Recent content by alaskaferret

When I went to start the computer today, it would start but before it could load I got a blue scree, this happened several times, finally I got to the screen that asks if you want to start windows normally, or repair, so I tried to choose repair, but couldn't access it. I put in the disc...

I deleted the windows.old, there were four, I have a whole ton of drive space again, so nice. So its been several hours now and Zonealarm hasn't detected new infections, so maybe deleting those file solved the problem, thank you for your help. Carla

I've tried to do that in the past, the computer always says its a system file and I shouldn't delete it, makes no sense to me since its old windows, but this thing is also getting into the current host file as well. I'll delete the old ones and see if it crashes the computer lol. Thanks.

Hi, Yesterday my antivirus started popping up with a virus/trojan Trojan.Win32.Hosts2.gen. I have a few windows.old from new installs, and this thing is traveling from those installs to the current one, zonealarm treats it but then it comes back. I ran spybot hoping it was some kind of...

I don't know how to track down the cause of this problem so I'll just tell you what's happening. I've gone through 3 iPods since getting this computer with Win 7 installed on it. Itunes will want to update the ipod software, and during the update will say there are errors and it can not update...

I ran hijackthis and have the logfile, I hope its okay to just post it. What's happening is the first time after I boot the computer and click firefox, ie will load, say its not my default browser and do I want ot change, no, I shut it down and click on Firefox again, Firefox loads, saying its...