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Jeremy
J's Guy
Joined: 03 Oct 2002
Posts: 7823
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
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 Sat Apr 24, 2004 5:08 am Virus? |
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There's something wrong with my computer. Totally randomly it will minimise windows, sometimes within a few seconds of maximising them. Whenever I use a smilie on the emotions at the side of this post, it refreshes the page and I lose my text. Sometimes I load an msn convo up, and then it keeps the convo on the top but types in the webpage I have behind it. I've virus scanned with Norton, and also run Ad-Aware 6.0 and Spybot, and removed the bad stuff they found. Anyone know what's up, or have an idea? I'm running windows XP by the way.
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Lxe
keep dreaming
Joined: 11 Aug 2002
Posts: 3622
Location: stv
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| Sat Apr 24, 2004 5:34 am |
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when I ran McAfee virus scan pro I had a lot of AdClick-0 I went to Mcafee help page and the info said to edit register, and export the file. It could not be cleaned or deleted by McAfee.
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Starbuck
faster...
Joined: 19 Feb 2003
Posts: 8715
Location: between chaos and melody
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| Sat Apr 24, 2004 9:10 am |
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sounds to me like a general windows xp error. The question is is it XP home or XP pro? if its XP home, you're screwed, if its xp pro, you have a shot, at least from my personal expierence.
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Paul Marshall
Rear Admiral
Joined: 30 Aug 2002
Posts: 2976
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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| Sat Apr 24, 2004 12:31 pm Re: Virus? |
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| Jeremy wrote: | | There's something wrong with my computer. Totally randomly it will minimise windows, sometimes within a few seconds of maximising them. Whenever I use a smilie on the emotions at the side of this post, it refreshes the page and I lose my text. Sometimes I load an msn convo up, and then it keeps the convo on the top but types in the webpage I have behind it. I've virus scanned with Norton, and also run Ad-Aware 6.0 and Spybot, and removed the bad stuff they found. Anyone know what's up, or have an idea? I'm running windows XP by the way. |
I don't think it's just a XP error, as it has happened to me also in the past. But all I had to do is cut my computer off and reboot it to get rid of it. I also used a program called Ad-aware 6.0 to delete all of the registry files that I had accumulated. But ... nevertheless, it has been gotten rid of.
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Jeremy
J's Guy
Joined: 03 Oct 2002
Posts: 7823
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
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| Sat Apr 24, 2004 2:32 pm |
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I have XP Pro.
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Paul Marshall
Rear Admiral
Joined: 30 Aug 2002
Posts: 2976
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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| Sat Apr 24, 2004 2:35 pm |
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Oh yeah, I forgot mention that I have Windows '98.
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Defiant
Fleet Admiral
Joined: 04 Jul 2001
Posts: 15946
Location: Oregon City, OR
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| Mon Apr 26, 2004 11:09 am |
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FAT 32! lol Win 98 has some advantages, but there are so many things that wont run on it anymore! Besides that they finally stopped support of it...
Anyways, sounds like a spybot program to me. Ad-aware 6 should stop it, but if youve run that already, then I suppose not. I dont think it would be a general error with windows, since microsoft would have support for a thing like that up, since it would not just happen to one person. So, update your virus scan, and hope for the best I suppose.
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Jeremy
J's Guy
Joined: 03 Oct 2002
Posts: 7823
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
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| Mon Apr 26, 2004 1:42 pm |
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My Virus scanner is updated. It also seems to have mucked up hotmail. When got to hotmail then it loads up inbox automatically. When I click for it to do anything it says the page doesn't exist. When I try and load up hotmail seperatly it just gives a blank page. I've cleared my cookies and internet files and that doesn't work, and it's also affected my brothers account. Seems to be something to do with microsoft as all the other sites work.
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Defiant
Fleet Admiral
Joined: 04 Jul 2001
Posts: 15946
Location: Oregon City, OR
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| Wed Apr 28, 2004 11:00 am |
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Well...I know how you can definetly fix it...reformat!
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Paul Marshall
Rear Admiral
Joined: 30 Aug 2002
Posts: 2976
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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| Wed Apr 28, 2004 1:20 pm |
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^^I'm telling you man, you need to give Ad-aware a try before you think of reformatting.
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Defiant
Fleet Admiral
Joined: 04 Jul 2001
Posts: 15946
Location: Oregon City, OR
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| Wed Apr 28, 2004 1:30 pm |
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he already has!
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Paul Marshall
Rear Admiral
Joined: 30 Aug 2002
Posts: 2976
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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| Wed Apr 28, 2004 1:38 pm |
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Well SORRY Defiant,   , I didn't know that.
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Leo Wyatt
Sweetest Angel
Joined: 25 Feb 2004
Posts: 19045
Location: Investigating A Crime Scene. What did Quark do this time?
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| Thu Apr 29, 2004 12:20 pm |
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Have you heard about historykill2003? Charlie down loaded it. It destroys popups and spyware.
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Defiant
Fleet Admiral
Joined: 04 Jul 2001
Posts: 15946
Location: Oregon City, OR
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| Thu Apr 29, 2004 1:08 pm |
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| Paul Marshall wrote: | | Well SORRY Defiant, , I didn't know that. |
lol.
Ad-Aware is a really good spyware program. I think it catches most if not all spybots. Im pretty sure it would catch everything, but you really should try kmma's program, to be sure.
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