How do you know......

sounds like it has everything. run a couple virus programs or somthing

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noise, or sometimes you notice you're low on memory. lower than normal. sometimes the random access memory gets affected too. its usually just the noise or slowness you'd notice.

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or you can have what happened to me... computer just crashes and wont load. worst thing ever. another thing i've noticed is the mouse can get kinda jumpy. it wont run smooth, it tends to skip around a bit.

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yeah sometimes it's pretty slow. ok how can i check if i'm low on memory. and what is a normal amount? i am pretty computer illiterate so i have no idea what to look for. and there are some sounds, but only when i'm turning the computer on and it's only for like 2 second intervals for maybe 10 seconds.

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When did you purchase this computer of yours?



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sorry, but i'm a mac guy. the PC i have right now is the first i've had... unfortunately i need it though, for school and whatnot. jibberish too :D

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the puter was purchased in august of 2003. it's a laptop

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its only for redbull sponsercersord riders...tanners got one but hes not sponsosnored by them so its either your sponsizored by redbull or your in the game you dig?-Flying Spoon

yeah, get a mac... no viruses or spyware will bother you.

On the PC though, you can get a program called "Ad-Aware" (google it) which will find all spyware/cookies/etc. on your machine and get rid of them. It doesn't work 100% but it's pretty good.

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i never wash my hand. hell, i eat pizza while i'm taking a shit.
-seanPISTOL

^ there is spy wear for mac, it's just that most macs have firewalls...

live by the N.E.R.D

Not really... macs actually don't have software firewalls, while windows PCs do.

There literally is very little spyware for macs. I have never had any trouble with it. I know there is a bit out there, but if I haven't found any in a year of owning this machine, there is nothing to worry about.

If we could stop spyware with a simple firewall, it wouldn't exist anymore because it wouldn't work anywhere.

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i never wash my hand. hell, i eat pizza while i'm taking a shit.
-seanPISTOL

if you use adaware and spybot and you have norton running, then you should be fine. check out some pop-up blockers or use firefox.

I use spybot S&D, norton, and a personal firewall program. The biggest change I found was after switching away from explorer to firefox, literalyl stopped all spyware

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Like a virgin on prom night.

^yea i hear fire fox is really good

____________________________ badonkadonk

Spyware is a huge issue right now and is one of the most prevailing problems in the computer industry. 80% of the problems that I have been fixing for companies, offices, and home users can be traced back to spyware. Most antivirus software will not pick it up, because technically it is not a 'virus'. By you going to a shady website your computer is 'willfully' downloading the spyware/ad software and since spyware is technically not malicious (although I beg to differ. It's dramatic slowing down of your computer, embedding itself in the registry, regeneration, and overall nuisance should be enough to consider it a virus) you aren't given a lot of help.

To top it off, most spyware removal programs are just not adaquate. It's a battle that they are losing right now.

Those error messages you are getting are most likely caused by the spyware or errors in the spyware. Even though some of your programs you have used to get rid of spyware probably did get rid of some of the files, there are still most likely entries in your computer registry saying to load it every time windows starts. So when windows tries to start it can't find the spyware that it was told to load, thus the error messages.

Here's what you can do to fight it.

1. Go to www.download.com and download 'security task manager'. I am absolutely in love with this program. It will tell you every single process that is currently running on your computer. It'll also let you remove it and not let it run again. It's also a great idea to do this before running a program like ad-aware to get rid of spyware, because you have to close down the spyware if it's running first in order to get rid of it.. Just like you can't fix your car if you leave the engine on.

But be warned: When you quarantine an object from memory it makes it so it can not run again. Be careful not to quarantine something that Windows uses for itself. It may be a good idea to google a file name (go to google.com and type it in) and see what it is first. Also, a nice part about the program is that it'll give you a security rating for each object in memory and tell you how harmful it is. If an object is at 60 - 100% harmful, chances are it's spyware.

More often than not, spyware is pretty obviously named too. Random letters/numbers, anything with 'srv' 'shop' 'rebates' 'bargain' 'save' 'search' are all most likley spyware.

2. If you are running a version of XP I HIGHLY reccomend going to www.microsoft.com and downloading their 'Antispyware Beta 1' software. It is extremely effective and picks up alot of things that other programs miss. Also, it allows you to schedule the program to run at night or whenever and automatically remove spyware.

3. Go to www.ad-aware.com download the program. Update it. Run the test. Get rid of it all.

4. If error messages still come up when you start the computer. It could be a problem in either the registry or an invalid object in the start up folder.

Go into your start menu and to the folder 'start-up'. Everything in that folder on the start menu will start up each time windows starts. You really don't need anything in there.

If problem still persists it's probably traced to your registry. If an error message is caused by some invalid spyware file (for example 'ffisearch.dll'), then go to your start menu and hit run. Type in regedit.

This will open up your system's registry. Be warned, you can do alot of damage to a computer in here if you do not know what you are doing. You can use the Find feature to search for the term 'ffisearch'. Delete every entry that comes up.

5. Lastly, to fix registry errors there is a great program which I have been using alot called 'Winaso'. search the internet for it and download a serial unless you want to buy it.

If you do all of the above, you will win the battle against spyware. Good luck.

dude i got rid of all my spyware stuff and today i'm getting like 8000 popups from IE even though i never open it...

and i get this meaasge that looks all official like but it says visualelementsFXad at the top

///////////////// This is the llama. I have your cub. You must protect her, but that will be expensive. 500 colonuts, wrapped in brown paper. Midnight, behind the box. I'll be the hiena, you'll see. -llama

I back up to cdr and reformat my laptop about 4 times a year. It takes about two hours woth or work but it is like a brand new computer off the shelf.
Then reload your songs and ski movies, get firefox and security plugins, go to microsoft update and your done.
DON"T DO THIS if you don't have install disks for your ethernet card. Drivers for printers and cd burners, ect can be had on the net, but you have to be able to connect.
All laptop pc's come with reformat disks that make it easy.




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i just run ad- aware and norton anti virus alot and that gets rid of my problems

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thanks ghostdragon for that. I'm doing everything everyone has said or at least trying all sorts of stuff. anymore help or advice is appreciated

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its only for redbull sponsercersord riders...tanners got one but hes not sponsosnored by them so its either your sponsizored by redbull or your in the game you dig?-Flying Spoon

adaware se, spybot, spyware search and destroy, spyware doctor, zone alarm (if you're not on a router), and download the panda antivirus thing. i think its called titanium antivirus. its amazing. tracks everything down.

i love apple, lanks, skibum_, lucyford, dfresh, d-rocket, cko, nopoles, gustle, spokaneskier, plumpwonton, melvs, caden, freeskigrl24, mikee, wrightgirl, missy, jessbuff, seanpistol, doc.dre, dynstrtm, Spyderxtra789, skibrdingbitch, schweitzerski, hey_cutie, almostaskiier, katesd, lateralis, eastcoastpride, ekunz, $bhill$, *jay*, t-schill, *pinkgrinder*, J.D._May, shorty_t, jib_tech, niwanyshyn, ever_murky, nsnski240 and the rest of you are a-holes. smiles :)) :)):): )):): :):))): :) :))

or go lazy and just reformat ur computer.

------Julian I guess u can call me Julian

get a new computer..... i used to run like every virus program and it didnt work and then my computer completely fried... but now i have a better one