Recently my computer started acting up. It often seems to be doing something when simply sitting idle. Also, when I click on search results (usually from google) i get taken to advertisements for various products and never to the sites I actually click on. Also, when i ctl+alt+delete, there is no explorer or systray. I don't know if this is related, but it began about the same time. Ive run antivirus (which turned up and deleted infected files) and ad-aware and nothing has remedied my situation. any ideas???
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What Anti Virus and spyware are you running, what OS?
If you haven't got it, get Avast in it. I had the same issue on a computer I was tinkering on. It loaded 14 pages in one minute, and I did nothing but set and watch it. I had not even opened a web page. It just took off on its own. It was all ad junk.
Get Avast Home (its free) antivirus in it, Adaware, Spybot, CrapCleaner(CCleaner) . Spybot and Adaware work good together, tag teaming the spyware and adware. I had another AV program in the computer that did not do the job. Avast busted up the Trojans I had and broke the computer of loading pages by its self.
You can grab all these which are freeware, at
www.filehippo.com .
