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Last night we had problems here at our lan party with slow network and viruses and other stuff. we found the person responsible for the viruses making other peoples anti-virus programs scan and pop up their thingys and he had porn and hacks so he had to be disconnected and cleaned up. now every...

Tonight we are holding a lan party, but everything is going wrong with our Server, Switches, routers and computers. it's all so slow and everyones antivirus and malware programs are popping up saying theres threats. What is going on? :mad:

I've seen this posted but mainly dealing with wireless laptops and no solutions, heres all i can tell you. Im running windows 7 home on a desktop connected through an ethernet wire, i also have a router connecting two other computers wireless, earlier today my internet stopped working on my...

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So I want to reinstall XP on my other computer. It has one to many viruses and whatnot on it to operate in a manner that doesn't drive me crazy. However, I don't know where my install disk is. So I turned to the internet. And I found this tutorial: How to Create a Bootable Windows XP Setup...

Well this is not easy for someone who enjoys linux as much as I do but I (keep in mind I have used computer sense the commadore 64) have to admit I have made the switch to back to MS with windows 7. I bought my new dellI 1564 with the intention with converting it to Ubuntu, however, I wanted to...

Hi all. I'm running Win7 Ultimate 64bit. This is my rig: CPU: Intel E8500 @ 3.45GHz (OC) RAM: OCZ Titanium 2x2GB @ 1152MHz FSB432x8.0 MB: Gigabyte EX38-DS4 (BIOS F3) GPU: ATI Palit 4870 1GB Dual Edition I have WD HDD 500GB Sata2 and WD HDD 160GB Sata1 for my videos and music only. The main HDD...

How do I wipe clean my Windows 7 hard disk? My current installation had problems with viruses and I need to re-install Windows7. And what size should I make the partitions? I have a 500GB hard disk. I tried booting off a DVD, but when it says "Where do you want to install windows?" the Format...

Hi My Windows7 PC (64bit) has become infected with trojans/viruses and I need to do a full re-install from scratch. But when I try to boot off the CD/DVD drive it keeps (eventually) going to my hard disk and booting from there. How do I FORCE it to boot from the DVD? I have tried hitting F10...

Hello! So. I've had my laptop for less than a month as of today. There were no problems running it since I've gotten it. The problem is after the boot up and log in, the laptop ceases to function and freezes after a few minutes.. I have no control whatsoever during this time. My only choice is...

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It's clear that there are people here that have input on this topic, so rather than derail other topics any further, I thought it would be appropriate to start a thread just for this. I'll make the first post in a pro and con format, feel free to coment no matter what side you take. Windows...

I am a student of computer field, I use to play and download games through internet. After downloading games I found that the games do not work properly and also the system. Is this due to a virus? So, is there any idea to download games and other things without any virus?

Ok so i just did a update from windows vista to windows 7 and everything went fine untill i logged in....When i loged in the first thing that pops up is a windows explorer has stopped responding and the desktop is black nothing even gets a chance to load. This happens on any account and anytime...

Every time I try running a game that uses gameguard, such as Gunbound Revolution, Maplestory, Grand Chase, etc, I get the Blue Screen of death. (Note that GunboundWC works though). Don't know why I get the problem, and when I asked about it on a windows 7 support forum they responded "Scan your...

Is there a place where we can report software that came with viruses? I hate people that do stuff like that. I just downloaded and installed AVS audio converter and AVG nailed it with 3 viruses.

There should be a backup system built in to the Win7 ! The original Backup/Restore is a disaster: - it is using aproprietary file format. Every version of MSDOS and Windows has had an incompatible file format. - it does not know what to backup We had some thinking: Normally an user creates max...

Hello, Recently my Win7 Beta is behaving very weird: 1. The taskbar (explorer) is not freezing, yet the clock does not update; I had to kill explorer and run it again, then clock updates. It freezes again 2. Task manager shows no processes in the list as I launch it. Pressing F5 will refresh...

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