I used to run into those kind of errors. Sadly, my best method of fixing them was to wipe out the hard drive and start over....
Sometimes you just run into too many problems on windows and the best method to fix it is to refresh the OS. When I worked in IT, we always kept what we called "Images" of freshly installed windows and business apps so if we took too long troubleshooting a problem, we could just wipe the drive and start over. Surprisingly, it took less time to do that than sit for hours figuring out what went wrong.
The funniest problem we had was in relation to a business application that didn't play nice with Napster when that first came out. The calls to help desk were quite amusing. "I can't do this thing for my job" "Did you install any software on your computer?" "No.... *click click click*" "I'll drop by your desk in a half an hour" "No wait, I need to do something first". Half an hour later I'd be at their desk seeing them frantically try to uninstall napster before I got there.
unfortunately restoring the whole mess is not what I want to do right now.
I have thousands of pictures Ive been trying to get on to discs and the kids have a thousand songs loaded that I dont know how to keep or store off the computer (Itunes, Rapsody, Sharaza and windowsmediaplayer).
Installing a 2nd hard drive is a very cheap and easy way to add space and clean up what you have. A lot of HUGE storage drives (300 GB+) are relatively cheap nowadays and basically triple your original hard drive space. Make sure you password lock the new drive so the kids can't screw with it - then shuffle files as you see fit.
Kinda like cleaning out the garage - the easiest way is to dump the whole thing out into the driveway, sort out the useful stuff, and put back only what you intend to keep. The rest can sit on the curb for the garbage truck.
I get one on our home computer thats quite annoying.
It pops up and says there are attacks or something from porno sites and that it will 'destroy my marriage' if I don't fix the problem....it directs me to a site that says it will fix the problem and then wants to charge for it. I'm sick of the pop-up and don't know how to get rid of it.
You can visit those porn sites as much as you usually do, just don't SUBSCRIBE to them! :wink:
Seriously, though - I'm using Firefox browser with the pop-up blocker turned on, and some can still get through... then I had myself an apostrophe! There's an add-on applet called "AdBlock Plus" that you can download for Firefox that stops pop-ups cold. It will list all the sites its blocking, and is fairly easy to use.
When a porn pop-up rears its ugly head (no pun intended), with AdBlock Plus 'on' there SHOULD be a small tab on the upper left corner that says 'block' - if you click on that tab it will add it to AdBlocks list and the next time you visit your favorite porn site, the pop-up should be history.
Ian, it sounds like your program is working and blocking the attacks. Thats good. However you should not be getting attacked at all. Are you using a firewall? If not, that could be the problem. Try a fire wall or try using a router. A router provides a "Hardware" firewall of sorts.
Me2, are you using a popup blocker? I use norton internet security and the one in IExplorer.
Try running adaware. Its free and works good. It removes malicious software and stuff. It will scan your system for ad-supported software components and remove them. http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
the link is on the left upper corner for the free version.
right now my home computer only has AOL and Comcast for antibug protection.
I don't have Norton or anything else on it right now.
It's on overload with too much stuff on it - I need to take ALL the photos off the computer first and then probably refigure and start the computer from scratch.
maybe I shouldn't say this to much but I never go to Porn sites I cant see it for real I don't need to see it and Who the hell wants to pay for it???
But I don't ever have any problems with any pop ups!! My sister in law when I lived there tried say the ones she was getting where all My fault!! and I know other wise lol!!! but I think it has SO MUCH TO DO With the fact of AOL!!! She Has that Ans Has always had a problem!! with them!!
Ian, try disabling system restore (Right click on "my computer" and select the "sytem resore" tab to disable it. Reboot without it, then run spybot, adaware, and all your programs to get rid of crap. Then reboot again without the sytem restore.
System restore might be putting all the crap you remove right back in when you reboot.
My system restore don't work either. I've used it a few times, but the last time I tried it failed. Nice program there microsoft!
AOL is probably more like a landfill than a web browser by now.
If you are on a fast enough cable connection - set your browser to dump your cache files every time you log off. There's no reason to save them unless you've got a slow connection. Otherwise the browser fills up the same way the hard drive does, and it's playing "swap the file space" and slows waaaaaaaaaaaay doooooowwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnn.....
You ever do a Control-Alt-Delete and look at all the processes running in the background without even starting up an application??!?
We had someone at work complain about how slow their computer was, and when they were gone for the day we checked - they had close to 160 different items running in the background - lots of them redundant adware/spyware you name it.
We told them about it and all they got was mad at us - so we purged the garbage the next time they were gone and "magically" it worked better. Its a thankless job when you're taking out invisible garbage.
Buy a Mac - it'll lengthen your lifespan by years. Doesn't run half the crap Windows does, and doesn't need to.
Some viruses are fairly nasty and have to be removed manually (especially root kit viruses, which I had a run in with at work).
That's usually about the point where you save anything you can off the hard drive, format it and start over. Unless you're really stubborn about that stuff (like I tend to be).
Yeah, I'm a stubborn bastard. I had hours and days into this, when I thought I knew what I was doing. Now I have more hours after Symantec TOLD me what to do. I have not yet gone into RegEdit for the total deal, but the pieces I removed previously did nothing.
regedit would be your next step then probably, but it gets pretty hairy after that point (i.e. careful what you delete, as you could cause more problems than the virus did). It's okay as long as you follow instructions though, or at least have an idea how the registry works.
I'm going to have to edit the registry, but not now. gotta sleep.
I goofed up some stuff last night when I was tired, and it took me two hours after work to get it fixed.
