I'm at work and my girlfriend just emailed me from her iPod, saying her laptop had broken. Apparently she got some popup and then her computer crashed saying "harddrive failure" and she briefly got back into it to pull some stuff onto her memory stick but then it crashed again and now she couldn't get into it at all for a moment and then she got ( Read more... )

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How do I download videos from Youtube and similar?
Can you recommend me a really good antivirus? I recently suffered from a really bad virus, which is surely still hiding among the memory files I placed in external hard drives, and I must be sure those hard drives can be properly cleaned.

Hello. My nephew has a netbook and as I've been using it, there have been so many pop-ups that it's made my head spin. I'm absolutely positive that he has several viruses and malware. Problem is, anytime I attempt to go to Avast (which I have on my own computer) or any of the other sites you all suggested on your main page for both virus protection ( Read more... )

My sister's computer is being attacked by a virus ( Read more... )

 Question/Problem: I can't seem to delete autirun.inf virus on my netbook. My professors said it was already embedded on the system and all I need to do is to reformat it. I don't think it was the only solution for it so I researched for some tips on how to remove it.

Operating System, Version and Service Pack:
Windows XP
Home edition 2002
SP3

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 Question/Problem:Ok, I have Anti-vir running on my comp and 1 scan showed that it has tons (read 111) trojans. I've managed to delete most of them except for a few....the ones stuck into the WINDOWS/System32  files. I know for my life that the files there are usually no touchy, so i'm too scared to touch them. how do I can them safely? also, i ( Read more... )

i'm not sure how serious this is, but i just want to be cautious. i'm sure most windows users have heard of adobe reader, and for as long as i've had it, whenever it runs it's extremely slow and causes my computer to freeze and lag or what-have-you. i thought it was the only one having the problem, but after doing some research, it seemed adobe ( Read more... )

Hello! I am hoping that someone will be able to help me ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, I got a virus from clicking on a message sent via facebook. I cleaned out the cookies (?), installed a legit antivirus but am still having problems. I'm guessing the actual virus took over my internet because when I search for things on google, I get directed to different search sites. I can't watch movies on youtube or download ( Read more... )