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OU-HSV
7/22/2007, 08:15 PM
So I was plinking around online this morning searching for a new Sooner myspace layout for my page. I must have clicked on a bad site at one point in my search. I've had pop ups of "singles in your area" and "rent a car" and all sorts of garbage like that coming up on my screen all day now. My system is dragging and most of the time when I switch web sites a page that I'm not even trying to go to pops up. (not to mention my pop up blocker is on)
Anyways, I tried to defrag and it's not working, so I tried a scandisk and this is what keeps coming up in the middle of it:
"Scandisk has restarted 10 times because windows or another program has been writing this drive. Quitting some running programs may enable scandisk to finish sooner...". You all have been great in helping me w/my computer problems in the past so I thought I'd ask for help once again. I hope I don't have a virus!
TIA

OU-HSV
7/22/2007, 08:29 PM
It gets worse...now I've had a couple Icons download themselves onto my desktop..what the heck is going on?

SleestakSooner
7/22/2007, 09:08 PM
go to www.pchell.com (http://www.pchell.com) and www.kasperski.com (http://www.kasperski.com) will have a good tutorial that should help you clean it all up.

soonerboomer93
7/22/2007, 09:20 PM
Yeah, you got a trojan

what are the names of the icons it is showing now?

OU-HSV
7/22/2007, 11:44 PM
Thanks sleestak I'll check those sites out.

The icon I most recently sent to the recycle bin said "Free trip to the Bahamas"

OU-HSV
7/22/2007, 11:51 PM
Yeah, you got a trojan

what are the names of the icons it is showing now?
Oh, and one of the icons it showed was "win-antivirus 2007". I think by using those sites sleestak gave me I may be able to kick it off my computer.

soonerboomer93
7/22/2007, 11:53 PM
http://www.bullguard.com/forum/10/WinAntivirus-2007_50461.html

soonerboomer93
7/22/2007, 11:54 PM
http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index.php?qid=20070721195440AAWuUJA