I noticed after having DSL installed we have been experiencing some freeze ups and finding viruses. We started off with AVG, then Ewido ani-malware, Microsoft Antispyware, Hijackthis, spybot.I ran Ewido last night, it found a virus and it still ran slow. Today it is running ok so far but I am not sure, it has moments of acting slow. This machine is a Dell Dimension 2200, lots of hdd space, ram is fine.
how to delete viruses
View 1 Replies View RelatedUnder Tools, Internet Options, General, Home Page, there are entries listed that I don't want. MSN is my Home Page but there are some pages listed that I want to remove. I have tried just deleting them but they just come back. I do not have any viruses on my machine. There are just 2 entries that I want to delete.
View 14 Replies View Relateda friend of mine called with a pc problem. he was given a computer, i believe a pentium 4, i haven't been over yet so i'm not sure exactly whats going on.evidently it was working fine but has been sitting for a while. he knows practically nothing about computers. the problem is all the junk that is on it. it has win xp, but he doesn't have any discs to reformat. i told him it would be best to wipe the harddrive clean and start over but how does he do that or clean up the existing mess. it appears hes got some spyware, bugs and junk because he says stuff keeps popping up, duplicating itself etc. he just had dsl installed through bell south and now he's kind of stuck so he called me
View 3 Replies View RelatedAVG Free wouldn't delete them (Idk why) and I don't know how to fix the problem. It's making things take a long time to open. It took about 10 minutes for windows to start. Help would be greatly appreciated. Everything's working normally now but I don't know what the viruses are going to do.
View 14 Replies View Relatedmy computer is old and slow, i recently had it internet enabled and now i have virus's, trojans, spywear and all that fun stuff, what id like to do is format my computer and reinstall windows xp but i dont have the windows xp disks as i recived the computer from a family member, i asked them to locate the disks for me but thay had no luck finding them, the family member that i recived the computer from had ALL KINDS of programs on it and none of them i use or need, so like i said id like to format and reinstall with hopes it will help prformance as well as get rid of the virus's and all those unused programs, so to make a long story short, i just need to talk with someone who may be able to help me, my email is harryfreeman84@hotmail.com so i hope to hear from someone soon, thank you,i guess i should say that im trying to figure out how to format and reinstall windows xp "with out Wxp disks" and mozilla firefox and from there i should be able to handle the rest
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a trojan and I am using norton antivirus it has picked it up but can not quarantine or delete it what should I do? I tried system restore in 3 different times and none would work..
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have just gone through the process of removing viruses from my computer, and then my XP theme goes away. I use XP Home Edition, and I am stuck with the Classic Theme with the lame white bars everywhere. Where do I go to reclaim my XP Theme?
View 1 Replies View Relatedfor some reason i was under the impression that my work computer had virus protection. well... nope. i had to reload the o/s (windows 2000 pro) after the computer crashed but fortunately i lost none of my data, mostly because i keep it on a thumb drive so i can work on it at home. i now have norton AV on it and got rid of more than 14 viruses or threats, and now i am wondering if anything else was left that wasn't detected. oh, and the computer is a dell optiplex gx150 workstation.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have no idea what's going on, but my computer, a Dell Inspiron, has only 1 GB of Local Disk (C left on it. Now, for the past 8 months, i've been editing & burning DVD's and films using editing software like Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5, etc, and i've never had a problem. I've always had at least 50 GBs (or so i believe) of free space at any given moment when messing around with that stuff. When editing today, I was alerted that my local disk C was running low, and once i agreed to do a 'clean-up' of some sort to remove temporary internet files & offlines files, etc, i got a problem. Suddenly, my system was unstable and I had 3 MB of free space.
View 14 Replies View Relatedalthough, I work in the it field, my specialty is not in adware/trojan or virus removal when the major vendors norton/mcafee refuse to delete the file. I've acquired and run hijack this and need some assistance in deciphering it as my system keeps freezing recently and it is really driving me a bit crazy since I don't have as much time as I would like to investigate each and every file that seems to be appearing through virus scans and startup utilities.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI clicked some virus and opened it like a idiot I need smoe help removing it. Everytime I CTRL+ALT+DELETE, the task manager comes up then its killed for some reason. The same happened for when yuou try and bring up the *forgot the name* thing to make everythiung smaller on the harddrive to get more room.I have looked at several things to try and get rid of this virus, but its not working.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am not sure if it is worded correctly, but I have a big problem. My pc is flooded with viruses. It is getting to the point where I need to take action right away.I have been searching online and have actually found some great ideas. But I have a greater problem. I can not download any .exe files. I believe its my temp folder that is messing up. I keep getting messages telling me various things can not work because emp is corrupt. When I try to download stuff from the net I get messages telling me that the file could not be saved because of an unknown error. I believe its a virus causing it, but I'm not sure. I would really love if someone could help me. I am a novice so I don't know what information I should post about my system to receive help.
View 8 Replies View RelatedWhat is the best software to get rid of adware and/or viruses. I have done everything, I have norton and spy ware, but it seems all temp files are locked and I can not get rid of the. This happened going to a site to sell a motocycle and this si slowing my system down.
View 14 Replies View Relatedon my computer, it keeps saying that a security breach is detected on my computer and my internet is now saying that i do not have permission to open this file! the only thing that will open is Internet after about 5 minutes..
View 7 Replies View RelatedI noticed one day that my computer was acting nuts. Lots of pop up windows saying my computer was infected with a virus, and that annoying bomb/warning sign blinking light. I went out and bought a new anti-virus pacakge (ZoneAlarm) because apparently whatever I had was failing. And it had been awhile since I had taken care of this... It found several viruses and cleaned them, but as soon as those were cleaned, I got different pop-ups telling about a different virus.
