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| | Hello..I'm having a problem with a pop up..I keep getting a flashing question mark at the bottom of my screen and then a SECURITY ALERT:SPYWARE FOUND message pops up over and over again telling me that I have been infected with a trojan virus and all sorts of things..I can't …  |
| | Hi Everyone: Thank you for your help. After all the cleaning, I'm still having problems. Today I had to Alt+ctrl+del 6 times twice to be able to get on. The machine was giving the same message of operating system not found. I'm just wondering when this happens will putting into …  |
| | I know enough about computers to know that i don't know enought. i can get by and i know some technical jargon. the thing is im the only one in my family who can do anything about our computer. yesterday symantec pop up for email that wasn't able to be … |
| | My computer is slow to start up, gives one error consistenly at startup: 'Invalid entry point BUF_mem_grow_clean could not be located. libeay32.dll' Once the computer is up and running, Trend Antivirus shows a balloon popup in system tray that says it is scanning outgoing mail. My tcpip.sys file was corrupt … |
| | This is so extremly frustrating. I have a pc on our network that will load Yahoo or msn. Then when you type in a url it is redirected to google with the url listed in one of the searches that come up. Then you click on the link for the … |
| | Hello, My computer had been extreamly slow lately, It seems to be gettign worse and worse, I did many virus scans, and used regcure and all that, nothign seems to be working, then one day it said I was runnign low on virtual memory, so I went through a step … |
| | good day, i am using windows xp sp2 (home edition), i had this virus ntde1ect.com and a trojan (dont remember the name) they were detected and deleted by kaspersky antivirus... after that whenever i tried to access my C drive by double clicking it, i got this "open with" menue, … |
| | Hi Everyone I seem to have acquired an infection which: - Has stopped me accessing Control Panel, I cant even find it. - Keeps popping up windows all the time. - When I boot the PC it says I have c:/windows/system/shell.exe missing...can I replace this? Trend Micro Housecall said I … |
| | Hi Everyone! I hope you can help me. The other day I booted up my comp, went into Explorer and BAM tons of help pop ups and errors. I have no idea why it's doing this. I haven't installed anything new in awhile (other than Sims but that's a game … |
| | Hi there - My computer is having an attitude, and I am technologically challenged :-) My system has been running slow in spurts (strange), so I pulled up my task manager to see what might be clogging it up, and the very top process is something called SSDK02.exe, which I … |
| | Whenever I do a search I am redirected to a different site than the one I want to go to. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 8:04:47 PM, on 1/8/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: … |
| | i looked all over the internet and i dont know where to look. i found this website from a friend and now i seek knowledge from you guys cause i dont know where to turn to here's my problem. I had caught a virus and all these spyware keeps showing … |
| | I have a strange problem that has been driving me mad for over a month, and would appreciate anyone's advice on the matter. Here's the current configuration: ISP: TPG, static IP Modem/Router: NetComm NB5Plus4 OS: Windows XP SP2 (windows firewall disabled) Zonealarm firewall, McAfee anti-virus My problem is that one … |
| | Hi to everyone I noticed a few days ago that my CPU usage is up to 100%, the process was svchost.exe. Also I find tuvurqo.dll and fccby.dll and a few other that were created in that day when this problem starts! My question is: How can I delete these 2 … |
| | Hello, sorry to post straight away on a forum asking for help, but I'm afraid I have to admit defeat. First of all I work for my boss, and when I went away for christmas I was in the middle of setting up the network, and I came back to … |
| | My computer has been infected with somekind of spyware that leaves a yellow sign with exclamation mark in the notification tray. Every 30 seconds or so a dialog bubble appears from the yellow sign with the following message: Your computer is infected! Window has detected spyware infection. It is recommended … |
 | I'm embarassed to be posting this here, but I've been having a problem with my computer lately. It runs Windows Vista 64-bit and has a whopping 8 gigs of ram. However, for the past few weeks, there has been a constant RAM usage of 30-40% being eaten up by svchost.exe. … |
| | Dear all, I would like some help with my PC which seems to have been hijacked. I cant get into safe mode, into control panel and Ctl-Alt-Del doesnt work either. So no way to see what is causing the issue. I can open some programs randomly but the PC is …  |
