and if that doesn't work for you take it to best buy with 50 bucks and tell them you want to know what's wrong with it and how to fix it
I have done that several times and it only works for about a day, sometimes only a few hours.
I don't have fifty bucks to shell out right now...Maybe I should just drop kick it. It will at least make me feel better, right? LOL
lol yeah it would. try DB's idea. my fingers are crossed for you.
How old is it and does it need a cleaning - dust. Vacumm it, use a Q-tip to clean the fan. I just did it an mine seems to run btter. It's almost 3 yrs old and would shut down and not reboot. If you do vacumm it - use the brush with a lite touch.
Good luck
Bat
Is it a Desktop or a Laptop...
I don't know the name of the virus, but Lush probably does.
I have a desk top, Dell, with Windows XP. It was a used, rebuilt job when I got it but seemed to be in excellent shape. I have had it almost two years. I have tried the system restore to an earlier time but it only goes back a few weeks. I tried to set it back to before I got the virus but it doesn't want to go back that far. Being computer stupid, as I am, I am almost at a loss. But I will keep trying. Thanks for all the info.
What is Trojan? Spybot keeps getting rid of it, only to have it show up again the next day...
A trojan is a virus that got launched after a seemingly-harmless program was installed. Get the name of it, ok? I'll look into it. You're not computer stupid, either. You know a lot more about computers than most people, after all the troubleshooting.
Do you still have any warranty left on it ...
How long does it actually stay on for ?
When it shut down does it seem that the power was switched off
when its running can you hear the fan going..
Its far more likely to be a hardware that a software problem
And I wonder how do I find out the name of the virus? It didn't exactly introduce itself...It was more like a billion boxes all popping up at once that, in a nutshell, said SCREW YOU!! LOL
LUSH!?!?!? Do you know the name of it?
So, my spybot is almost finished and I am wondering what I should do next...
It sounds like you clean it up but never remove the registry keys, so the problem self generates the next time you boot it up
If you can identify the virus I can tell you how to remove it Unfortunately system restore is not a heavy duty program I use Go back which will remove a virus
I also use AVG What you have to do is list what virus AVg comes up with Then search the registry and remove all references to that virus.
Another way is to gather up all your installation disk and format the drive and then restore it to when you first purchased the computer. You will loose all documents emails everything
I can't tell you or stress enough the value of a backup, having a removable drive to store and restore all previous date.
might I also add a piece of advice there is a reason I use a mac I do not run system hogging virus software I never use Explorer or outlook email.
I use fire fox a stand alone program and thunderbird stand alone e mail programs It adds a layer of protection and is not inter twined into the operating system like explorer leaving back doors open for virus attacks . Using Mac osx operating system, No windows virus can infect it You might say everbody else uses MS office word and excel MS office for Mac is completely compatible with a Windows computer. I a can work on a word document in a mac save it on a Cd and continue working on it on a windows computer
on a nut shell you virus software is removing part of the virus each time you run it however it is not removing the registry keys that self replicate the virus each time you boot up
those keys have to be removed using reg edit. You also have to turn off any fire walls to run your virus extracting software
If you can identify the virus or spy ware you can pm me and I will try to walk you threw the extraction may be give you a phone number to talk to my guy he is a lot better than me to give you instruction
DB might be right, if it just restarts and doesn't show any messages. It might be overheating.
Okay, so this is what I did last night. First, I made myself a nice drink. Then I sat in front of my computer and tried to stare it down...It didn't look convinced. So, as Rocco said, I turned off the system restore. I ran spybot and AVG. While that was going on, I got kinda bored and so I opened up the control panel. This is the equivalent of placing an easily excited blond in a space ship (that's me!) and leaving her to sit there and ask, What does this button do? I began to uninstall all kinds of programs that I didn't think were necessary to me or my computer. I enlisted the help of my brother who, through messenger, told me what each and every program was and if I could live without it. With his help, I stumbled upon two more buttons: One said something about clean up. The other was a defrag button. I did the clean up and then when I clicked on the defrag button he told me that I can't use the computer until it is done with the defragging. I sat and watched it for a few minutes...1%.....2%....That was taking to long and was about as exciting as watching paint dry so I left it and went to bed. It's kind of like throwing a roast in the crock pot, you just have to trust it to be awesome when you come back. When I woke up this morning it looked normal...I turned the system restore back on and my automatic updates, as well. Now I am playing online to see if I get kicked off...So far, nothing bad has happened and this thing is running so fast I think I will rename it Zippy. LOL Cross your fingers and thank you, EVERYONE, for all of your advice!!
