Lately, I've had an invasion of spyware and all the relatives of it on my computer. Most of it has been cleaned off except for a few things that seem to keep popping up whenever I do a scan which is like once every two days. Anyway, this past week, some programs won't stay open for longer than a minute, and the only thing that it could be is all this recent spyware crap, either something that's still hidden on here or something that's permanently damaged my pc. The two programs that won't stay open for long is AOL Instant Messenger and Itunes. I'm sure there's more, but those are the two I use regularly. They don't give an error message or anything, they just suddenly disappear, the icon stays on the taskbar until I move my cursor over it, then it disappears too. If anyone knows about this problem or a similar one, please help.
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possible spyware issue
- Thread starter jrhalfo
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Download HiJackThis:
run it and paste the LOG at: for an online analisys...
also recommended you download, SpyBot S&D, AdAware, and Ewido and do scans in SafeMode, System Restore turned off, all Temp files cleaned from the OS (TEMP and Temporary InternetFiles folders)...
good hunting...
Ben
"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
run it and paste the LOG at: for an online analisys...
also recommended you download, SpyBot S&D, AdAware, and Ewido and do scans in SafeMode, System Restore turned off, all Temp files cleaned from the OS (TEMP and Temporary InternetFiles folders)...
good hunting...
Ben
"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
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