HELP ME YOU BUGGERHEADS!!!!

Please.

I think you're meant to keep your city gates shut and look the gift horse in the mouth, or something!

Those popups should be ignored, Mo. They're just trying to get you to download something which is usually spyware. As long as you've got a decent antivirus and preferably a spyware scanner too, you should be safe.

Unless the popups are coming from your antivirus program, in which case dump your PC out of the window and run away screaming

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Originally posted by PeterCat:
Those popups should be ignored, Mo. They're just trying to get you to download something which is usually spyware. As long as you've got a decent antivirus and preferably a spyware scanner too, you should be safe.

That is a very reasonable and generous response to being called a buggerhead, tbh!

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Originally posted by PeterCat:
Those popups should be ignored, Mo. They're just trying to get you to download something which is usually spyware. As long as you've got a decent antivirus and preferably a spyware scanner too, you should be safe.

Whoops, so I've just fallen for the oldest trick in the book then or something?

sometimes I really really hate computers.

I'm running a scan now but I'm still getting urgent pop-up type things going on.

Bastards. The dayshift posters are much nicer than you lot.

turn on pop up blocker ?

Fine then...if this thing buggers my computer and I cant get back on tomorrow then you'll be sorry!

Er actually...was this your plan in the first place???

Sneaky!

are you on the net when its saying this ?

Do you get these popup thingies when your're on particular internet pages or just when you're at your computer, generally?

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Originally posted by MoFo:
HELP ME YOU BUGGERHEADS!!!!

Don't be so angry! Most peeps have gone to beddy-byes!

Sorry my computer just crashed again!

And no its not when I am on any particular site (is this a tactful way of asking me if I look up dodgy porn? )

And ooooh I'm not cross, its just the way I get on - I just havent found an appropriate 'tongue in cheek' smiley to convey that yet.

I have to go to bed now...please please please anyone that knows whats going on give me IDIOT PROOF instructions how to sort this for the morning. Proper idiot proof!

Ta in advance hopefully xxx

Have you tried kicking it?

No, it doesn't just happen on dodgy porn pages. Some sites are "taken over" by other sites and up pop these "warnings" suggesting you "click here" to fix your puter.

But this doesn't sound like what is happening to you, especially if your computer has just crashed as well.

It sounds like it is your own system which is giving these warnings, but try and make sure whether it IS your system, and not just a popup thingy. Keep off the internet for a while and see if these warnings still come up.

If they do, then see if the warning gives you a name for this trojan, make a note of it, and then search the web for it. There are reputable sites which could give you instructions for getting rid of it.

Press ctrl and f4.

As someone suggested check online for a repair/removal of the trojan if you know the name of it. Apart from using Norton as anti virus and firewall I also throughout the day clean up the PC by using CCleaner and Spybot and regularly run Disc CleanUp and Disc Defragmenter. Hope you get it sorted as I know they can be a pain

morning caigy, yellow rose, don't you ever sleep or have you just got up?

When i get one i close all windows and run a scan with my AVG Free. It usually gets rid of it.

A trojan horse virus is something that installs itself on your computer, usually from a webpage you've visited or by downloading and running a program that has been infected.

Because of firewalls and NAT routers, programs on the internet can't get into your computer. However, your computer can make connections out through firewalls and NAT routers, which is what your web browser does.

Trojan horse viruses are bad because they connect from your computer like a browser to somewhere on the internet to do bad things, like upload your webpage passwords file (like for hotmail, yahoo, banking sites) or use your computer to send viruses around.

What to do: First unplug your computer from the internet. Next, go on to another computer and download some anti-virus software from a reputable place. Here's one: http://free.avg.com Create a CD with the downloaded program on it. This is important as the virus may try to infect the anti-virus program too. Run the anti-virus program from the CD and hopefully it will kill the virus.

There's more to it than that as ideally you should boot the PC up from a bootable CD so that the virus program is not started automatically when the PC starts up from the hard drive but that might be enough up there.

Once you're sure you've got rid of it, change all your passwords.

If you have one of them pop ups you cannot close by clicking the |X to get rid of it cos it keeps saying 'if you close you'll break the pc' or some other such rubbish then you need to turn the pc off at the back of the tower and then turn on again...when you go back on it'll be gone.

We had one of them yesterday (From FBook)

Cheers!

If you are still struggling, I recommend downloading Ad-Aware Personal, Spybot Search & Destroy and the AVG software Daniel J suggested. All are free so install and run them - they should pick up the worm and let you destroy it. If that doesn't work, post again and I'll give you some more detailed help.

Good luck!

http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php

http://www.safer-networking.or.../spybotsd/index.html

I thought this was about condoms, and was going to say yes trojans can be dangerous if stretched and then twanged off the wang.