Thought it might have been gone, but in the last 30 minutes, all kinda weird cookie requests, and a couple redirects to perfectlovercalculator.com Don't go there
I shoulda said this a while ago, but Ian, you know where I work (currently anyway, heh), if you want me to help ya out with it, bring it over sometime. I'm usually here 10-6 or later. We got plenty of space here now that the workforce is reduced.
15-20gb? hrmm.. I'd say an external hard drive is in order.... Dump everything on one of those, reformat, install a good antivirus program before you plug the external drive back in, then have it scan every file on there....
Sometimes you just run into too many problems on windows and the best method to fix it is to refresh the OS. When I worked in IT, we always kept what we called "Images" of freshly installed windows and business apps so if we took too long troubleshooting a problem, we could just wipe the drive and start over. Surprisingly, it took less time to do that than sit for hours figuring out what went wrong.
The funniest problem we had was in relation to a business application that didn't play nice with Napster when that first came out. The calls to help desk were quite amusing. "I can't do this thing for my job" "Did you install any software on your computer?" "No.... *click click click*" "I'll drop by your desk in a half an hour" "No wait, I need to do something first". Half an hour later I'd be at their desk seeing them frantically try to uninstall napster before I got there.
I have thousands of pictures Ive been trying to get on to discs and the kids have a thousand songs loaded that I dont know how to keep or store off the computer (Itunes, Rapsody, Sharaza and windowsmediaplayer).
Kinda like cleaning out the garage - the easiest way is to dump the whole thing out into the driveway, sort out the useful stuff, and put back only what you intend to keep. The rest can sit on the curb for the garbage truck.
heres what I got. The 160 version
me.
Auto-Protect is enabled. Every day (for months) I get pop-ups saying attack attempts were blocked
Now there are several per hour. A couple trojans have been detected.
I have dial-up, connected all the time. I use People PC.etting this because of my ISP?
It pops up and says there are attacks or something from porno sites and that it will 'destroy my marriage' if I don't fix the problem....it directs me to a site that says it will fix the problem and then wants to charge for it. I'm sick of the pop-up and don't know how to get rid of it.
that's what I did....fixed the issue...
Seriously, though - I'm using Firefox browser with the pop-up blocker turned on, and some can still get through... then I had myself an apostrophe! There's an add-on applet called "AdBlock Plus" that you can download for Firefox that stops pop-ups cold. It will list all the sites its blocking, and is fairly easy to use.
When a porn pop-up rears its ugly head (no pun intended), with AdBlock Plus 'on' there SHOULD be a small tab on the upper left corner that says 'block' - if you click on that tab it will add it to AdBlocks list and the next time you visit your favorite porn site, the pop-up should be history.
Try running adaware. Its free and works good. It removes malicious software and stuff. It will scan your system for ad-supported software components and remove them.
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
the link is on the left upper corner for the free version.
right now my home computer only has AOL and Comcast for antibug protection.
I don't have Norton or anything else on it right now.
It's on overload with too much stuff on it - I need to take ALL the photos off the computer first and then probably refigure and start the computer from scratch.
 Free McAfee for comcast users
 Windows Defender
firewall enabled, no cookies allowed, highest security on every internet/browser choice.
I found my problem files in the manage add-ons selections. disabled them and now I'm going to run SpyBot again.
I tried booting up my Last Good Restore (whatever) and I couldn't.
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this came up last night as a registry change, and SpyBot 'fixed' it
now it shows up again
But I don't ever have any problems with any pop ups!! My sister in law when I lived there tried say the ones she was getting where all My fault!! and I know other wise lol!!! but I think it has SO MUCH TO DO With the fact of AOL!!! She Has that Ans Has always had a problem!! with them!!
System restore might be putting all the crap you remove right back in when you reboot.
My system restore don't work either. I've used it a few times, but the last time I tried it failed. Nice program there microsoft!
AOL is probably more like a landfill than a web browser by now.
If you are on a fast enough cable connection - set your browser to dump your cache files every time you log off. There's no reason to save them unless you've got a slow connection. Otherwise the browser fills up the same way the hard drive does, and it's playing "swap the file space" and slows waaaaaaaaaaaay doooooowwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnn.....
We had someone at work complain about how slow their computer was, and when they were gone for the day we checked - they had close to 160 different items running in the background - lots of them redundant adware/spyware you name it.
We told them about it and all they got was mad at us - so we purged the garbage the next time they were gone and "magically" it worked better. Its a thankless job when you're taking out invisible garbage.
Buy a Mac - it'll lengthen your lifespan by years. Doesn't run half the crap Windows does, and doesn't need to.
keeps changing my setting to accept all cookies, and when it's deleted/disabled. creates a new dll with another name
 Symantic removal process
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic18610.html
That's usually about the point where you save anything you can off the hard drive, format it and start over. Unless you're really stubborn about that stuff (like I tend to be).
Running the VirtuMonde Removal, after Spybot said it was removed, it found no VirtuMonde.
Checked the add-ons, and they were enabled again.
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I d/l the latest firefox. (I had 1.0 and never used it.)
If I install that, will it launch firefox? Or does it only use IE?
I goofed up some stuff last night when I was tired, and it took me two hours after work to get it fixed.
Thought it might have been gone, but in the last 30 minutes, all kinda weird cookie requests, and a couple redirects to perfectlovercalculator.com Don't go there
What's up with that?
How much 'legitimate' data are you trying to save? Can it fit on a DVD or two?
What I wanna save is about 15-20 GB
Ihave no trouble until I open a browser
Where'd you find that OT?