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Help please! since updated XP, my computer is a spyware magnet. i wish to make a thorough houseclean, but this is impossible since i cannot change the settings to view hidden files. The thing is, Folder Options won't show on the Control Panel, and the option is not available on …

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Please I need assistance. After I cleansed my computer with AVG antivirus software and deleted the infected files,I keep on receiving 'Program not found' message if I want to open the drives from 'My Computer' folder. Detail of the message is 'Windows cannot find RavMon.exe. This program is needed for …

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I believe it is a virus, but when I click on a few icons on my desktop, as well from the start menu, They do not lead to anything. A few of the programs include ITunes, Word, and many others. I have tried SDfix but the Runthis.bat will not work …

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Somehow, I don't have a clue how, my Dell Cineplayer seems to've disapeared. When trying to play DVD's, Media Center attempts to, but tells me: Decoder Error The video decoder has either malfunctioned or is not installed. Please restart Media Center and/or the computer. What on earth do I need …

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hi, can anybody please help me removing this nasty virus, "hacktool.rootkit". everytime i open local drives in my computer, they get open in a different window and norton antivirus pops up giving details of the above mentioned virus. everytime with a different location specifying that it has been deleted. no …

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Hi guys, Somehow my PC seems to be infected with this W32.Mumawow.F!inf. My Norton IS stopped and removed it but it always creeps back. Have you guys heard about this? Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 11:20:56 PM, on 1/10/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: …

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hi on stratup i keep geting a rundll error it say that it can not be found (kqayfdfh.dll) i can not found it in the reg system . so i take that it has been delated so how can i fix the problem i have done virus scan restalled all …

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Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.0 (BETA) Scan saved at 7:09:13 PM, on 1/10/2008 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\Ati2evxx.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\CTsvcCDA.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VS7DEBUG\MDM.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\PnkBstrA.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\wuauclt.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\Program …

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I'd just like to say thanks, before you read this message, seeing as I know it contains a lot of questions, and I really do need answers. Thanks in advance. ---- I'd really love to install Linux on this notebook, but I can't. I can't afford to face no soundcard …

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Can anyone help! I just installed windows vista ultimate on my dell dimension 3000 (with previous XP OS.) and I'm having problems with no audio on the multimedia audio controller which runs on a ADI 198x Integrated Audio Driver. I went to Dell support to down load a driver, but …

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Ok im pretty new to coding in general and have two questions. 1. I downloaded a python script that packages my programs into an executable however im running Windows Vista(i believe this to be the problem) and when i try to run the executable i get a win32 error. 2. …

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What is HJT? I read a page on the steps to get rid of grantstreetinteractive and after downloading ewido, aft cleaner, nailfix, dorfix, and apt, it says to "run HJT." I don't know what that is. I'm not a guru, just an ordinary citizen. The posting I was reading to …

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Greetings, Today I had a power failure (I usually have one every week, and it just shuts my computer down and it comes back up fine after power returns.) This time though, i was in the process of closing a program and I'm fairly sure the disk was writing data …

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Hello everyone, first I'd like to say this looks like a great site and I plan to use it and pass it along as much as possible. Secondly, I started to install Win XP HOME on a pc, and when i went to format the HD it would get all …

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I have bought a new pc with xp pro sp2 preinstalled every thing is networked i can map the drive open a windows and see the files but when i need to open a file the windows hangs or file shares are very slow and at times times out opening …

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i dropped my laptop and broke the lcd screen. i want to hook my laptop up to my tv so that i can still use the computer. the laptop has a connection for a monitor on it but my tv does not. so, i got a vga to dvi adapter …

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Hi, folks! I'm using a program to set global hotkeys in Windows XP, and it works great from F1 to F11, but my problem is: When I try to register F12 as a hotkey, the following error message appears: "Error. Unable to register the specified Hotkey. The Hotkey is probably …

