Thanks. My father told me to try a windows boot diskette. I currently have my boot up sequence as: 1.CD 2.HD 3. A: I need to make a boot diskette, checking online on how to do that right now. I don't know much about this stuff.
Fatty....I had that problem. I couldn't get rid of it. It said the uninstall was successful, and loaded some webpage. But as soon as I rebooted it would be back. That and a thing called WinServAD and WinservSuit. Man...those things really pissed me offf. They were the reason I started messing with my system and eventually....broke it.
Fatty, had the same problem used this site to answer my questions. www.wilderssecurity.com I can't tell you exactly what i did, but after a lot of work I removed it.
Ah, not sure I can help then. It's definitely spyware. Are you using IE? I know way back I got some spyware on my old PC I couldn't get rid of, so I switched browsers and that did the trick. I guess it depends on the program you downloaded, but if there was no "accept" box to download switching to something like Firefox or Opera might help.
FFB Did you restart the computer after uninstalling? Also, this might help: Ad Aware The suggestion by Sam Cassell to move away from IE is also good.
Yup. I rebooted. The computer is going berserk. I emailed our IT guy. We'll see if he can figure it out.
According to this site, here's how you remove it It sounds like what's happening is... you correctly remove it, but when you launch IE, it's default web page is the page that installs the app, so it gets re-installed on your computer. -- droxford
God, I wish! What it does when I do that is immediately says "uninstall successful." Then it goes back to the other programs to add/remove. It is still there. The uninstall never happens! (ie.) the "successful" icon comes up a millisecond after I click "yes". And I just got a warning from outlook that said its trying to get my addresses, also. This is the worst piece of crap I've seen. As I said, I wasn't downloading anything. A prompt came up which I clicked "no" on twice, and then it happened. Also, I'm at work, so I wasn't going to a naughty site, either. If y'all see anything like it, I'd unplug your computer immediately.
Oh goody! Right after I sent this reply, it popped-up a p*rn site... At work... Oh this just keeps getting better and better. This is one pathetic virus.
FFB - If you have XP, do a System Restore (start> All Programs> Accessories> System Tools > System Restore). Pick a day before today and you should be good.
It's saved me more than once. That is the best thing MS has ever created. Now the junk is still on your harddrive but your computer doesn't know to run it (your registery has been reset to a time before it hit your computer). But, if you want to finish the job, find the directory the program exists in and delete it/them. You can search for folders created on that date. It's ok to leave it on your hard drive though. Most don't take up that much room. But just don't double click on any programs under those folders.
This gave me a good laugh this morning. When I was in Saudi, my old laptop croaked. We tried fixing it but windows wouldn't go past 38% or so. Then my dad wrote me this email today after I have been bombing him with my frustrations with my pc...... Frustated, he sits down for what must be the 10th time, broken lap top on his knee. Feeling frisky, he pops in the A: drive and sparks up a command prompt. Once there he runs FDISK and deletes the extended partitions and logical disk drives representing D: and E:. He then resizes C: to 693MB (using Partition Magic). He chose 693 because the silly hard drive failed at 34% WHEN the size was 2100 mbs... 693 time 3, well you get the idea... After running SYS C: from the A: drive to transfer fresh system files to C: he boots up again, accepts the CDRom, changes over to E:\WIN98 and runs setup. Windows quickly checks all drives (NOW ONLY C and presto 30 minutes later the lap top is up and running WINDOWS98. Wooop! is heard throughout the neighborhood as the PC Wizard installs the PCMCIA NIC yielding 10/100, picks up an IP address from DHCP, which automatically configures his DNS server, gateway etc. yielding access to the upstairs computer where he quickly updates to IE 6.02. Feeling estatic, he notes that IE 6 takes him to that pesky WINDOWS UPDATE site... While he recalls the failures of the past he goes ahead, installs the lates update software and presto, the scan not only shows all the missing security patches; but on a wim, when he selects all, downloads and PRESTO it works! Not to be out smarted he then selects the non security updates which also install without a problem. Installation Complete The following updates have been successfully installed: Windows Critical Update Notification 4.0 Internet Explorer Navigation Sound Update Root Certificates Update Vector Graphics Rendering (VML) Agent 2.0 Windows 98 Games Spanish Menus and Dialogs for Internet Explorer 6 SP1 View installation history Simply amazed, the PC WIZARD pats him self on the back and writes a short note to his son in TEXAS!
Dude, those are good for the kids' room just to have some games, and maybe browse the Internet, and that may be all. I wouldn't put something critical on it, because more than likely XP will want to have 128 MB for itself to run. I don't remember the min. requirements off the top of my cabeza, but XP will allow you about 128m of RAM, and at least a 266 MHz Celeron. You should be ok. I remember that COMPAQs had the BIOS on the hard drive, but not sure about the Hewlett Packards. You may want to start off with a bare install of Win95 or Win 98, then XP. That's what I've done on most OLD machines I re-formatted for my kids. Good luck, ol' chap.
UPDATE: I took a peek inside my case while my computer was on and saw something that may just be the root of my problem. I know for a fact that my motherboard has a safety shut-off for overheating and when I peeked inside my case I saw that my CPU fan didn't even move when I turned on my computer, it looked like it was trying to but it couldn't ever get started. It finally did start spinning but it is spinning slower than what I think it is supposed to be going, it's spinning so slowly that I can almost read the logo on the center of the fan. Could this be it?
Pun, that would be a emphatic yes if you cant see a blur in the middle of your fan when it is running...it is definitedly messed up.
