Thanks, Mark. I'm learning a lot - well worth time spent yesterday.
On Jan 29, 2010, at 10:02 AM, MK wrote: > 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. 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