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Good day everyone, Recently I've been getting BSOD on my computer and I needed some help, so I joined here. Before my computer crashes again, a few things that I noticed... The first time I received a BSOD was when I was attempting to launch Firefox on my computer and that crashed and froze my...

I am about to replace AVG Internet Security 2014 (paid) with BitDefender Antivirus Plus 2015 (paid), based on the good reviews of the latter. But one of the reviews (I forget which) said that although BitDefender was better than AVG and Windows Security Essentials in general, the Windows...

Hello, I have a peculiar problem which I would like to solve with the help of software geniuses like u'll on such forums. HP dc7700 Small form factor desktop PC (about 6 yrs old) OS: Win XP Pro SP2 Bios version 02.10 C2D, 2Gigs RAM, Q045 963/965 board, E6600 processor, eSATA 80 GB Hitachi HDD...

I have Windows 7 64 bit with Bitdefender installed. This morning I was playing a game when Bitdefender notification fired-up and said it has quarantined the SAM file and that the system needs to restart to complete "cleaning". I haplessly did what my antivirus instructed and now my PC won't...

My software.log1 and software.log2 are both corrupted. Is there a way to fix them? My anti-virus can't, tried avast and malwarebytes already.

Microsoft say that Windows Defender in Windows 8 and 8.1 is strong enough and there no need to other Internet Security software. Is this true?

Hello everyone First time using Forums here. I have had the bsod occur every day for the last three days and again three weeks earlier. What is happening when rebooting is my Trend Micro is turning itself on and off constantly since these events Have attempted to fix through Windows Hotfix for...

I am working on a Dell laptop. It connects to my router. I get an ip address. I can ping the laptop from other computer on the network. But will not open any web pages just get "can not open web page" run off line antivirus nothong found. Ran malware bytes camilian. Nothing found. Also the...

I recently has a problem with the stuck on 'starting windows' but solved it by reinstalling my anti-virus software. After this was solved , I encountered another problem in which after I use windows or any other application on my desktop it becomes unresponsive ( this includes the task bar and...

Hello all, Last week I built a new system for my father and it has been giving seemingly random Blue Screen of Death errors since day one. We have tried testing the RAM with memtest86+ for 9 consecutive passes without errors (screenshot included in .zip) and completely re-installing Windows 7...

My first problem is that, apparently, you cannot make the screen brighter on some lenovo laptops with windows 8. The Brightness- button is working, but once you make the screen dimmer, you cannot make it bright again using the brightness settings. I found out however that you can revert by...

I have been trying to figure out a problem since over a year and today by fluke I think I stumbled on something. I have a program installed on my server which I access from my office pc. Connecting to it is very slow. Today I lost internet connectivity because of provider problems. I connected...

I recently made a support call to what I thought was HP customer support. The rep that answered tried to convince me I had a virus in my hard drive and that I needed to purchase Microsoft Forefront Security Service. At this point I ended the call, however I did foolishly allow the rep to access...

I've never downloaded InfoAxe but it keeps showing that it exists in my computer. I've quarantined and deleted everything but it keeps showing up again.. If I type flipora in the search bar in the start menu it's showing a registry file named cc_(numbers) <--Random numbers, but I forgot. How...

Hello all, I m using Windows 8.1 64bit that came pre-installed when i bought my laptop and my friend got same Win8.1 preinstalled and we both are using same internet connection of our college but there is difference in connectivities.. I cannot access to softwares like Steam, Adobe creative...

Hi, I have recently bought Samsung galaxy S5 device. When I tried to connect it to my computer I nothing happend (what should have happen is that it will pop up the "What do you want to do? Go to folder/..." menu). So I tried another usb socket. still the same problem. I have Ubunto install as a...

I recently purchased a new machine with Windows 8.1 on it and an Intel Ethernet Connection 1218-V adapter with a rated speed of 100 Mbps. I have connected it to my home network. The layout is as shown In attachment. All of the computers get, according to speed test (I'd provide a link but that...

I have recently installed a Trojan virus on my computer through this site: http://camstudio.org/ . I already have my Mcaffee anti-virus on it, but then I had 2 hidden files on my desktop both called desktop.ini so I know the trojan virus still isn't gone. Please tell me anything that I can do...

Hi, so yesterday my computer has been BSOD'ing quite frequently. The first dump file is 120714-12464-01.zip and the 2nd file is the last one that would let me zip it. The 2 .dmp files since then say "File not found or no read permission" when I try to zip them. Anyway I downloaded windbg.exe...