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Old 23-06-2009, 01:27 PM
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Exclamation I'm having a few problems.
One, I'm being redirected to a number of websites when clicking on links from search engines.

Two, every other time I click a link a pop-up comes up (and yes pop-up blocker is on.)

Three, Alot of the programs I attempt to run do not show up or even register on the processes list.

Four, Some login attempts do not work the first time around.

Five, if I try to down load anything the links do not work.

Six, Internet explorer keeps popping up on the process list and is not showing up as a window and is playing audio ads or doing some other weird stuff.

I really need help I'm not sure what to do because everytime I try and correct something another problem arises.

I guess you may want to check this out too.

http://www.d-a-l.com/hardware-scanne...740da31fbb2c8e
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Old 23-06-2009, 03:35 PM
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Re: I'm having a few problems.
Sounds like your machine is totally infested with malware. I recommend you see our malware removal experts and have your computer analyzed, and hopefully cleaned before doing anything else. Follow the D-A-L HijackThis Procedures for log preparation and posting in the appropriate forum. When clear, please come back here and let us know how it is going.
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Re: I'm having a few problems.
Yup , more a plague than an infestation . Plenty of malware cleaners out there but the best I've used so far is Malwarebytes Anti Malware , here's a download link to the freeware version :


Cleans almost anything - took a rootkit virus off my pc that eset nod32 couldn't remove .

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Re: I'm having a few problems.
Please do not offer malware removal advice after a user has been referred to Malware Removal.
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Re: I'm having a few problems.
Well the problem was solved at a price, my system automatically went into system restore so its at all the factory defaults.
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Re: I'm having a few problems.
Systems just don't automatically reinstall windows. You have to press a button when the computer starts and probably go through a wizard to start the process. They wouldn't dare make it automatic because of the liability. Just yesterday I had to restore a compaq laptop from a system recovery partition and not only did I have to hit a specific key at just the right time but I had to go through several steps just to start the restore. Even then the restore only wiped off the programs and reinstalled windows but it didn't touch the user's documents.

I could just see the manufacturer getting sued because a business computer just reinstalled itself deleting thousands of dollars (or more) worth of priceless data. Does that make sense?
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Re: I'm having a few problems.
Not the first time I've seen it happen.

Never followed it up but one could assume a BIOS setting to boot the Recovery Partition when no other boot device is found.
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Re: I'm having a few problems.
But wouldn't the user still have to tell it to reinstall even if it automatically booted into the recovery partition?
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Old 24-06-2009, 04:22 AM
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Re: I'm having a few problems.
No.

Do not know the specifics but some laptop BIOS are set to reinstall the factory by default of any other option to boot.
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Re: I'm having a few problems.
You have to remember there are millions of "off-the-shelf" computers in production lines, cash registers, and industrial applications. They do the same thing, day in and day out, 365 days of the year. Almost no data is stored locally. Downtime means loss revenue, and most IT departments are not lucky enough to have ready spares to swap in. So they hold down the necessary keys, say the magic word, cross-fingers and re-image the drive, hopefully back into being a cash register again. About the only thing the PC knows to do is fetch it's next set of instructions from the server, the user logs in and they are back in production.

In some unattended scenarios (unmanned locations) "watchdog" applications (that may include hardware components) may automatically re-image a computer after a set period of inactivity.

My point is, the capability is there - why and how it gets triggered is the issue.
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