K
Kira
I am sort of at my wits end. I have spent the last 4 days trying to get a
handle on this problem. Please read the things I have tried and let me know
If I have missed any major steps. Otherwise I am almost ready to reinstall
xp for fear that there is an undetected threat on my PC.
Symptoms:
A "hovering toolbar" (context menu?) most like the one that appears on top
of pictures in IE6 that allows you to save or print the picture below it.
The folder contains shortcuts to the my recent documents menu. The box
appears most often when browsing the web.
The object does not have options for closing the menu.
The two things that make it go away are: opening one of the shortcuts
and minimizing the file. Sometimes opening the task manager, changing the
focus and hovering over the menu with a mouse eliminates it, but with less
reliable results.
If you choose to ignore it, the hard drive goes into overdrive, browsing
is slower and toggling between different programs can only be accomplished
by minimizing all documents one at a time rather than clicking on the
program you want in the task bar.
Issue 2
At odd intervals not normally requiring system resources, the CPU Usage
skyrockets. The fan blows continuously and hot air is emitted. A look into
the task manager does not show any abnormal processes.
If you compare the CPU usage in the taskbar of the task box with the one
on the systray there are serious discrepancies in the cpu usage between the
two. Closing extra windows does not stop this.
My home page magically changed to MSN from IWON.com
Along with that, I began to receive .NET login errors that said that my
password had been incorrectly entered too many times.
I am running:
Norton I. Security 2004 -latest edition of the Virus definitions are
installed 12/30/03
Adaware, most recent download 12/29/03
Toolbar Cop
Hijack this
WXP firewall is enabled
IE6
XP Home latest SP
Netscape 7.1
Office XP students ....
I have run each of these programs, but the behavior begins regardless of
what I find.
When I run a scan with any of the appropriate programs, it comes up clean.
I am running a full scan, with hueristics set to high.
I also ran Trend's internet virus scan and no viruses were found.
I thought I had the Backdoor.irc.aladdinz trojan because I have some of the
files it speaks to but there is no traces of it in some files
That is all I can think of now but there may be more. What do I do?
handle on this problem. Please read the things I have tried and let me know
If I have missed any major steps. Otherwise I am almost ready to reinstall
xp for fear that there is an undetected threat on my PC.
Symptoms:
A "hovering toolbar" (context menu?) most like the one that appears on top
of pictures in IE6 that allows you to save or print the picture below it.
The folder contains shortcuts to the my recent documents menu. The box
appears most often when browsing the web.
The object does not have options for closing the menu.
The two things that make it go away are: opening one of the shortcuts
and minimizing the file. Sometimes opening the task manager, changing the
focus and hovering over the menu with a mouse eliminates it, but with less
reliable results.
If you choose to ignore it, the hard drive goes into overdrive, browsing
is slower and toggling between different programs can only be accomplished
by minimizing all documents one at a time rather than clicking on the
program you want in the task bar.
Issue 2
At odd intervals not normally requiring system resources, the CPU Usage
skyrockets. The fan blows continuously and hot air is emitted. A look into
the task manager does not show any abnormal processes.
If you compare the CPU usage in the taskbar of the task box with the one
on the systray there are serious discrepancies in the cpu usage between the
two. Closing extra windows does not stop this.
My home page magically changed to MSN from IWON.com
Along with that, I began to receive .NET login errors that said that my
password had been incorrectly entered too many times.
I am running:
Norton I. Security 2004 -latest edition of the Virus definitions are
installed 12/30/03
Adaware, most recent download 12/29/03
Toolbar Cop
Hijack this
WXP firewall is enabled
IE6
XP Home latest SP
Netscape 7.1
Office XP students ....
I have run each of these programs, but the behavior begins regardless of
what I find.
When I run a scan with any of the appropriate programs, it comes up clean.
I am running a full scan, with hueristics set to high.
I also ran Trend's internet virus scan and no viruses were found.
I thought I had the Backdoor.irc.aladdinz trojan because I have some of the
files it speaks to but there is no traces of it in some files
That is all I can think of now but there may be more. What do I do?