hijackthis

Hello! I'm on my 3rd Windows install on this PC build and want to keep it as clean as possible. Besides, on shutdown I get the “Waiting for Background Program to Close” for a fraction of a second- with nothing listed between the horizontal lines. I figured I would start by fixing the causes...

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...

Built an windows xp machine for mother Inlaw. Has worked fine for two years. Scan for malware and viruses four times a month for her, running avast anti virus. The last week when windows is ldleing and you go to use it. It will ask for a pass word. There was no pass word for this account. So I...

Hello, I'm helping my mom out with this one. She's got an Acer Aspire 5733z-445 Intel PentiumP6100 3 GB DDR3 Memory TOSHIBA MK3259GSXP [Hard drive] (320.07 GB) Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) Service Pack 1 (build 7601) On boot, it takes anywhere from 15-20 minutes for the computer to get to a...

Welcome to nginx! error on SOME webpages Welcome to nginx! Occassionally getting the above error to sites like Yahoo Mail, Trendsource.com, a few other sites. Seems to be an intermittent problem. Occurred shortly after downloaded some programs from cnet.com/download.com which I later...

Okay so, this started today. My laptop takes forever to load login screen and it shows the Welcome screen for so long. The worse is, when it finally logs in, it takes forever to load the network icon (that lags the whole system). I have no idea what it is, but it never used to do this. And i...

Been messing with this problem for 3 solid days with other guys on other help sites. Rran every diagnostic known to man! Nothing! Had been infected with the "zero access" rootkit. Anyways, i took a look at my "Services' program and found that damned thing had shut off most all of my...

as the tittle says. i think i have an infection. recently i started with a lil wierd thing. i play this game called combat arms. before i could play without lag. now i get this tiny lag spike very tiny about every 20 seconds or more. i have checked my computer with diff. antivirus and nothing...

i have bought a aspire 5252 one week ago and since ive use jdwldr, explorer, firefox, opera, chrome, skype, gimp and dreamweaver 8 the problem is upon yesterday the w7 runs terribly slow in normal mode but it does it ok in secure & secure net. I have passed the antivirus and the spybot and i...

Every time I play bejewels in facebook it freezes. When I try do some searches in google it says netdog has blocked that word. I had installed netdog but uninstalled it the same day since it don't block every porn website. Now I have K9 but my husband still get the block pages from netdog...

well this how it goes.. my task manager and regedit were disabled by administrator.. what shall i do to help me get back my task manager and regedit.. did try the procedures for enabling regedit..still doesnt work.. also, used online virus scanners..not a big help..installed...

System Info: OS - Windows 7 64bit Version 6.1 (Build 7600 CPU - AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ RAM - 8GB Dual Channel DDR2 @ 333MHz MB - ASUSTek M4N78 PRO AntiVirus - Microsoft Securities Essentials I just installed another 4 Gigs of RAM and now my Windows Update is not working. I don't know if they...

recently a friend of mine sent me a link to a youtube page, and an avast antivirus alert popped up as the page loaded saying it blocked some sort of malicious code, then i tried going to a few different other legitimate sites, like google, yahoo, microsoft.... every site set off avast, so i ran...

I've tried solutions given on other similar questions on this forum, but no solution. Every now and then, the Windows 7 taskbar just freezes... I can't click on any of the taskbar icons, the windows clock freezes, if I hover over any of the taskbar icons they won't "glow", etc., and clicking...

My Acer 7736Z-4809 laptop (pre-installed w/ Win7 Home Premium 64bit, so I don't have the Win7 CD) was recently hit with a virus. I constantly got the BSOD "iaStor.sys" and a black screen. Startup Repair at first couldn't complete repair, but when I tried again, it found no errors. Tried System...

I'm running win 7 64. When I turn the comp on it keeps restarting right whe it's at the "welcome"'screen and it just keeps booting. Im able to boot in safe mode but not with networking- I get a blue screen if I try. I have Malwarebytes installed, ran a full scan in safe mode with no error...

I'm sorry for the tone of this e-mail, I cannot take this anymore. I have some sort of virus/intrusion on my machine that WILL NOT allow me to click on a Google search result without re-routing me to an irrelevant result. This is outrageous. I have used SIX different virus/malware programs for...

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...

I'm having an issue with downloads in both Firefox and IE. Whenever I attempt to download .exe or .msi files, Firefox automatically pauses them. When I click the "retry" button, the download begins, but once it is finished, the file disappears. It's as if it was never even downloaded in the...

Guys, I've been having some extremely weird problems with my Windows 7 Home Premium PC. It's brand new, bought in the beginning of the year. There's 4 problems. Main one comes first: Today, while I was watching You Tube videos, got a blue screen twice. But not the 'blue screen of death'...