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I am new to this site so if I leave any information out or sound stupid I apologize. Google and Yahoo keeps redirecting me to other websites like edmunds.com or other search engines. My browsing speeds have started to slow down and I cannot visit sites like majorgeek.com or install …

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Hi something similar, or maybe the exact same thing, to what happened to BigM1ke, happened to me as well, so i was hoping if someone could walk me through fixing the computer. [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread148621.html[/url] <-- the thread which BigM1ke posted. I know some basic computing skills, but the logs were a …

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Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 19:36:32, on 10/10/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\VTTimer.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\S3trayp.exe C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgcc.exe C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgemc.exe C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVD\PDVDServ.exe C:\Program Files\Winamp\winampa.exe C:\Program Files\Ahead\InCD\InCD.exe C:\WINDOWS\SOUNDMAN.EXE C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB\realsched.exe C:\windows\hffext\hffsrv.exe C:\Program Files\Google\Google Desktop …

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Norton Internet Security 2008 detects this virus and rates it as high risk but cannot remove it. Directs me to Symantec site which gives instructions on removal, which I followed. However, the virus remains. How do I get rid of it, since I'm assuming it does pose a significant risk. …

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Hello Friends, My Name is Viru, I faced a strange problem, my friend system is not displaying anything after start, A black screen is comming thats all I tried in safe mode also but no result , and when i tried to format the C:\ drive, The CD is also …

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I have an HP desktop with XP SP3 and I use Firefox for a browser; recently I noticed the computer running slow and I find IE7 running two windows in the background (found using Process Explorer, doesn't show up under Applications on Task Manager). I never see any window of …

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Hey everyone. as you may know i got the red circle white x virus thing. i ran the hijackthis and here is my log file. if anyone could help i would be soooo thankful. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 10:55:13 PM, on 10/8/2008 Platform: Windows XP …

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Hi i am new here and trying to fix a relative's computer First it would not boot windows so i had to reinstall the boot files from winxp cd then once i was able to boot i ran over 6 scans from different companies (avg8, ad aware, pc doctor) i …

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I have been infected with the [URL="http://www.precisesecurity.com/blogs/2008/10/08/antivirus-2010/"]Antivirus 2010[/URL] and used the removal procedure from the site. Pop-ups are gone and no more icons on my taskbar. But still the regedit and display properties is still disabled. Please help me revert it back to normal. Thanks

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Hi guys, this could be a difficult one, so all help and patience would be very gratefully recieved. I am asking for help for my brothers laptop, he has the win32/adware.virtumonde virus. I have searched this forum and many others before asking for help. He canot access his computor at …

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I recently encountered what I believe to be an AIM virus. At points when I'm on AIM suddenly numerous (high 60's to low 70s) browsers of Internet Explorer randomly begin to pop open. Each one with a little AIM advertisement inside, so small that it fits nicely in the upper …

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I have tried many things totry and get my desktop back, i have to go through the command promps to do everything. UnHackMe did not work, AWC3 did not work, AML reg cleaner did not work, Daisy did not work, Hijack this did nothing, and Dr.Web cure it had no …

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my Recycle Bin icon indicates that there are contents waiting to be emptied... when i open it. there is nothing there. when i hit "empty recycle bin" a message comes up that says... "are you sure you want to delete WINDOWS?" i didn't. why is this happening? is it related …

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I had a nasty case of smit fraud and spyware. Specifically Win.Worm.32 netnooster and the VIRUS ALERT! in the taskbar. I downloaded SUPERanti-spyware and Spyware Terminator. I ran a full scan with both programs and they pretty much got rid of all the nasty stuff and my pc runs fine …

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Hello, My pc seems to run slower than ever. I scanned it with Kaspersky online scanner and it came back (Infected: Trojan-Downloader.WMA.GetCodec.f) can someone pls help me remove it? Thanks, Dan

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thanks for your help!! running win2k, ie6.0, and using sbc dsl. cleaned trojan viruses using avg6.0, but now i can not browse using google.com in the address bar. if i type the ip address 216.239.39.99 it will go to the google home page. if i search for something and click …

