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UPDATE 12/31/2003: I ran all of the programs that were recommended and for which information, I am very grateful. However the problem persisted so I contacted Norton Utilities and was informed that this was a brand new Trojan Horse that first showed up on 12/20/2003 and that a fix was …
Recently when loading my home page it is replaced by this 'find 4 you' screen. It also lists five new titles in the favorites. Is there a way to get rid of this nuisance. I have ad aware and anti virus. Sorry I am not a very experienced user[size=1]. [/size][size=2]I …
The past several days when I log in, my home page is gone and this Find 4 U is there and it also takes over the favorites and adds five new titles there. I have ad aware and anti virus but would a firewall help. Also does anyone know how …
I am on a network with a Web Proxy server, my Windows 2000 PC with IE6 and latest patches cannot reach a web site on our local network. I have set all the proxy and bypass proxy settings, tried specifying the site address (as machine name/site etc) and tyrned off …
I received a mail from matchmaker.com yesterday telling me that they have found a match for me.I believed it because they used a very familiar name...so here is the message: " Congratulations -- You matched through SecretAdmirer.com! To find out who you matched with, and to see if your admirer …
Hi, If anyone could help me with this, i'd be so grateful! Whenever I try to burn a cd, it never works. It gets almost completely done (around 80-99%) and all of a sudden it says there are problems. I think this is because at about this time, the windows …
I recently got a virus and cleaned it up. Some files were deleted. Now windows won't load. I get an error code 35. An application can 't load because it can't find the winsrv file. Please help
I have a Dell P4 running XP. I recently picked up a downloader.tooncom virus that is identified as an exploit in Windows Media Player. I have Norton Anti Virus Pro 2004 and Spybot and Pest Patrol, but none of them can remove this virus. Does anyone have any idea how …
When I boot up my comp everything starts up fine but, especially when I get online on my modem my computer slows down problaby takes 30seconds to a minute to even up a web page window, none the less running a video game or anything else for that matter. my …
[url]http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html[/url] The log refernce is from the log you get when you run the hijackthis program [url]http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/[/url]
I am running Win2000 SP4 on an HP Pavilion system. I have over 300MB of RAM and over 10GB free HD space. I have Norton Anti-Virus 2001 installed and have used live update to get the latest exe and dat file updates. Recently (I cannot recall what preceded this problem) …
My computer will be perfectly fine and then for about an hour or so it will just start being all wierd. It seems to hold down shift and control, and hold down my mouse with i click. It will stop for a minute or so then just start it up …
Hi there, I have worrying problem. Whenever I power on my machine, a light blue screen appears before loading windows. It then requests scan disk within a specified period but also requests that I press any key to load without scan disk. My other machines on the network behaved this …
I am getting crazy amounts of pop ups. I run ad-aware daily. Can anyone help? Thank you so much! Here is my log: Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 Scan saved at 4:23:49 PM, on 12/17/2003 Platform: Windows 2000 SP3 (WinNT 5.00.2195) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 (6.00.2600.0000) Running processes: C:\WINNT\System32\smss.exe C:\WINNT\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINNT\system32\services.exe …
If I launch Internet Explorer from any of the different locations in Windows 98, Windows Explorer actually access the internet instead of IE. I have scaned for viruses and trojans but nothing has come up. This is very odd cause it just started to do this. I would have not …
I'm not that much of a computer brainer... so here goes: My computer has been running really slowly lately (I have defragmented it) - and I've got a lot of running processes. Could any of you tell me if you see anything strange in this log I created using HiJackThis? …
I need help. Since I installed Norton Antivirus/Internet Security 2004 my printer takes forever, and many other functions take so long or stall. What do I do to keep security that is necessary to protect my computer, but still have a computer that runs its other functions effectively?
Last night I got home and activated the screen(from power saver), and found a screen full of popups, IE had not been open before. When I got these closed, open IE and found it had totally changed. Lycos side search, Google toolbar gone, home page changed. Tryed SpyBot, found MANY …
About 2 months ago I obtained a virus that redirects my IE start page to a host of various start engines. Each morning I run Spybot and Ad-aware 6.0 and they find the registry changes made by the virus, change the registry back to what it should be, but by …
My internet options for homepage default has changed to Ultralinks.info. Under properties I get this - shdoclc.dll/offcancl.htm#/http://ultalinks.info/ How do I delete this and get my old default back
I discovered this evening that when I right click to display links in the toolbar, rather than displaying the contents of my links folder, IE 6 displays ALL of my favorites. I've checked the favorites folder under "documents and settings", and the contents of the links folder are exactly as …
I've got a friend who keeps getting a link posted in his profile everytime he signs on. The text is like "Whoah look at what I found!" and it's some link to a site. He's tried deleting it and restarting, but it comes right back. Also I told him to …
I have a machine that is on my network & internet. Some few minutes ago I realised that the automatic antivirus scan had gone off. When I launched the virus scan, I noticed that the automatic scan had gone off/was disabled. I tried enabling it but in vain. What's the …
Can someone please help me determine what items I should eliminate, as they are likely responsible for my homepage being redirected to an unknown site .... as well as the abundance of pop-ups. I have Google toolbar with pop_up blocker but that does not prevent these new breed of pop_ups …
[FONT=Book Antiqua][COLOR=DarkOrchid]i need some help or something. everytime i get on the computer i get swamped with ads that pop up all the time and now this program thing keeps installing itself on my computer. i uninstall it but it keeps coming back. its apparently called Ezula and i've been …
Ok, Where to begin, My computer specs are as followed: Athlon XP 1700+ Win XP Pro - Upgrade (if you needed to know) 398? MB RAM (around there) GeForce 4 MMx 440 Graphics Card Don't know motherboard (if you could also tell me how to find out, i've looked all …
Tried to uninstall Mcafee Virus Scan and can't do anything. Erro message: WS2_32.DLL
I'm using ie6,mozilla firebird and netscape 4.1.I'm receiving continuous pop-ups with empty white windows from nowhere.How I block annoying pop-ups? There are also some annoying spyware like mysearch.com that hijacks your homepage and etc.Where do I get some free spy-sweeper and pop-up blocker?
