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Antivirus plus? I got this Adware that is completely obvious. But this is confusing me. I tried using AVG free edition to remove it, it said that it had found and healed adware but it still keeps popping up. What anti-virus can I use to remove this? Also, is there a real antivirus plus, and this is a fake one?

At 7/7/09 05:25 PM, chickendance333 wrote: Antivirus plus? I got this Adware that is completely obvious. But this is confusing me. I tried using AVG free edition to remove it, it said that it had found and healed adware but it still keeps popping up. What anti-virus can I use to remove this? Also, is there a real antivirus plus, and this is a fake one?

try ad-aware http://www.lavasoft.com/index.php
it removed ~300 files when i ran it the first time.

At 7/7/09 05:38 PM, PowerSource wrote: try ad-aware http://www.lavasoft.com/index.php
it removed ~300 files when i ran it the first time.

Or you can use the programs listed on my news post. They are decent and very good if you ask me!

At 7/7/09 05:50 PM, Lizzardis wrote: Or you can use the programs listed on my news post. They are decent and very good if you ask me!

Which do you think is best?

Also, it has a symbol in the task bar? Is this a problem?

At 7/7/09 06:10 PM, chickendance333 wrote: Which do you think is best?

Both Ccleaner and Spybot. Download them both and install them. Run the scans and your computer should be good!

Also, it has a symbol in the task bar? Is this a problem?

Try and exit out of the program. Or hit Ctrl+alt+delete and look for some sort of program that says "Antivirus.exe" or "Virus.exe" or something along those lines, select it and hit "End process"

If this is all gobaldy gook just say so and I will make it easier.

Ok, the spamming pop-ups and I believe the entire virus is gone. However, for some reason it has blocked sites like google, yahoo answers, many popular antivirus sites and really anything that could lead me to an antivirus site. How do I fix this?

Scan and clean your hosts file. I'd type more but my keyboard batteries are dying and I have to keep reconnecting the wireless just to finish this sentence. :D

At 7/7/09 10:14 PM, KrevZabijak wrote: Scan and clean your hosts file. I'd type more but my keyboard batteries are dying and I have to keep reconnecting the wireless just to finish this sentence. :D

Doesn't Ccleaner do that on it's own?

Mine doesn't.

At 7/7/09 10:43 PM, KrevZabijak wrote: Mine doesn't.

Then how do I do this? Sorry, I'm not the most tech savvy guy.

At 7/7/09 10:55 PM, chickendance333 wrote: Then how do I do this? Sorry, I'm not the most tech savvy guy.

Well I'm not that well read up-on the hosts file, however I did find some way of clearing it.

Cleaing the hosts file.

It looks pretty simple, but myself having never done it before, I can't say whether it is easy or not. Just have a go and take your time.

Thanks so much to everyone who helped me! I just opened up the hosts file and manually deleted all the extra blocked websites. You guys saved my family some money.

My WINE/Flash problem is now solved (switched to a XP VM w/SP3).

But now my XP VM is sometimes sluggish (alloted 430 MB, VirtualBox (the unopen-source version) 2.2.4)) sometimes. Not major though (because VMs are slow because of emulation).

OK so I bought a VGA cable to hook my laptop up to my TV cause they both have a VGA Port. But it wont show up on the TV. This is the first time ive ever tried to hook a laptop up to a TV but I assumed once I plugged in the cord to both it would jsut work...am I missing something here.

At 7/18/09 09:44 PM, HellboundNinja wrote: OK so I bought a VGA cable to hook my laptop up to my TV cause they both have a VGA Port. But it wont show up on the TV. This is the first time ive ever tried to hook a laptop up to a TV but I assumed once I plugged in the cord to both it would jsut work...am I missing something here.

You need to enable it in your display settings. Control Panel > Display > Somewhere in there there should be an option to enable the TV as a monitor.

At 7/18/09 10:36 PM, Wylo wrote: You need to enable it in your display settings. Control Panel > Display > Somewhere in there there should be an option to enable the TV as a monitor.

Thank you very much man. It didnt say anything about that on the back of the package the cord came in. Sweet now I have two monitors. <3

Um I have a problem with my computer. When I woke up this morning and booted it up Windows wasn't reading any of the files. Any idea what happened? I don't remember downloading anything. Also any suggestions on how to fix this problem?

At 7/21/09 02:40 PM, DELUCA2400 wrote: Um I have a problem with my computer. When I woke up this morning and booted it up Windows wasn't reading any of the files. Any idea what happened? I don't remember downloading anything. Also any suggestions on how to fix this problem?

