Hi everyone Cranky here !!
I heard about this place through another forum (dont know if im allowed to say the name of other forum or not), so I thought I would stop in and check it out.
I checked and I liked so I joined.

Have a nice day.
Cranky !!!

Hello everyone,
I don't have a lot of computer experience. In fact I have a problem right now, but I will post that in the appropriate spot. I am 30 years old and a paralegal student online with Kaplan University. I hope to learn much more about computers so I will not panic everytime I have a problem. Iwill appreciate any help that I recieve.
Heather

Welcome to BC!
I took the liberty, Heather, of taking your reply to another post and making it a new a separate topic in a different forum. Your problem about Word document saves is now in the business applications forum.
When you have a problem, if you put it in a reply to some other problem, the tendency will be for it to get lost (no one will look at it because they are either not interested in the original topic of the thread, or think the reply is meant to resolve the original problem).
Rule of the thumb in posting to boards is "new problem/ different problem, then new post."
Regards,
John

Hello everybody,

My name is Benoit from Belgium . Sorry for my english, it's not my mother's language . I discovered this forum by google . I have a problem with the file sporder.dll which miss on my PC . In the search window of google I wrote sporder.dll and I discovered you . I appreciated the topic about my problem, I understood but he problem is not yet repaired .

Best Site Ever!!! VERY HELPFUL!!!

Hmm.....I know enough to keep my network spanky clean and be of help to the locals in my small town. Didn't know enough to keep my son away from my dis-mantled lap top though
Running Fx with Avast!/Sygate (free ones) along with the 'standard' stuff like ad-aware SE etc.

Looking forward to learning something and maybe being of some help to some one.

I am totally confused by this introduction process as I am about many thing esp. with the computer. Lately I've been fantacizing about turning my computer into a really usefull machine. It would be something like Charlie Brown and his friends taking an ugly stick with some pine needles sticking out of it and somehow transforming it into a well decked out Christmas tree. I ran across this site looking to the answer to a simple question but finding it I'm thinking I may have found my best friends. Imagine a place I can go with my endless "How the H#$* do you do this?" questions!

hello im from mexico city, having troubles with spysheriff, hope i found a solution around here

There is a self-help removal topic for spysheriff, Markko:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/How...exe-t22402.html

Follow the instructions and you should be able to get rid of it.
Regards,
John

While it is true that most members here are American, BC also has many members from Canada, the UK, Australia, and NewZealand, not to mention from almost every nation in the world.

Somewhat outdated, but nevertheless interesting and probably representative, is a list of known nationalities of BC members:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/The...ties-t8512.html

Computing is making the world one free and open community.

Regards to all,
John

Trying to find a wireless network receiving solution for an old Gateway PC.

Hello. Great source of info here on removing spyware!!

Hey Grinler:

You are the reason that I haunt the halls at BleepingComputer ... that and that blankets blank Gunnery Sergeant they assigned me to at SWI Boot Camp.

With you help I may survive!?*

WestCoast 101
Terry

I Just love it BC has helped me build my site!!!!!!!!!!

Hi..I came to BC via a mate Starbuck...I have very little knowledge of computers and how they work..to be honest..I struggle with the terminology!! Starbuck told me how helpful you lot were...I was sceptical simply because I thought..'yeah, helpful when you know what they are on about in the first place!' So I was very nervous as a newbie to forums let alone computer forums!!

I have to say though..that since joining and taking the plunge to ask my questions in the manic way I do and not getting told off or laughed at ...has helped me no end! I LOVE visiting....often..I have even tried the chat....

You lot are so patient and never make me feel stupid...even though I sound it most of the time...so...big..big...THANKYOU.. to all at BC....am so glad I joined...you have made me feel better about myself and my abilities in the puter world!!

DOLLYEYES

DollyEyes, How could some one with an sig as cool as your be a dummy???
We all have our strenthgs and weaknesses with these confounded puters. lol
Being here and just hanging around has helped my comper knowledge!
I'm really glad you decided to stick around.
Hope to see you around,
Deerslayer

virgin to this site

Im still learning more everyday, but when you get stumped it nice to be able to ask someone.Looking foward to helping others,but probaly youll be helping me. THANKS DAVE L

Hi everyone! Discovered your site while doing a search for some strange registry entries I seem to be blessed with. Going to peruse the forum and see if I can find the answers I'm looking for before I ask if anyone knows what they are.

I am a web technologist by profession, so if I can help anyone with any website or web related issues, feel free to ask and I'll do my best to help.

Casseandra (Casse)

enough knowledge to be dangerous since 94

One and All!

