My Comp Is Mest

[Brent]

Well first let me explain a few things my computer has been doing: (1) Whenever I click on IE, my homepage is always changed to something like "Virgin Lovers" or some other porn service page, despite me changing it constantly to my normal homepage. (2) Whenever I click on ANY folder on my computer, my computer either freezes where I have no choice but to restart the computer, or "Explorer" is not responding when I hit control alt delete. (3) My Internet keeps acting up and I have pages that do not load because I'm apparently not connected to the internet, eventhough I have ADSL. (4) I can't Defrag my computer because the Defragging is quite sensitive I guess, and even moving the mouse cancels the defragging.

Those are just some of the things i can think of at the moment. I'll post more if I think of any

Also I have dled Adaware and Spybot search and destroy and have found spyware on my computer.  I click fix it or destroy and I still end up with all the problems stated above.

I have been told to just reformat my computer, but I'm trying to avoid that.  Also my mother doesn't want to fork out money cuz shes pretty cheap so thats why im here posting  ....So any help is appreciated

[Brent]

Oh ya, another problem: Whenever I go to put a cd in my Cd-Rom, the autoplay does not show up, and when i click on the shortcut to the cd-rom my computer then freezes and i have to restart.  I have to restart my computer to be able to play my game.   :-/

[dl65]

Brent....refer to the sticky......and pay particular attention to the part refering to hijackers..........visit the merijn site for info on how to interupt the hijacker log.
You can clean out your machine......but it requires an hour or so to review each log entry .....before you can run the fix. If you cannot figure out which entries to remove ..........post the log here and we can probably help you.

dl65  

[Brent]

ill try that thanx alot  

[Brent]

Ok i got the pics of the lobs....the 3rd one is about 3 quaters of the 2nd one....but with a few more logs

[Raptor]

You should try the other programs such as Adaware 6.0 and Spybot Search & Destroy.

[dl65]

Brent....I have just spent some time looking at your log entries.......I see a lot of items which should be removed.....BUT first.....what operating system are you using? .........What is the computers usual home page?
Why do you have all those tool bars installed ?
What diagnostic tools do you run on the pc .....ie Anti virus , Ad-Aware , SpyBot and the like.
you should have generated the log and then saved it to Note Pad as suggested then I could have checked each entry in detail ....( this would save me several hours of work)
Why don't you open Hijackthis......and regenerate the log........save a copy (NotePad) ......then Email it to me.
My Email address is listed .....then I can review it in detail and send it back to you with the entries which should be removed.

Cheers,
dl65  

[BrentC]

Well, Raptor if you read everything I typed you would notice I have used both the latest version of Adaware and Spybot Search and Destroy.

As for dl65, I know a bit about computers and I do know that I don't need all those toolbars so I took it upon myself to delete them.  I also ran that online virus scanner "Panda" or something and it found 3 infected files which were immediately disinfected. Most of my problems on my computer have gone away for me, but my mom opened up IE this morning and that porn page still came up.  I am using Window 98, and my normal homepage is www.canada.com

I also deleted one of the logs that had the word Paltalk in it because we've deleted this program a while back and it comes back to haunt us every once in a while.

I feel dumb asking this, how do I save the logs to a notpad? I cant highlight them to copy  :-/

[merlin_2]

try this>http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html  shredder? and this>http://gmpservicesinc.com/Articles/hijack.asp

write to me as the website i am trying to post to help you will not display for some reason....

[BrentC]

i already downloaded that.....i just need to know how to save the log list to a notebad.....do i have to type them individually?

[merlin_2]

try this site is broken up so i can post it < www.content watch join them to gether >with this.com/audit/index.php?cid=26;9;0      ok its a fragment website address..this should sort you pc ....or download spysweeper from webroot.com...you can play with logs till the cows come home?

[Raptor]

You want to save the contents of your log to notepad?

I believe HijackThis its logs are allready in Notepad format.

If not, I suggest you press a button labeled 'Save Log' after pressing the 'Scan' button.

[dl65]

Brent......The merjin site is under electronic attach at the present as it appears to be the main site that offers
a solution to the hijacker problem ......thats why I suggested you send the log generated by hijackthis to me .  If you generate the log then click .....save log.....it will be saved in Notepad and you will find it in your documents and settings ....listed as hijack log
send that to me .......but be sure to generate a log of how your machine is now....not the way it was before you deleted some items.

cheers
dl65  

[blade_60us]

    Brent,
I'm not a pro but I had similar problems with my windows ME. I found three files in my windows downloaded program files that had the shock wave icon. All info on them was listed unknown. I deleted them and had no other problems. Hope this helps.