Flashing Yellow Triangle And Blue / Red Flashing Circle On Bottom Taskbar
Sep 21, 2006
Yesterday I was on my computer,I downloaded a codec,and afterwards I got a flashing yellow triangle and blue/red flashing circle on my bottom taskbar.I have ad subtract which is suppose to stop popups.Now I keep getting a popup from the triangle that says(System Alert:Trojan-Spy.Win32@mx and by the circle I get(System Alert popup)And Ads-Virusburst.com,The Spyguard.com,Malware Wipe.com and a ISA Monitor.exe,What the heck is going on?I went to my control panel and uninstalled everything that was downloaded in the last couple of days.I click the x on popups to close,and 30 seconds they come right back.Tried a system restore,and will not work.Any suggestions?Never had any problems in the past.
Windows XP a flashing yellow triangle with an exclamation mark in it,
appears in the System Tray. Messages pop up such as "System Notice: Internet Service Provider (ISP) might be tracking your private information! Click the icon the check you ISP for reliability".
After having logged on (I've Broadband so am automatically connected to the Internet) this irksome triangle with an exclamation mark inside appears on my taskbar. Whne I click on it I get a list of urls advertising in the main porn and dating sites.I'm sure it has something to do with viruses, hijackers, etc but I have tried everything to get rid of it but to no avail
I have a one year old Sony Vaio with Windows XP. Just recently, I updated my Norton software. Still, every thirty seconds or so, I get a yellow triangle on the taskbar with a message "Caution! Spyware attack detected" or "Danger: antispyware protection failure". My browser is immediately then re-directed to either a site labeled "about:blank" or "antispyware.net" where I am asked to purchase new software. Any ideas how to turn this off?
Right before I was rebooting my computer yesterday, I got a dll error (i couldn't read the error it flashed to quickly).Since rebooting the taskbar & desktop icon keep flashing on/off. I saw another poster on here that was having a similar problem: http://tinyurl.com/2ahlmh, but I couldn't reply to that post.I ran vundofix, sdfix, combofix, and gmer.
I use XP Media Center, Avast AV, new computer, and I'm an intermediate user. Yesterday, after rebooting the desktop, start menu and taskbar began flashing with a system beep. What I mean by "flashing" is the taskbar and start button would go off, the system would beep, then they return and do it again and again. It is working right now but I'm lucky for that. I ran a virus scan and spyware scan and my system has been cleaned, defragged and a disk scan has been performed (no negative results). When I boot in Safe Mode, it's ok. I did the elimination process through MSConfig and when the services are stopped, the problem is not apparent. Turn them on, and it's there again. Here is my Hijack report below......
This yellow triangle error keeps popping out on my tray,and I try to right click or left click it,it disappears,then 5 minutes later it reappears again for 30 seconds,then it disappears.
On some websites I get an error message which shows up in the status bar.it is an exclamation mark in a yellow triangle. When this happens, I can't access the website. I have tried several suggestions from Microsoft, but I just seem to trade one problem for another. This first showed up when I "upgraded" to SP2.
when he turns it on, it shows the HP logo with the F1 for Setup and such, then it goes straight to a blank screen with a cursor flashing. it's a boot sector problem. I just need to get him booted up so I can do some scans.
My screen keeps flashing and changing colour to a dark horrible colour, It's been doing this for a while but lately seems to be doing it more often and wont change back to what it should be like. Any idea's what the problem could be?
Machines were running fine until someone took out a power pole down the road.When power resumed, powered my machines back up. 2 out of 3 did OK. The third goes immediately to a black screen with a flashing cursor in the upper corner.Have already:
1 removed and reseated the power and data cables from the hard drive
2 removed and reseated the RAM modules
3 tried pressing every F key on the keyboard
4 Cntl-Alt-Delete doesn't work either
5 tried on another monitor.
Don't even get to Windows splash screen or able to get to Safe Mode.