| | Hi, on my computer were installed the following programs: - avast antivirus - spayware doctor Today I noticed that my computer became very slow. When I checked the avas untivirus, I noticed that the exe file was deleted and the same happened with the spyware doctor. Please find attached hijackthis … |
| | Hi guys,,, Ive got this new computer, its a proper gaming one, and as any usual person i started downloading programs/software. My computer was working absolutely fine, and still does but when i go to shut down, the screen, keyboard and mouse lights all go off but not the computer …  |
| | Hi, I am running XP Pro on a P4 2.8 computer with 256 MB Ram with MS Office 2003 installed. The computer also has Adobe Acrobat 4.0 and 5.0 installed. Whenever I open a Word Document it opens fine (even a blank doc) however when I close it I get … |
| | I am a Windows XP Professional SP2 user. My computer ran really fast before. Then I decided to reformat my system, backing up my files in the second partition and started a fresh OS install. After I have installed all necessary device drivers and restoring my previously installed programs, my … |
| | When I boot up my computer for the first few minutes it is normal. Everything looks and works just fine. After 5 minutes, the taskbar changes to the old windows gray color and my voume doesn't work. Sometimes when I startup the computer, everything works fine, but the majority of …  |
| | Hello, I was looking over running programs today when i found these programs running in the background ( HWKeyPlus.exe, and jwpen.exe) does anyone know what these are? Ive googled them and found nothing. Ran virus scan, and nothing, they are taking up a lot of memory and it is bugging … |
| | wow - finally I think I have arrived on the correct thread. here are my results: The only thing that I see that could perhaps be, odd, is an ATI hotkey poller? Index % of PCs with item Code Data 1 0.1% O16 {30528230-99f7-4bb4-88d8-fa1d4f56a2ab} (Installation Support) - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Common\Yinsthelper.dll 2 … |
| | Help me please! IExlorer keeps popping open with numerous ad sites even when I open FireFox. Installed numerous spyware/adware scanners without success. HiJAckTHis log here: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 10:16:50 PM, on 03/01/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) … |
| | i have the same problems i used hijackthis and found these: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.0 (BETA) Scan saved at 4:02:52 PM, on 1/4/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) 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:\WINDOWS\system32\LEXBCES.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe D:\Program Files\a-squared Free\a2service.exe E:\Program Files\ESET\ESET NOD32 … |
| | ok so i'm working on a friends computer running XP. their explorer.exe file was infected by a worm and they accidentally deleted it instead of cleaning it. luckily the file was in back-up, so they pulled it back out, ran a system restore, and after virus and spyware scans and … |
| | For the last 3 days my windows explorer and internet explorer have not been working properly. Window explorer will open but, when I click on a folder nothing happens. If there is a shortcut on my desktop I can get to the file that way. In internet explorer I can … |
| | I'm was having the problem a lot of others have had. (Just like thread post 98509) I keep geting the message "Windos Security Alert -Warning Potential Spyware Operation - Your computer is making unauthorized copies of your system and Internet files. Run full scan now to prevent any unathorised access … |
| | I'm Helping a Uncle Clean out his Laptop. We got this a few days ago Unable to start up and well we got there obviously :) .So then we took a whole load of viruses,spyware,Malware, ext... The task manager and Control Panel were disabled Most likely from the viruses I … |
| | Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 8:14:25 PM, on 1/2/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16574) 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:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MsMpEng.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\LEXBCES.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VS7DEBUG\MDM.EXE C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MSASCui.exe C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_03\bin\jusched.exe C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe C:\PROGRA~1\YAHOO!\browser\ybrwicon.exe C:\PROGRA~1\YAHOO!\browser\ycommon.exe C:\PROGRA~1\YAHOO!\YOP\yop.exe … |
| | I am receiving the error message: "SYSTEM ERROR! your computer was infected by unknown trojan. it's dangerous for your system (critical files can be lost)! click OK to download the antispyware program to clean your system! (Recommended)" It pops up almost every time I go into windows explorer. I am …  |