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I got the VIRUS ALERT! malware virus twice out of stupidity. I had my AVG and Zone Alarm turned off to burn a disc that was having trouble copying. Then bang *!@#$% all hell broke loose. I could not get to AVG's site to reinstall the newest copy. I could …

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Unforunately, i was caught off guard and got the facebook virus and have noticed kenny18.exe running on my pc and have been searching for a way to get rid of it. I've been reading another thread here about it, but i didnt want to cause any confusion in that thread …

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Ok, i went through this problem a while ago, my avg pro did not install correctly bacause the pc crashed during install... go figure, i needed to uninstall it and reinstall it... this was a pain so i just wanted to say, never try to uninstall an antivirus... unless your …

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I was listening to an album when windows media player suddenly stopped playing and asked me to update some driver (mp3 codec)... Stupidly, I said yes without thinking about it. Few moments after, my computer was having non stop popus or advertisement about virus, some stuff about anti virus 2008 …

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Hi all. I lost the complete ability to access my executive computer files, including control panel, "my computer, "my documents" such. This is my log. I analyzed it, but couldn't make heads or tails out of some files. Please help me, before I make a mistake, and ruin my comp …

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hey guys,i got this blue screen error in my windows xp..(panda av blocked many malicious programs unknown threats like logonui.exe,system32\cpl32ver.exe,spoolsv.exe etc)"stop:0x0000008e(0xc0000005,0xf8314640,0xa8a9d6a4,0x00000000)" fastfat.sys-address f8314610 base at f831400,datestamp 41107eb7 """ at shutdown of my laptop & also when i hibernate, after some time system automatically starts,i dont know what is going on..can …

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hiya, help i have a virus! for the last few morning i have had the pop up from spybots saying kenny exe wants to access your computer, and i denied access till this morning because my friend said it could be a windows update, so i allowed kenny18 stupidly, then …

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hi , had a recent virus attack on my pc and i cant seem to get rid of a problem where my explorer.exe always closes and reopens its driving me insane. here is my hijackthis report Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 10:12:13 PM, on 9/29/2008 Platform: …

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I can only asume that my habit for p2p servers is what's destroyed my computers speed and created this pop up and internet problem. Explorer and firefox keep opening and closing by themselves and my computer tells me that it NEEDS to connect to networks that I am unfamiliar with …

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Hi, I have done a lot of research on this nasty trojan I downloaded thinking i was getting the latest episode of the Amazing Race (I knew better, but I hoped I was wrong). I have seen a lot of the fixes, and tried to do them, however, this virus …

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hi friends, i've been looking for answer for my problem for 4 days and until now no one helping me to work this out. here's my problem everytime i start up my computer this error message appears [B][U]windows cannot find 'regsvr.exe'. make sure you typed the name correctly, and then …

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EDIT: its seems that its gone, but for some reason, all the icons on my desktop are glowing in gray. and the top right corner of my background it majorly cut off, so i used a different pic, now its all white. please someone help me

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Computer start to work slow #1 19 Hours Ago | Add to SerbOz's Reputation | Flag Bad Post My computer start to work slow. I have no idea what happened even my comp is supposed to be fast with 3.5 Gb, 3Gb RAM, 500 HD, Windows XP... Anyway, sending my …

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About a week ago my computer started running slower. My friend checked out and found iexplore.exe multiple times in processes. So I've looked everywhere to find out how to get rid of it. Also, the link for DSS has been stopped b/c of sumthin happening so I dont have those …

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Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 04:27, on 2008-09-29 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Intel\Wireless\Bin\EvtEng.exe C:\Program Files\Intel\Wireless\Bin\S24EvMon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Version Cue CS2\bin\VersionCueCS2.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\AOL\TopSpeed\2.0\aoltsmon.exe C:\Program Files\Common …

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I downloaded a video that was supposed to be desperate housewives season5 episode 1 from youtube and somehow got a virus/spyware and two porn icons on my desktop and i keep getting micro AV security updates below is my Hi Jack this log can any one help me remove the …

