I need to know, as a new user, if I can install a
firewall via free download when already using XP
firewall.  Does one contradict the other?  Also any
recommendtions as to a quality firewall free, to down

Puter says trojanhorse found.I run virus scanner and
remove it. Still get screen saying trojan found. Says
this evry few minutes. Any way to stop this?

A friend has either a virus or insidious malware in his
PC (XP Home). It has changed his home page in IE to
gibberish (something like 56%60%67%64%....). If you
change the home page it soon reverts again to the

I let a friend play with my comp. and now all of my desktop is gone. I don't have any Icons or even the start bar at the bottom of the screen. I can get to the web using a guest account but can't access my person stuff. Some please help I am desperate

anyone explaint this? i used windows help but it
didn't clear anything up for me.
Event Type:    Failure Audit
Event Source:    Security

G'day all
My F-I-L (father-in-law)  recently dropped his PC over for some well needed maintenance. Unfortunately, the machine was pretty badly infected with a myriad of trojans, worms, virus', malware..... everything you could imagine that has done the rounds in the last 2 years, ...

About two weeks ago, my old computer (600MHZ P3, 640M RAM,
Updated from 98SE to XP Pro 2 years ago) began to shut
down while booting and the system reached the Windows XP
logo.  At the time, I always updated the Windows, Office,

This is in my systray and I can't figure out how it got
there nor how to get rid of it.  
Any help you could offer to remove it would be
appreciated.

I recently upgraded from windows me to xp. Yesterday for
some reason my system stopped functioning. So i tried
downloading a new installation , but my system stops
functioning at installing windows. Can anyone tell me

I just received this machine for a friend. It has Windows
XP Professional.  It is also carring the Gaobot Virus.
I'm trying to find out how to get ride of this virus.  I
have Norton 2004 which I used to scan the machine but it

I can log on via the landline with my computer, sometimes I have to completely shut my system down 2-3 times before internet will come up..  Basically the same thing happens when I go to shut down, except it wont close out and the computer freezes and I have to physically power ...

Hello I had Linux on a separate HD than my Windows XP installation, but I
removed the Linux installation.  The MBR keeps telling it to load Grub (the
boot loader that Linux uses), but now I want to put the Windows XP
information back into the MBR w/o reformatting my system, or using ...

i want to change the name of the Guest account.  The User
Accounts window unfortunately does not provide a way to
change that.  Any idea how?  thanks

Working on a laptop for a friend, and she had multiple user accounts setup
and wanted me to delete all but hers.
When i go into User accounts in the control panel it opens up a blank window
with a home, back and forward buttons but that's it.

My laptop got infected with the sasser virus and I cannot
access the needed security and antivirus programs on the
net.  I have used my home computer to down load the
security program on to a disk.  How (where) do I install