Author Topic: Jittery Computer (Read 313 times)

Kevin14 · « **on:** June 17, 2004, 08:29:10 PM »

I post this here because it's not AH related, so here it goes. This morning I went to use the computer and it's all jittery, the cursor stops moving sometimes and it just feels "laggy" or "jittery". Also, there is a larger than normal number of programs listed in the Control+Alt+Delete menu, and many with abnormal names such as "F9hyh" and "Itzakpr". When I went into to Add/Remove Software in the control panel there are new third-party programs that are for help in searching (definitely not needed). The day before, something changed my homepage and I went to this sight where somehow I got a virus. Norton quaranined this, but I wonder if it really did not? I ran the virus check and there's no problems also. Thanks for the help.

Estes · « **Reply #1 on:** June 17, 2004, 08:34:37 PM »

Quit visiting those porn sites..

Download Ad-aware and spybot search and destroy.. Run both of those, delete everything it shows. Restart your computer, run again, rinse wash and repeat until everything nasty is gone.

Run Norton again, download a firewall, keep that running all the time alongside Norton. And periodically run Ad-aware and spybot to keep that from happening again.

United · « **Reply #2 on:** June 17, 2004, 08:35:17 PM »

Spyware. Get rid of it... fast. There are two very good free spyware removers:

Ad-Aware, http://www.lavasoftusa.com

and,

Spybot, http://www.download.com/3000-8022-10289035.html?part=dl-spybot&subj=dl&tag=button

The browser change is something in the registry keys that will be caught by Ad-Aware, but will not be completely removed. I had that problem and am still trying to figure out how to get rid of it. So far it hasn't done anything to my PC, but I'm not really worrying about it since I have no personnal info on this PC and I'm getting a new one in a few weeks.

Hope this helps!

edit: Agh, estes!!!!!

muckmaw · « **Reply #3 on:** June 17, 2004, 08:39:25 PM »

I would love to meet the salamander that develops and sends these friggin Spyware and Adware programs.

Don't they realize people won't buy their products if you piss em off?

United · « **Reply #4 on:** June 17, 2004, 08:46:01 PM »

Sad thing is that one of the worst (i think the latest worm-hack spyware bug) was created by a 15...? year old kid in his spare time....