Rasher

a couple of days ago a windows warning popped up saying that someone was trying to access my computer files and I should click on this icon to do something about them. It turned out to be an advert to selling some soldier security system from Windows. Trouble is it seems to have got into my Windows files.
My desk to can only now be colours it has made my picture of the kids disappear and I cant get it or anyother picture back. The computer seems slower. It wont let me do a system restore past August 3rd and even then will not let it complete.
I now have lots of pop ups saying:Project 1 run time error type miss match 13?????


I sthe computer well and truely knackered or is there someone out there who can advise me

thanks in advance

Rasher

I run XP Professional and AOL is my internet provider. My computer and My docs can only be accessed when AOL is running now??

Rasher

thanks Dave I am not that well up on computers so am not exactly sure, sorry

stressymare

must be better then some

Rasher

you get everywhere

this is serious, my computer is goosed by the look of it

stressymare

maybe it has over heated as you were a bit warm the other night



p.s.
i think you got a stalker

dashpig

It sounds like you need to get yourself some Antivirus software and pretty quick - AVG is free from here - http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

It's not the best in the world, but it's free !

Better ones would be Norton Antivirus or Internet Security or even McAfee Internet Security Suite

It'd probably be worth while also downloading and running one or more of the following spyware progs...

spybot
Ad-Aware Se Personal
Windows Defender

top two from www.download.com
Bottom one from www.microsoft.com

Neil

Rasher

thanks mate will give it a go

Rasher

nope
i keep getting windows pop ups, saying 'adware and sptware have infected the system please run a full system scan, this is from the security centre website?????

dashpig

Have you downloaded and run spybot and Ad-Aware ?? Do this first...

If you have and then fixed all the issues these should have found most everything that is infecting your PC, spyware + adware wise, therefore any pop-ups such as these are only scaring you into buying their product, when in fact you have nothing wrong with your system - so ignore them, ie close them down

Rasher

I have run Adware 6, AVG and AOL has a spyware detector as well, so all of these have been run


Is it possible to get rid of these adverts to buy their security, how do they manage to get onto your system in the first place, its very annoying

Rasher

Registry mechanic found 112 medium risk problems, but I take it you have to register and pay online before it will sort them for you

dashpig

I believe within Internet Explorer there is actually a pop up blocker which should do the trick - i've not got it installed on my version at work here, but normally you will find it under the Tools tab.

Failing that http://toolbar.yahoo.com/ will install a pop-up blocker on your browser toolbar which should also get rid of these pop-ups in my experience anyway

dashpig

It'll do some of them, but given they're medium i would'nt bother, and yes you'd need to pay for the full functionality

Removing some entries from the Registry is not always a good idea it can sometimes cause more problems than it fixes depending on what software etc is loaded on your machine - i would'nt recommend for normal running unless you're really retentive about your machine's performance.

Mess up your Registry altogether and you're looking at a complete rebuild - unless you take regular system checkpoints

Neil

cong

you need to disable your messenger service

click on start then click on run.
in the run box type " services.msc", then look for "messenger" right click then click on properties then change the startup type to "disabled"

this should stop thoese annoying messengers

Rasher

it seems to have already been set up like this mate??

cong

is it diasabled?

Rasher

yes

Rasher

just tries to install the yahoo toolbar, ok no probs but as it was installing this popped up
http://antispynet.com/

cong

ok looks like youve been hacked mate

need to sort a firewall out then try avg and spybot, try using a program called "hijackthis" then post your results up here

cong

here download this
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html

then scan your computer and then copy and paste your results here

Rasher

thanks mate will do

which one though??

cong

erm nearest to england

Rasher

after running that it seems it is infected wih alsorts and only gettinmg the registered version of spyware doctor will remove them. There are trojans on as well

beamer

Just spent 2 nights clearing this crap up!!

Try XoftSpySE done the trick for me

cong

any luck mate

Rasher

938 faults etc some serious and some Trojans???
Wouldnt let me cut and paste the results but to clear them up I will need to register.
My computer sounds as though it well and truely sha**ed!!

scoobyverysoon

iTrader: (1)

I would just format the hard drive and start again - it does the system good with a fresh install as it cleans all the built up crap hiding on your pc

Rasher

I take it that means taking it to a repairers??