I cloned the 40 GB original HDD, IDE, to an IDE 80 GB HDD using Acronis True Image 8.Cloning took 9 hours.Original HDD was in the Net Vista. Destination HDD attached via USB 2.I had tried using Norton Ghost 2003, but the cloning did not progress. Now, trying to boot to the cloned HDD, the system stalls, before Windows XP Splash screen, with a flashing cursor in the upper left corner.Jumper on original HDD is set to master. Jumper on Destination HDD is set to master. I booted using my Win XP Home CD, but the "R" option was not available. Windows XP Home Edition Setup "If one of the following Windows XP installations is damaged, setup can try to repair it". Now select the operating system you wish to repair, if as in most occasions there is only one, the just press "R" to continue.
Originally Posted by Cookiegal. It doesn't appear to be malware related so I suggest you start a new thread in the XP forum. I just built a brand new system several months ago with an ASUS Rampage Extreme, Q9650 Quad Core and XP Pro Service Pack 2. It has 2GB of RAM with an ASUS HD4890 video card. I have a bunch of games installed and some graphic utilities but not much more than that. It's mostly used for gaming and graphics. I installed AVAST home edition immediately after the first start up. Configured the system to Classic mode and patched everything up. It has two SATA2.0 320GB drives.
I have this very annoying problem. I have 2 other computers running exact same versions of XP Pro and none do this. I get a constant hard drive led flashing about once a second. I've installed and run "Process Explorer" and slowly went through all and suspended them and it keeps running. I ran an AVAST scan and nothing came up. I've also run every malware detector recommended here and found nothing.I do browse the internet frequently with this computer and I was concerned that I picked up a trojan program but Cookiegal worked with me for quite a bit and said it isn't malware. I'm concerned about what it may be doing to my hard drive though and I would like some help if someone can give it to me. I want to find out what is accessing the hard drive constantly and shut it off if possible or make sure it's not a problem.
I have an Intel DG31PR with 1 GB memory and Windows XP Home. When I turn the computer on the Intel logo and BIOS 2 settings appear then the screen goes back with a flashing cursor at the top left of the screen . I have to reboot several times before I can login. How do I stop this from happening?
The unit has an HP mainboard 800mhz, a P4 2.6Ghz processor, 300Watt PSU, and all was well until until I actually attached a known good XP HDD to the otherwise completed system. It failed to boot, resulting in only a flashing underscore after the HP/P4 boot screen, no beeps. Same thing happens if I try to boot from an XP CD
I'm hoping some can offer some advice on this rather troublesome problem.I have a Dell laptop that was recently formatted, XP Home was re-installed from the original Dell ReInstallation CDs.Everything has been working perfectly for the past month. However, this past weekend, we're now unable to boot into Windows. When powering the machine on, the Dell logo appears as normal. When the Dell logo disappears,instead of the Windows splash screen appearing, a flashing cursor appears in the upper left hand corner. Nothing else. After letting the machine sit for approximately 30-minutes, an error message never appears.
I've already attempted a few things Removed the drive, attached it to a working computer via USB adapter. There, I performed a scan disk. No error messages appear. Placed the hard drive back into the Dell laptop. Inserted the Windows XP ReInstallation CD to access the recovery console. FIXMBR completed successfully, however the problem continues Verified that the system BIOS recognizes the drive and correct drive size/parameters.I really don't know what to do. Apparently the repair install function is not available with the Dell OS ReInstallation CD. Can someone throw a hint or two? I'm almost out of gas on this one and need to have it running again ASAP.
Anytime i go to watch a movie, it flashes black real quick before it starts and then again after i close it.Any idea why? (ATI Mobility x1300 video card, and latest catalyst drivers).
I need to flash the BIOS on my motherboard. First, however, I need to create a BOOTABLE floppy on which to save the original motherboard BIOS and the flash memory writer before flashing the motherboard to the new BIOS. That way, if the new BIOS doesn't work, I can Flash the old BIOS onto my mb,. A WinXP Pro SP2 Command Prompt will not permit me to execute Format AS. So, how can I create a bootable floppy disk under WinXP Pro SP2?
