Windows Memory mgmnt has it under its control. If you are looking at Task Manager, Available physical memory, and wondering why it is so big, possibly more than half your installed RAM, be assured...

Norton/ symantec. The latest product seems to be performing better in the mix. Anyway, trot along to this page and get the correct removal tool for your version of Norton - use it to completely clean...

That sorted things out, and revealed more.
==Again please disconnect from the web, turn off your Antivirus, Antispyware and Firewall for the duration of this scan:
Copy the text in the box to a...

Okay, when you type in a URL, say http://www.bestsitetobe.com, the web does not recognise that as a valid machine address, so it is converted to one, an IP address, say 234.34.121.005 which is linked...

Why did you pick that service, Jim? And isn't it a vista service, anyway?
Have you tried making a new account on the puter to see if the svchost error occurs inside it? I note that error listed in...

Gog, it is just this entry that I was wondering about
BITS: hxxp://auj+|Cv+@J:NGD_DQ{zcxLJS@]6A
which is a URL for the background intelligent transfer service, and really...

System Restore is limited in the amount of system file repair it can do .
If you have different icons in explorer then your shell32.dll has likely been modified along with some other changes to make...

Weasel, don't use that previous script - I missed one file to delete, so use this modified version instead. The vundo infection there appears to have rootkit capabilities. I should also point out...

Hello weasel... Okay, thanks...lessee, do you have this file by any chance?:
C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\tdssserv.sys
-delete it. There may be others like this:
C:\Windows\System32\tdsss?.dll...

You're doing fine. This should solve the redirection problem:
Use hijackthis to fix these two entries:
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page =...

I understand, weasel, so let's work for the moment with what you have: please start hijackthis, select Scan Only, place checkmarks against all the entries listed below that still exist, and then...

I aint finished yet! When you visit the Windows Update site it uses an ActiveX to detect this key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto...

And because you saw this msg :
"No boot sector on hard disk - No bootable devices - press F1 to retry, F2 to go to options" - you were not actually booting from the cd. DBAN obviously wiped the disk...

Hi. For the moment I will just assume that it is a problem only with an exe file link. Run this [key is an export from my machine]:
==Please copy the text in the box to a notepad [format/wordwrap...

"two errors should not throw stop errors againts his screen".... two installations? No, they should not... I wuz jus pointing out that he had two... some folks don't realize that they have em,...

No intrusion at all.... Spybot 1.6 is the latest version, just go to the homepage...
http://www.spybot.info/index2.html
and dl from a mirror close to yourself. When you install consider carefully...

Anne, this should do the trick. I have included some links as a way of acknowledging the author of the fix.
Home - http://www.dougknox.com/
Links - http://www.dougknox.com/xp/xp_fixes.html
The...

Symantec/S32ENIL.dll .. is there any chance you typed that incorrectly, arthas? It should be the name of a dll that exists in that Symantec S32 directory under program Files. Anyway, i notice that...

Hang amo. Just stepping thru your videos. I cannot see your IDE? drive shown as detected?

It doesn't get much better than this:
http://www.dslreports.com/faq/15804

Modify boot.ini by going CP, System, Advanced tab, Startup and Recovery Settings button, Edit - boot.ini will open in Notepad. Modify it and Save.
But yeah, we could get into a lil problem with a...

Boom-boom.

That little 32MB partition was probably some sort of recovery image for the original computer. Dump it.
60GB? Put the OS into a 10GB partition, apps in another, maybe 5GB, data in a third making up...

==Download SmitfraudFix (by S!Ri) from http://siri.urz.free.fr/Fix/SmitfraudFix.zip
Extract the content (a folder named SmitfraudFix) to your Desktop.
- Restart your computer in Safe Mode.
-...

What i hoped would be understood is that Microsoft Updates is just gee-gaws for M$ apps. They are not [generally] vital ... they certainly are not fixes for security issues. Those are in Windows...

if your mum only goes to reputable sites... banks, etc, then all she needs is windows firewall, no AV, no AS. But who knows what mums get up to when the door is closed.

into your BIOS [delete key on boot], advanced settings i think, and disallow autorestart on error. Then you will be able to read the error screen at leisure. Tell us.