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Hi guys My machine has been a slug recently and I've seen several virus threats that I am not sure Kaspersky caught, so I suspect some infection. Another issue is that when I try to run aswmbr, it shuts down my machine. I've tried three times now and each time I get a blue screen saying...

I noticed today that Kaspersky blocked a link but I may have inadvertently clicked through to the site. In any case, I started to notice a suspicious slowing in operation and when I tried to reboot, it took 10 mins + to restart. Web navigation was not working, if I clicked on any computer icon...

Our second laptop has symptoms that make me suspect there is a virus. For starters, my wife is not tach savvy and i see unusual icons on the desktop, but the issue we have is that IE is not connecting to the internet wirelessly. Her wireless card reports that it is getting a strong signal from...

In the last two weeks, something happened that has caused my computer to become a slug! It can take more than an HOUR for it to fully boot up before I can even open files and forget about opening a webpage. I usually turn it on the night BEFORE i want to use it. If I try to open a file (before...

Hi - Our laptop has picked up this virus which throws up plenty of alerts about being infected and most importantly doesn't allow us to access any web pages, so I don't know how to download what is needed to clean the computer. Please help? what can i do first to get clean? I don't have DDS...

My significant other's computer has been infected with something ridiculous called Personal Antivirus. It blocks you from viewing websites by putting up a "blocked" page which says: "Warning: visiting this site may harm your computer" Even on this lovely Spybot S&D site, it puts up a nifty...

Hello We just scanned this computer tonite with Spybot S&D after it was painfully slow and unresponsive (did a CCleaner first just to make it semi-operable) and came up with Virtumonde twice. Can you please help me finish my thesis by fixing my computer?:euro: HJT log below: Logfile of...

the symptoms of this infection are a new desktop shortcut icon entitled "Antivirus XP 2008" and similar program in "add/remove programs". Also, it has appropriated my desktop with a new blue background and box in center that reads "Warning Spyware detected on your computer! Install an antivirus...

I just typed a nice long intro and trying to review the post it was deleted, so to simplify.......my machine is slow to boot, slow to run. It is a Windows XP Pentium 4, 2.66GHZ and 256 RAM.I followed your directions and attached are Kaspersky and Hijack This log. Thank you for your help, if...

Hello You guys have patched me up before. Here's the new deal. My modem died the other day. I bought a new 2wire 2701 and it set up fine. At first browsing was a little slow, then it picked up, now it is as slow as molasses (oddly, the other computer that's running off the wireless router is...

Hello Hope this is a good place to post this. My wife turned on her computer last night and got a blue screen with the following message: Stop: C0000218 {registry file failure} The Registry cannot load the hive (file): \systemroot\system32\config\SAM or its log or alternate It is corrupt...

My computer has had problems of late when I shut down....it gets to the screen that says "windows is shutting down" but it doesn't it just stays there.....so sometimes i have to pull the plug to shut it down. I ran Spybot with all the updates in safemode and there were no problems to fix. I am...

Hello I'm not sure where to post this, but, my computer gets stuck on the "shutting windows down" screen and won't shut off unless I pull the plug from the wall. I know it doesn't seem spyware related, but since i have only ever had spyware problems, I'm not sure what else it could be. Can...

Hi I have loaded every new, free and not so free, program to find out what was hijacking my browser and causing all kinds of mess on my system. I now have the latest of: Hijack this spybot S&D spyware blaster McAfee spysubtract Adaware spysweeper (which i paid for) i tried doing an online...