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 | Hello, my PC has recently been a victim of reader_s.exe...I've reformatted my PC several times and it still popped up. However with the last reformat, things seem to be going fine, but I have a feeling reader_s.exe will pop up again. Here is my HJT log, is anything wrong? My … |
| | I'm trying to help a friend who has apparently picked up a virus. He didn't have anti-virus software, so when he started noticing problems he bought Norton. By then it was too late; Norton will not install. I tried running Microsoft's safety scanner, but the installation just hung. I couldn't … |
| | I believe I have got 'bad' virus on my toshiba portege m400, (i.e. not easy to get rid off) from a download. After which my scanning facilities in my antivirus software, Norman were disabled. I have changed virus software to Kaspersky Antivirus but now it will not update properly, the … |
| | :cry: I am using Dell Dimension 4500S with Windows XP home edition. When I start my computer it reads 'PLUG & PLAY CONFIGURATION ERROR' Press F1 to continue and F2 to run set up. Also, when I enter in to my system I cannot adjust the 640x480 resolution w- 16 … |
| | Hi guys, I've searched my @ss off for a solution but not even google has something on this. (two or three useless pages) One of our customers rebooted their machine and all of a sudden their usernames at the logon screen is gone, and instead there is three new ones … |
| | Hello All Someone put of my update service on windows 7 professional. How can I turn it back on as my windows essential anti virus wont update either? Please help me. |
| | So, i've had this malware for a week or so, I ran malware bytes several times and each time its finished, the spyware kools down for about 2 days before starting up again. The spyware isn't perticularly annoying but it plays a random AUDIO ad with NO window shown (pops …  |
| | Hey, My name is Josh and my computer has a virus and i would like to reboot it or figure out a way to get rid of the virus once and for all. I purchased my computer in April and i got the virus about a month ago and i … |
| | Hey I've been having this problem of my browser redirecting randomly after a search on google and yahoo. It would even pop out an internet explorer window when I have nothing runing or clicked. This all started after picking up a XP Guardian Pro or so type of fake anti-spyware … |
| | hey can you help me to dig deeper more about this problem? tanx...  |
| | Last day I have formated my computer and installed a fresh copy of windows XP SP1. Then I tried to install MS Office 2007. It shows that it need SP2 or later. So I deceided to download SP2 from microsoft site which is 266 MB huge. I have started at … |
| | If it were not bad enough that the Iowa Division of Homeland Security official website was hacked, defaced and forced to close down temporarily it appears that another Iowa state government resource was also compromised a few weeks before. At the end of January the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission … |
| | IS this possible? I hit one of those weird sites by accident...the ones that have weird symbols in the link or whatever... Im on my own contact list, so when I Hit it I instantly got an IM from myself saying to click some link for a free ipad or … |
| | Hi, I recently got a virus that was some rogue trojan. I used malwarebytes and removed it. But the virus had some effect where I couldn't edit the registry even after i deleted the malware. So i just used one of my restore points and it worked fine. But I … |
| | Hi everyone, this is my first time posting and I been surfing through the internet for days and weeks but found no solution to my problem. I'm currently using window 7 and First is that my IE 8.0 is not working meaning it just cannot find any webpages but my … |
| | I recently got the Internet Security 2010 Virus and I thought i completely removed it. I got rid of the symptoms of it and it stopped popping up on my screen but since i removed it my computer has been constantly freezing, especially while using the internet. The screen will …  |
| | same problem as the person who ran malware for virus antivirus 2010. After running I can't acces internet now. |
| | How to get rid of the error message below? "Error loading C:\windows\system32\soluwale.dll" Heeellllp, Please.... FdePaula  |
| | Error 1084. Offer some sollution by mail. Shoul I allow You the remote assistance? |
| | A week ago my dad's desktop was blank. I fixed it by doing a system restore. Today his desk top was blank again. I tried to do a system restore to an earlier date that didn't work so I tried another date. Still nothing. So i undid the last restore, … |
| | I think I may have a virus. I cannot open anything from my desktop. I get an error of "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the folder options control panel". Everything looks good in folder options. I redownloaded … |
| | hi guy,ç i have some problem with window xp and msn. i dont know how but the window appering latters are changed like latter N not appera it apper in some diffrente languege like arabic or some thing eles. and the other problem is that my msn not opens every … |
| | Hi, my housemate and I share the same laptop, and he clicked on one of those fake notications on facebook saying someone likes or has commmented on your picture. We've both changed our passwords on most things, and I ran a full scan with kaspersky which picked up this (copied … |
| | I have some questions about antispyware apps: 1. I know you're not supposed to run 2 antivirus apps at once, but that you CAN run 2 scanner-only antispyware apps at once. But should you not run 2 real-time-protection antispyware apps at once? 2. Other than the fact that spyware "spies", … |
| | MY Windows 98SE w/FireFox w/ AMD 32BIt cpu w/ Linksys Router and other stuff was completely falling apart. Everything was going wrong and every site I turned to on the WWW promised instant help and cures. I lost track of them! Not one of these sites to which I went …  |
| | Heya guys, Recently, my computer was infected by a trojan, and using a forum topic found on another forum, I seemed to have removed it, using the safemode+smitfraudfix+ewido spyware remover combo. However, I still receive some pop ups, some slowing in running and sometimes, explorer won't load when I click … |
| | I downloaded hijackthis and ran a scan. Can you please review and tell me what files, if any, are bad and need to be removed. Here is a copy of the scan: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 9:15:29 PM, on 3/7/2010 Platform: Windows Vista SP1 (WinNT … |
