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Please do not post in capitals. In a newsgroup, that means you are shouting.
And it's harder on the eyes.
Sounds like your computer has been seriously compromised. Spyware can be
notoriously difficult - and sometimes, impossible - to remove. And when you
are successful in removing spyware, it often makes your system unstable.
That's why prevention is so much better than cure. And it's yet another
reason to make regular backups of your system.
You need to try a few more spyware removal programs. (You can find lists of
trustworthy programs by reading through the posts in this newsgroup.) If
you can't completely eliminate the spyware, you'll have to reinstall
Windows. And if that doesn't help you'll need to wipe your hard disk clean
and start from scratch.
The custom in newsgroups is to reply to the group so that all may benefit.
Frankly, it's also an anti-spam measure.
Ted Zieglar
"sheply" <sheply@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E0AD446A-3AFB-4085-8CF6-61D11D600EE7@microsoft.com...
> HI TED...
>
> THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR REPLY- I APOLOGIZE FOR TAKING SO LONG TO GET
> BACK
> TO YOU, BUT THIS HAS BEEN A NIGHTMARE. IF YOU SHOULD BE INCLINED TO REPLY
> AGAIN AND COULD DIRECTLY E-MAIL ME AT CS.CS@COMCAST.NET THAT WOULD BE
> GREAT-
> I CAN ACCESS THAT EASILY FROM MY TREO AND I'VE BEEN HAVING A HECK OF A
> TIME
> WITH MY COMPUTER (AND GOING ONLINE WITH THE TREO CAN BE VERY SLOW). LET
> ME
> TELL YOU WHAT I HAVE TRIED AND WHAT HAS HAPPENED...
>
> I RAN AD-AWARE SE (UPDATED), AND WENT THROUGH THE RESULTS, DELETING THE
> PROBLEMS IT CAME UP WITH... I HAVE THE PRINT OUT OF THAT IF YOU NEED ANY
> INFO, BUT JUST SO YOU KNOW I HAVE SUBSEQUENTLY RUN IT AGAIN AND COME OUT
> WITH
> 0 CRITICAL PROBLEMS.
>
> I THEN RAN SPYBOT SEARCH AND DESTROY AND ALSO ELIMINATED THE PROBLEMS THAT
> IT LISTED. NOTE: WHENEVER I AM ONLINE, I KEEP GETTING POPUP WINDOWS-
> "SPYBOT
> SEARCH AND DESTROY REPORTS THAT YOU WANT TO DOWNLOAD "DOUBLECLICK" WITH
> YES
> AND NO BUTTONS. I'LL HIT NO, BUT ALMOST EVERY NEW WEBSITE THAT I OPEN I
> KEEP
> GETTING THAT POPUP BEFORE IT WILL LOAD... EBAY IS KILLING ME WITH IT (AND
> I'M
> SELLING SOME STUFF- ALBEIT MUCH LESS THAN I'D LIKE BECAUSE I CAN'T KEEP MY
> SCREEN UP LONG ENOUGH TO COMPLETE LISTINGS!!)
>
> IT LISTED THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS FOR THE VIRUSES:
> 1. WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\IEACCESS2.DLL (NO FURTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE)
> 2. WINDOWS\SENTRY.EXE (NO FURTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE)
>
> AND NOW, WHEN I AM IN A FOLDER, SAY ‘MY DOCUMENTS’, IF I DOUBLE-CLICK A
> FOLDER, WINDOWS POPS UP ASKING WHAT PROGRAM I WANT TO USE TO OPEN THE
> FOLDER??? THE LEFT PANEL (FORGIVE ME IGNORANCE ON THE PROPER TERM) WHICH
> EXPANDS THE FOLDER ‘TREE’ ALLOWS ME TO SHOW THE FOLDER’S CONTENTS IN THE
> MAIN
> VIEW PANEL, SO I CAN OPEN FILES THAT WAY, BUT THIS IS SOMETHING NEW NOW...
>
> CAN YOU HELP?? I HAVE EVEN TYPED THIS REPLY INTO A WORD DOC. SAVING EVERY
> TWO SECONDS BECAUSE MY COMPUTER FROZE WHILE TYPING IT IN THE LIVE REPLY
> WINDOW... SO I LOST THIS!!
>
>
> "Ted Zieglar" wrote:
>
>> Could it be that you have a virus or spyware?
>>
>> Ted Zieglar
>>
>> "sheply" <sheply@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:965FB087-E640-4387-92DE-102D9C23AAF6@microsoft.com...
>> > PLEASE HELP! I don't know why but my computer keeps freezing up, and
>> > ctrl+alt+del does nothing. The only way I can get it to work again is
>> > by
>> > turning off the computer entirely. It has happened from the very
>> > beginning
>> > of startup to after working on the computer for an hour. Now I have
>> > found
>> > some of my folders have just disappeared?!? Can anyone tell me what
>> > might
>> > fix this?
>>
>>
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