Hello Scarlet
My name is Mike a.k.a. HappyKat from Toronto in Canadaland. This is my first time maneuvering in a disscussion forum and from the looks of the posts before me...it seems like this site is held in high regards. Happy I found it.

happykat (Love the nick)

Welcome to Bleeping Computer!

So glad you found us.
And thanks for the kind words.

I just found this site after getting burned by a Malware attack. I tried to be clever and eliminate it myself. I even used the XP original disk to operate in command mode and erase several files that were protected when XP and all the files were running. I did pretty good, but it still had an executable "Ypiapy.exe" that would spawn a new copy of itself in system32 and, of course execute.

I also lost the ability to change my background on the desktop. After reading the forum here and a post by MFDnSC on "Spyware has changed my Desktop Background" I installed Ewido and running in Safe Mode it found an item in my boot.inx file. That seemed to take care of the Spyware and then the vb script in that post at www.thespykiller.co.uk/files/cleandesktop.exe fixed the desktop.

Interesting to note is that Ypiapy.exe was not visible in the Windows Task Manager. But it was detected as running with DllView.

Anyway after two days of sweat and just about ready to reload my system I am now running again and I know have learned that you can get infected just by visiting a site!

Best regards and Happy New Year,
Stan

//Mod edit: Hot link edited.

Greetings,

I joined to gain experienc and to offer any help that I may have.

SillyBilly

This is a first for me. Just trying to solve a bleeping computer problem. Hope there's help in never-never land.

Just a quick note to say thanks...My laptop caught the spyaxe adaware trojan and y'all made it quick and simple to remove...Thanks for the help and may the makers of spyaxe die a slow and painful death....Bas****s...Well y'all know what I'm trying to say...Appreciate the forum...Since I'm just a little computer savvy, I don't know if I can help very much...But, I'll try...Thanks again and Happy New Year!

wk

hey all, newbie sent over from the 'geeks'. i'm sure to get more info for my bleepin puter here. thanks for the warm welcome. take care ~m

Hi my name is Sal, nickname Sidge (long story...) and i dunno anythin about the insides of a pc and all it programmes etc. (as most of u do on here) i only know the basics (infact i fought i was a wiz wiv pcs until i found all use lot!!) anywayz yesterday i got infected with 'SpyFalcon' and when i relized i had been infected i thought the world had ended and i was doomed, cos i wudnt no how 2 fix it (i'm only 15) however a quick search on google led me to this site (which is now my fav site in the whole world!) and i found a really easy, free guide into getting rid of that horrible virus, stupid, thing.i got rid of 'SpyFalcon' within about 10 mins and was so happy that your guide to removing it had worked! it helped me so much (as i was a bit scared, but ur guide reassured me i was doin the right thing as it was so easy 2 follow!) So anywayz i jus wanna say a big thanxs 2 bleepingcomputer i love ya and bye bye horrible virus

THANKS AGEN NICE PEOPLE!!!!!!

Thanks so much for letting us know we were a help to you Sidge_06. Seeing someone post a message like yours is all we need to keep fighting the good fight. So glad you were able to help yourself along the way through the strange and wonderful world of computing. Hope to see you posting around the forums now that you have found us.

Hello -

Just wanted to say thanks for the help I received in removing the *&#$@ "SpyFalcon". I don't know about others, but this "program" rendered my computer un-usable. I still can't figure out how it got there in the first place. (but for now on, NO ONE will be allowed to even go near my computer)

My computer is back to normal, and I'm so glad!!!

Thanks again,

Jamsie

Your welcome jamsie

Happy to hear that your troubles are over.

Yes, you have got to be careful when someone else gets near your computer.
It takes no time at all for them to wreck havoc.

I came here because I had a trojan problem with spywarequake.

all fixed now and I'm rather grateful. just saying hi and thanks.

[size=6]Hi everyone,
I'm new too! I have a little bit of knowledge. Hope i can help as well as learn.
Talk to you soon
Reeroxie

Just checking in. Feels kinda lonely down here since the last post was in Jan. ****

But this is where u'all directed me to start. No I'm not from the south, I that U'all just sora fell off my fingers.

See ya round the site.

Love, Paul E


---- [stupid me, I just went to the bottom of the first page.]

saskganesh, reeroxie, and mergandalf!

