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Hello I have a Windows 8 PC and my 500gb C: drive is showing that it is nearly full all of the sudden. It was around 195 GB yesterday and now it is showing 465gb. I looked in the drive to see where all the GB were, but the numbers don't add up. The Windows folder, Program Files, Users, ect all...

I’m trying to fix my elderly mother-in-law’s Lenovo desktop that will not boot. It’s got Win 8.1 w/Bing and is about 13 months old. (Please skip to last paragraph if you don’t want to read all the background story) Long story short, this is what happened. It was running fine until yesterday...

Hi! It was a some kind of virus on a computer and noone of the keys was working properly(could only switch between windows by clicking and nothing more), both (left and right) shows menu now after removing the virus. It is an Acer laptop with Windows 8. How to reset or configure them to work as...

I'm getting the following errors on start up and during shut down. How do I fix this problem? Is the Microsoft Office Home and Student 2010 update legit? My main concern is that it might be a virus trying to gain access to my computer. My Office 2010 is a copy I got from a friend so I fear if I...

Used to be that I could access programs and other stuff when I did a search, now I just get documents and pictures. I've been fighting a virus and I must have screwed it up but I don't know how to change it back.

I must have been struck by a nasty virus. When I boot my computer, I get a screen with the following message instead: "Info: the boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible." I can't boot in Safe Mode. Windows is not found. I booted my Win7 install DVD and went into...

hi guyz. even i am facing the same problem.but i do'nt know what u r talking about bios and all(as im just a kid) and i was getting the same error while i am upgrading from windows 7 to windows 8.1 as there is a lot of virus in it and i cant use any inbuilt apps of windows due to the virus(not...

Hello I am having so much trouble currently.... So th one that is acting weird is the blue screen.. and I am not sure if this is a virus or not. So... 1, my friend got her mail hacked. 2, she sends me weird files and I open them accidentally 3, so they download 4, I go to the control panel and...

There was once a time when you might only expect to pick up some malicious software on certain types of websites. It seems now, almost anywhere might expose you to such things. I was doing something as innocent as looking for the radio frequencies used in Microwave ovens and ended up getting...

I had a really nasty virus named Obfuscator.xz which forced me to do a total reset of my Windows. After the reset I started getting these BSOD and they seem to appear at random. Additional info, may be unrelated: After my last reinstall it took at least 1 minute to shut down my computer...

So i got back home from the beach from a school field trip this weekend and my nephew was home all day i let him use my computer and he tried downloading a game on my computer illegally but instead he got a bunch of adware and who knows what else this computer might hold now. There's adware in...

Windows defender detected an attack and after it has been removed I am unable to access "my computer, my documents, folders I have created etc". I still have access to things such as icons on my desktop that are for games and programs but anything for file access and viewing that I get that I do...

This is rather worrying, today Malwarebytes finds a Trojan called Sathurbot however, when the computer reboots after cleaning, it's back in the icons folder. also google isn't aware of it's existence: Can anyone shed any light on this, much appreciated.

Hi, I'm not sure why or how this has happened but, occasional a little box will pop up 'asking what i want to open this file with' without me actually clicking on anything. I can't remember what the main option was but the next time it pops up I will screen shot it and update! anyway when I...

A Virus is in my PC, don't worry its not like deleting the OS but its putted stupid ads on my pc browser (Google Chrome) and intenet explorer. The virus name is 'Ads By Cinema' When i go to uninstall a program and click the button of uninstall the selected item cinema, nothing happens.

I have an ASUS laptop that runs Windows 7. Lately, I keep getting 3 error messages every time I start the computer, saying: "RunDLL - There was a problem starting C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON\-1\System\SysMenu.dll" I called Microsoft customer support. They said there was a virus on my pc, but that...

Please can you help me delete this virus?

Virus is not deleting in the ProgramData However i am protected from Anti-Virus When i tried to delete Virus Folder It says 'This folder cant' delete or another program is using the file' like this getting and option of 'Try Again' how to delete?

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...