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 May 12 2008, 01:09 AM
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Would love some help with this issue.. very irritating. I can't access my documents, my computer, etc. because it will refresh in about 5 seconds, over and over. 
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May 12 2008, 01:39 AM
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 Bleepin' Cynic Group: BC Advisor Posts: 3,529 Joined: 11-November 06 Member No.: 94,959 |
Have a look in the Event Viewer for any errors at the time you experience this problem.
To open the Event Viewer go to Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Event Viewer. Alternately, go to Start > Run and type in "eventvwr.msc" (without the quotes) and press Enter. Check in all the categories. If you find an error that occurred at the time right-click on it and select properties. Copy the information in the window and post it back here. This will help us diagnose your problem. How To Use the Event Viewer Also, try an online malware scan to run out an infection: Trend Micro HouseCall -------------------- Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
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May 12 2008, 01:39 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 131 Joined: 1-November 07 Member No.: 166,999 |
Please follow these steps to start you out.
1. Download [AVG 8.0 FREE] and [Spybot] From download.com 2. Remove your anti-virus software 3. install AVG and Spybot 4. Update both 5. Scan with both 6. Remove anything that they find If explorer crashes and you cant get to anything: Ctrl+Shift+esc go to file > New task (run...) and type in explorer.exe then enter and it should pop up again. I would also try scans in safemode. I'm sure some other users can help you more but I'm more experienced in working on them myself more then telling other people how to fix the problem so there are a lot of other things I have not included because they would be to hard for me to explain. Good Luck! and post a reply if you need other peoples help If you really cant do much when your in windows boot in safe mode and follow these steps. Safemode A. When you turn on the computer quickly keep tapping F8 untill you hear beeping or see a black screen with options B. Choose Safemode with networking. C: When a yes or no comes up say yes D: When your into safemode start from step one above. [You may not be able to do some things from safemode" This post has been edited by PoweredByGoogle: May 12 2008, 01:42 AM |
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May 12 2008, 04:30 PM
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 Distinguished Member Group: HJT Junior Classmen Posts: 695 Joined: 21-March 08 From: Canada Member No.: 197,892 |
QUOTE Please follow these steps to start you out. 1. Download [AVG 8.0 FREE] and [Spybot] From download.com 2. Remove your anti-virus software 3. install AVG and Spybot 4. Update both 5. Scan with both 6. Remove anything that they find If explorer crashes and you cant get to anything: Ctrl+Shift+esc go to file > New task (run...) and type in explorer.exe then enter and it should pop up again. I would also try scans in safemode. Also you might want to download AVG 7.5 instead. There are many people having trouble using AVG 8.0 including myself. Here's the link: AVG 7.5 Run some online scans: http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/solutions/activescan/ http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/default.asp Regards, Extremeboy -------------------- With Regards,
Extremeboy There are places in us that have no limitations. |
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May 12 2008, 06:55 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 18 Joined: 12-May 08 Member No.: 208,409 |
QUOTE(Budapest @ May 12 2008, 01:39 AM)  Have a look in the Event Viewer for any errors at the time you experience this problem. To open the Event Viewer go to Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Event Viewer. Alternately, go to Start > Run and type in "eventvwr.msc" (without the quotes) and press Enter. Check in all the categories. If you find an error that occurred at the time right-click on it and select properties. Copy the information in the window and post it back here. This will help us diagnose your problem. How To Use the Event Viewer Also, try an online malware scan to run out an infection: Trend Micro HouseCall Have a few: VirusScan Enterprise: The update failed; see event log.(from EXPERIENCE IP 192.168.0.2 user Drew running VirusScan Ent. 8.0.0 UPD) The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load: i8042prt The McAfee Framework Service service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1 time(s). DCOM got error "This service cannot be started in Safe Mode " attempting to start the service StiSvc with arguments "" in order to run the server: {A1F4E726-8CF1-11D1-BF92-0060081ED811} ****This particular one showed 21 times in the Event Viewer**** The IPSEC Services service depends on the IPSEC driver service which failed to start because of the following error: A device attached to the system is not functioning. The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load: AFD Fips i8042prt intelppm IPSec MRxSmb NaiAvTdi1 NetBIOS NetBT RasAcd Rdbss Tcpip The TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper service depends on the AFD service which failed to start because of the following error: A device attached to the system is not functioning. The DNS Client service depends on the TCP/IP Protocol Driver service which failed to start because of the following error: A device attached to the system is not functioning. The DHCP Client service depends on the NetBios over Tcpip service which failed to start because of the following error: A device attached to the system is not functioning. |
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May 12 2008, 07:04 PM
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Bleepin' Cynic Group: BC Advisor Posts: 3,529 Joined: 11-November 06 Member No.: 94,959 |
Try running the System File Checker (SFC).
How to Use SFC.EXE to Repair System Files Did you try the virus scan? If so, what were the results? -------------------- Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
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May 12 2008, 07:13 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 18 Joined: 12-May 08 Member No.: 208,409 |
Do you want the spybot and AVG results? Or just AVG?
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May 12 2008, 07:23 PM
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Bleepin' Cynic Group: BC Advisor Posts: 3,529 Joined: 11-November 06 Member No.: 94,959 |
Both if you have them.
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May 12 2008, 07:30 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 18 Joined: 12-May 08 Member No.: 208,409 |
AVG won't work. I try to scan but it just finishes and says Error: 1
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May 12 2008, 07:34 PM
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Bleepin' Cynic Group: BC Advisor Posts: 3,529 Joined: 11-November 06 Member No.: 94,959 |
Try the online scan I recommended earlier.
