Patty My day job is computer administration and security. Like everyone else I had no problem with that link. The fact that your CPU utilization most likely peaked to 100% (Task manager will show you that) I agree you most likely have a Trojan. Spybot is a great spyware cleaner (I use it myself as well as CA Security center) but is not adequate for Trojans. I recommend this Trojan cleaner (Trojan Remover) you get a 30 day free trial and it cleans Trojans from two important places on your computer: the registry and executables on your hard drive. I was surprised at how many registry Trojans I had when I first ran it. Give this a product a try along with either spybot or adaware and you should be fine.
Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: Patricia Lipscomb To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 12:16 PM Subject: Re: [HG-new] Bryan Tolley and his mini Vielluer First of all, I am relived to learn that my experience apparently was unique. And thanks to everyone for the helpful suggestions, which I will try as soon as I can get some tech help, since I don't know how to carry out some of them. BTW I had what I had thought was good anti-virus protection (updated regularly) and had not had a problem in the 3 years I had had the laptop, but I understand that people who write viruses strive to get ahead of the protection systems and I have heard that some viruses can remain dormant until a later action of some sort is executed on the computer, so it makes sense that that is what happened in this case. Again, thanks to all, On Jan 28, 2010, at 11:57 PM, Geoff Turner wrote: I clicked on that link and had no problems. Sounds like it was caused by something else, a virus picked up from somewhere a bit more dodgy than YouTube perhaps? Geoff Turner ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [HG-new] Bryan Tolley and his mini Vielluer Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:33:02 -0800 To: [email protected] I know that no one would ever intentionally put anything on this forum that could cause anyone else computer problems but I wanted to put out a caveat in case what happened with me might happen with others. This morning I clicked on the link below and at first nothing seemed to happen and it appeared that I had not reached You Tube (it's usually straightforward). so I tried to go on to other work I needed to do involving word processing and internet. The first thing that happened was that the music would suddenly begin to play and then would cut off after abut one second. Also all my programs starting hanging up. I wanted to restart, hoping that would fix things but could not even save work in order to close the programs I was running (Word, mail, and other internet). After a while the music stopped for about 2 hours but I was still having trouble with my programs running extremely slowly. After a while it did let me save some things, after several minutes of trying. I wanted to deal with the problem definitely and figured I could if I could actually see the You Tube thing. For a long time I could not even find it on my computer because it was not letting me see the desk top. Also all my icons at the bottom went dark for a while and I could not even get to the work I had been doing (some of it urgent). When I finally was able to get to the desktop to get to You Tube I clicked on the button to close it and it appeared to close (at least it disappeared visually) but the music continued to start suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, and I was only able to shut it off by turning off the sound on the computer. I turned the sound back on after a while have not heard anything but my programs are still not running normally. At that point for about 30 minutes it was not letting me save anything. But the all of a sudden it did, although still with much delay. At least I thought is was saving, so that I could shut down the computer and restart. I then tried to restart several times and nothing happened. I also tried the shut down option and nothing happened. Finally I had to do a hard stop and start. After that I hurried to Word because I need to finish a report today. However, the last version, which had gone through all the proper save procedure, had disappeared. I tried to find it with the search function (thinking I had possibly mistyped something so that it would be elsewhere in my list of documents) but it was not there. I finally found it in the general trash (took a while because I had not cleaned that out in a long time). Of I had not, I would have lost about 3 hours of work on the document (still spent about 2 hours on this problem, which is not totally solved because my programs are still running slowly. Yikes! Any ideas, anyone? I hope this was just my own blasted bad luck and an isolated occurrence, but I did want to put out a warning, just in case. Trish On Jan 27, 2010, at 10:42 PM, [email protected] wrote: If you have never seen Bryan Tolley's marionettes you will really enjoy this. Watch those fingers go. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SyYosogpok -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. 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