windows update!!

Is anyone else getting any problems with windows update?
In the last couple of weeks I have been receiving the usual update notifications but its seems to be the same patch it wants me to download everytime and im getting quite concerned about this, because according to my instalation history, it has been downloaded about 5 times and still keeps saying i need it. Is it possibly it just reminding me all the time or is this a big problem? the patch is the newest security one Q823559 its there in my properties of add/remove progs and the installation history says it was successfull so im beat lol any help would be very much appreciated.

 

Welcome to WindowBBS coolwaters!

See this thread.

 

thankyou!

Thanks very much and for your help i will try that, im also very happy about the info about getting the ME defrag which makes a big difference its like ten times faster and done it fully.

Well since im here i have a worse problem there is a trojan in my system and it seems to be growing I ran mcafee to get rid, its said it deleted it, then it came back, i ram my AVG several times and it said it was healing it but it still keeps coming back!

It is called bridge.exe avg calls it trojan 4d or something it satrted off as just bridge.exe but now there is bridge[1].exe, bridge[2].exe and bridge[3].exe everytime i come back on an connect my avg background scanner keeps popping up with this, does anyone know how i can get rid of this its driving me mad lol.

 

Download, install and immediately update Spybot and Ad-aware. Links are in my signature. Run Spybot twice, deleting all it finds. Then run Ad-aware and delete all it finds. Open my Computer, right click C: and choose properties then disk cleanup. Check all boxes and click ok. When done, reboot. Download HijackThis from here, unzip to a permanent folder and open. Click scan then save log. Once saved it will open in notepad. Click edit>select all, edit again>copy. Paste the results here. Don't fix anything with it yet! Someone experienced with the logs will tell you what/how to fix.

 

Thankyou i will keep that in mind incase it happens again as i had done search this morning on it and found a program which seems to have completely got rid of them its called spyware sweeper and i would recomend it to anyone you get a choice of a pay version or free version and it also stays scanning in the background to protect you from spyware whilst browsing, i had already had ad-aware 6.0 but that didnt help it gets rid of some but wasnt finding it. I think this place is great and will use this place alot and help other peeps with probs too.
Thanks very much
regards
cooly

 

the addy incase someone needs it

oops now im misleading youz sorry this is the addy lol

http://www.webroot.com/wb/products/spysweeper/index.php

 

Well to each his own

SpyBot and Adaware are the best and most common and free to boot.

pest patrol takes third place but is way far behind

even further down the line is spywaresweeper.
and I doubt it has taken care of the ever evolving bridge.dll or sometimes seen as a run item

Bridge X rundll32.exe ...Bridge.dll Flingstone.com browser hijacker

 

I noticed there is another spyware sweeper that you may be on about this one is actually spy sweeper and its really good and i have done a full search for this bridge.dll and not a trace of it is on my computer but thanks very much anyway for your help and i will keep the other ones in mind for when another problem occurs.

Regards

Cooly

 

No, I am talking about webroot's spysweeper

Take a look at an impartial website since you doubt me
http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=11756

Which spyware detection/removal program is your favorite?
Ad-aware (free, plus, or pro) [ 80 ] [22.66%]
Spybot Search & Destroy [ 255 ] [72.24%]
Spycop [ 0 ] [0.00%]
Aluria Spyware Eliminator [ 4 ] [1.13%]
X-Cleaner (free or deluxe) [ 2 ] [0.57%]
PestPatrol [ 6 ] [1.70%]
Spysweeper [ 6 ] [1.70%]
Spysubtract [ 0 ] [0.00%]
Raytown Anti-Keylogger [ 0 ] [0.00%]

 

lol

never doubted you m8 but suppose they are all good in different kinds of ways cos you will know they all work differentlly cos they must as others find different stuff that the other ones dont if i had enough space i would run them all lol my pc is old with limited resourses so i have to chop and change alot uninstalling stuff its only a 133mhz pentium with 32mb ram and 2gb hard drive but its a really good working pc ill get a new 1 eventually but this 1 does fine justnow
take care
cooly

 

well i ran that spybot and i must say it is the best i cant beleive how good it is I should of took your advise in the first place lol its really good the way it does the scan in places others dont and i spotted loads of things that i didnt even know was on my computer
thanks again
Cooly

 

Yes, Spybot is very good, thanks for posting back. It is a shame you pay for Spysweeper, and Spybot is for free.

 

no probs I always reply this place is a realy good aid to my learning too im glad i found it

 

I seem to remember reading that SpySweeper costs nothing to download, but then when you run it, finds all sorts of baddies, which SS will not remove them until you buy the pay version. Even worse, some of the baddies found were not necessarily on the PC. Maybe my memory is going.