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hey guys I'm fixing a computer, its a sony vaio, it comes with the installations disks, I have replaced the hard drive cuz the one it had was not working, now it gets about ten minutes in to the installation the it says "an Error occurred". when I restart it …

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I'm a new subscriber and not a techie. I've got a rogue anti-spyware application designed to scare me into buying VirusProtect's full version with misleading warning messages that pop up on my Taskbar. It is extremely annoying and my anti spyware program, VCOM System Suite 7 professional can't detect and …

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I just want to make sure I got rid of all the spy-ware. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 9:30:25 PM, on 1/11/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16574) 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:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MsMpEng.exe …

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my computer is windows xp: media center edition Alright well first off, I've got a problem connecting my xbox to my computer with media center edition. When i try and download the xbox program it says that i dont have windows media center installed, but when i got into system …

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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 …

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Hello, I have been troubleshooting this for a long time, this computer is brand new around 3 months old, and I am getting the following cases, here are the steps that I am doing... [LIST=1] [*]Press power button on computer [*]Windows loads [*]I press CAPS lock / or NUMLOCK to …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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pc XP Pro mouse keyboard freezes up after 10-15 minutes, then machine reboots itself. Ram maybe??

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I just noticed another wierd occurance on my PC (I'm not sure if it's related to my other post about the WPD FileSystem Driver). I have an Acer T180 and I have been trying to update a lot of the drivers on my machine, and not having a lot of …

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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 …

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Hello, Im new to this site so i have no idea whether im in the right section here, anyway here's my problem: I recently had to re-install windows, and because i'm not really much of an expert i found out that the Documents and Settings folder of the username i …

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Hi All Gururs, I am new to Windows System administration,i am facing a problem in windows networking.We have a small network of Windows 2000 systems, one Redhat linux machine is configured as Samba server,another linux machine is our DNS server.We are accessing the Linux Samba server from the windows 2000 …

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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 …

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Computer Make/Model - E machines 2220 System - Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 2 Computer - Celeron(R) CPU 2.70GHz 2.70 GHz, 0.99GM of RAM Sound Card - Realtek AC'97 Audio OK about every 3-4 Min's my computer slightly freezes for like a few seconds and any music …

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Hi, When I check "restore my computer to an earlier time" in system restore and click on next, I get the following message: The following calendar displays in bold all of the dates that have restore points available. The list displays the restore points that are available for the selected …

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Help my son has just gone live wih TalkTalk3 with free broadband but is using his own Belkin F5D7633-4 Wireless/ Router instead of the supplied Talktalk modem, this wireless /router worked perfectly with his previous ISP (tiscali) Now he seems to be having setup problems, now I & several members …

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Hello all. I am having a very interesting problem and I really need your ideas. I am running a small network at my home. The server is Windows 2003 and it is my DNS server. I have 4 workstations (all xp pro) connected via cat5 cable and they have no …

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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, …

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I have two partitions on my hdd one says 20 gb and the other says 8 gb and I have a 30GB HDD. Is there anyway I can combine these two partitions to make a full 30gb?

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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I have a windows vista laptop and a windows xp desktop that sits doing nothing, though the hardware is fairly good. Can I link the 2 so that while I play games on my laptop, it also utilises the hardware in the desktop? That way I'd have an extra 2 …

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Are you a windows user that wants to start fooling around with linux? I know a lot of people who are. But theres a few reasons why they aren't in linux learning. The Windows user is afraid that partitioning his/her hard drive is going to screw something up. Maybe, they …

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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: …

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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 …

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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 …

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Hi anyone who's interested in helping me :) Here's the deal, down and dirty: Changed around the sizes of some partitions, then rebooted and installed a linux distro on a seperate partition. Went to go into XP Home (SP2, or course), and it first told me autocheck could not be …

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I am using Comodo Firewall Pro with HIPS. Now I want to try Spyware Terminator which also has a HIPS feature. I have read an article that two or more programs with HIPS may conflict with each other. Can I install Spyware Terminator with real-time shield and HIPS enabled together …

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