I was on my dad's laptop earlier on which is a Dell Inspiron | 5150, which crashed on me and wasnt responding... so i pressed the power button to turn it off as i tried Ctrl, Alt & Del to bring up the task manager but was taking far too long.Since i done that i waited a couple of minutes and tried to turn it back on, but now when i turn it on im only getting a black screen with a white cursor flashing. No windows or anything is loading up, I've even tried leaving it for say 10 mins or so and still no sign of it bringing the windows logo up.
i am new at this. i had a trojan, and changed my decktop theme and cant renew to any other still have the warning sign flashing. Already uninstaled old anti virus, instaledd new one. and ran full scan in both regular and safe mode. trojan deleted. running xp.
Just wanted to give a solution for an issue that I had on a Dell Optiplex GX270, where it was having problems hanging when a couple of peripheral USB items were plugged in. After I had installed an HP printer, I plugged in an 8Gb thumb drive. It would hang for a very long time until I finally had to reboot. When it went through the short Dell setup screen, it just went black with a flashing underline in the top left corner instead of going to the first Windows startup screen. The funny thing is that I would unplug the HP printer's USB cable while the computer was still powered, and it would immediately start Windows. Through several different test cycles I found that A) Leaving the printer USB cable plugged in during a restart brought up the blank screen w/flashing underscore. B) Not connecting the printer USB cable during a restart brought Windows up properly. That told me that there was a problem with BIOS. I went to the Dell website and flashed my BIOS with the latest update for my computer. That resolved the issue immediately.Hope this helps others resolve similar problems, because it seemed like there
My computer will not boot up. It gets to a certian point and sits there flashing an underscore in the top, left hand corner of the screen. It has done this before, like it stalled on start up and I would just restart it and it would finish booting but that isn't working. I'm using XP Professional...
I installed a software last night on my computer to allow me to transfer images and stuff to my cell phone (motorolla product). When I was installing it a box or something appeared saying it was suddenly missing files and it wanted me to put in the Service pack 2 disk - which I didn't have. My only guess is that is what caused this problem. I have not saved anything yet (was going to do that tomarrow on my only day off)
I just came back from vacation and turned on my other computer only to find that right after it flashed the "Dell" screen, it showed a blank screen with random letters/numbers flashing in green. It just freezes there.
It's possible that someone else was on it and may have messed it up but I'm not sure. I'm hoping its still salvageable.
it happened was my "mcafee security center" ( anti virus software ran out ) so I un-installed it then re-installed it hoping it would work again however it never as the yearly expire date was up had to renew it but i choose not to and downloaded "avg anti virus ,avg anti spyware , spybot s&d , ad-aware "(Free software) instead i ran all scans from them scans show nothing found but i noticed looking at "cursor" the hourglass/egg-timer was flashing/blinking on and off all the time and still does to this day flash's/blinks 2-3 times every second never stops i also noticed sometimes i can not access stuff from PC say i click on a icon on desktop nothing happens doesn't open it right click on it gives options to open ectHowever they wont work , even going to start menu click something nothing will open like any program or anything u want to run however this has only happened a few times most of the time things seem to be working normal apart from the flashing hourglass next to cursor it wont stop flashing from the moment you start using PC
I just flashed/upgraded my BIOS for my motherboard, and now XP doesn't even boot up. After the BIOS load, I get a "MBR error 2" message and it just stays there. My board is an Asus P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe. I used the Asus Update Utility to flash my BIOS.
Evidently Teen went to porn site and somehow a black ball with a yellow x has appeared on taskbar and something about Win Anti Virus Pro 2006 free install, cannot delete, access denied.Porn windows replicating when opening XP.
Hp pavillion 2.7 ghz 1.5 gig ram 80 gig hdd all updates and sp3. Ran virus scan ,(avast) ok. malware bytes scan. ok. have zone alarm. Whenever I right click on an icon on desktop or in a window the little please wait hourglass appears...and never goes away . zone alarm icon in taskbar at bottom freezes and avast icon as well. I can hear my hdd periodically run. Ctrl-alt-delete does bring up taskman. if i look at performance cpu useage goes in sine wave form from 3-4% to about 35% up and down. every so often it peaks up to mid 80% then goes back to cyclying. at this point taskman locks up if I try to close it out.reboots don't help. I have not installed anything new in a while
