program cannot gain access to the disk containing the partition or free space you chose. Setup cannot install Win XP on this hard disk.""The lack of access does not necessarily indicate an error condition. For example disks attached to a SCSI adapter that wasn't installed by your computer manufacturer or to a secondary hard disk controller are typically not visible to the startup program unless special software is used. Contact your computer or hard disk controller manufacturer for more info."
View 49 Replies View RelatedMy computer had a file that I wanted to remove but instead got this message:Cannot delete file: Access is denied.The file is in use by another program or user.I was told to install unlocker to remove the file. I right-clicked unlocker on that file and it said there is nothing to be unlocked so I deleted the file through the unlocker options. I checked the recycling bin to see if it ended up there but that file was not in the recycling bin. I thought nothing of it and assumed it's gone for good but after I restarted the computer it came back. I also scanned and removed all the bugs from my computer but still no use. It keeps coming back. Although the file keeps coming back it contains nothing and takes up 0 space.
View 14 Replies View Relatedmy pc is just suddenly switching off just like that and i suspect it could be a virus.but now the problem is if i when to run an antivirus it switches off before the scan is complete. how i can remove the virus that is if it is a virus.
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