Date: 03/14/09 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: virus, spyware

My workplace has recently had an outbreak of the conficker virus and i've been kinda paranoid about my computer at home. I noticed today a process called "System" with PID 4 that is running at 62,936 K and staying there that I hadn't noticed before. I don't know if I didn't notice it and I'm just being overly paranoid or if it wasn't there. It has no "User Name" associated with it and it only uses 152 K of virtual memory.

I recently scanned with Malwarebytes Antimalware in both regular and safe modes as well as AVG in safe mode and Spyware Doctor in regular. They only came up with a few weird things that I wasn't familiar with but didn't seem all that bad.

I am preparing to just switch over to Ubuntu but I have about 3 years with this computer and I am kinda attached to it.

Using Windows XP Home SP3 by the way.

Thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1249310.html

Date: 05/31/11 (Computer Help)    Keywords: virus

Hi guys,

I'm in need of some computer genius here. I got the windows recovery virus on my computer (right after finishing a ten page paper no less), and I managed to get rid of it by rebooting in safe mode and using malwarebytes. After I got rid of it I realized the virus had managed to hide all of my programs and files to make it look like my computer had been completely wiped.
I used the unhide program and it worked for everything except the start menu, which is showing all my program files as "empty".
From what I've seen on different forums, the virus has hidden them all in a temp folder, I just have no idea how to restore them. Any suggestions?
Thanks so much for your help!

Source: http://computer-help.livejournal.com/1024362.html

Date: 05/11/11 (Computer Help)    Keywords: browser, virus, web, microsoft, google

Hello, I've recently been dealing with computer trouble, and now that I'm past the worst of it, I've come to ask about something that's making me nutty: my display settings.


Problem in a nutshell: My programs (e.g. Internet Explorer, iTunes, Microsoft Word) don't seem to want to follow my designated screen resolution of 1024 by 768.

OS: Windows XP SP3


Web Browser: Internet Explorer 7 (I prefer it to the newer versions.)

Level of Experience: Probably easiest to say beginner


Problem: Because I unfortunately was victim of a rootkit a few weeks ago, my computer had to be wiped, and Windows was reinstalled. Since I got it back today, I've been building my computer to how it was before the virus, but my display settings are all off. I have a wide screen, and my default resolution before the virus was 1024 by 768 (I like it that way), so I restored it to that resolution. While I've taken pains to make my desktop look somewhat normal, my programs (e.g. Internet Explorer, iTunes) look rather larger and wider than they should in their screens. This is thoroughly annoying in Internet Explorer especially, since I don't like using full screen view (I don't use full screen for any programs). How do I get my programs (my desktop doesn't really seem to want to cooperate, either) to view normally?

Troubleshooting? -I messed with the space between my icons in the appearance section of the Display Properties, but this only affected the desktop. The toolbar at the bottom of my desktop still looks odd.
-I tried zooming in and out in Internet Explorer; didn't solve anything.
-I tried changing my dpi in the Display Properties, but to no avail.
-I've searched google several times but have found no help for this sort of problem.

Just for references, I'll include before and after screenshots from my display:


This is basically how my computer looked before it broke.


This is how my computer looks now: bloated toolbar and super wide IE page--the same facebook page takes up much more room.


This problem isn't dire, but it's MADDENING. If anyone has good ideas how to solve this, I would be extremely grateful. Thanks!

x-posting to computerhelp

Source: http://computer-help.livejournal.com/1024221.html

Date: 08/24/09 (Mozilla)    Keywords: virus

Feel free to delete if this isn't allowed. If this problem has already been solved, could I have a link to the solution?

Hello everyone, I installed Firefox a couple of months ago without administrator privileges (thanks to this tutorial). It functioned beautifully for a few months but out of nowhere, I recently came across a few problems.

1. My Firefox pop-up blocker is on, but I keep getting random pop-ups from time to time. I already did a virus scan, uninstalled/reinstalled Firefox, and deleted old versions of Firefox, but it didn't do anything.

2. Firefox won't load certain pages completely: such as my LJ friends list, my tumblr dashboard, facebook, list of youtube comments, etc. It says it's finished loading but only 3/4 of the page shows up, and I can't scroll further. It's quite annoying.

screenshot:




(entry content/usernames censored for the privacy of the LJ user).

In the image, you can see I can't scroll any further, but my entire friends list page won't load (plus the link to view previous entries isn't visible).

Is there any way to fix this problem without the need for administrator rights? I already tried to find out the admin password, but nothing worked.

Thank you! :)

Source: http://mozilla.livejournal.com/441488.html

Date: 07/15/10 (Software)    Keywords: virus, spyware

any of you use Premiere elements 8 ?
if so, please let me know why my video is so slow on propagating or loading in the background so i can work on it real time? i use corel video studio and its super fast, why would elements be slow?

o ya my PC is pretty fast with plenty of ram, 8gb ram, quad core, 9800GT.





my virus Spyware removal blog

Source: http://software.livejournal.com/87866.html

Date: 08/04/08 (Software)    Keywords: virus

OSAM: Autorun Manager - free and powerful tool designed to show you what programs are configured to run automatically when your system starts.

   

Only some functional features of this program:

• Rootkit detection and removal.
• The most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations (more than AutoRuns has).
• Removal of "undeletable" objects using the driver.
• Online scanner, which allows you to check all the files that are loaded by your system for viruses.
• "Dump file as" function for dumping blocked and hidden files.
• And much much more...