The next day I restart my computer and get the BLUE SCREEN (boooooooo!) and wasn't able to get anywhere beyond that. I tried everything that I knew how to do, and then I finally reinstalled Windows. I don't know if this was the smart thing to do, though, because I just ended up partioning my hard drive, so everything on my C: is still actually on my computer and accessible, although I guess I am actively running off of a different hardrive So these viruses are still on my computer,
I've been having tons of trouble trying to remove spyware and adware from my computer, I've tried multiple different programs but have been unable to clean them all out.
View 9 Replies View Relatedi use Wiindows XP and recently had some sort of infestation that sent my anti-virus into a pop-up craze.After i got that under control by running half a dozen different antivirus softwares i couldn't open any of the shortcuts on my desktop or in my computer, and i cant find any way to open anything!so i switched to another user, which is working fine, and came here. also, Spy Sweeper picked up a stray virus and i got rid of it, but im not sure if that one was what was causing all the problems. either way the problem is still there
View 9 Replies View Relatedi am troubled with following message popped up:
Your Computer is infected!
Critical System Error!.... (read it in the attachment)
I ran my up-to-date antispyware program (spy sweeper) and antivirus (norton), and while it did get rid of a few things, the message still pops up.
Clicking on the popup takes me to the site in the attachment.
I scanned my computer this with spybot.Got results and Don`t know what to do. Should I delete or not??"Ad aware" didn`t find
anything.
My grandson downloaded something with viruses, tojan and a hacker. Spybot removes them but they come back. He has an acer laptop with xp. Acer told hime it is probably imbeded in his hardrive, they suggested a reformat but said hewould probably have to buy a new harddrive
View 5 Replies View RelatedQuote : TIANJIN, Feb. 12 (Xinhuanet) -- Experts warn computer users to guard against computer viruses as Valentine's Day draws near. A virus, known as "Vbs_Valentin.A" to break out next Tuesday, will spread chiefly through e-mails or on-line chat systems, according to China National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center on Sunday. Other viruses like "Worm-blebla.B" and "VBS-ILoveyou" will also assault computers if users open e-mails or attachments disguised with Valentine blessings.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI hate when my computer goes into hibernation when im trying to use a program such as Mirc, or scanning for viruses. How do i turn off the hibernation? (when my screen burns black and my system shuts down sort of) one time i ran bearshare in the background and it didnt hibernate, but it always does if i dont have that program up.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI will like to know from the Cnet uses that use windows xp sp2 to tell me how many viruses that they has on their pc. My record number is 105 viruses when doing a full system scan with the full paid version and updated version of Norton anti-virus 2004! I was surprised that i had that many viruses when i had been running norton for 3 or 4 months running full system scans once a week and a quick scan once everyday. I later then uninstalled norton becuase my computer was going too slow and installed avast antivirus. The first scan that i ran with avast as soon as i installed it found another 24 viruses. That is a total of 129 viruses.
View 9 Replies View RelatedMy computer has been going great since a few weeks ago. My computer is infested with spyware and viruses. I don't know how it got there but I get a pop up about once every click even when i'm not viewing webpages.
I have Ad-Aware, Spybot, and a program I purchased called XoftSpy. XoftSpy finds alot of the things on my computer but once they are deleted, they come back. Aurora is one of them.
Getting viruses / computer keeps on crashing all the time? checked the HJT log
View 3 Replies View RelatedI recently donloaded the trial version of kapersky av since i heard its the best. It detected a bunch of trojans that AVG and CA antivirus never detected. Any ideas wat hese are or where they could have come from? Is this the system restore directory? Are these maybe older viruses still stuck in older system restore folders?? Please help, im a pretty careful web surfer and always have AVG active protection running so i dont understand how thse viruese got through?
View 6 Replies View RelatedThis laptopgot some pretty severe viruses and now that they're all gone i can only browse the net for like 5-10 minutes before it dies.
View 3 Replies View RelatedThe other day i was on a friends computer and they had loads of viruses and trogens etc, so i downloaded AVG free edition by Grisoft, and then after 1 hr 30mins the full system scan i did, finished and it came up with 29 virues etc, i was given the option to 'heal'all the files which i did, and then i was told, i had to restart the computer for any changes to take affect, so i did this, i went to log on to a user profile, it said logging on... and as this was the first time i had clicked the user profile, i caught a glimpse of what ever the background had been set to on the profile, but then it immediately goes and logs off, and says savings settings.etc, so i try again, and this time its so quick at logging straight back off that all i see is, logging on.saving settings.logging off.and this happens with every user profile, including in safe mode and the admin user profile, i really dont know whats happened i dont wanna re format the computer as its not mine, and my friend will lose all their work, any help given on resolving this issue is very much appreciated as i really dont know what to do, and i cant lose any of the work already on the computer,
View 3 Replies View RelatedI just had to reinstall windows xp on my computer because of viruses. Everything went ok. This morning I tried to change the display resolution apparently too high. Or maybe the driver wasn't updated or something. Anyway, the computer starts booting up but then brings up the message 'Attention Out the Range H:72.00kHz V:72.00 Hz'. I booted into safe mode and deleted the account where I tried to change the resolution but it still won't get past the bootup screen before giving the frozen up attention message.
View 6 Replies View RelatedIn theory, my computer should be running like its brand new.I have no viruses, spyware etc.I have a junk file cleaner as well as registry cleaner.The only things that are running in the system tray are neccessary.I cannot put in anymore RAM.
So how come my computer still does not act as if it were new?