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Hello, Please pardon me if I've made this post in the wrong forum and kindly direct me to the right forum, if need be. My problem is as follows: I noticed recently that when I type in a wrong URL instead of going to the default page not found page …

Hi im having the same issue as some other ppl who have poseted have MY IE is totally jacked upp it opens websites on its own worst case secanio it wont let me download anything my download speed is like 4 kbs i cant even download malwarebytes :( but then …

Not sure if it's a spyware/malware problem, but typing in any field on a web page using Internet Explorer 9 is unbearably slow. I type in a single letter and can wait up to 30 seconds for it to appear on the screen. I suspect a keylogger or something, but …

hi i have the latest internet explorer and sometimes even when im not using the internet at all random adds come up but there is no window i have found out it is the internet explorer but i dont know how to stop it perminantly when i close the process …

Hi peeps! Whenever I open a program such as google chrome, i get the message: The application or DLL c:\windows\system32\gayujoje.dll is not a valid windows image. Please check this against your installation diskette. Can anyone help me with this problem? Thanks. I think a virus has invaded my computer. I …

My son clicked on a link that turned out to be an "adult" site, got caught in the endless popup thing - turned off the computer and now everything is hanging and running at a glacial pace. Also, I notice that I have 2 unknown devices in my device manager …

When I use my computer without wireless it works perfect. When I add a wireless component to the computer it slows down immensely until it freezes with every click of the mouse. It doesn't matter if I use usb wireless or a wireless card. I have tried virus scanners, anti …

Hello Daniweb long time no see! I am infected with the Ainslot.a trojan/worm. I downloaded a program and it told me to double click something to put it in my registry and It gave me a virus. Microsoft security essentials says it's severe class, and deletes it every time but …

Hi Guys please help me with this.. Is this a spyware or something?? I had run full scan using SuperAntiSpyware and removed the threats though..but this problem is still there. Following is then HT scan logfile Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 12:09:45 AM, on 7/25/2011 Platform: Unknown Windows …

I followed the instructions on another thread and used MBAM and HJT and here is the log. for it. not sure if its fixed. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.50.1.1100 [url]www.malwarebytes.org[/url] Database version: 6561 Windows 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18702 5/13/2011 1:40:30 AM mbam-log-2011-05-13 (01-40-30).txt Scan type: Full scan (C:\|) Objects …

problems: 1.when running youtube videos i get either "an error occured, please try again later" or just a black screen. (i can run other videos on other sites cept for youtube vids) 2.Yahoo.com page is messy and jumbled :( so is youtube sometimes. 3. also cant login in yahoo messenger …

Currently, I'm typing from a laptop. (I'm no use with computers and I can't suss this out myself, and without any internet usage - albeit short bursts that I get - I have to use a laptop. I don't have any way of transferring items over from the laptop to …

I did the search already, but I'm not sure. Last Wednesday, July 13-14, 2011, my emails accounts; AOL and Gmail have been sending out mass emails at night (4:00 AM) to everyone in my contact list. I wouldn't have known about it if I didn't got some failure notices from …

Hello all, a few weeks ago I noticed my computer was running slow, I used anti malaware bytes to scan and found 50 infected items, which I deleted. My computer seemed to be doing fine until one day it was incredibly slow. I checked windows task manager, and my computer …

I had a problem a few days ago. My internet explorer runs on its own once in a while to many different sites and uses a lot of memory. I am running on Vista home 64bit. Apologies if I have not provided enough details. Thank you in advance.

Here is my Free anti-malware software that I used in my computer: Free antivirus software AVG Free Edition 2011 Good protection from a reputable vendor. What I especially like about this software is that it stays updated and scans in the background. Little user intervention is needed. Free spyware removal …

Hello and thank you for the welcome to DaniWeb. I hope that someone can find the time to help me with my xp problems. The problem is that one of my svchost.exe processes gradually demands more and more ram and cpu which eventually locks up my machine. I can safely …

Howdy, I had a virus, one of the ones that pops up and says, viruses detected, click on this to start running the anti-virus software. I CTRL-Alt_Del out of that, and then it usually tells me, jga.exe (or something similar) not responsive. I search on that, its always in the …

Hi everybody, I got infected by hacktool rootkit yesterday, and after spending hours to get to terms with my stupidity and the fact that I fell in the trap like a kid, I am giving up the fight to get rid of the nasty thing via usual means...you guys are …

Hey, this exploit periodically pops up on my MSE. I'd ideally like to get rid of it permanently. Here are the logs I had to break this down into like a million posts because the logs were too large for one post to handle. Sorry about that! I know for …

Hello All: It appeared that I had downloaded a virus this morning while working on my PC. I have been having intermittent issues with RAM, I believe...PC would freeze on occassion or boot up to blue screen. However got some virus notices from NOD32 and the Windows XP Repair kicked …

A couple weeks ago my computer was hit with the "Windows Repair" virus that said my hard drives were crashing. I managed to get rid of that but it seems that now every once in a while Internet Explorer will pop up with a random link to anywhere, such as …

Hi, I was having a problem with my new Dell computer making clicking noises so I called Dell Tec support. He took controll of my computer and ran some checks then told me I had Spyware that had to be removed. Wanted to charge me a high price to do …