Source: http://software.livejournal.com/79654.html

Date: 03/27/08 (Algorithms)    Keywords: virus, web

The link in the previous post is a Trojan website that will attempt to install a virus on your computer.

I repeat, DON'T CLICK ON THE LINK

Source: http://algorithms.livejournal.com/98147.html

Date: 05/31/11 (Computer Help)    Keywords: virus

Hi guys,

I'm in need of some computer genius here. I got the windows recovery virus on my computer (right after finishing a ten page paper no less), and I managed to get rid of it by rebooting in safe mode and using malwarebytes. After I got rid of it I realized the virus had managed to hide all of my programs and files to make it look like my computer had been completely wiped.
I used the unhide program and it worked for everything except the start menu, which is showing all my program files as "empty".
From what I've seen on different forums, the virus has hidden them all in a temp folder, I just have no idea how to restore them. Any suggestions?
Thanks so much for your help!

Source: https://computer-help.livejournal.com/1024362.html

Date: 05/11/11 (Computer Help)    Keywords: browser, virus, web, microsoft, google

Hello, I've recently been dealing with computer trouble, and now that I'm past the worst of it, I've come to ask about something that's making me nutty: my display settings.


Problem in a nutshell: My programs (e.g. Internet Explorer, iTunes, Microsoft Word) don't seem to want to follow my designated screen resolution of 1024 by 768.

OS: Windows XP SP3


Web Browser: Internet Explorer 7 (I prefer it to the newer versions.)

Level of Experience: Probably easiest to say beginner


Problem: Because I unfortunately was victim of a rootkit a few weeks ago, my computer had to be wiped, and Windows was reinstalled. Since I got it back today, I've been building my computer to how it was before the virus, but my display settings are all off. I have a wide screen, and my default resolution before the virus was 1024 by 768 (I like it that way), so I restored it to that resolution. While I've taken pains to make my desktop look somewhat normal, my programs (e.g. Internet Explorer, iTunes) look rather larger and wider than they should in their screens. This is thoroughly annoying in Internet Explorer especially, since I don't like using full screen view (I don't use full screen for any programs). How do I get my programs (my desktop doesn't really seem to want to cooperate, either) to view normally?

Troubleshooting? -I messed with the space between my icons in the appearance section of the Display Properties, but this only affected the desktop. The toolbar at the bottom of my desktop still looks odd.
-I tried zooming in and out in Internet Explorer; didn't solve anything.
-I tried changing my dpi in the Display Properties, but to no avail.
-I've searched google several times but have found no help for this sort of problem.

Just for references, I'll include before and after screenshots from my display:


This is basically how my computer looked before it broke.


This is how my computer looks now: bloated toolbar and super wide IE page--the same facebook page takes up much more room.


This problem isn't dire, but it's MADDENING. If anyone has good ideas how to solve this, I would be extremely grateful. Thanks!

x-posting to computerhelp

Source: https://computer-help.livejournal.com/1024221.html

Date: 08/24/09 (Mozilla)    Keywords: virus

Feel free to delete if this isn't allowed. If this problem has already been solved, could I have a link to the solution?

Hello everyone, I installed Firefox a couple of months ago without administrator privileges (thanks to this tutorial). It functioned beautifully for a few months but out of nowhere, I recently came across a few problems.

1. My Firefox pop-up blocker is on, but I keep getting random pop-ups from time to time. I already did a virus scan, uninstalled/reinstalled Firefox, and deleted old versions of Firefox, but it didn't do anything.

2. Firefox won't load certain pages completely: such as my LJ friends list, my tumblr dashboard, facebook, list of youtube comments, etc. It says it's finished loading but only 3/4 of the page shows up, and I can't scroll further. It's quite annoying.

screenshot:




(entry content/usernames censored for the privacy of the LJ user).

In the image, you can see I can't scroll any further, but my entire friends list page won't load (plus the link to view previous entries isn't visible).

Is there any way to fix this problem without the need for administrator rights? I already tried to find out the admin password, but nothing worked.

Thank you! :)

Source: https://mozilla.livejournal.com/441488.html

Date: 07/15/10 (Software)    Keywords: virus, spyware

any of you use Premiere elements 8 ?
if so, please let me know why my video is so slow on propagating or loading in the background so i can work on it real time? i use corel video studio and its super fast, why would elements be slow?

o ya my PC is pretty fast with plenty of ram, 8gb ram, quad core, 9800GT.





my virus Spyware removal blog

Source: https://software.livejournal.com/87866.html

Date: 08/04/08 (Software)    Keywords: virus

OSAM: Autorun Manager - free and powerful tool designed to show you what programs are configured to run automatically when your system starts.

   

Only some functional features of this program:

• Rootkit detection and removal.
• The most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations (more than AutoRuns has).
• Removal of "undeletable" objects using the driver.
• Online scanner, which allows you to check all the files that are loaded by your system for viruses.
• "Dump file as" function for dumping blocked and hidden files.
• And much much more...

Source: https://software.livejournal.com/79654.html

Date: 03/27/08 (Algorithms)    Keywords: virus, web

The link in the previous post is a Trojan website that will attempt to install a virus on your computer.

I repeat, DON'T CLICK ON THE LINK

Source: https://algorithms.livejournal.com/98147.html