PC Help Please

[Beach Hut]

Junior has done it again

I now have a red circle with a white cross in it in the left hand bottom corner with a message about the computer being infected with a virus.

It won't open and the computer appears OK as I have done Norton check - any idea what is going on here and how I get rid of this ?

 

[Basil Fawlty]

Reboot the computer? or take it to PC World?

 

[Beach Hut]

Reboot the computer? or take it to PC World?

Not an option, thanks but try again

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

have you run Spybot and Adaware?

 

[B.M.F]

take it to pc world. not pissed myself laughing so much in ages.

Try doing an online scan. Panda is a good one matey. see if that finds anything.

 

[Woodchip]

Press Ctrl - Alt - Delete and close any IE/ Firefox windows that are open. It's probably some wanky pop-up.

 

[Marc]

burn it

 

[Muhammad - I’m hard - Bruce Lee]

turn it off
then back on again

 

[Ernest]

Hit the little fuckers fingers with a sledgehammer and he won't do it again

 

[Dave the OAP]

<I have no useful comment to make here>

I am only concerned with big f*** off mainframes and AS400's.....


You could try and boot it in safe mode and see what is running!

 

[Woodchip]

Ernest posted something funny?!?!? :thud:

 

[Beach Hut]

Hit the little fuckers fingers with a sledgehammer and he won't do it again

I am so tempted, believe me

 

[bhaexpress]

Hit the little fuckers fingers with a sledgehammer and he won't do it again

Got to say that's the most sensible thing I think you've ever said

 

[bhaexpress]

<I have no useful comment to make here>

I am only concerned with big f*** off mainframes and AS400's.....


You could try and boot it in safe mode and see what is running!

For AS400 think MINI Computer. You have to realise that when you've worked with a water cooled mainframe .....

Actually sounds like what Beachy has is Spyware. Assuming that your Norton definitions are up to date I would go along with Withdean Wanderer and suggest you download Spybot and Adaware (www.download.com) and then make sure they have the latest definitions and run them.

Alternatively BUY or upgrade to the Norton anti virus which like McAfee does protect against Spyware.

Additionally buy Junior a pair of boxing gloves, it'll say your PC and his eyesight and hearing.

 

[dougdeep]

Buy him his own PC you tightwad.

 

[Beach Hut]

Buy him his own PC you tightwad.

He has a laptop but still keeps going on mine

 

[Easy 10]

Not an option, thanks but try again

PC World 'not an option' eh ?
I think we understand each other.

 

[Beach Hut]

have you run Spybot and Adaware?

They want money and as I have Norton shouldn't that protect the PC ?

 

[bhaexpress]

They want money and as I have Norton shouldn't that protect the PC ?

Which version though ? I have an old version of it (2002) which doesn't bother about Spyware. I've a freebie McAfee which will be loaded after the rebuild.

 

[Cian]

Reboot the computer? or take it to PC World?

Never EVER take a computer to PC World! Charged 4-6x what the time actually costs, parts get damaged by staff and need "replacing" when it was a f***ing software issue that it went in with, job is half-arsedly done, and most important

Its f***ing PC World! Its a nasty, nasty, overpriced shithole of a store. Don't buy anything off them, don't use them for servicing, let them rot away selling overpriced Packard Bells to gullible chavs on credit.