Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties  Oct 14th, 2009 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 477 The instructions are generally the same; get yourself admin privs. |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Oct 14th, 2009 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 301 H1N1 is an old virus with a new protein on the 7th binding area - had it been on the 12th binding, it would actually be called H2N1, it is considered a new virus. |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Oct 9th, 2009 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 477 I think you must be using Vista and so you will have to log in as 'admin' so one thing to try would be to go to control panel/user accounts/manage accounts and see if you can give yourself 'admin'... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Jul 12th, 2009 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 203 Look here (http://www.technize.com/2009/03/27/solution-windows-automatically-logs-off-%E2%80%93-login-log-off-loop/) - , the site is working with different symptoms but the basic problem seems the... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Jul 12th, 2009 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 671 Have you run HiJackThis - that log might help a lot. |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Nov 2nd, 2008 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 629 Duh! I keep forgetting that - when I wanted to make some changes to my mom's settings I had to uninstall/re-install it, change the settings, uninstall/re-install it - drove me crazy trying to get to... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Nov 2nd, 2008 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 629 Have you looked around in advanced mode and looked through the settings and tools to see if it has what you want - then check out spywareblaster which has about 11,ooo items in its protection db. --... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Mar 29th, 2008 |
| Replies: 10 Views: 2,403 There might be some help here:registry fixes (http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm); I think the 5th one down might be of some help but, er, it is the registry file so back it up first.
Oh,... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Mar 16th, 2008 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 1,090 Please download and run HijackThis then copy and paste the log into your post. |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Jan 2nd, 2008 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 1,413 I don't think it is a problem that can be solved by looking at the HJT log. I am going to close this and open a thread where the question is more appropriate |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Dec 30th, 2007 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 915 Gerbil has it correct! I also use Spybot Search and destroy and Ad-Aware as my cleaners.
I just bought a Toshiba notebook - the deal was so good I did not even try to get it with XP loaded - if... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Dec 30th, 2007 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 1,413 Hi all,
I have AVG installed w/constant updates, I run spybot - S&D on alternate days with ad-aware, I have spywareblaster and spywareguard loaded.
AVG now takes over 18 hours to run.... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Dec 2nd, 2004 |
| Replies: 42 Views: 38,739 I think both Morpheus (not the paid version) and Kazaa have adware with them. Kazaa is supposed to have a secret (but everyone seems to know about it) program that works like Seti@home and... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Mar 2nd, 2004 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 4,594 I suggest that you get proxomitron at http://www.proxomitron.info/; this program is one I highly recommeng as part of any safe computing environment.
my list includes:
ZoneAlarm - firewall
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