Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties  Apr 11th, 2009 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 303 I'm an IT consultant and aspiring blogger, and in a recent discussion witha collegue about security software I realized I really didn't have anything to go on but user reviews and popularity. I want... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Oct 26th, 2008 |
| Replies: 33 Views: 4,127 Like Jbennet said, Repair installs often break windows update. I've had great luck with WUfix:
http://wiki.castlecops.com/Windows_Update_Fixhttp://wiki.castlecops.com/Windows_Update_Fix |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Oct 24th, 2008 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 1,914 The link issue is why I suggested downloading them from a torrent site. It's not conventional links and shouldn't cause the problem.
Getting ack-a-fee off and real security software on your system... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Oct 24th, 2008 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 1,873 Unfortunately they do still make treos :p but they've gotten progressively worse and buggier over the years.
I'd say the risk is getting greater and greater. There has been a potential to infect... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Oct 23rd, 2008 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 1,914 Download new security software, if it wont let you go to the sites go to a torrent site and download a free program from there (an actual free-ware program that's shared on a torrent site). Uninstall... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Oct 23rd, 2008 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 587 Try hitting F8 like you're going into safemode and select "last good configuration". Hopefully that will correct whatever was changed. |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Jul 17th, 2008 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 815 One of my computers is acting very sluggish and doesn't have CTRL+ALT+DEL access. It's about due for a clean install anyway but I really want to know what the problem is.
My virus/malware scans... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Jul 6th, 2008 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 1,300 I'd say either your antivirus software deleted it, or it's still hidden and not showing for some reason. I'm not familiar with the "!" directory but that doesn't necisarrily mean it's malicious.
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| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Jun 28th, 2008 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 813 I've had great luck with AVG, Avast is good too, but I like AVG better. I use it with microsofts security tools (mainly windows defender) and either comodo or zonealarm home (both free firewalls) It... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Jun 24th, 2008 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 1,370 Does the message tell you what application failed to initialize?
You shouldn't have to reformat. If you feel that your system is running properly other than this (programs are responsive when... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Jun 22nd, 2008 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 2,188 That's a new one, every virus I've ever seen that hijacks a homepage sends you to their site, or a site you'll get infected from... Never to about:blank.
What browser is this? I'd bet my first... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Jun 22nd, 2008 |
| Replies: 15 Views: 5,603 It's coming from one of two places:
Your own hard drive if you didn't properly format.
Or you could be infected by another system on your network (you said something about another network computer,... |
