Continuous problems

[Mike Bruno]

The past several weeks I have been experiencing many
problems with my computer. My internet home page is
changing by itself, I am constantly unable to close
programs without ending them from Task Manager; when I try
to open a program the "hourglass" flickers very rapidly
but nothing happens. I have Norton Systemworks which
indicates no viruses and I have a free Ad-Aware download
which allows me to quarantine spyware, which I do
regularly. My question is can I wipe out the entire
system and start over? Will there by problems with doing
this? I am a home business user have limited experience
with fixing things. Thank you so very much.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
The past several weeks I have been experiencing many
problems with my computer. My internet home page is
changing by itself, I am constantly unable to close
programs without ending them from Task Manager; when I try
to open a program the "hourglass" flickers very rapidly
but nothing happens. I have Norton Systemworks which
indicates no viruses and I have a free Ad-Aware download
which allows me to quarantine spyware, which I do
regularly. My question is can I wipe out the entire
system and start over? Will there by problems with doing
this? I am a home business user have limited experience
with fixing things. Thank you so very much.
.

This is almost definitely caused by a piece of spyware.
Go to http://security.kolla.de/ and download Spyware -
Search & Destroy. This should take care of it.

 

[Phil]

Try these first:
You've got spyware, adware, a trojan, a search engine hijacker, or a home
page hijacker.

Run these tools weekly
Spybot -- http://www.safer-networking.org/
Ad-aware -- http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

CWShredder: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4086.html

HiJackThis - http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/

 

[Eric]

It could be a hardware problem such as overheating, faulty
RAM, etc.,so don't try wiping and reinstalling.

First try reseating the cards amd RAM modules and removing
and refitting the cables.

Always eartn yourself on the case when touching electronic
components. See http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/Build.htm

I had the two beeps signalling a video card error the
other day. I just removed the cable to the video card and
refitted it and the problem was fixed. I had probably
moved the case and the cable became slightly disconnected.

MemTest86 free from http://www.memtest86.com/ can test the
RAM.

See this page for information on recovering Windows XP:
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/RecoveringXP.htm

Eric,
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/
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