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Please for the love of god, help me
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I need some brave willing soul to tell me how to kill or dismantle the stupid red ball with the white "x" on its face in my lower left hand task bar. I am losing my mind with the annoying constant reminder. All security updates /settings have been killed off my windows xp., according to help support center. I have cyber defender but won't help me stop this one aggitation. Any all suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much |
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Please for the love of god, help me
For most people, the toolbar on the left-most side of the Taskbar, just
to the right of the Start button, is called the Quick Launch toolbar. Is this the toolbar you are talking about? If so, you can identify the name of the program behind each icon that appears on the Quick Launch toolbar by simply resting your mouse pointer on the icon. 1- What is the name of the program for the red and white icon? 2- What version of Windows do you have (including the service pack)? --- Leonard Grey Errare Humanum Est Security Tips for Everyone, from PC Magazine http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2334856,00.asp Celt9 wrote: Hi , I need some brave willing soul to tell me how to kill or dismantle the stupid red ball with the white "x" on its face in my lower left hand task bar. I am losing my mind with the annoying constant reminder. All security updates /settings have been killed off my windows xp., according to help support center. I have cyber defender but won't help me stop this one aggitation. Any all suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much |
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Follow instructions below to install, uopdate and scan with Malwarebytes and
Spybot Search & Destroy in Safe Mode, or Safe Mode with Networking, of necessary. http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html Spybot Search & Destroy 1.6 is a very good, FREE Anti-Spyware Program. Download, install, update, and immunize your System with it. Then SCAN with it. Update it, and scan your System once a fortnight. http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php Malwarebytes is as the name says, a Malware Remover! For the Free version scroll down their page to either download from Download.com, or Major Geeks.com Download, install, and update. Important Safe Mode If you happen to find a problem that you can’t uninstall / delete, reboot the computer, and go into Safe Mode. To get into Safe mode, tap F8 right at Power On / Startup, and use UP arrow key to get to Safe Mode from list of options, then hit ENTER. RESCAN your computer with your Anti-Virus, Malwarebytes and Spybot S & D while in Safe Mode. If unable to install above Programs in Normal Mode: Sometimes Trojans, Viruses, Malware, etc stop you installing and/or updating Programs to remove them. If that happens, reboot into Safe Mode with Networking, and install, update and scan from there. -- Mad Mike "Celt9" wrote: Hi , I need some brave willing soul to tell me how to kill or dismantle the stupid red ball with the white "x" on its face in my lower left hand task bar. I am losing my mind with the annoying constant reminder. All security updates /settings have been killed off my windows xp., according to help support center. I have cyber defender but won't help me stop this one aggitation. Any all suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much |
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Please for the love of god, help me
Celt9 wrote:
Hi , I need some brave willing soul to tell me how to kill or dismantle the stupid red ball with the white "x" on its face in my lower left hand task bar. I am losing my mind with the annoying constant reminder. All security updates /settings have been killed off my windows xp., according to help support center. I have cyber defender but won't help me stop this one aggitation. Any all suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Your system is infected with a rogue antivirus program. It is called "rogue" because it pretends to be A Good Guy but is really Evil. Do not pay them! Because you didn't give me the name of the program that is trying to get you to buy it, I can't point you to specific removal steps. Look for them he Bleeping Computer removal how-to's - http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/forum55.html or here - Malwarebytes malware removal guides - http://tinyurl.com/5xrpft If you are infected with XP Antivirus or Antivirus 2009/10, here are removal steps: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/malw...antivirus-2009 http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic154529.html (earlier versions) Removal instructions for Antivirus 2010: http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/i...showtopic=6703 Removal instructions for Antivirus 2009: http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/i...showtopic=5178 These may work for you and all may be well. However, in many cases the computer will also be infected with Zlob and/or Vundo trojans and protected by a rootkit. These machines are extremely difficult to clean. If your machine is one of these cases, either get guided help at one of the specialty forums below OR back up your data and do a clean install of Windows. It is your choice. If you are unsure how to back up your data or how to do a clean install, you can take your machine to a local computer professional. I don't recommend using BigComputerStore/GeekSquad types of places. PLEASE DO NOT POST LOGS IN THE MS NEWSGROUPS. http://aumha.org/downloads/hijackthis.zip http://aumha.net/ - Click on the HijackThis forum. Read the announcement and the stickies *first*. http://www.atribune.org/forums/index.php?showforum=9 http://aumha.net/viewforum.php?f=30 http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/forum22.html http://www.dslreports.com/forum/cleanup http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/...splay.php?f=25 http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/Malwa..._Here-f37.html http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/i...hp?showforum=7 http://gladiator-antivirus.com/forum...?showforum=170 http://spywarewarrior.com/viewforum.php?f=5 http://forums.techguy.org/54-security/ http://forums.tomcoyote.org/ http://www.thespykiller.co.uk/index.php?board=3.0 http://forums.subratam.org/index.php?showforum=7 Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ |
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