| | HI - new here, hope someone can help. I have read other threads re this problem, but still having same issue. I ran HJT after most recent attempt to have home page as sympatico.ca- log follows. I also ran the [url]http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/sUBs/ComboFix.exe[/url] as per another user's reply... Still the same issue. … |
| | When I open Windows Explorer, there are several directories with a blue arrow on the folder. When I try to access them, I get, c:\blah blah blah is not accessable. Access is denied. (where blah blah blah is the directory) I'm logged in as the administrator account (which is called … |
| | Hey guys, I was running some antivirus scans from my Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD, [url]www.ubcd4win.com[/url]) last night in an effort to find a solution for my inability to delete some folders on my D: drive (the problem persists, I have it posted under the Win XP forum) and I stumbled … |
| | I'm running Windows 2000 on a Compaq E500 laptop. I ran Adaware and Spybot Search and Destroy. Ithen installed Firefox and tried to connect to the internet. The connection is there but I cannot access any pages. I uninstalled Firefox and tried again with Internet Explorer with the same result. … |
| | My computer has gotten significantly slower over the past 3 or 4 months. I have done a lot of work since Saturday and cleaned off a bunch of stuff (using a variety of tools), as well as replacing my old Anti-Virus / Anti-Spyware / Firewall / etc. application with new … |
| | Hey guys, I have a bit of a head-scratcher here. On my 1 1/2 year old laptop ( HP Pavillion DV8000, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, NVidia GeForce GO 7600 , 2 GB DDR2 memory, 2.0 GHz Intel Centrino Duo, 2x 80 GB Hard drives) I am unable to … |
| | Hi. Am very new to this...so please forgive any mistakes I will make. I have been having problems with my pc ever since I installed xp sp2. Recently I tried to access [url]www.avast.com[/url] to download an antivirus program someone told me was good because I had removed spybot search & … |
| | It happens when I click on a link or even just activate a window on Firefox. A new IE browser opens up w/ an ad on it. Please help, below is my HijackThis log. Don't know where else to turn! Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 3:41:53 … |
| | hi everyone, i guess you already know this annoying little message that pops-up every few minutes - " CRITICAL SYSTEM ERROR your computer was infected by a trojan. it's dangerous for your computer, some files can be lost! click OK to download the antispyware program to clean your system! (recomended) … |
| | I have been having this problem - it just started today. I use an email/back office program for my business through a company called Earnware Corporation. (I don't know if that matters). I get this box that says "Internet Explorer Encountered a Problem and Needs to Close". When I click … |
 | Long story short I was surfing the web and this thing told me to vote three times before I could enter the site, and by the third "vote" my computer froze and the spyware troubles began. Okay so I've run ewido under safe moed, Spybot under safe mode, and ad-aware … |
| | Hi, First, Happy New Year!! Okay, I can not access my control panel or display properties. I had that virus/trojan horse the tried to force you to buy anti spiware, I used AVG to get rid of it, only I screwed up when it was asking me if I wanted … |
| | Hello, I am having virus problems. My spybot search and destroy keeps finding and removing adware etc. and my symantic antivirus keeps blocking trojans and adware also. I keep geting popups, not even online, and I cant access the add and remove programs on xp. I did a scan using … |
| | I really don't know why my PC always crashes when I play music, when I play NBA Live 08, sometimes when I open Yahoo Messenger, also mozilla firefox often had errors too. I already restored my system a lot of times but the problem is still there. Can u plaese … |
| | Hello, With peoplepc, when you get a bartshell error, you can't open the login screen or get on the internet. I heard that this bartshell is some kind of a virus? Is this true? And is it related to PeoplePC? I don't have peoplepc, I'm just trying to help a … |
| | When I first start up my computer a popup comes up that says windows has not allowed this program to open or something of that nature. i know its a virus or something of the sort. just dont know how to get rid of it. ive run anti-virus software and … |
| | Hey all, I have a question. About a month ago, I think Microsoft did an auto-install of some sort of update on my computer. Since then, none of my Microsoft products will connect to the internet (Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, WMP, &c.). Some programs like Firefox and WoW still work, … |
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