I recenlty got rid of a trojan virus; interestingly ESET didn't detect it at first; I got two aanti malware downolads from the forum that detected and got rid of them. One was super Malware and the other was MBAM< Both terrific.I am stil lleft with a pop up No Disk etc etc but will have to get you thta info later as now my search window is not functioning properly and I need to tade care of that.
View 7 RepliesI just ran Defrag and got the image as shown above after completion of the defrag. It does not look like anything happened, maybe even worse than before defrag. Any ideas as to how I can get a good defrag on this machine or what is happening here. I have run two malware applications or programs and my antivirus. Nothing there it appears to be clean.
View 13 Replies View RelatedA few days back I noticed my Anti Virus was automatically disabled. It usually runs continously in the background but of late it was being disabled.I tried re installing but it was of no use. Now I find that a suspcious program 'Form1' is running when I use alt+tab.Could not find this on the task manager though When I try to run anti virus scans / Spybot / Ewido, my computer just freezes after starting the scan!I know somethings wrong but I dont know what
View 5 Replies View RelatedI use Windows XP SP2. Recently noticed that when I left-click on any of the icons of the Hard-disk drives and/or Devices with Removable Storage within 'My Computer', the 'Search' Option opens up by default instead of the 'Open' option, like in other folders. Likewise, when I right-click on the said icons, the 'Search' option is topmost & the 'Open' option has been relegated to second position. I would like the Search option to come first. Can't remember whether this was so from before or changed recently.
I have used Norton Partition Magic 8 recently to resize my partitions.
Today I found a file in my hard drive's root that was called simply "L" (no extension). When I opened it in a text editor, I found it was a listing of my hard drive's entire contents---in the standard DOS "dir /w" format, but with all my folders and all they files they contained. I can't imagine why any program I use would create such a file. Could this be virus-related? I use a firewall and an up-to-date AV program, and a SpyBot scan showed nothing. Thanks for your suggestions.
View 8 Replies View Relatedwell, i have reinstalled my os which is windows xp emachines model: t5048.
my computer is running normal, sometimes faster, and at times, there's this error popping up saying "oops! unable to contact server!" i get that out, and every site i go in it says "page error" as if the internet connection broke or something. so, when i reset my computer, it works again, but it just keeps on doing it. i only go to Internet, myspace, yahoo, and google most of the time. is there another type of virus in my system?
well i keep crashing, til a point where i cant even load into my desktop..today weirdllly, i was able to get into my windows, but everything was gone, but it was okay....it didnt crash.until a few hours later it started to :UPDATE: [4/1/06]its now restarting on its own each time i happen to leave my computer
View 10 Replies View Relatedwell i keep crashing, til a point where i cant even load into my desktop..today weirdllly, i was able to get into my windows, but everything was gone, but it was okay....it didnt crash.until a few hours later it started to :UPDATE: [4/1/06]its now restarting on its own each time i happen to leave my computer
View 2 Replies View RelatedMy PC was recently infected with a virus (Antivirus GT) and although I'm sure I've cleared it by running i0Bit 360 and Malwarebytes anti malware, none of the desktop icons or the task bar appear on start up.I can still access programs through the task manager (File, new task, run)and all my files are still present but obviously, I would like to return my computer to it's former working state. I do not have all the system recovery disks and could not find system restore or safe mode on the computer so I'm hoping there is a way of doing this without the use of CD's.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI got this error appeared on my laptop.How can i deal with it?Virus have been cleared out in my laptop.Virus name already dealt with: Brontok
View 3 Replies View Relatedi've recently encounter a problem, out of the blue, norton antivirus is disabled and can't be open, it says norton has encounter problem. please reinstall. then internet stop working.and i've only use Internet explorer again the night before due to some mis-configuration on my FireFox. now the problem with norton is back.if norton is attack by viruses/spyware so easily as if my computer is not even protected at all. all i did was browsing through ninemsn and netbanking.norton seems to be a let down.
View 2 Replies View Related[windows xp] I was downloading a game and it was a virus and the operating system started going haywire, I was able to get the virus out and stabilize the computer but now I have many problems. I will give a quick list of problems; cant access any of the system tools cant defrag or use the system restore, disk cleanup nor can I use these in safe mode. Help and support is down and I can’t install my cricket broadband to get it online.Also it shows a svchost message and has generated shutdown in 1 window and then another window opens that tells me that NT authoritysystem has initiated the shutdown plz save work, every 10 or so minutes then restarts with no problems till it shuts down again.Also I have no sound only beeps and when I go to the sound properties box its showing no sound devise, im sure im missing drivers. what do you think is the best option reloading windows [hope not dont have os disk.
