Computer Help Please.... / Social // Drowned In Sound

computer help please....

commandercool [Edit] [Delete] 13 replies 12:22, 9 August '05

i think my home computer has some sort of virus or something. when i load it up, as soon as windows starts everything runs really slow. when i pressed ctrl+alt+del it said there were loads of programs called <unknown > running and then it comes up with loads of error messages.

because of this, i can't open my virus checker or anything else for that matter.

anyone got any advice?

View Nested Linear

Re: computer help please....

try starting it up in 'safe mode'. It only loads the neccessary stuff and you should be able to do more to get rid

marcofella | 9 Aug '05, 12:24 | X
- Re: computer help please....
  
  how do i do that?
  
  sorry i'm so stupid when it comes to computers...
  
  commandercool @marcofella | 9 Aug '05, 12:25 | X
  - Re: computer help please....
    
    1. restart the computer
    2. wait till just before it says 'starting windows' (or similar)
    3. press either 'F8' or 'CTRL' loads of times and eventually it will give you a menu of options.
    
    marcofella @commandercool | 9 Aug '05, 12:29 | X
  - Re: computer help please....
    
    I can never renember how to get into safe mode but turn on your computer and then bash all the F keys normaly does the trick and will bring up the safe mode options.
    
    gay4conoroberst @commandercool | 9 Aug '05, 12:32 | X
- Re: computer help please....
  
  I never bother trying to rescue my computer when it starts fucking up.Formatting the drive and reinstalling Windows does the trick(although a pain in the arse)
  
  cosmik_debris @marcofella | 9 Aug '05, 12:25 | X
  - Re: computer help please....
    
    i have loads of stuff on there i want to rescue, such as pictures, music, my cv etc that's not backed up, so formatting is last resort for me i'm afraid
    
    commandercool @cosmik_debris | 9 Aug '05, 12:27 | X
    - Re: computer help please....
      
      I take it you've tried shouting at it!?
      
      sadpunk @commandercool | 9 Aug '05, 12:29 | X
      - Re: computer help please....
        
        Yeah i see what you mean.It is easier for me to just wipe the drive because i have two hard drives and just copy all essential files over to the second drive before format.
        
        cosmik_debris @sadpunk | 9 Aug '05, 12:32 | X
Re: computer help please....

If you havent already go to download.com and get:

AVG anti virus
Zonealarm Firewall
Ad-aware
and spybot

Together they sort most things out and are all free.

gay4conoroberst | 9 Aug '05, 12:30 | X
- Re: computer help please....
  
  think i'll have to do that if i manage to get this sorted out...
  
  commandercool @gay4conoroberst | 9 Aug '05, 12:31 | X
  - Re: computer help please....
    
    As Marco says, boot it up in safe mode. You should then be able to back up the files you want to save to CD or floppy - then you can re-install windows if it comes to it
    
    Miserabli @commandercool | 9 Aug '05, 12:35 | X
  - Re: computer help please....
    
    Also Spywareblaster does a fair job of preventing spyware.Use it with Spybot/Adaware which removes existing spyware.
    
    cosmik_debris @commandercool | 9 Aug '05, 12:35 | X
    - Re: computer help please....
      
      thanks everyone, i'll take your advice and see if i can sort it out sometime this week.
      
      :)
      
      commandercool @cosmik_debris | 9 Aug '05, 12:37 | X

View Nested Linear

« Back to Social

Boards