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You have some old junk, but unfortunately you also have a password stealing trojan. We shall remove it. But first may i suggest that you use another clean? computer to change your banking passwords? And i shall get back to you on the fix pretty smartly.

Hey!! you're sposed to be on this side of the fence!! Anyway, ur prob getting cmd showing a:\> cos your sys just is not seeing the boot drive, which is normally c. Can you get to recovery console with that emachines disc? Get it to do a chkdsk /p first …

you've probably rushed off and done that reformat, but a far quicker, less disruptive task to play with first is a simple rebuiding of some system files if any are broken, using M$'s system file checker... Grab your xp cd, and go Start > run, type:- sfc /scannow Be prepared …

windows will have a driver copy stored in your pc. Try refreshing the USB driver stack.... So first - unplug all USB devices, and uninstall their software. Reboot into Safe mode, navigate to Device manager. In view tab check show hidden devices. Delete/uninstall ALL USB drivers and devices: firstly printer, …

what are you asking? i see that you ran 1.... did you run 2. as well? Smitfraud files are in the log. You could take the time to post a hijackthis log after you do that..[please, with EVERYTHING else closed...]

may i butt in for one wee question... are you using some sort of web accelerator, such as google's?

It will not be your screen. Help me more here - is it only text-based images that are affected.... are you sure that the text in the start button is pixelated? For Daniweb logo - the text in the logo image is pixellated but not the sofa in the pic? …

k, i'll jump in. firstly, the log's clean. full, but clean. Do you really need all that media stuff running from startup? I am not a great audio fan - i struggle on with WMP9 [vsn 10 has extras i do not wish to use]. But you have a lot …

go here, to [url]www.webtree.ca[/url] and get this xp bootable cd image which includes recovery console. it runs from the cd which you will burn from the iso file.. [url]http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/Tools/bootdiscs/xp_rec_con.zip[/url] One other thing, to enable yourself to capture the error messages go into BIOS and disable the auto-restart on error thing. …

be nice if you put up the error codes instead of that sentence.

hello wolffie.... for a start you have a vundo infection... these online scans are not all-seeing... I would like you to download CCleaner from [url]http://www.ccleaner.com/[/url] and put it in a new folder. You should aim to keep this one for general use. I set it from the install checkboxes to …

er... that would be a buddhist date... such as from thailand, laos.... but still a bit of a westernised corruption for simplicity, less confusion, cos their new year day would be our april 13. i think. And that was only half a log; a lot of important entries are missing. …

Some settings that you apply when using msconfig conveniently delete system restore files. So neat. A couple are :- Diagnostic startup, and Selective startup - if you clear the Load system services box. It's just a pity that that little thing is not mentioned in the Help file.... Now. Did …

Waht do you mean exactly by this "and sorrily a random systemroot command in c:." ? As a first step go start > run > bootcfg /rebuild If that works run chkdsk with switches /F /R

Let me start by saying Cor! You have some interesting stuff; you don't have antivirus, and i don't see a firewall [unless you are using windows version..], and your java is out of date, and so you probably deserve what you have - running Opera won't save you from all …

you don't HAVE any BHO's.... but you do have a pesty toolbar which hijackthis will easily remove. Plus you have removed java and there still are a couple of items referencing this. And a couple of timewasters are in there also.... it's up to you what you do with these. …

..and just what is your friend going to do after 30? days tick by with no activation? [and he will be bothered by M$ every one of those 30 days...] Cos if you put in your numbers, well, someone is going to lose out. You.

I'm going to bet that you do not have a rclick context menu option to open command prompt for files and folders .... am i correct? And it's such a useful thing to have, as you are probably thinking right now, cos from the command prompt window you can do …

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interesting. why not google 360share... some interesting comments out there regarding it's being a rebadged old version of limewire. the latter is free. i use limewire on occasion, but more commonly emule. No firewall problems with either, for the windows version or zone alarm.

My turn to pose a question. I just received a weird, unsolicited email. If you try to copy n paste it, u get underlying text appearing with the normally visible text... it only appears when you lclick and drag. A sample of a capture [top text only..]:_ "Market Makers and …

do it again, and this time note the beep codes, both number and length. then go to the site of your BIOS maker and see what they mean. [Google beep codes and bios maker for the info...] . Beep codes are basic signals your BIOS puts out when not much …

would you mind terribly putting up the file so we can check that it is the correct format? just rclick on your particular .reg file, select open with notepad, and paste it here... and add your opsys version info.

gee, a dearth of information there. So what is it? If u rclick it and check properties, wot d/u see? Who does it link to? There are masses of those icons out there.... and they are not all the same trojan, if that is what it is.

dortz, thank you very much for providing that link - it led on via a whole tree of links to some fascinating and useful reading. Brilliant.

ok, enter safe mode if you can via pressing F8 key immediately after POST runs and before the drive detection screen blacks outt.... check the startup folder contents for all users and delete any entry you do not recognise. If that does not work run CHKDSK /r from your XP …

hal. i think M$ tried hard to come up with that name for this all-controlling ruler of your puter [2001: a space oddy..]. HAL is the software inteface between XP etc opsys and other applications, and the hardware. If hal is broken not much will run. You can get a …

reformatted, but you give no details really.. if windows is in it's own partition did you give it plenty of room, incl for its page file? 5GB min for home, pro needs a lil more. dunno really, but it sounds like heat or free space.

go into the BIOS at startup [delete key?] and enable extended memory checking... just see how much of your RAM is working.

