I received a fake e-mail message and opened the attacment.
After completing a Spyware scan I found that my computer is infected.
Indications are that a known good site may be hijacked. Adware, Spyware and
phishing sites may use the Window hosts file to redirect my brwser to a

Hi, any help would be greatly appreciated, i am in trouble with this.
I have the Smitfraud trojan apparently. My Desktop wallpaper is displaying
blue screen with the following message:
Security warning A fatal error in IE has occured at 0028:C0011E36 in VXD

Can someone please explain why sometimes after logging in, my SQL Server icon
shows a stopped status (red) for several seconds before it starts running
(green)?  More importantly, why does my Norton Antivirus AutoProtect icon
have an "X" through it (disabled) for an extended time ...

I strongly suspect that there are some files in the Prefetch folder that are
loading viruses/spyware onto my PC. I noticed another post that suggested
that the entire contents of the Prefetch folder could be deleted. This seems
a little extreme and I'm concerned that it would ...

I recently recovered an older machine by resetting the drive permissions
temporarily hooked to another machine. Those had been wiped out accidentally
in a "jolly stupid" maneuvere.
While the restored PC runs fine on basic tasks, some will not run. Adobe

I am looking for a comprehensive list stating only what is necessary for
xp start up menu.  I'd like to move some downloaded/installed programs
to an as needed basis and to remove them from every start up.  Thank
you.

My daughter decided to install Bearshare on my computer. After talking to
friends and reading reviews I uninstalled it.
It has left a Folder and file called VVSN in my program files that keeps
trying to access the internet.

I have 2 ipsec certs for two different servers. When I attempt to log into
the second server the Windows XP Pro (sp2) box attempts to negotiate ipsec
for my l2tp connection with the server using the wrong X.509 certificate.  
How do I encourage my WinXP Pro box to use the correct ...

This is my first posting and even though I've done a search I haven't found
an answer to my problem.  I apologize if it's been covered if I've simply
search the wrong keywords.
At any rate, We are currently a Novell site that is "probably" switching to

Is it possible to create a local group policy for a user created account that
uses admin rights?  We have 4 machines in a nursing lab that uses about 20
different programs that are all dos related.  The programs don't work under
user or power user rights so we created a local ...

I keep getting a message from Dell that I need a Processor Compatibility
Patch that adds compatibility with Pentium 4 Processors and multi-processor
enviornments.  It is from Visual Networks Software.  Is there anyway to know
if this is legit.  Do I really need to install this ...

Unfortunately, I ended up with two XP Operating Systems
in the same partition. I was told the only way to correct
that was to reformat the hard drive.  So, using the
Windows XP backup tool, I backed up the entire drive to

A friend's computer has PC Bug Doctor on it. Is this any good? Should I get
an unlock key for it and use it or should I uninstall and stick with AdAware,
SpyBot, etc (the programs I use all the time)??
I have Freedom Firewall on my HP Pavilion 510w (came with it). I haven't

On June 1st, I could not sign into my laptop with my password. During start
up it created a guest account. When I entered my password on my account it
stated that I could not sign on interactively! Any thoughts?

I have two files that I can not remove from my Internet Explorer Favorites.
They adult sites that were probably visited by my teenage son. I have delted
them and emptied trash bin however everytime I pull IE they reappear. What
can I do?