TwistedMetal

Welcome to the Forums! It's totally safe to "Run Cleaner". CCleaner won't delete any important files, such as Windows files, MS Office files, and so on.

The Windows Update ActiveX.

Have you tried deleting it with HiJackThis? It will be an entry or 2 in O16.

Well, I can say this. Them pics really are IE 7. It was taken at a conference.

Sorry to hear about your loss. You need to bury it in your background and give it a nice little funeral. That is the least it deserves...

I fixed the problem in winapp2.ini too...

Use avast! Home Edition you won't regard it...

I ran it with the latest version of ZoneAlarm Free Edition and everything was fine.

For normal computer usage, everything checks out good.

Na, I took them all down. I got tired of running sites, I ran like 3 of them at once. It was a big pain...

Yes, I will say this Forum does need some work. But I am not an admin or have ftp access to customize the Forum. It wouldn't be hard to do, I have done it before to my own forums.

Hehe, Bavaria found it. CCleaner has 1729 members. We get an average of 5-10 members a day...

Hit F8 before the loading screen loads. Does Safe Mode work.

It's hidden on the forums, try to find it...

Yea, incase your computer fries or something. Just travel back to the past when it was working again.

I know it's a problem with Windows temp, it probably removes a useless text file and makes you reinstall it.

I'm not saying this is 100% for sure or not. But, could be adware/spyware...

Windows > Windows Explorer > Recent Documents

US-CERT has received reports of an email message circulating purporting to be a Microsoft Security Bulletin. The email directs the user to download and install an executable that is supposed to be a cumulative patch. Through the use of social engineering that attacker is hoping to trick the user into thinking they will be installing a cumulative patch when in fact they are installing a version of SDBot, a commonly used Trojan horse. This variant of SDBot is part of a family of backdoor Trojan horse programs commonly controlled remotely by an attacker via Internet Relay Chat (IRC). Some variants of SDBot may not be detected by anti-virus applications. In 2003, a similar email message masquerading as a Microsoft Security Bulletin was circulated via email. Users that clicked on the link in this email message were infected with the Swen mass-mailing worm. US-CERT recommends: * Users do not follow unsolicited web links received in email messages. * Users should manually type in the URL when attempting to go to the web sites recommended in an email. * Users install anti-virus software, and keep its virus signature files up-to-date.

Cap, nice of you to notice your sig. It's been there for about 4 days now... The ref number with the highest number of hits is the winner. You will be notified by email.

Unlocker Maybe this can solve some people's problems...

No, it just means that your Windows didn't have some updated system files required for programs.

Norton Antivirus 2006 is codenamed Chaka ET1 (enhanced testing) build 30a. This information is top secret and has not been released to anyone yet. Chaka ET1, build 30a is now available for testing on the ?Chaka Builds? page. Chaka ET1 is a pre-Beta build, and there may be a few issues with the product during this stage of testing. Installing this build will remove previous versions of Norton AntiVirus and Norton Internet Security. If you do not have the CD of your licensed copy of these products, do not install this build. This build will expire when ET1 testing is complete. This is a trial version of Norton Antivirus 2006 (Chaka) which means there is an expiration date!

I noticed it this on my Windows ME computer. It gets to 80% and my computer is nonresponsive, but if I wait a min or 2. It finishes and everything is fine...