View 14 Replies View RelatedSo I had, or have some sort of virus on my computer and I cannot open msconfig. When I try to open Regedit, it says the administrator disabled it?I'm trying to figure out which programs on startup that are viruses.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am having sony vaio vgn-fe8555e which is having default vista but i have degraded to xp sp2 and worked well for sometimes but recently my laptop got attacked by virus..i tried to clean but cudnt do and i decided to format and install the OS but unable to format and even boot and load windows(PC will get restart if i go for windows) and unable to read XP CD for installation
View 2 Replies View RelatedIt's weird but my background kept asking me to to restore my desktop when i tried to replace the background with a new one,the main color of the background stayed around the lettering of all the icons. Thats when i checked for viruses and found i had one. My antivirus program is cheap so it detects it proceeds to say it removes it but doesnt.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm running XP with a downloaded, update SP2. I got a virus around Christmas and now want to reformat the drive and XP won't let me.It says I cannot dismount the drive to start the process.Something is using it?I just want to learn from my mistakes and start over. Also can I install XP from the discs from my other machine to this one? I do not have a copy of the original OS disc.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI'm using XP Home Edition with SP2 and Norton AV alerts to a virus attack by W32.Gaobot.SN the first time I go online each day. Six messages - unable to repair, access denied, auto deleted, unable to repair, access denied, auto deleted. Followed removal info but the values mentioned were not in the registry and nothing found in the scan. A few days later Norton found 3 infected files of trojan languard.exe. It's in the registry but I don't dare delete it from there as XP came installed on my pc and doesn't seem to have backup utility.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have windows XP and I recently went to a website (cant remember what it was). About 15 minutes later a pop up said i had malware. My computer keeps warning me. My adaware, spybot, and AVG antivirus (all free) wont get rid of it. Now a day later, I can not pull up the internet explorer page and the soyaxe program my computer automatically downloaded wont leave the page.
View 3 Replies View RelatedEvery time I do a search, and then click from the search results from lets say google, it redirects me to viaclick.com and says page cannot be found.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI recently got over a virus and got rid of it but afterwards it doesnt allow me to change my desktop background. My original picture shows up for a second on startup then goes black. It also shows up just before log off too.
View 2 Replies View Relatedtrojan virus attack to the system result in slowed down PC?
View 6 Replies View RelatedA friend of mine clicked a link in an AIM message that gave me a virus, haven't been able to get rid of it. Hijackthis log is attached. If I don't figure this out soon, I'll have to buy a new HD so when I format I won't lose everything.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a nightmare with my notebook which is installed with Norton Internet Security.On booting up the notebook, a triangular icon(inside with an exclamation mark or an X)appeared on the bottom right bar. The icon appeared with a message to warn me of spyware attack. On clicking the icon, it took me to IE for http://www.spylocked.com/?aff=334 or http://www.wayofprotection.com/soft/. I also found my IE is installed with a 'Security Toolbar 7.1'.
In the Control Panel, I found a program 'Internet Explorer Secure Bar' which I wanted to delete. However, once I click the 'change/move' button to delete the program, it required me to reboot before deleting but on reboot, no deletion of the program took place. I want to know how to delete the program.I also want to know how to delete the icon on the right bottom.
Ok, I don't know how to start this, but a few days ago, my computer contracted a virus (which I have cleaned successfully) and around the same time of the virus, the sound on my computer stopped working. I'm not exactly sure what information someone would need to help me, but I'll put what I think might help (because I really need my music
View 14 Replies View Relatedvirus seems like to attack system volume information..what is system volume information?my antivirus(bit defender) can't delete virus contains in it.so how i managed to remove virus that infect system volume information?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am trying to cleanup a machine running Windows 2000 (not sure what release).I've run AntiVir, Spybot, Adaware, and CWShredder, but am still experiencig problems. For example, I can't change the default home URL from 'about:blank'. AntiVir found many archieves (probably more than 30) with 'infected file' that couldn't be deleted. Most of them appeared to be .dat files, but one was a .cab file (polmx2), which I suspect is part of the problem. I'm also guessing there may be hidden files becuase I couldn't 'find' them in Windows.
View 1 Replies View RelatedDue to lapse of sense at a particular moment on my part, my DELL Inspiron laptop was not protected when accessing the internet for a download. Windows XP is the operating system. When booting up, error message states that the following file is missing or corrupt: <Windows root>system32hal.dll Please reinstall a copy of the above file. I've tried numerous programs and software packages that "guarantee" results but none have accomplished anything except wasting my time and money.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI was infected by a virus while changing to a different AV software. After a full day of cleaning, I have a perfectly usable and clean computer, however, my c: and d: drives are not displaying in my computer.They are listed in device manager, disk manager,and I can access programs off of them c: is my boot drive just nothing in my computer.I was able to create a shortcut to both of their root directories so I can browse them. All windows programs show them as viable drives and will browse, so this is more of a nuisance than a dire situation, however, it is a bit crippling.
View 4 Replies View Relatedi got a series of really bad viral infection on my computer. My virus programs took care of the viruses but also deleted some of the start up software that is used to boot up my computer correctly. as a last ditch effort I used the system restore function on my computer to reboot it back to a previous configeration. The computer booted back to its original out of the box configuration and I lost all my computer files (but on the flip side my computer was working perfectly now that this was done)
I take the computer to the repair shop so that they can do a deep memory scan to recover my files. They find some of the files and put them in a file folder located on my desktop. i am told by the techie working on my computer that there is a series of .dll errors at the start of windows and that they are the result of a viral infection (Obviously the system restore i did did not do its job of ridding me of the viruses. I did not notice the .dll errors when i initially did the system restore, but that doesn't mean that they weren't there)
when you hit start, there is the options on the right side (run, search, my comp, control panel, etc), and I seem to have lost the Search thing. I click on it and nothing happens...I click again nothing happens. I reboot, click again nothing happens Yet if I go into My Computer, I can search there but I want to search where it says Search. XP Home SP2 and I have tried "Right click on your start button choose properties then start menu customize.then advanced. Scroll down under the network settings and make sure the box for "Search" has a checkmark in it. Uncheck it reboot and then checkmark it again"
View 12 Replies View RelatedUsing the "Search" option on the Start menu freezes the screen. Checking CTL/ALT/DEL shows Not Responding.
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