iam running a pentium 4.1400. with windows xp home edition with sp1.and all updates.i removed all traces of the program from the registry beforei uninstalled the program.i tryed to use jv16 power tools to remove the program but.i cant get it out of the ad&remove window.i tryed to reinstall the …
I have Windows XP and my precocious teenagers downloaded KaZaA along with all their spyware. My problem is this; now when they try to access INternet Explorer, instead of getting the home page (google) they get this: C:\WINDOWS\eeiecrgrststvst.htm#[url]http://www.google.com/[/url] There is no way to get IE to change from this and …
I've a problem with windows 2000. I just install windows 2000, multiboot with windows Me on main partition. So windows 2000 is super clean, but as soon as I connect to internet I got a message "svchost.exe will stop..." after I can't copy, delete or move files on my desktop. …
This happens on two different PC: win2000pro english, SP3. Every 2 or 3 days, win2000 hang. This hang is very strange, because is not an hardware hang but surely is software. System is working good for 1-2 days, then occasionally, in different situations, some program don't close his windows, don't …
hi i seem to of picked up the msblast worm virus any ideas how to erase it . i have the patch and virus scan but its not showing itself.i have tried running regedit but it lasts 5 seconds, same goes for the patch.i have run symantic msblast scan and …
New to this. Problem, cpu chewed up by the above. Before I found the file it was killing all spyware and antivirus software. After stopping the task, Norton comes up clean, every spyware, adware, trogen killer comes up clean. I have run norton on the network comes up clean. Symantec …
I have tried 3 different types of AV programs. Norton. Mcafee. Panda. Everytime i install them my IE stops working. I can still connect to like irc and msn. But IE doesnt work. When i uninstal the programs and restart computers.... IE works fine..... any suggestions with this? thanks
I get tons of internet explorers pop up for no reason on my start bar. You cant click on them and they are not advertisments; they just appear. Only thing I can do is exit them. Does anyone know what the deal is here?
This is my first thread, so please bear with me -- I'm not sure WHAT the HECK my problem(s) is/are...but I keep getting...'page cannot be displayed...' and 'cannot find server'. I've tried all kinds of settings in IE and AOL, still doesn't work. It seems to be secure pages (example: …
For some reason I get a toolbar at the bottom of my screen and my home page re-written every time I open my browser to this : [url]http://scrk.com/passthrough/index.html?http://www.yahoo.com/[/url] I have tried cleaning my PC with Aware6, deleting temp files, cookies, and history. Looked for scrk in my registry with no …
I've had it.. Here's my dilemma (and I'm not a techie, so easy on the feedback) I have Windows98 I have Grokster (it's a music downloading program) [url]www.grokster.com[/url] They forced me to download a new version (the old one would no longer connect me to their software). So far so …
Hi, Hope someone here can assist us. Our rip server recently crashed hard while playing an Art Bell radio show, with the audio sounding just like a cd skipping. Since that date, we have reinstalled the system in order to get it to a point where it will run and …
My Messenger is not working. I have PIII@ 450 Win98se, i am using mobile set for accessing Internet. It was working all fine until one day i was prompted to upgrade my messenger to the latest version. Since then I have not been able to log in to messenger. I …
Playing games is one of the fun things I do on my computer, but recently I noticed svchost.exe and system takes all my processing. So now everything is slow, even the screen saver. I did not have this problem until I went online to play games. The computer was not …
[COLOR=Navy][B]Some days ago my IE6 was hijacked. Spybot scanned and cleared the system , lefting as start page a blank; However the buttons that configure the start page kept disabled ; By editing manually the register (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main) I was able to change start page. I
i have verizon dsl and when i go to task manager and check network and stuff it always goes up and down when i play games online it does the same thing maybe i have a virus but i have mcfee what would it mean if it kept going up …
I've got a problem with starting up internet explorer uinder win98, as soon as I click to start it a white error window shows up with the standard error, "Iexplore - An error has occured in your program. To keep waiting ... Close / Ignore" I have no idea what …
I have a clone PC using Windows 98. When I try to boot up system, it gets to the first screen and then it just shuts down completely. I can't even get to the safe mode. When I hold down the ctrl key and I choose safe mode. I get …
hi all, i've been visiting a website that has installed much spyware on my computer. lavasoft adaware could remove most of it. but if i simply enter 'yahoo.com', ie does not find the website yahoo.com but show the address: [url]http:///?%20yahoo.com.What[/url] can i do to have the [url]http:///?%20[/url] removed, that is …
ok, well my friend cant go on the internet and when cs opens his comp crashes... everything closes.. and he has to reboot, its not the worm bug or blaster virus, it says his kernel32.dll theres something wrong with it.. anyone know what? or how to fix it? cuz he …
i get this virus.what can i do? help me plz.my english is poor.what can i do in the [url]www.microsoft.com/security/s...ns/ms03-026.asp[/url]. ? what can i push there? svc host exe error plz plz plz thx
can anyone tell me what this is? all of a sudden it started showing up in my processes window, and when it runs it slows my comp down to a near halt.. i cannot find what program, if any, it is associated with or where it came from.. i ran …
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