You are pretty badly eaten up with a variety of spyware/malware, browser hijackers, and at least one virus. It should be possible to clean the...
DSL Broadband and a dial tone? I missed that the first time I read your post but ????? Try the following and post the contents of the text...
Yup. Ntuser.dat is the static parts of the registry hive hkey_current_user for that user and ntuser.dat.log is the companion piece that contains...
No problem and welcome to the forum. Can you give a little more information. I'm not sure at this point that I have a feel for exactly what is...
Posting rule #3 - Use a meaningful title. Since you are new I've changed the title for you. Normally the thread would simply be locked. I...
Hi a60wattfish and welcome. Weekends (including holidays) can be sorta slow on the forum so more chance of a good answer tomorrow. As to the...
\system32 No direct way I know of but if your shortcut were to a .reg file that set the flag marking the drive as dirty, chkdsk should run at...
Clean the PC up some and then post a new HJT log. No sense in pointing out things that are there now and need fixing but will be fixed by the...
Check your event logs for errors or warnings that have more detail. If you find one/some, open the event, click the icon below the up/down arrows...
Certainly possible the device could have gone bad - or partly bad. However, you only mention internet connectivity and from what I read about...
Nice piece of work. I like it and it seems easy enough to use. Love to see some other folks (maybe non-networking folks) try it. The top...
Maybe useless to the PC owner but if you have that hosts file entry, clicking that link will take you to a completely different page than clicking...
Pete - I had sorta gathered from various UK-poster's comments that you folks were mostly using either DSL or satellite for high speed. Cable TV...
What OS is he running?
I do and have the install CDs for the other operating systems. Just haven't gotten the deed done to load them - yet.
Yup. If you are going to post a log file from a hijackthis scan, you will need the app. Download from the link in quicklinks (in my...
Glad you found the fix. Thanks for posting back with it. I'd have suspected SP2 myself. Happy to move the thread for you.
Pete - cable is broadband too. Probably more common in the US than DSL too but for the user, mostly a difference of who they pay for the service....
Also, it is okay to use the java-sun product, even though I don't have Netscape, and since the publishers signiture was unsigned, is it safe to...
moco123 - I split this off from an XP-SP2 thread and moved it to the networking section. I think you'll get better results this way. Please do...
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