Reboot and Safe Software?

[Guest]

First of all my computer has been "acting up". Don't know why, running slow,
un-responsive, esp. with IE. Had to reboot my computer twice in the past
hour, not with Control Alt Delete, or from the start menu, but through
holding the power button until power is killed with out letting windows do it
for me.
Then, this is where the next problem links in.
Several times during the past week, pop-ups have continiously popped up with
3 pop-up blockers running, but mostly it is for one website that pops up
every time I start IE, from winfixer.com with the program WinFixer 2005, says
it checks registry and harddrive errors... now I'm not a stupid person, just
a little confused, as to its legitimency and if that is there a accual
problem with my system.
I am running the XP Pro upgrade OS, with the Clean Reinstall, no componets
of Home are still on computer, on my HP Pavilion zd8000

 

[Martijn Saly]

First of all my computer has been "acting up". Don't know why, running slow,
un-responsive, esp. with IE. Had to reboot my computer twice in the past
hour, not with Control Alt Delete, or from the start menu, but through
holding the power button until power is killed with out letting windows do it
for me.
Then, this is where the next problem links in.
Several times during the past week, pop-ups have continiously popped up with
3 pop-up blockers running, but mostly it is for one website that pops up
every time I start IE, from winfixer.com with the program WinFixer 2005, says
it checks registry and harddrive errors... now I'm not a stupid person, just
a little confused, as to its legitimency and if that is there a accual
problem with my system.
I am running the XP Pro upgrade OS, with the Clean Reinstall, no componets
of Home are still on computer, on my HP Pavilion zd8000

Sounds like you've got yourself either a nasty virus (why would a virus eat
up resources enough to clogg everything?...) and/or spyware, adware or some
other form of malware. The latter is most likely, and enforced by the popups.

In this case, a popup blocker may stop the popups, but that's like a plaster
on a broken leg. I suggest running Ad-Aware or some other anti-malware
application and let it do the most rigorous scan available. That'll probably
grab the problem by it's throat and kill it from there

btw, yeah, WinFixer sounds a little obscure... I wouldn't trust it myself.

 

[Guest]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;827315

 

[Malke]

First of all my computer has been "acting up". Don't know why, running
slow, un-responsive, esp. with IE. Had to reboot my computer twice in
the past hour, not with Control Alt Delete, or from the start menu,
but through holding the power button until power is killed with out
letting windows do it for me.
Then, this is where the next problem links in.
Several times during the past week, pop-ups have continiously popped
up with 3 pop-up blockers running, but mostly it is for one website
that pops up every time I start IE, from winfixer.com with the program
WinFixer 2005, says it checks registry and harddrive errors... now I'm
not a stupid person, just a little confused, as to its legitimency and
if that is there a accual problem with my system.
I am running the XP Pro upgrade OS, with the Clean Reinstall, no
componets of Home are still on computer, on my HP Pavilion zd8000

WinFixer is completely evil. Go through the malware removal steps
systematically here:

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

Malke

 

[Peter Foldes]

Winfixer is causing your issue. Read on

http://www.google.com/search?source...rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-20,GGLD:en&q=WinFixer+2005