Hello! I have Windows XP Home Edition SP2, Version 2002, which I run on eMachines version T2875. I began to run into a problem a day and a half ago, which hadn't seemed quite so drastic at the time. My default web browser is Firefox (version 3.6.17) and every time …

a few months ago, i was battered by sality, and was waiting for my friend's external hard disk to backup my data, and do a full format. well, I've done all those things now, and have installed kaspersky 2011 internet security suite(the licensed commercial version). Also, as per the instructions …

i m currently using windows7 ultimate and i m experiencing current problems: 1. picasa 3.0 just crashes at the start 2. gtalk wouldn't connect 3. adobe acrobat reader got deleted 4. google chrome crashes at the start for problem3, all the dlls and the exe were missing when i try …

Hello this is my first time posting in something like this so I hope I'm doing it right. I have tried everything to fix my computer. I did have a virus and thought I got rid of it. Now malwarebytes or super antispyware doesnt detect one. Although my taskbar is …

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My computer contracted the XP anti-virus virus a few days ago. Which was immensely frustrating. Neither Mcafee, Avira, or Avast would pick it up, and I was too much of a chicken to delete the program files and remove it manually. However, I did plug in a registry code I …

I downloaded a file and the file was a virus but my avast protected me from most of it. I say most of it not all of it because when i am on Google chrome and i go to a site it starts to load the site then just switches …

Hello, First off I know this is a somewhat common problem cause I know people who've told me they've had this before, but I tried searching for it here and didn't see any threads pop up with it. I use Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox to browse, and both of …

I'm requesting assistance. We are running WinXP, SP3. We appear to have what Stinger found in two files as the Fakealert!fakealert-REP virus (it then deleted those two files). The obvious symptom, for the last couple days, is this: We were running McAfee Antivirus Plus, and currently something *makes it freeze* …

I've seen earlier posts for this problem, but the solutions don't apply to me, and the earlier posts are a couple of years old. I was hit on 6/5/11 with malware from a legitimate website that I had accessed just the day before with no problems. Malwarebytes (MBAM) identified the …

I have spend over 10 hours trying to find a solution using the internet. I have had McAfee virus removal team working on it for two days and they could not remove the virus in the thread. I ran Malwarebytes and DDS this did not remove the problem, can you …

When I click any of the displayed items in a list from google (or any search engine) it goes to different sites seemingly at random. Keying in the http address works fine. Any ideas please?

Hi Gerbil, I have the same problem like nmslagle, keep having the address redirected to fake address. can you help to check my log, below is my log. I use FireFox as my browser. Thanks Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 13:31:21, on 10/30/2009 Platform: Windows XP …

Does anyone have an idea what it is? I'm not sure how but my computer has been infected and have that Security 2012 going. Firefox crashed a few times today and I think it was a problem with metra.com from re-stimulating the problem. I believe the problem is taken care …

For the last few weeks, many of the people who have sent me e-mails have received the automatic response of "replace:vacationEnabled". I'm assuming this is some kind of setting in Outlook for when you are out of the office but I can't find any solution. I've done a Google search …

hi everyone :) i have this question to ask regarding a ONE-USER ANTIVIRUS.. if i have one such antivirus installed in my computer, and then if i reformat my entire disk, then will i be able to reinstall that anti-virus from its cd after iv made a fresh install? thanks …

Hi All, I have a hp probook 4515s, I forgot to shut my computer down on sunday, when I attempted to start my l/top, it gives me the message windows did not start sucessfully, when I attempt to go in to safe mode, i get this long list of programs …

Im not a computer genius, but I think I got some kind of virus and for about 10 minutes my computer got a mind of its own. I tried to watch a video on megavideo (on firefox, not IE) and then I got a message on the right hand side …

Hello, I was hoping someone could help me as I am exhausted trying to clean up my husband's netbook. Background: I found a Windows Recovery virus on it a couple of days ago as well as a search bar virus. I did a system restore, removed the default Google search …

I have seen this before but am wondering what could be recommended as of how to take of this issue before I start jumping to the computer later this afternoon. I have a Dell Vostro 1000 Laptop that has Avast Server Managed Anti-Virus. 1.2 GHz 512MB RAM. The issues: One: …

Can't get rid of this sucker! Microsoft Security Essentials is the only antivirus that has detected it and "deletes" it every time if pops back in but for some odd reason it can't completely get rid of it. Malwarebytes has just detected after I reinstalled and I am posting log …

My Windows xp SP3's taskbar doesn't work, my Avast Antivirus says that all modules are shut down and sometimes My Documents pops up when I log in. [COLOR="red"]My Malwarebytes anti-malware log (it's partly Finnish):[/COLOR]Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.50.1.1100 [url]www.malwarebytes.org[/url] Tietokantaversio: 6628 Windows 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 (Safe Mode) Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18702 21.5.2011 …

Hi Hope you an help. I installed and then uninstalled Bearshare (i know i shouldnt be near these sorts of programs). So now i cannot open up Internest Explorer. Error box = Data Execution Prevention. I have tried disabling the DEP function and i have also tried reseting IE8. I …

I have recently gotten a nasty virus. AVG did not stop it. It erased all of my desktop icons and removed all links from my start button. I can still access my file through My Computer. Any ideas?

However, i'd like to go back and state all of my problems prior. I got two versions of the "windows xp" spyware virus that pretends to scan your computer initially. I managed to get rid of both by figuring out the process tree and ending them, then using avg to …

I have done all in the "Read me first before posting a request". Unfortunately the virus blocks Internet access except the redirect to it's site so I can not post results. Nothing was found with any of the virus programs. Of the three attempts of the GMER sweep the computer …

Hi, I have been dealing with and for the most part continuously removing the rouge windows security virus. I am still getting google redirects so I am guessing it has never been fully removed. It has been manageable up until a few days ago when my computer was running extremely …