What do you mean with "Windows wasn't reading any of the files" ? Could you explain this a little bit more?

At 7/21/09 02:44 PM, DigDogy wrote:

At 7/21/09 02:40 PM, DELUCA2400 wrote: Um I have a problem with my computer. When I woke up this morning and booted it up Windows wasn't reading any of the files. Any idea what happened? I don't remember downloading anything. Also any suggestions on how to fix this problem?

What do you mean with "Windows wasn't reading any of the files" ? Could you explain this a little bit more?

Yeah uh when I started windows I wanted to open a file but it has lnk at the end of it and when I try to open it it takes me to the open with screen which gives you an option of choosing a program or the internet to open a file and it won't open.

To be even clearer. Window's won't read .exe or .lnk files. So I looked up on the internet and it said something about fixing the registry, but I want to make sure that I'm not going to break my laptop.

Well this is embarrassing. A new computer (from Overclockers) and it goes kerplut after a month. Oh well, here are the specs (I can't really remember the drivers but they should all really be up-to-date because I update them fairly regularly):
Motherboard: Gigabyte EX58-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366)
CPU: Intel Core i7 920 2.66Ghz D0 (it was originally overclocked to 3.3GHz but it couldn't handle that quickly so I switched it to 3.0GHz, and in an attempt to solve this problem I reset the BIOS by taking out the CMOS battery for a while so it should be back to stock speed)
Memory: OCZ Gold 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 (1600MHz)
PSU: Corsair TX 650W ATX2.2
Graphics: ATI Radeon 4890 1024MB
Sound Card: 7.1 High Definition OnBoard
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA-II
Operating system: Windows Vista x64 SP2

So here's the problem, one day it just didn't start up properly. Hadn't installed any programs or messed with drivers or anything like that for a while either. Inside the PC I can see the all the fans going, so I didn't think there was a problem with power. The monitor comes up blank, but it recognises that something is attached because otherwise a little message pops up on the screen saying nothing is connected. So I checked the power and monitor (with cables) with another PC and they work fine. I replaced the Radeon 4890 in the PC with an old Radeon X800XT that I know works, and checked all the PCI-E slots, but still no change (so it probably isn't the graphics card). So then I transferred the hard drive to my old PC (which I'm using now) and it booted up fine with everything intact. Got in contact with OcUK support and they told me to check the RAM, so I lastly checked each of the RAM sticks in the new PC individually using different slots, but still nothing happened. Waiting for them to get back to me again, but in the meantime any suggestions (I'm hoping it's nothing ridiculously stupid I forgot)?

At 7/21/09 07:49 PM, DELUCA2400 wrote: To be even clearer. Window's won't read .exe or .lnk files. So I looked up on the internet and it said something about fixing the registry, but I want to make sure that I'm not going to break my laptop.

Before changing anything in the registry I would suggest checking your PC with HijackThis, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and Spybot S&D and maybe a virus scanner like Avira Antivir. Just to make sure it isn't a virus/malware/evilstuff, because if it is one changing the registry won't help. After you made sure you have no bad things on your HD you can proceed trying to edit the registry. Be careful with that, of course.

At 7/22/09 12:19 PM, Sonik-Team wrote: So here's the problem, one day it just didn't start up properly. Hadn't installed any programs or messed with drivers or anything like that for a while either. Inside the PC I can see the all the fans going, so I didn't think there was a problem with power. The monitor comes up blank, but it recognises that something is attached because otherwise a little message pops up on the screen saying nothing is connected. So I checked the power and monitor (with cables) with another PC and they work fine. I replaced the Radeon 4890 in the PC with an old Radeon X800XT that I know works, and checked all the PCI-E slots, but still no change (so it probably isn't the graphics card). So then I transferred the hard drive to my old PC (which I'm using now) and it booted up fine with everything intact. Got in contact with OcUK support and they told me to check the RAM, so I lastly checked each of the RAM sticks in the new PC individually using different slots, but still nothing happened. Waiting for them to get back to me again, but in the meantime any suggestions (I'm hoping it's nothing ridiculously stupid I forgot)?

Seems like the motherboard is the problem. Can you boot from a CD? I assume with "didn't start up properly" you mean that the screen remains black after you start the PC.

