Opening Links - PC Freezing up?
06 January 2004, 05:22 PM
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Hello
I wondered if anyone had an idea how I might solve this little problem
I was on MSN Messenger on the web cam to family for about an hour, finished that and shut the PC down, next day its not working it gets as far as detecting I have 256mb memory and then tries to find the hard drives and cd it found the first hard drive and failed whilst searching for the 2nd (an old hard drive kept on) before finally going to the black screen saying please insert re boot disc, now i couldnt find them, so I took the back off disconected the 2nd hard drive and re connected, hey presto its all working again.
Apart from, when im on the net or in an e-mail, if I attempt to open a link that will open a new window i.e, a link from a forum or attached to an e-mail, a web site that has links that automatically open in a seperate window, unlike the BBC web site for example which continually opens in the same window, so when i click these link the window freezes up totally and it wont open the links, but i can open other applications including another internet wimn by clicking on the icon whilst the original window stays frozen, I disconnected the 2nd (old 4gb 80% full) possibly dodgy hard drive this afternoon thinking that was the cause, but it isnt.
If you have had the patience to read this and it makes sense and you have any ideas as to what's causing this I'd appreciate your help.
Cheers
Dave
I wondered if anyone had an idea how I might solve this little problem
I was on MSN Messenger on the web cam to family for about an hour, finished that and shut the PC down, next day its not working it gets as far as detecting I have 256mb memory and then tries to find the hard drives and cd it found the first hard drive and failed whilst searching for the 2nd (an old hard drive kept on) before finally going to the black screen saying please insert re boot disc, now i couldnt find them, so I took the back off disconected the 2nd hard drive and re connected, hey presto its all working again.
Apart from, when im on the net or in an e-mail, if I attempt to open a link that will open a new window i.e, a link from a forum or attached to an e-mail, a web site that has links that automatically open in a seperate window, unlike the BBC web site for example which continually opens in the same window, so when i click these link the window freezes up totally and it wont open the links, but i can open other applications including another internet wimn by clicking on the icon whilst the original window stays frozen, I disconnected the 2nd (old 4gb 80% full) possibly dodgy hard drive this afternoon thinking that was the cause, but it isnt.
If you have had the patience to read this and it makes sense and you have any ideas as to what's causing this I'd appreciate your help.
Cheers
Dave
06 January 2004, 06:32 PM
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, cut and paste is gonna get on my tats at this rate!!!
07 January 2004, 12:10 PM
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It is a virus called Exploit-URLSpoof.
McAfee picked up that I had the virus but could not repair it, and Microsoft do not have a patch for this yet.
The only solution I found was to do a system restore back to when you know you did not have the problem.
Hope this helps.
[Edited by RichardC - 1/7/2004 12:10:48 PM]
McAfee picked up that I had the virus but could not repair it, and Microsoft do not have a patch for this yet.
The only solution I found was to do a system restore back to when you know you did not have the problem.
Hope this helps.
[Edited by RichardC - 1/7/2004 12:10:48 PM]
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