quarantine

My Symantec AV has quarantined a file that was a spyware.keylogger kind of malicious file. I know quarantining means to lock up a malicious threat so it doesn't spread, but, in this particular case, does quarantining mean its stopping it from doing what its name implies? Logging...

My little Acer laptop had it's old antivirus expire last night so I decided to add ESET Nod32 AV5 to the mix because I had it running on my big laptop. I uninstalled Norton IS2011 with the uninstall tool and re-booted. I installed Nod32 and noticed that it was doing some housecleaning right...

I get BSODs before Windows7 even starts to load. I can't get in through Safe Mode, I still get BSODs. I've tried System Restore, it won't restore, probably because of the BSOD, 0x8000ffff. I've tried everything in the Advance Recovery Method and Startup Repair. It said something about my hard...

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...

After installing Firefox 4 beta, IE9 Beta and deleting quarantined items from Malware Bytes. After system restarts it keeps going to the Configuring windows screen do not turn off your computer. It goes for a few minutes then reboots. It has done this numerous times... :serious:

hello & greetings again from me.Last night when i come back and open my laptop,I see my logon screen has something text which is "NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT THANK YOU FOR USING REDHOT TEAM CRACK" I started to stress out and this thing had make my NOD gone mad.All the program detected as a...

I'm the only user of the computer and supposedly have Admin rights. However, cannot manage computer or install any software. I activated the hidden Administrator account and created a new user account with admin rights, but same result, the new account cannot perform admin tasks. All this...

Hi all I'm very excited about Windows 7, it's the best MS OS ever in my opinion. However, I've been experiencing some problems with Windows Startup Repair. Where we live we suffer lots of power outages. I have a UPS, but I sent it in for repairs after it got some lightning damage. So now...

Hello, im having some serius problems whit my internett connection at the moment, It all started whit my old setup. i had an asus m2n-e sli motherboard and installed windows and all worked perfectly, but some days later when i start my machine i get the message: unable to connect to the...

INSECURITY OUTFIT Avast yesterday released an update that caused its antivirus software to report scores of clean, legitimate software programs as being riddled with malware. According to a blog post by the company, the bad false positive issue came about following an update sent out around...

The Maya Paint Effects screensaver has run perfectly, but one day I hit the link that explains the settings and my security software asked me if I wanted to quarantine it. Unfortunately I hit "yes" and Maya Paint Effects no longer runs, although it shows up in the screensaver list and the...