At 7/22/09 02:26 PM, DigDogy wrote: Seems like the motherboard is the problem. Can you boot from a CD? I assume with "didn't start up properly" you mean that the screen remains black after you start the PC.

Yeah I said something like the "monitor remains blank". No, can't boot from a CD, and I think the default BIOS settings means it will boot first from CD if possible. Might not be though. I think the motherboard could be the problem, but is there anything else I ought to check if I can?

At 7/22/09 03:08 PM, Sonik-Team wrote:

At 7/22/09 02:26 PM, DigDogy wrote: Seems like the motherboard is the problem. Can you boot from a CD? I assume with "didn't start up properly" you mean that the screen remains black after you start the PC.

Yeah I said something like the "monitor remains blank". No, can't boot from a CD, and I think the default BIOS settings means it will boot first from CD if possible. Might not be though. I think the motherboard could be the problem, but is there anything else I ought to check if I can?

If he isn't booting at all and you already checked RAM, graphics card and harddisk there isn't much left to check.You could try switching the power source or the CPU but that would be it. Hmm, removing all PCI cards except the graphics one might also be worth a try, but I doubt it would change anything.

At 7/22/09 03:49 PM, DigDogy wrote: If he isn't booting at all and you already checked RAM, graphics card and harddisk there isn't much left to check.You could try switching the power source or the CPU but that would be it. Hmm, removing all PCI cards except the graphics one might also be worth a try, but I doubt it would change anything.

It seems to be pretty much elimination then. Well I might be able to try a different CPU, not sure about another power supply though. My graphics card is the only PCI card I'm using at the moment so that doesn't change anything.

Big fat Acer Vista password problem.

I know that Acer preinstalled Vista on my laptop. But I forget my password.

First I used Kon-Boot - it failed.
Next I followed a tutorial here: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-v ista/change-your-forgotten-windows-passw ord-with-the-linux-system-rescue-cd/
...but chntpw on SysRescueCd says that the SAM hive is not loaded - even when it IS loaded.

Right now the laptop has booted into SysRescueCd.
Help me!

At 7/27/09 11:05 AM, iMate900 wrote: Big fat Acer Vista password problem.

I know that Acer preinstalled Vista on my laptop. But I forget my password.

First I used Kon-Boot - it failed.
Next I followed a tutorial here: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-v ista/change-your-forgotten-windows-passw ord-with-the-linux-system-rescue-cd/
...but chntpw on SysRescueCd says that the SAM hive is not loaded - even when it IS loaded.

Right now the laptop has booted into SysRescueCd.
Help me!

Some more details:

(Not sure)

Vista SP1 - I think
Tons of outdated crap (like VirtualBox 1.5.4 and Firefox 2.0.0.12)
Acer OEM

Should I go pay for Vista again or point me to some password changer for Vista?

Oh and to write this I'm on my backup compute. (Ubuntu)

At 7/27/09 11:10 AM, iMate900 wrote:

At 7/27/09 11:05 AM, iMate900 wrote: Big fat Acer Vista password problem.

I know that Acer preinstalled Vista on my laptop. But I forget my password.

First I used Kon-Boot - it failed.
Next I followed a tutorial here: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-v ista/change-your-forgotten-windows-passw ord-with-the-linux-system-rescue-cd/
...but chntpw on SysRescueCd says that the SAM hive is not loaded - even when it IS loaded.

Right now the laptop has booted into SysRescueCd.
Help me!

Some more details:

(Not sure)

Vista SP1 - I think
Tons of outdated crap (like VirtualBox 1.5.4 and Firefox 2.0.0.12)
Acer OEM

Should I go pay for Vista again or point me to some password changer for Vista?

Oh and to write this I'm on my backup compute. (Ubuntu)

OK. I seem to have solved it.

I needed to mount /dev/sda2 not 1.

The only operation I could do was clearing my password. But Vista booted up unharmed.

At 7/21/09 07:49 PM, DELUCA2400 wrote: To be even clearer. Window's won't read .exe or .lnk files. So I looked up on the internet and it said something about fixing the registry, but I want to make sure that I'm not going to break my laptop.

If you want to try and clean up your registry there are a few good programs that are free. They will just go in and look for infected files or files with corrupt data within them causing the errors that you are getting. Thats really all it sounds like to me. Here is a good program to help your computer, don't worry it's good. I would not give anyone a program i have not tried myself.

If thats not the problem then somehow something got changed in the registry and you will have to manually do it yourself, but watch what your doing because you can really mess up your laptop if you change something of great importance.