| | On the 18th I ran across some malware via a pop-up. I had zonealarm firewall and anti-virus and malwarebytes on my system but was worried that I might have been infected so I did a scan with malwarebytes and it found a malware.trace file called avdrn.dat which it said it … |
| | When My computer was booted, I got a message saying "Userinit ...", Hence, I went ahead and replaced the userinit.exe file from the Bootable Disk. Then I kept getting System Registry error. I went ahead and replaced Regedit.exe file too. After all that my computer started working fine. However now … |
| | I see SpywareGuard 2.2 touted as a good free real-time antimalware app that makes a great compliment to SpywareBlaster. But can anyone confirm that for me, and that it's definitely a different app than Spyware Guard 2008 & 2009? It had better be, because the latter is said to actually … |
| | i have a number of issues with my operating system at the moment; browser windows opening by themselves, slow operation, programs not opening and inability to delete/open some files. I have tried a malware scanner and have used CCleaner but nothing has helped. I downloaded and installed HiJack This but … |
| | my browser is taking me to the places where I do not want to go. Someone please help me check my hijack this log. Thanks Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 8:53:15 PM, on 3/5/2010 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18702) Boot … |
| | As soon as i boot the computer, theres about three different applications that come up on their own saying that y computer needs help. Then tries to force me to buy "windows XP internet security". i tried to install malwarebytes, but it wouldnt let me. i did get the hijack … |
| | After succesfully removing my task manager lock and my windows desktop lock with regedit im still troubled with a fake pop-up that comes back every few momets. Really annoying. I read up on some threads and downloaded AVG along with hijackthis. Here is my log. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis … |
| | Dear members, Reccently I download files thru' P2P using torrent and unfortunately my system got infected with Win32/Polip virus. Many of the important files like notepad.exe, mspaint.exe, iexplorer.exe etc. got infected and im unable to access these applications. Internet connection also fails. I tried scanning with NOD 32 and then … |
| | I can not open my computer. When i click My computer, nothing comes up and i think it keeps searching. heres an link for an image. [url]http://i48.tinypic.com/2lwn049.jpg[/url] i searched with spybots and scanned my computer but nothing comes up. HELP PLEASE! Also heres my log file from HijackThis Logfile of … |
| | Hey..it's me southern again...my computer is running great thanks to all your help, I maintain it regularly, and so far no problems..However my dads computer had a nervous breakdown, and we can't figure out what happened...he's running Vista, the computer shut down and would not boot back up, he had … |
 | Will the instructions you provided earlier work on the XP version of the "XP Antispyware 2010" malware, [B]crunchie[/B]? I'm helping a family member who got hit with basically the same malware. I followed your instructions and after the two scans and got the following MBAM and and OTL logs: [B]MBAM[/B] … |
| | Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit: search results window continously keeps popping for no reason, i have wiped the hdd clean and reinstalled win7 and ran trend micro house call installed symantec antivirus corp ed and did a mbr ix and i am still having the same problem. At first i … |
| | Lately my computer has been getting slower by the day. Attached are images of the 'Processes' tab in the task mgr. Image 1: List of processes sorted by CPU Image 2: List sorted by Memory Usage If you look at image 1, the System Idle Process CPU Usage = 92%. … |
| | Hello. I have EXACTLY the same problem as in [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread134693.html#"]this thread[/URL], i.e. when I try to open some programs, instead of simply opening them I get an "Open With" box and then I have to scroll and find the program or browse for its exe file, and when I try … |
| | It's not that I'm really afraid of this happening (at least I don't think I need to be this paranoid yet), but I was just wondering: With a cable modem, you're always connected to the internet, so if you're logged into Windows, then don't you not even have to open … |
| | Write Your First Application On Win32 ===================================== What is Win32 :-) win32 is an plactform that like J2ME and J2SE means that it have it's memory model and have a architure and have those Applications programming interfaces to call to the operating system . Like the APIS in the java …  |
| | Hello, my first post, hopefully first of many. What bought me to this site was google, this site seems to help alot of people with virus problems, so, I had no where else to go really, google didnt really help much. Mainly because I dont know what I have. I … |
| | Hi I have been having problems with antivirus software (and viruses) since i removed Norton from my computer a while ago. Although I can download other antivirus software, and have tried a few, I can't seem to update any of the software on my computer. I realise it is probably … |
| | Windows XP freezes at the welcome screen. I have tried safe mode, but it freezes there also. Here is what started it. dummy me downloaded a file and checked it for virus. I ran the exe and started getting virus messages. I think what happened is the program was infecting … |
| | Well, I did lend my laptop to a friend for few days, and I got it back WITH something rather annoying. I've done a little research and now know what Antimalware Defender is... but How can I get rid of it ? I tried to google the question, but I'm … |
| | Hey guys, I got a problem, I'll just start of by saying, This might sound stupid cause no-one i know has ever heard of any thing like this. Well 1= everytime i plug in a USB to my PC, it installs or loads a hidden .exe file in there, And … |
| | Hi everyone, Seems I've picked up something along the way (this is a shared computer, so not sure where) that takes links I click on and redirects them to random search pages. I have downloaded and ran numerous programs in safe mode (which did catch some other things and even … |
| | i have kind of the same problem. windows xp hangs randomly. the screen freezes but mouse pointer is still responsive. fan still runs but it seems like hard drive turns off. it is like when computer goes to standby mode but fan and screen are on. i booted windows in … |
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