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Hello, I am in dire need or my mother will have my head. Windows Vista Home Basic operating system. This desktop PC is what my mum heavily uses for the internet. Ok, PLEASE bare with me as there is some background information prior to situation. I really need this to be fixed so hang in there...

Hi there, I am experiencing some issues with my wireless for the past week I still haven’t found a solution for the problem, at first I thought that could have catch some type of adware because I got some window pop up on my browser and since then I have been having issues with my wireless on...

when i open fire fox it opens to my home page,when i click a new tab it opens to AVG secure search page. i have tryd to remove it using uninstall programs,but it's not listed ,also not in f.f.addons,i am running avast, not AVG.i ran awd cleaner didn't find any thing.maybe malware or adware...

Hi all, Recently my wife noticed that when using sites such as Amazon and eBay problems occur. On Amazon, when you click view cart, it will not let you and gives an error telling you to enable cookies on your browser. They are enabled and everything is right. I get the same error on Internet...

Hello everyone, first time user of this forum, and I have a problem. There is a program that keeps showing up in the control panel. I uninstall the program and it will disappear from the install/uninstall programs list for a while, but then it comes back. How can I permanently uninstall it? The...

Hi, I have Windows XP SP1. When I turn on my laptop (ACER), open Windows 7, after a few seconds the memory usage of explorer.exe increases significantly to reach 2Gb after a couple of minutes. Then, the system is very slow and I have to kill explorer.exe. I tried mostly everything: - clean...

In the process installing Imgburn on my Think Centre, Outpost Security Suite popped a trojan alert squawking about "Adware.OpenCandy!UQ/lkedzl9U". Several website where I've checked on it showa a relatively low detection rate, something like 4 out of 48. While I understand that tends to point...

Not sure what is going on here. I had firefox running and suddenly this browser has taken a turn for the worse...adverts up the ying yang. Now it appears I have lost functionality of Windows IE9 browser. Browser says I have IE10 installed...I hit the home icon and I am taken to Firefox. What...

Hi HELP! I have been infected by "WEB CAKE 3.0". BACKGROUND I am running Windows7 x64 on 8GB of RAM, and 256GB of SSD. I am using Microsoft Security Essentials for virus protection. I am pretty much a newbie. THE STORY SO FAR: 1. I found it in Control Panel > Programs and Features, and because...

I have windows 7 very recently installed in my Laptop . I usually download a lot of softwares from isohunt or thepiratebay etc . But immediately my Norton Internet security 2013 discovers some sort of virus ( mostly trojan in it and moves it to quarantine ) . But sometimes I have restored some...

For a couple of months I have been experiencing random BSOD on my windows 7 machine. I have run Malwarebytes scans and Windows Defender scans, some malware (adware) was removed. Nothing found that causes the BSODs. I just recently found this forum. I have downloaded and ran the Windows 7...

Why do some sites load another page behind the page I'm reading?When I clse the page another site is running spam behind the page I was on, how do I stop this.

I screwed up my laptop with W7 royally. I updated my free virus detector and it downloaded a toolbar I did not want. I uninstalled it, I went up to settings, addons and unchecked it and it was STILL THERE and it would not let me search on Google. OK so I did a search for Toolbar cleaners and...

Is there any way of removing searchnu.com which has somehow latched itself onto my internet explorer

A couple of days ago I did something really stupid: I tried to download a game for free by following a tutorial which required me to install a Babylon toolbar from an ad. It didn't work, so I uninstalled all the babylon stuff and scanned my computer with Avira and Ad-aware, they came up with...

Within the last few days I've started having issues with my sony vaio laptop. I noticed it was running slowly each time I started it up. It wasn't recognizing that I had it plugged into the outlet or a mouse plugged into it. After a few minutes of being on it would recognize that it was plugged...

Hi I've been trying to get rid of this for several days with no luck. I found that you get this malware by installing Mozilla Firefox, it then spreads to your other browsers if you have them. I installed Firefox to try and fix the problems I was having with cutting and pasting in this...

I have Microsoft Security Essentials on my Windows 7 computer and I get this “Windows Security Alert” from Cleanerworrysaferyin saying it detected Trojans and ready to remove them. They want to put up a setup.zip. I was watching Netflix and my computer stop dead in its tracks and this warning...

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ESET Smart Security 5 February 2012 Review: ESET Smart Security 5 Original 2011 Review: Link Removed is the latest version of ESET's full system protection suite. It includes the components of NOD32, as well as strong prevention against Viruses, Worms, Trojan horses, Rootkits, Adware...