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My C: drive has a ton of po.tmp files in it that I can't get rid of, a big red x next to the C: drive, and it's slow, etc. Anyway I ran AVG and it didn't do anything. So I ran the hijackthis and this is the log. I …

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Hi! Well, I'm new in this forum, and I want your help, please, because I'm in troubles with my pc, because a few days ago, I didn't pay attention when somebody sent me a link, and.. that link was a trojan.. :S and well, AVG is working in my pc, …

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Hey there, I've been googling this problem and have come across a few posts on this and other websites regarding a virus(es) that are restarting 'explorer.exe', making using my computer quite frustrating =(. Anyways, I would appreciate any help =). This is the Hijackthis logfile from a few seconds ago. …

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Been having trouble logging into hotmail, facebook and my schools e-mail account. I am not on my schools internet and everytime I try to login to these sites I get a blank screen say IE could not open this page as if I were not connected to the internet. Here …

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Hi, Initially everytime i ran my windows explorer, it auto shuts down and along with it, my desktop icons and taskbar disappears leaving only the desktop wallpaper. After which i tried restoring my system. Now the windows explorer keeps shutting down automatically like 3-5 secs after running it, the desktop …

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help! Mcafee says that i have new win32 virus and cant fix it. computer is running slow. IE keeps poping up.. this is my hijackthis log Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 12:56:25 AM, on 6/15/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 …

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It all started when I started getting a "System Error" window. It said my name and something about possibly having a trojan and that it recommended me downloading some spyware. I thought it strange, especially knowing my full name, so I clicked on cancel. But every other time I tried …

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Hey there im just new to this forum and like many others i also seem to have a problem... Didn't really wanna hassle anyone but after searchin through some posts i still couldnt find an answer to my problem. Basically i have downloaded some albums tonight from sites such as …

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For at least a week, I've been having major issues with my computer. I had a million pop-ups, and certain websites (Myspace, aol, google...) wouldn't work. Somehow my anti-virus/spyware software got deleted from my computer, and I didn't delete it. I couldn't download any new software either, because it wouldn't …

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Hey can people help me my friedn got a old computer and the screen just turns blue here i will give you my hijack this file... Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 3:59:02 PM, on 6/14/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.5730.0013) …

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I've recently been getting pop ups from Internet Explorer while using Firefox and I never even use IE. I tried downloading and running a few random spyware programs but none have helped. Usually I can find answers online just by googling but this just won't seem to stop. After clicking …

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A few days ago I accidentally inadvertently clicked upon a popup ad that I was trying to get rid of and a black screen appeared on my desktop replacing my wallpaper with a message that still reads, 'Warning, your computer is infected! How the hec do I get rid of …

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Okay, so earlier today, I seem to have contracted some kind of virus. I was on MSN messenger and I recieved one of those stupid messages with those links with these kinds of virus attached to them but for some reason I didnt pay attention and I was careless and …

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Hi All, Im currently running Vista 32bit on an Core 2 Duo PC. The other day, after installing and uninstalling my anti-virus software to update and change i noticed some of my web pages were refusing to load. Sometimes if i closed the browser 3 or 4 times it would …

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HELP, my PC has always been virtually virus and spyware free because i use avg annti-virus & spybot. but recently ive had some real serious problems with my pc. I get these "Buffer Overrun" errors in "explorer.exe" which causes all programs and the task bar and desktop to close down …

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Hi I have had an unusually high cpu usage for the past 2 days. Especially when using firefox or safari or similar programs. I have over 300GB of hard disk space and almost 3gb of ram. I have never had over 80% cpu usage even even using high-end games but …

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Hello everybody, i'm in desperately in need of help. I have recently acquired some kind of virus/bug/nasty. There is a "VIRUS ALERT!" Warning appears in my system tray. I am unable to access most things in my start bar, and I cannot access control panel or my computer. Also, when …

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Hello Last Wednesday my computer became very effectively infected. My desktop became a selectable icon, (a version of the SmitfraudFix icon), the C drive had disappeared, was unable to access the display icon (came back with administration privilege required). The system was constantly accessing the internet, the antivirus soft, Avira …

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I have had a lot of trouble with spools.exe . I clean it off and it just keeps comming back. This computer, a Dell Dimension 3000, 1.5 GB RAM, sp2, had a lot of trogans and viruses and I was able to clean most of them with Spybot Search and …

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Good day. I used Spybot search & destroy along with AVG to remove several nasties. I was then prompted to reboot my machine. Upon restarting computer, A blue screen comes up saying: [code] STOP: c0000135{unable to locate component} This application has failed to start because baservik32 was not found. Re-installing …

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recently noticed my pc running not quite as quickly as it should be and wondered if there is any nasties lurking which are impacting on system performance. below is a hijack this log .. would appreciate your thoughts.. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 18:00:53, on 09/06/2008 …

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An unregistered XP anti virus keeps poping up on my computer. How do I remove it? It will not allow me to go to any sites. Once I click on a site, the site shows up for 2 seconds, then it redirects me to the anti virus page. I didnt …

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Not sure how much of this is relevant, but I'll start when the problems started. A couple of days ago, my macafee subscription ran out. I wasn't too concerned, but then IE (I'm running 7.0) would crash to a problem page (like it was disconnected) and then multiple windows with …

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hello .. here is main.txt and extra.txt. i scaned my system because windows explorer, iexplorer and winamp errors started to appear more often then usual. and when last night i started to render image in 3dsmax (and vray), i needed to restart computer - windows has stopped and this message …

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please help! i keep getting the buffer overrun in explorer.exe error message and explorer keeps crashing. also, mozilla seems to be having huge problems on my computer and frequently pages won't load. certain websites won't work at all and sometime when i do searchs on google, it's 50-50 if it …

