I would give you karma but I have to go check out that site and thanks.

I would give you karma, but did you check the processes running in your OS to look for anything suspicious?

Also, check the startup tab in msconfig.

LOL

Ok listen up:

Press ctrl+alt+del. Open task manager. Go to the "processes" tab. Look for anything suspicious there, eg. a process that uses too much of your CPU like 20 or more %. Note that the "System Idle Process" doesnt use any %. Just ignore this.

Anything that uses too much of your CPU, and you dont know what it is, try to find it (Windows Search), and scan it with an Antivirus prog.

OS means Operating System. Sorry but almost everyone knows that...

Now another important thing you should do, is to open msconfig to look for suspicious programms (potential viruses) that may be running at the start of Windows. Windows by default has many programms running at startup.

How to:

Click "Start" at left bottom side of the taskbar, and open the "Run" window. If you have vista or Win 7 it might be somewhere else. What OS do you have?

Once you open it, type "msconfig" inside the box (without the "). This will open msconfig. Go to the "Startup" tab.

Look for any programms seem suspicious to you, or you simply dont know what exactly they are doing.

Note that there might be something important there, so you should not haste to disable anything you dont know what it is. If you can make a post with a list of anything there is in your Startup, in msconfig, I would be happy to tell you which ones to disable (or leave enabled).

Questions?

I would give you karma, but I am actually thinking of giving +1 karma to IrationalFear, for creating this awesome forum post.

Then again its his own rules not to give karma....

LOL Shiro

What if I had a -  ?

I would give you karma, but your profile name is not Lelouch, or at least Lelouch_Sol.

Desktop Window Manager (DWM, previously Desktop Compositing Engine or DCE) is the desktop graphical user interface system in Windows Vista and Windows 7 that enables the Windows Aero graphical user interface and visual theme. The Desktop Window Manager requires video cards supporting DirectX 9.0 and Shader Model 2.0. DWM is not included with Windows Vista Starter edition. It is included with Windows Vista Home Basic edition, but with some aspects of the Windows Aero interface (such as transparent Glass and Flip 3D) disabled. It is also included with Windows Server 2008, but requires the "Desktop Experience" feature and compatible graphics drivers to be installed.

I copy pasted this text from Wikipedia. People always understimate the power of Google.

I would give you karma, but this is kinda neccessary. Except if you dont want much graphics in your Vista Aero themes.

koda0, I would give you karma, but you should also use spybot search and destroy as you have a FALSE av

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/, and one of the favourite tricks of these false av's is a HIDDEN task in task manager and hidden startup run commands,

the reason I suggest spybot is that I have had several similar problems with customer's computers, and the false av's remained in the computer untill I used spybot on the computer.

harpo

I would give you karma, but you forgot. and I was only submerged for 3 days, but did not see anything work posting until now.

harpo

@ http://www.safer-networking.org/en/home/index.html

Thanks !

I would give you karma but I am busy fighting against people stealing my saved game files for Soase and replacing with a file such as; the few seconds before getting owned by a large army.

Dang it, if only I'd gotten here when I could have helped. I would give you karma but my English essay on Star Wars (yes, I'm serious) prevented me.

I would give you karma but you were hating on the Sova in corrupt a wish.

-Exile(\/)

I would give you Karma but the Sova is almost a full combat ship.  A fleet unto itself.

-Exile(\/)