I knew at once: I had activated a virus. But I didn't have any idea about the kind of virus that might have come to my PC, until I switched back to Firefox. Immediately a message box was displayed: I DNT HATE MOZILLA BUT USE IE OR ELSE... with title as USE INTERNET EXPLORER U DOPE. I just remembered the experiences of my friends. I tried to locate the virus by running the Task Manager. But there were no suspicious entries there. I had to bow the owner of the virus. I used Internet Explorer to search about it. The first entry in Google took me to the Mozilla Forum page, and after going through some pages, I came to know that the same virus also displayed another message when you opened Orkut. Orkut is banned you fool, The administrators didnt write this program guess who did?? MUHAHAHA!! with title ORKUT IS BANNED. Well, a similar message was displayed for YouTube also. So I went through all the posts, and finally found a solution given here:
Press CTRL+ALT+DEL and go to the processes tab
Look for svchost.exe under the image name. There will be many but look for the ones which have your username under the username
Press DEL to kill these files. It will give you a warning, Press Yes
Repeat for more svchost.exe files with your username and repeat. Do not kill svchost.exe with system, local service or network service!
Now open My Computer
In the address bar, type C:\heap41a and press enter. It is a hidden folder, and is not visible by default.
Delete all the files here
Now go to Start --> Run and type Regedit
Go to the menu Edit --> Find
Type "heap41a" here and press enter. You will get something like this "[winlogon] C:\heap41a\svchost.exe C:\heap(some number)\std.txt"
Select that and Press DEL. It will ask "Are you sure you wanna delete this value", click Yes
Now close the registry editor.
Now the virus is gone. But be sure to delete the autorun.inf file and any folder whose name ends with .exe in the pen drive.
2007-09-11 19:57:22
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answered by Razesh 2
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nope still there
Could be a connection problem. I use a laptop to get online and I have noticed at times that is someone runs the microwave I lose my internet connection some and pages won't load correctly. That's due to me being on a network.
2007-09-11 13:32:16
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answered by Faith 7
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Sounds like good old microsoft windows having troubles ^_^
2007-09-11 17:23:01
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answered by TNT 2
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It's working for me.
Maybe try restarting your comptuer or something, or closing the internet screen and opening it back up?
Good luck!!
:)
2007-09-11 13:32:14
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answer #4
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answered by Mado 2
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Suggest threatening your pooter with a large hammer.
2007-09-11 13:37:17
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answered by mustardcharlie 3
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no. we were watching youtube this evening, sept 11/07...
2007-09-11 13:40:18
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answer #6
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answered by Anonymous
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It's just you. Works for me.
2007-09-11 13:31:11
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answered by Anonymous
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i could have gone down the tube?
2007-09-11 13:44:24
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answered by peter o 5
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Not me.
2007-09-11 13:31:30
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answered by Anonymous
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