I know that some trojans present themselves as "spoolsv.exe."  My firewall
very frequently asks if I want "spoolsv.exe" to access the internet.  If this
is used to spool things out to the printer, is it supposed to access the
internet?

My husband's computer got some kind of virus/spyware/malware that really
messed it up. Someone else was "helping" earlier and he changed something in
the Local Services because it was different from the defaults defined in the
Help. Unfortunately he didn't keep the notes he made, ...

I have a bit of a problem that I was hoping someone would help me with.  I
believe that I may have a virus on my machine but none of the top virus
protectors including Norton, BitDefender or even Avast have been able to
locate it.  Here's what happens.  I noticed about a week ago ...

Hi - as per subject, I have a client who runs WinXP Pro SP2 with all the
latest Windows Update patches as of last week - the OS is a new(ish)
installation on new(ish) hardware. Standalone, not part of a domain.
Recently, his Search feature has been wigging out. It will begin to run ...

I recently worked on a computer whose owner reported browser hijacking
symptoms and high phone bills.  Spybot Search and Destroy (latest update)
found nothing.  NIS 2005 (latest definitions) found the Safesearch “threat”,
but was unable to remove it and the manual removal ...

My friend has a win98SE pc currently without internet connection.  I'm going
to install a DUN VPN connection.  I'd like to burn spy sweeper, spy bot and
ad aware and their updates to a cd, then
run these programs before making the DUN connection.  Can I burn the updates

I have several people in my company that utilize their laptops both at work
and at home. They would like to have all of their programs, settings, et al
to be the same on both their system login and their network login. Currently
theier computers have seperate usernames and ...

I am having trouble apparantly with activeX.  When I go to start, run and
type services.msc I get a message that my current security settings prohibit
running activeX controls on this page.  Also when I click on mcafee in the
system tray the security center box comes up but its ...

i downloaded norton anitvirus from a  disc and now the spyware won't start up
or even run....whats going on here?

I have an old hard drive that has XP on it that I can't boot up anymore.  
When I explore the drive all my old file folders are there but Windows won't
let me into them since I'm logged in using a different windows account.  I
would like to be able to get to my old files so I can ...

I cannot get my email to lot into my outgoing mail server. I know the
settings are correct, because I use the exact same settings on my work laptop
and they work correctly. At home, I get a connect failure every time. I have
changed network settings, firewall settings and am ...

There are a lot of posts on this subject but most answers refer to viruses
etc but im not sure that this is the case...so here goes.
Im running Xp Pro. ive got maxtor 160GB SATA split into 3 partitions. msi
k7n2 delta ilrs mo/bo. 1024 ram 2500 cpu.overclocked 3200 with SP2

I installed SP-2 and since have had problems with the screen going black for
a few seconds (as many as five or so) with a square white cursor.
I've got an Athalon 1.8 with 738ram.  When I run my security software
updates, this happens more often.  It didn't matter whether I had my ...

Our Windows XP Home machine has recently run into problems. I've used Norton
Internet security, NAV (latest updates), Spybot S&D, etc., and have fixed a
few problems but I still can't get Task Manager or Regedit to work from
either of 2 different administrator accounts (there are ...

Hi Group, can someone please tell me how to get rid of zone alarm in my
registry?it keeps showing up in my msconfig. as zlclient
SOFTWARE\microsoft\currentversion\run i have tried to find it in my reg. but
i can't:(