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Software => Computer viruses and spyware => Topic started by: delibrete on October 16, 2009, 10:43:07 PM

Title: Can you explain this?
Post by: delibrete on October 16, 2009, 10:43:07 PM
ok me and my friend were on our computer when suddenly everything just went crazy. Firefox kept reopening itself until i had 124 windows, the taskbar kept opening and closing, i clicked on the start menu and it kept typing (..)..(..)..(..)..(..).. etc. and then it opened firefox and searched that. I noticed that it kept reopening everything else i opened (norton, my computer).

I downloaded the k lite codec pack from  the codec site and plugged the mic into the audio jack. That's all i did before that.

my computer works now but i would like an explanation.
Title: Re: Can you explain this?
Post by: jero12 on October 16, 2009, 11:25:13 PM
it is a virus attack... have you noticed any files missing on your PC?
how's the loading or the progress while you are using it?

monitor carefully your computer. look if there is something very peculiar on your PC after what happened, through that, we may know exactly what happened on it...

all i know or now is that, it is a virus attack.
Title: Re: Can you explain this?
Post by: SuperDave on October 20, 2009, 04:54:26 PM
You should go to this (http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,46313.0.html) link and follow the directions precisely to make sure that your computer is not infected.
Title: Re: Can you explain this?
Post by: harry 48 on October 20, 2009, 05:00:29 PM
it is a virus attack... have you noticed any files missing on your PC?
how's the loading or the progress while you are using it?

monitor carefully your computer. look if there is something very peculiar on your PC after what happened, through that, we may know exactly what happened on it...

all i know or now is that, it is a virus attack.


how do you know ? what makes you think that ? let us all know
Title: Re: Can you explain this?
Post by: BC_Programmer on October 20, 2009, 07:36:16 PM
"Virus attack" is what people call a Virus infection when they don't understand the concepts involved.
Title: Re: Can you explain this?
Post by: Geek-9pm on October 20, 2009, 09:26:12 PM
I think the computer is broken.    ;D
Title: Re: Can you explain this?
Post by: harry 48 on October 21, 2009, 12:28:16 PM
I think the computer is broken.    ;D

great post geek , very helpful to delibrete  ::)
Title: Re: Can you explain this?
Post by: Geek-9pm on October 21, 2009, 01:00:21 PM
great post geek , very helpful to delibrete  ::)

Well, now that we got that far, we can start to eliminate things.
Let's ask the OP to try and boot the system with a bootabel CD. Prfeferable a 'live' Linux, like Knoppix Ubuntu or Puppy.
http://www.knoppix.net/
http://www.ubuntu.com/
http://www.puppylinux.org/
If it fails to boot, we have a hardware problem.
Otherwise, Windows is messed up.  :P

(He needs a working system to load and burn the CD.)