I hope you will enjoy your visits here.
If you ever need anything, just ask. ;)

Hello and many thanks to all of you who have created bleepingcomputer.com!!! Since the 13 Mar 2006 I was infected with what I now know to be the virtumondo / winfixer pop-up problem. Initially I was paralyzed with fear that I may need to reformat my hard drive, as I did the last time I had a virus in the 1990's. For several days I did nothing but avoid my computer then after a few searches and reading the Symantic and Mcafee help pages and the security information pages at Comcast.net, I was even more afraid and riddled with uncertainty, particularly one article used an example of a woman who became further infected with another virus or trojan, by performing a general internet search and visiting a website claiming to be friendly and there to help remove the original problem, but it infected her further. That information alone drove me nuts, added to the relentless stream of pop--ups, freezing, slowness, etc.

Needless to say I became completely determined not to do anything until I could be relatively sure the help was real. After doing the neglected items for my PC's health and updating all virus definitions, etc, I downloaded Ad-Aware as suggested somewhere in one of the forums I visited. It was sad to learn that it wouldn't scan my PC without shuting down. Finally, I cracked and posted in the forum at Mcafee, after having an online chat and asking the question, does Mcafee monitor the posts in the forums? After being told yes, I decided to try some of the advice there and immediately after my post a moderator posted a link to your tutorial on the Vundo Demon! (YUK) So far all I can say is how truly grateful I am for the simplistic tutorials and a sloution to my problem.

So far I have run the Vundo Fix and removed Vundo (YAY!) Lavasoft Ad-Aware, and Spybot S&D following all your instructions. Seems to be running smoothly.

Now that I know how much I don't really know about my computer and the technical world behind it, I am looking forward to spending more time here and learning as much as possible about staying uptodate, trojan, worm and virus free. Thank you so very much!

GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: I AM CALLED CHEFBIGFEET (EXECUTIVE CHEF WITH SIZE 15 TRIPLE EEE SHOES) MY FIRST COMPUTER WAS A UNIVAC SERIES 1 AND THE FIRST DESK TOP BY OLIVETTI WHICH WEIGHED 600LBS. I HAVE BEEN AROUND AWHILE BUT MY KNOWLEDGE OF THE INSIDE WORKINGS OF MY COMPUTER ARE NOT TECHIE GRADE. AS YOU WILL SEE I RUN INTO VARIOUS PROBLEMS WHICH TO ALL OF YOU MAY SEEM SEE TRIVIAL AND MUNDAIN. I LOOK FORWARD TO THE EXPERIENCE OF LEARNING AND INTERACTING WITH YOU ALL. PLEASE HAVE PATIENCES WITH ME IF I MAKE MISTAKES. AGAIN. THANKS FOR LETTING ME JOIN YOUR GROUP. CHEFBIGFEET

bevio and CHIEFBIGFEET

Scarlet: Thanks for the welcome. My first four days have been informative and Very, Very Helpful. I look forward to Many, Many More. Thanks. Chefbigfeet

Your welcome.
And yes please do stick around.

Happy to have you aboard!

Hi all. I discovered this site while surfing for a solution to a nasty pop-up/virus problem several months ago. I just registered at the site today. I found some solutions but I'm still having some problems with the machine and hope to solve them here.

I found the look-ups for all the miscellaneous unknown files hanging out on my computer to be extremely helpful and found several virus programs in the process.

It's a great service to the at-large user community. Next, I'll try and figure out how to make a donation.

Thanks

Hello Fellow Users-

Thanks for the site. Looking for... not sure, some evil thing that sloooooows my machine on start-up. Since I successfully removed vundo with your help, I'm sure that I can mine the data here and find something to help.

Thanks again for the site-

Ken

hi everyone this is a great site thanks!!

I am considered a low tech hillbilly by most of my computer literette friends.

I just wanted to write and say thanks for the removal tool(s) for SpyFalcon. As soon as I saw it I realized it was pure bull----. I knew better than to buy a program that just "showed up" on my computer. Should have known better than to allow others on my computer too. Any way I was able to remove the SpyFalcon program from my computer early on, but that icon in my notification area and the popup message was driving me NUTS. Thanks again for the help, and I'll be sure to mention your site and the removel tool at our next computer group meeting. PCUGSJ(Personal Computer Users Group South Jersey) Ed Musick....

Just wanted to say thanks for your help. This is a great site!

tHIS IS MY FIRSAT TIME BUT IF i GT THE ANSWERS TO MY QUESTIONS AND THEY WORK WITH THE TIPS i GET I WILL BW ON A LOT

Whats up folks. I'm CR new to the place. Hope to talk to everybody before I'm outta here,

Hello everyone, good forums I found on the net... has just signed in.... will have a look at the board... seems intreseting and good guide for new beeies and experts too...