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Ay up chucks! My wife's toshiba laptop (satellite M40 - 313 windows XP SP2 1 Gb RAM etc just over 1 year old) has suddenly died. She went to turn it on and all it does is beep pathetically, whirr a bit then it tries again 3 or 4 times …

Ahoy there! Its been a while thank god, but AVG just spotted this... Trojan horse Downloader.Generic8.AFYY Just wondering if its really a threat or if maybe its scare tactics now that the free edition is running out..;) Anyway, I'd appreciate any help you can give!

Ah. Yes... Another dead machine I'm afraid... When I start my Compaq Presario 6000 series desktop all I get is something like "Disk read error press ctrl, alt, delete to restart." There was a blue scream of death but it was too quick for me to note the code and …

Am I the only one who found that installing X11 from the install disks needed "Pacifist" 3rd party (4th party?) software just to find the X11 software?! As a mac newbie, before today I had no Idea what X11 is... Got it sorted though and open office seems to be …

Yup sorry geezers and geezesses... I've run AVG antivirus and anti spy and adaware but this (old) 'puter is just getting slower and s l o w e r ... I'd appreciate yous scraping your way through this HJT log for me... I know you do this for the love …

I have a similar problem to the person whose "kids did it"... My wee fella's only 5 but somehow after he got up early and tried shutting down the PC with the "on" button... found a message asking if I wanted to continue shutting down because other people were logged …

Yup! that's right! is ewido doing archaeology now or er what exactly? Any ideas on this one without you having to do all that lovely messing about with HJT logs would be great. Here's what Ewido had to say... --------------------------------------------------------- ewido anti-spyware - Scan Report --------------------------------------------------------- + Created at: 15:53:24 …

Ay up, chums! I tried (like a fool) to use the connections wizard to set up a firewire connection between my home desktop and my work laptop... I did the laptop first and had no bother but the desktop has been on a screen telling me it could take a …

:-| Norton found this download trojan 11 times on my laptop and can't clean it even on safe mode... When I set up our new broadband connection at work I was horrified to get a porn links page popup instead of the ISP's home page... I've never gone to any …

I've done just about everything I can think of twice now.[IMG] Ihate posting you these HJT logs but they don't seem to be much good anyhow. anyway here's some notes I took whilst doing the lastest tries... In safe mode the homepage does not reset to about:blank. Having said that …

when on a site I click on a link which opens a new IE, the IE doesn't load up the document, how can I set it up where when I click on a link the document can get opened up in a new window? thanks

Erm ay up fellows... I recently installed a used hard drive and it seems to have this on it... any help on getting rid of the fecker? Go raibh maith agat agus adh mor ort! :confused:

Any of ye caped crusader's able to help me out here? Norton anti virus told me Ive got this trojan but didn't seem to be able to do anything about it. It's Lurking around in MESSENGER\MSMSGS.EXE. Please tell me this is easier to cure than blooming spyware! :confused:

Ay up fellows! I've tried AdAware, Spybot and finally after doing the tutorial on Hijack this I fixed the R1 line of the log. My home page is still going to some ad site (about blank) and even my email goes to this page when I log in. Its driving …