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May 12 2008, 08:01 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 18 Joined: 12-May 08 Member No.: 208,409 |
I did a Panda online scan and it detected this:
http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/sec...x?idvirus=82040 The online scanner you linked, the Trend Micro HouseCall detected two Hack Tools, but it didn't let me save. I removed them though. Spybot: Microsoft.WindowsSecurityCenter.AntiVirusOverride: [SBI $3604910C] Settings (Registry change, fixed) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center\AntiVirusOverride Microsoft.WindowsSecurityCenter.FirewallOverride: [SBI $0C94D702] Settings (Registry change, fixed) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center\FirewallOverride Microsoft.WindowsSecurityCenter_disabled: [SBI $2E20C9A9] Settings (Registry change, fixed) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\wscsvc\Start AdRevolver: Tracking cookie (Opera 7+: Drew) (Cookie, fixed) AdRevolver: Tracking cookie (Opera 7+: Drew) (Cookie, fixed) AdRevolver: Tracking cookie (Opera 7+: Drew) (Cookie, fixed) AdRevolver: Tracking cookie (Opera 7+: Drew) (Cookie, fixed) AdRevolver: Tracking cookie (Opera 7+: Drew) (Cookie, fixed) AdRevolver: Tracking cookie (Opera 7+: Drew) (Cookie, fixed) HitsLink: Tracking cookie (Opera 7+: Drew) (Cookie, fixed) AdRevolver: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) AdRevolver: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) AdRevolver: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) AdRevolver: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) AdRevolver: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) AdRevolver: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) MediaPlex: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) CasaleMedia: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) CasaleMedia: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) CasaleMedia: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) CasaleMedia: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) CasaleMedia: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) DoubleClick: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) FastClick: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) FastClick: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) FastClick: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) FastClick: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) MediaPlex: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) Statcounter: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) Zedo: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) Zedo: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) Zedo: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) Zedo: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) Zedo: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) AdRevolver: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) AdRevolver: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) AdRevolver: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) AdRevolver: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) AdRevolver: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) AdRevolver: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, fixed) --- Spybot - Search & Destroy version: 1.5.2 (build: 20080128) --- 2008-01-28 blindman.exe (1.0.0.7) 2008-01-28 SDDelFile.exe (1.0.2.4) 2008-01-28 SDMain.exe (1.0.0.5) 2007-10-07 SDShred.exe (1.0.1.2) 2008-01-28 SDUpdate.exe (1.0.8.8) 2008-01-28 SDWinSec.exe (1.0.0.11) 2008-01-28 SpybotSD.exe (1.5.2.20) 2008-01-28 TeaTimer.exe (1.5.2.16) 2008-05-12 unins000.exe (51.49.0.0) 2008-01-28 Update.exe (1.4.0.6) 2008-01-28 advcheck.dll (1.5.4.5) 2007-04-02 aports.dll (2.1.0.0) 2007-11-17 DelZip179.dll (1.79.7.4) 2008-01-28 SDFiles.dll (1.5.1.19) 2008-01-28 SDHelper.dll (1.5.0.11) 2008-01-28 Tools.dll (2.1.3.3) 2008-04-16 Includes\Adware.sbi (*) 2008-05-07 Includes\AdwareC.sbi (*) 2008-05-07 Includes\Cookies.sbi (*) 2007-12-26 Includes\Dialer.sbi (*) 2008-05-07 Includes\DialerC.sbi (*) 2008-05-07 Includes\HeavyDuty.sbi (*) 2008-04-30 Includes\Hijackers.sbi (*) 2008-05-07 Includes\HijackersC.sbi (*) 2008-04-30 Includes\Keyloggers.sbi (*) 2008-05-07 Includes\KeyloggersC.sbi (*) 2004-11-29 Includes\LSP.sbi (*) 2008-04-22 Includes\Malware.sbi (*) 2008-05-07 Includes\MalwareC.sbi (*) 2008-03-26 Includes\PUPS.sbi (*) 2008-05-07 Includes\PUPSC.sbi (*) 2008-05-07 Includes\Revision.sbi (*) 2008-01-09 Includes\Security.sbi (*) 2008-05-07 Includes\SecurityC.sbi (*) 2008-04-16 Includes\Spybots.sbi (*) 2008-05-07 Includes\SpybotsC.sbi (*) 2008-04-16 Includes\Spyware.sbi (*) 2008-05-07 Includes\SpywareC.sbi (*) 2007-11-06 Includes\Tracks.uti 2008-04-30 Includes\Trojans.sbi (*) 2008-05-07 Includes\TrojansC.sbi (*) 2008-03-04 Plugins\Chai.dll 2008-03-05 Plugins\Fennel.dll 2008-02-26 Plugins\Mate.dll 2007-12-24 Plugins\TCPIPAddress.dll |
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May 12 2008, 08:15 PM
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Bleepin' Cynic Group: BC Advisor Posts: 3,529 Joined: 11-November 06 Member No.: 94,959 |
Is your computer running better now after the scans or do you still have the same problems?
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May 12 2008, 08:19 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 18 Joined: 12-May 08 Member No.: 208,409 |
QUOTE(Budapest @ May 12 2008, 08:15 PM) Is your computer running better now after the scans or do you still have the same problems? Same problem still. :/ |
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May 12 2008, 08:27 PM
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Bleepin' Cynic Group: BC Advisor Posts: 3,529 Joined: 11-November 06 Member No.: 94,959 |
Try running SmitFraudFix as described here.
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May 12 2008, 08:30 PM
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Distinguished Member Group: HJT Junior Classmen Posts: 695 Joined: 21-March 08 From: Canada Member No.: 197,892 |
Still the same promblem eh... that's strange...
Why couldn't you scan with AVG 7.5? Extremeboy -------------------- With Regards,
Extremeboy There are places in us that have no limitations. |
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