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Hi my system is running a bit slow especially since I upgraded Messenger and Internet explorer. I think my disks are a bit heavy?? It's slow and strange maybe it's sick I did the HJT. Windows Live Hotmail runs very weirdly aswell (slow and doesn't always work) My Disk size …

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Hi, I have got this thing where if i go on google and search, the text is bigger than usual. Also if i click on a search it loads up a new window and some random site comes up. Id really appreciate a step by step guide on what to …

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I cannot open My Computer, Control panel...it tries to open but it closes inmediately. This is my Hijackthis log. Please help!!! Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 15:09:30, on 30/09/2008 Platform: Windows 2000 SP4 (WinNT 5.00.2195) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: …

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I seem to have picked up adware. I don't know how, but I've scanned with AVG Spyware, and AVG Anti-Virus, fixed all of the problems it showed, but I still have adware apparently. Here my HiJackThis log - Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 6:45:49 PM, on …

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i've been getting alerts saying i've been getting internet attacks and spyware and i have VIRUS ALERT! on my taskbar and everywhere else. my hijack log: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 00:51: VIRUS ALERT!, on 10/1/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 …

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So I followed these directions of yours: Hi altezza and welcome to daniweb, Please do the following steps. Please download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (MBA-M) to your Desktop. * DoubleClick mbam-setup.exe and follow the prompts to install MBA-M. * Be sure a checkmark is placed next to Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and Launch …

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well i don't know what i did, ran some exe file from a movie i downloaded and bam, was supposed to generate a password for an rar file, i ran hijack this and thought maybe somone could help me, i've run a bunch of programs i had installed, nod, adware, …

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I use bitdefender internet security for the most part. Is this effective, do i need spyblaster or some other type of anti-spyware programjust to make sure? what is the best all-in-one security package. Thanks much, SW

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My computer was getting fatal errors for about a week now, getting progressively worse as the week went by. It would keep doing physical memory dumps and what not, but would always work on the second or third boot-up. Last night it completely died and just went to a blue …

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I have a problem with virus Alert on my toolbar, and i don't know how to fix it. I go HiJack this and i want to know what do i do from there. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 19:45: VIRUS ALERT!, on 9/27/2008 Platform: Windows XP …

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Hi guys and girls here, my new acer aspire 5315 laptop running windows vista suddenly stop working as i was installing a software downloaded from lphant. i switch off and on again but can only run at safe mode, it doesn't longer run in a normal mode. i run some …

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A couple days ago, I inadvertantly downloaded Micro Antivirus 2009. With that, I had all sorts of issues with pop-ups, programs being blocked, etc. I was unable to do a system restore (first the Help icon was gone from my start menu, then when it came back, the System Restore …

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Hello, I am using windows XP SP2 and I am having trouble with explorer.exe, it keeps restarting every 5 seconds and comes up with an error message saying it cannot find winlogon.exe in "C:\WINDOWS\winlogon.exe". Here is my hijack this report: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 00:47:34, …

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I'm having problems whenever i click a result in google or yahoo, where i get redirected to other pages and advertisements. Also a lot of sites it try to visit will not come up and spybot and ad-aware and my antivirus cannot connect to update. It's really frustrating. I've been …

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hi,I have benefitted a lot by elove's thread,thanx a lot.I have some other problems too.When I start up windows,I get an error mssg saying "Windows cannot find regsvr.exe. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search a file, click the Start button, and then click …

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hi guys. i have a problem with my computer. i can't show hidden files/folders on my computer. i've even tried showing them through the registry keys related but somehow the values i change seem to default to their previous values. I've also noticed a file in my flashdisk even after …

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Hello Judy and Jazz83- I am dealing with the same issue here! I followed your directions Judy and have the following logs to show you. Any help would be apprecaited! Thanks so much. Eric.

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Hello I am new here can anyone help me. OK about two months out of the blue I am not able to access Internet Explorer or Firefox pages. I have contacted Verizon and they did a ping test and I am able to access the interenet and get email in …

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