Constant Aurora Pop-ups - CPU Usage
May 12, 2005I'm getting constant Aurora pop-ups along with a bunch of internet windows popping up, and my CPU usage, is always at 100%, and I have over a gig of ram.
View 7 RepliesI'm getting constant Aurora pop-ups along with a bunch of internet windows popping up, and my CPU usage, is always at 100%, and I have over a gig of ram.
View 7 RepliesThis is driving me nuts. The hard drive is constantly being accessed. In task manager I get usage from, services.exe zlclient.exe taskmgr.exe explorer.exe ycommon.exe vsmon.exe system idle process at 98% There are 70 processes from all users. Is this normal or what? I'm very diligent about running Ad-ware and Spybot at least twice a week. I have Avast antivirus and Zonealarm firewall and Windows defender running. I defrag once per week.Windows XP professional, 250 g hard drive, 2g memory.
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View 4 Replies View RelatedWhen I left my computer on (like usually I do) to eat lunch and watch a movie. When I came back to my computer I got a lot of ads like Aurora. But that's a city in CO. I got pop ups from my computer saying it has pop ups. Does anyone know a really good pop blocker I can use? Also I get The Web Search, Yellow Pages on my desktop and it's very annoying.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have Windows XP and I use AOL. For the past few days, every time I sign onto the internet, blocks keep appearing on the bottom bar, next to my start button that have a round ball on the left side and then it says Aurora, part of the ABI network. I have no idea what this is or how to get rid of it. When I right click and get the drop down box, my options are: move, size, or close group. What is this and how do I get rid of it?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am 30sec away from loosing my mind. I have spyware that I can not remove
from my PC."Aurora" which associated to the registry key HKEY_CURRENTsoftwareAurora.and THNALL1A.exe, which my firewall (ZoneAlarm), tells me has been trying to access the internet. THNALL1A.exe or THNALL1Z.exe or some incarnation of THNALL will appear in the prefetch folder. Something to do with
VX2.transponderAs long as the firewall is up the only two that repeatedly appear are the registry key HKEY_CURRENTsoftwareAurora, and the repeated attempts by
THNALL to access the internet.I have scanned with: Norton; Ad-Aware; Microsoft Antispyware; Scan Spyware; NoAdware; Spybot Search and Destroy; and XoftSpy.
I'm trying to get rid of abetterinternet.aurora which I believe to be some sort of adware or spyware. I get appeox123 problems from it everytime I run Spybot. Spybot get rid of the problems but they keep coming back
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've got three or four spyware killing programs on this hunk of junk and none
of them will recognize and kill Aurora. If anyone knows how I can do it,
please let me know.
My friend, who has given a Dell Optiplex GX240 running Win2K Pro. 512MB RAM To help her out, I got rid of porn, viruses, and spyware using: Ad-Aware, AVG spyware and AV free versions, Trend Micro House Call, Spybot I checked the task manager, and has constant 100% CPU usage, avg memory usage The system runs, but apps open slow, so I tried some freeware reg cleaners: CCleaner, Eusing Free Registry Cleaner, Wise Registry cleaner.
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View 6 Replies View RelatedI'm running XP pro SP2. I have a gig of ram and my mother board is an Intel D101GGC. My CPU is Intel Pentium D 920.
If I use Windows Explorer to go deeper than the first level of any tree, CPU usage goes to 100% and stays there. I've disabled System Restore because it wouldn't let me go back in time anyway and this program is a known resource gobbler. Didn't help. I've attached a hijackthis logfile to see if anyone recognizes a Trojan, etc. I would appreciate any help at all.
My CPU Usage always shows 100% and my system is getting very slow although I have not installed any big software and have strong antivirus (symantec) whose definition files are updated .So , why is it happening?
View 8 Replies View Relatedi kep getting these darn UNEXPECTED ERROR. WINDOWS NEED TO CLOSE PROGRAM then got the nerve to ask me to send this report to MicroSUX. i have checked the MicroSUX dowload page, but i saw nothing that says ANYTHING about the problem I am having.is there anyone who had this problem & got it fixed. Pls help me & tell me what ya did. I am tired of being in the middle of something & then KA BOOM.
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I've had an HP Pavilion a600n computer for about 3 years now, no problems till now. Earlier today though, it randomly reset itself and stopped working. So I rebooted and started getting constant beeping noises (they last 2-3 seconds) every 5 seconds or so. And it's not just a couple of beeps, it just keeps beeping non-stop.
I read up on the issue, was told to unplug all the wires, hold the power button for 1-2 mins and then replug everything in and try, but I get the same damn beeping noises!
I've heard that the # of beeps and frequency can help you determine the problem (something about BIOS? I dunno, not really a computer nerd) but the problem is, the beeps never stop so I can't really count I guess?
Other information (dunno if it's relevant)...
- The LED button on the PC remains green constantly.
- The fan of the PC works perfectly fine...
Ideas?
Constant updates every shutdown....for the last few weeks. Always update one of one.
This started since I started overclocking my graphics card. I thought might be it but a new symptom occured.First, it started freezing and crashing randomly and I thought it would pass if I stopped overclocking. I took out my graphics card and hoped it would stop.It got worse. What happened was I tried to turn on my computer and it crashed while starting up everytime. I had a bunch of recovery discs so I used them because they worked everytime in the past. Bad idea. I started the recovery process and as soon as it started, my computer crashed. I turned my comp back on but it said there was no OS installed. I tried reformatting and my computer crashed in the middle of that too.At this point I'm really pissed at my computer. I can't reformat. I can't recover. I can't even start up my computer up to the desktop.
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View 6 Replies View RelatedHello, i have had this problem in the past where I would get the bsod on startup. As soon as my desktop loaded in fact. It had to do with a display driver I had installed.Since then I have a new machine that running without a hitch for a while now,and this time I do not have those display drivers installed . The problem started happening after I did a scan with malware bytes and super anti-spyware and after I cleaned what it found I got the BSOD on reboot.
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