Eeek Computer Taken Over By Aliens!

[Riley]

Running XP home.

Hubby instists must be virus, McAfee is up to date. Scanned from Mcaffee site (clean) as trying from programme it crashes and reboots again!

I wonder if its the new UPS as the problems seemed to start about then!

 

Cant system restore it says cos of incorrect reboot.

Even have problem with UPS not connected.

 

Any input anyone?

Thanks

 

Happy Christmas all!

Edited December 19, 2005 by Riley

[billy5000]

Hi all

 

hi riley i had an acorp that did nothing but reboot and got rid quick:)

 

what psu have you got i.e 300w-400w etc?

 

also keep the ups out untill its stable again:)

 

check heat of cpu etc if its dusty it may well ceep up and if its hitting 60c then it could be trying to protect itself.

 

sg

Edited December 19, 2005 by billy5000

[paul mc]

Didnt the trojan msblaster do that when you connected to the internet.

Ms balster is an old one so if you are upto date then you should be ok

more info here

http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.mspx

and a fix here

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcen...moval.tool.html

Another problem i had a while ago(dont laugh) which took me ages to work out was my on/off button was partially sticking and causing the pc to shutdown at different points.

thats about as far as my little knowledge goes.;

[Dan]

Running XP home.

Hubby instists must be virus, McAfee is up to date. Scanned from Mcaffee site (clean) as trying from programme it crashes and reboots again!

Happy Christmas all!

 

Hi Sis you done the adware and spybot scans too?

[Riley]

Hi Sis you done the adware and spybot scans too?

Spyware yes: Microsoft antispyware...... sorry havent got adware, where will I find one of those? ( for free!!)

[John S]

Try here for lots of free stuff, ad-aware is one of the more popular downloads

[Riley]

Try here for lots of free stuff, ad-aware is one of the more popular downloads

 

 

Thanks , will do that.

 

Does anyone think re installing windows would help, doesnt it have a repair feature of some sort?

[Guest NickInTheNorth]

Hi Riley

 

Install the following:

 

Spybot S&D: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

 

SwatIt: https://onesecond-128.bit-encryption.net/swatitdownload.html

 

AdAware Is here

 

SpywareBlaster is here

 

I would install and run all the above, one at a time in the order given. When you first run them run the update function in each one. Once they are updated, run the scans.

 

The final package you should run and check for updates on at least a monthly basis, it stops lots of nasty wee critters installing.

 

Hope this helps.