G Guest Oct 26, 2004 #1 I was browsing the interner using IE then out of no where my computer restarted what could be the cause of this?
I was browsing the interner using IE then out of no where my computer restarted what could be the cause of this?
G Guest Oct 27, 2004 #2 You should ensure that the XP SP2 firewall is 'on' and check for Malware: If no firewall then look to these and choose. ZoneAlarm (Free and up) http://snipurl.com/6ohg Kerio Personal Firewall (KPF) (Free and up) http://www.kerio.com/kpf_download.html Outpost Firewall from Agnitum (Free and up) http://www.agnitum.com/download/ Sygate Personal Firewall (Free and up) http://smb.sygate.com/buy/download_buy.htm Symantec's Norton Personal Firewall (~$25 and up) http://www.symantec.com/sabu/nis/npf/ BlackICE PC Protection ($39.95 and up) http://blackice.iss.net/ Tiny Personal Firewall (~$49.00 and up) http://www.tinysoftware.com/ If no spyware checker: Spybot Search and Destroy (Free!) http://www.safer-networking.net/en/download/index.html Lavasoft AdAware (Free and up) http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/ CWShredder (Free!) ** No longer updated as of July 29, 2004 - however, still a great product and should still be run ** http://www.softbasket.com/download/s_8114.shtml Hijack This! (Free) http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/ Tutorial: http://hjt.wizardsofwebsites.com/ SpywareBlaster (Free!) http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbdownload.html IE-SPYAD (Free!) https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ehowes/www/resource.htm ToolbarCop (Free!) http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/toolbarcop.htm Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner (Free!) http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/ One expects that you have an anti-virus application if not: Symantec (Norton) AntiVirus (~$11 and up) http://www.symantec.com/nav/nav_9xnt/ Kaspersky Anti-Virus (~$49.95 and up) http://www.kaspersky.com/products.html Panda Antivirus Titanium (~$39.95 and up) http://www.pandasoftware.com (Free Online Scanner: http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/) AVG 6.0 Anti-Virus System (Free and up) http://www.grisoft.com/ McAfee VirusScan (~$11 and up) http://www.mcafee.com/ AntiVir (Free and up) http://www.free-av.com/ avast! 4 (Free and up) http://www.avast.com/ Trend Micro (~$49.95 and up) http://www.trendmicro.com/en/home/us/personal.htm Run a virus scan and also spyware checker to get rid of the nasties.
You should ensure that the XP SP2 firewall is 'on' and check for Malware: If no firewall then look to these and choose. ZoneAlarm (Free and up) http://snipurl.com/6ohg Kerio Personal Firewall (KPF) (Free and up) http://www.kerio.com/kpf_download.html Outpost Firewall from Agnitum (Free and up) http://www.agnitum.com/download/ Sygate Personal Firewall (Free and up) http://smb.sygate.com/buy/download_buy.htm Symantec's Norton Personal Firewall (~$25 and up) http://www.symantec.com/sabu/nis/npf/ BlackICE PC Protection ($39.95 and up) http://blackice.iss.net/ Tiny Personal Firewall (~$49.00 and up) http://www.tinysoftware.com/ If no spyware checker: Spybot Search and Destroy (Free!) http://www.safer-networking.net/en/download/index.html Lavasoft AdAware (Free and up) http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/ CWShredder (Free!) ** No longer updated as of July 29, 2004 - however, still a great product and should still be run ** http://www.softbasket.com/download/s_8114.shtml Hijack This! (Free) http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/ Tutorial: http://hjt.wizardsofwebsites.com/ SpywareBlaster (Free!) http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbdownload.html IE-SPYAD (Free!) https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ehowes/www/resource.htm ToolbarCop (Free!) http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/toolbarcop.htm Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner (Free!) http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/ One expects that you have an anti-virus application if not: Symantec (Norton) AntiVirus (~$11 and up) http://www.symantec.com/nav/nav_9xnt/ Kaspersky Anti-Virus (~$49.95 and up) http://www.kaspersky.com/products.html Panda Antivirus Titanium (~$39.95 and up) http://www.pandasoftware.com (Free Online Scanner: http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/) AVG 6.0 Anti-Virus System (Free and up) http://www.grisoft.com/ McAfee VirusScan (~$11 and up) http://www.mcafee.com/ AntiVir (Free and up) http://www.free-av.com/ avast! 4 (Free and up) http://www.avast.com/ Trend Micro (~$49.95 and up) http://www.trendmicro.com/en/home/us/personal.htm Run a virus scan and also spyware checker to get rid of the nasties.