For a start, you have look-to-me adware.... so go here [url]http://www.f-secure.com/tools/f-look2me.zip[/url] and dl f-look2me and as an administrator, unzip it and run the .exe. Reboot. I would like you to download CCleaner from [url]http://www.ccleaner.com/[/url] and put it in a new folder. You should aim to keep this one for general …

do you actually have a problem, or is this just a checkup?anyway, it looks clean to me, and you're welcome. But update that sun java...09 is current. Use yours to download the update, uninstall then install the latest. Set update to check monthly, but not to install by itself cos …

This is what happens when you just delete a virus file that is a requirement of a process remanent in the autostart menu, or which is the target of a key still in registry.... just looking at the autostart menu may tell you, but i doubt it. You could do …

this site may help, esp 2nd page. [url]http://www.pcmech.com/show/bios/81/[/url] btw, you cannot use someone else's key even if it is legit and is accepted during activation, unless they no longer want it. M$ product activation would knock them over within a month [it checks...]

you may well be right. if you've formatted then it all comes down to hardware and BIOS. Download a windows system setup floppy from [url]http://freepctech.com/pc/002/files010.shtml[/url] and see what you can do.

just for the heck of it, turn off automatic windows update via security centre in control panel. Temporarily, mind. But post again saying if it has an effect.

This one is spyware... fix it. O3 - Toolbar: &VSAdd-in - {74DD705D-6834-439C-A735-A6DBE2677452} - C:\Program Files\VSAdd-in\VSAdd-in.dll This one is innocuous spyware from realtek. it does no harm, but it's up to you... O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AlcxMonitor] ALCXMNTR.EXE These next 3 slow down your startup time, and are not necessary... if it …

what is the actual problem you are experiencing, jeni? Meanwhile, reboot and run HT in Safe Mode, check these objects for fixing, fix, then prceed to normal windows mode, rerun HT and repost the new log here.... [actually you can leave the first one, R1=... unfixed if you like the …

go off to sysinternals and get a couple of apps. Since SMTP uses TCP, port 25 u can watch it with TDIMon, track it with TCPView both to the process handling it inside your PC and the remote addresses which will be identified. Then use ProcessExplorer to get the keys …

Okay, a moderate selection of things remaining and we shall now work on those. But please, once we start this, do not delete or fix anything until I or someone says so.. Time to get some free stuff.... First off I would like you to download CCleaner from [url]http://www.ccleaner.com/[/url] and …

delete his game, password him into a limited user account; with no administration rights he'd not be able to install most games. There is no way you can give him access to hotmail and not a browser, cos the browser is needed for that. To restrict to only certain websites.. …

drsmartload is a spyware and ad delivery trojan , and naturally that one does not aim to give you a BSOD. Cmdservices is a pest. You may have a virus which is designed to do that, or it is unintentional from a bad bit of hacker code. Anyway run HT …

..and the sweetest of them all is.. No Sounds.

remove via control panel uses the program's own uninstaller .exe, but you removed that when you did your deletion thing. Check first that the uninstall exe aint in the recycle bin... if so then restore it and let it do it's stuff - you can dclick it in it's old …

Time to get some free stuff.... but first, why not copy this into notepad? I would like you to download CCleaner from [url]http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4191.html[/url] and put it in a new folder. Next go get Ewido 4.0 [free], install it alongside your other regular applications in Program Files, because you should keep …

well, yeah. password them out. Don't give them Administrator privileges and they are locked out of msconfig. Heck, unless they are doing system work they should all be logging on as users. Even you, unless you need to modify sys stuff.

birdie, my brain just burst. please turn off wordwrap in notebook and repost that lot? You might also give HT a folder to itself in or beside "program files", and run it in safe mode for a first pass. thank you.

Okay. You may have a RAM problem, so u could try exchanging RAM cards if u have only one, or swap them out if you have two. But first i would try working through these options..:- 1. Press F8 at startup [repeatedly if u do not know when..] to enter …

The System process is a file which stores information related to local hardware settings in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. I have no idea why yours is taking so much CPU time... but leave it be. Btw, next time you run a HT scan [yours is clean] you could fix this …

hmmm. that one is a very short script that tells BIOS where to find the windows bootloader and the windows system files. It also lists all operating systems on your machine - most folks only have the one - so that at boot you are presented witha list of OS's …

..or you can make a rclick context menu entry for a w explorer folder.... saves going to the desktop. And, neatly enough, that folder is is your active directory! Click-clack.