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I have an idea what is the problem, but i can't fix it. Earlier, I have fixed it for like 1 hour(I deleted one dll named: xxyyyVMd.dll and explorer.exe stoped crashing), then it started again and now I cant find a solution. Please help, heres HiJackThis log: Logfile of Trend …

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I have the Virus Alert! message in my toolbar and other random places around my computer, typically where there should be an AM or PM on a time. I am pretty sure I received it after downloading a media codec last night. Thanks for any help that you all can …

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I've observed and read through numerous threads where users are having identical issues to what I am dealing with. The explorer.exe just continually restarts. I have run Avast, Kaspersky, AVG and a few other scans. AVG seemed to find quite a few things that looked malicious, but removing them did …

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Hi all, I have recently installed a program called rapidown and was able to remove it using the add/remove programs built in to xp. However windows Explorer keeps crashing now at random times. I have tried a Spybot, Ad-aware and Windows defender scan but nothing shows up. Logfile of Trend …

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I may sound dumb, but I went to a website to try and speed up my computer, and I did what it said and I think a couple of important files are missing. when I open Windows Explorer for the first time when I log on, it opans fine until …

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Hi, I am a World of Warcraft player who, like many, saw the Blizzard notice about an Adobe Flash "vulnerability". Their notice explained this to be related to a keylogging issue. Having not taken care of it straight away, I apparently screwed myself over pretty big. Now I have much …

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Hi every one. I am recently facing rb4.tmp and other rb file creating in the recycle bin. I delete these, but while PC boot then it appears in the recycle bi. I am using verizon Internet security suite, Operating system WindowsXP professional- SP2. I want to know whether it is …

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ok i think that my computer has a virus but im not completely sure so bear with me. my computer has been very glitchy lately and sometimes lags alot. so i did a virus scan with trend micro but all it found were cookies. then i tried the free panda …

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I have a dial up broadband connection with Tiscali and as of about five days ago whenever I try to open a web page I get the message Invalid Syntax Error or Cannot Find Server also I cannot send or recieve email through Outlook Express or download any updates. I …

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Searching for the answer to my problem brought me to your website and this thread [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/nextoldesttothread31710.html"]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/nextoldesttothread31710.html[/URL] My Explorer.exe keeps restarting itself, in some cases it just crashes. I have discovered viruses like Virtumonde.dll and Ctfmon.dll and have failed in my attempts to delete them forever. When i think the problem …

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Avast anti-virus keeps popping up and telling me there's a rootkit installed in my PC. But when I run scan and do the removal the PC reboots and the avast scanner runs but it fails to get the rootkit Whats a good rootkit remover?

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About 2 weeks ago, I started to have problems accessing https sites. Not all, but most. In diagnosing the problem, I connected another computer to the router/modem and have the same problem. Both computers worked before. Tech support at my ISP had me try some of the same things that …

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Hi, for a while now my computer has been going a slow and acting wierd. Some times when i use a windows shortcut key such as ctrl + C explorer will restart or when im in a folder and right click it will restart but only every once in and …

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Upload it here and the results will be displayed [url]http://virusscan.jotti.org[/url] A virus scan is run on the file you upload against 21 AV softwares and will give you an idea about the questioned file......

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The current state of my Mom's computer is horrible. I had an AV and Spyware software in place, but it failed to protect the computer. I've followed the instructions outlined before posting. However, I believe that the instructions are outlined for an older version of AVG. The current state of …

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I think I chose correct screen name - 2dumb - I've read and read, but I'm uncertain which files are causing slow down and dreaded red circle disease. I'll await someone's review of my hjt log. Thanks a bunch. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 1:32:52 PM, on 6/2/2008 …

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hi guys, ive recently got a virus that avg 8 detected, im pretty sure it is bad because when i load up my computer it would say "error loading ( ) the specified module could not be found" and my msn would just exit by itself and i wouldn't be …

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hello all i am having a rought ime here im inschool and i have to share a computer with another studnt and he has done somthing to download a virus on the school computer and i have transfered it through a jumpdrive to my home computer and its killing me. …

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Background on computer keeps changing telling me I have spyware and download a program to remove it. A popup also comes up wanting me to click yes to down load all their progams - I have not clicked on it. Also little black beetle bugs are crawling on screen occassionally …

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Hi everybody. again I have some problems :(( this time it's svchost.exe, sometimes it take 99% of memory and my PC barely works. than I just turn if off with Task man. with svchost.exe all sound turns off, exept that which were already launched when I turned off svchost.exe. plz …

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I'm having issues with my 3d programs mostly, especially games. a few days ago, they suddenly started getting about 1-2 fps, while reporting that they get 12-15 fps, which is considerably lower than what they had been getting. I haven't installed anything for some time and assume that something is …

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Hi, Im havinbg problems with this process lsass.exe that is consuming lot of memory (more than 100mb) and i dont know what to do Here i give you my hijackthis log Thks for youe help Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 13:19, on 2008-05-31 Platform: Windows XP …

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I have been receiving denial of service every time i try to connect to the internet through my router which was a NETGEAR MR814 v3,using the wired ports. So i went and bought a new router a NETGEAR WGR614 v9, but still the problem occurs. Please help because i can …

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i hve already posted this somewher else and i dont know if ur allowed to post similar threads twice but I am gonna anyway lol [B]I think I have viruses on my computer and I have done a full scan and that and removed the viruses but i am still …

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Hello every one, I'm new to this community and I'm hoping that someone here can help me to solve my problem. What's happening is that I have recently installed ghostsurf platinum 2005 and for some reason it won't let me connect to IE or msn messenger, I have read the …

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