Over the last 3 weeks, the boot up process sometimes will not finish, and the shut down process as well. Now yesterday, my display properties won't work at all. As soon as I open it, it locks up. Also a new one is Internet Explorer is locking up too. I have performed chkdsk, defrag, virus scans daily with updated definitions, help! I have never experienced problems like this before.

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You are loaded with spybots. Download, update, then run AdAware. The free edition is ok.


On Wednesday, January 28, 2004 at 10:47 pm, LaNae wrote:
>Over the last 3 weeks, the boot up process sometimes will not finish, and the shut
>down process as well. Now yesterday, my display properties won't work at all. As
>soon as I open it, it locks up. Also a new one is Internet Explorer is locking up
>too. I have performed chkdsk, defrag, virus scans daily with updated definitions,
>help! I have never experienced problems like this before.

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Further to that advice, to clean your OS from the spyware, download CWShredder from http://www.spychecker.com/program/cwshredder.html, Spybot from http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=en&page=download and Adaware from http://www.lavasoftusa.com/. Run them while offline and in SAFE boot mode. Delete the red entries that Spybot displays. Reboot. To prevent further infection of spyware adjust the following:- In IE go to Tools, Internet Options, Advanced tab and uncheck Enable Install On Demand for both IE and Other. Then click the Privacy tab, click Advance button. Tick:- Overide automatic cookie handling, Accept First-party Cookies, Block Third-party Cookies, Always allow session cookies. Click Ok, Ok. Finally, download SpywareBlaster and SpywareGuard from http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html, install them and your OS will be spyware proof. You can verify this by running either Spybot or Adaware after an internet session. They will come up with a clean bill of health. Of course you need to frequently look for updates for all of the above mentioned software.


On Wednesday, January 28, 2004 at 10:47 pm, LaNae wrote:
>Over the last 3 weeks, the boot up process sometimes will not finish, and the shut
>down process as well. Now yesterday, my display properties won't work at all. As
>soon as I open it, it locks up. Also a new one is Internet Explorer is locking up
>too. I have performed chkdsk, defrag, virus scans daily with updated definitions,
>help! I have never experienced problems like this before.

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