An unexplainable bug
Poison Ivy
I'll get right to the point here, this bug has been totally pissing me off, I don't know what the hell is going on with my computer, except for it's seriously screwed.
Everytime I open up a browser (like IE and Firefox) while running Guild Wars, gw freezes and a bunch of IE ad pop ups comes up, and I have no choice but to alt+ctrl+delete and stop gw.exe from running, and if I start it again, it freezes after running for 5 seconds (every single d* time).
I've also tried running gw.exe then opening up a browser without ANY firewalls or anti virus protections up at all, same problem.
Also I can't use my left click button on my desktop or by bottom right task bar.
Here's what I don't get, I've done a full virus scan before AND repairing my windows (with the windows xp repair disk), it didn't find a thing, not even adware, also I ran a ad-ware cheak with Windows Defender and ad-adware SE personal, both of them didn't a thing. (And yes, my softwares I used for scanning were fully updated)
The bottom line is, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?
Thanks for reading this, if you have any suggestions, please share them, I'm seriously pissed right now and would like some feedbacks asap.
(I belive it's a virus that my anti-virus software hasn't been able to find yet, and I hope it's as minor)
Might even give away a bunch of platiums to the person who finds the solution.
Everytime I open up a browser (like IE and Firefox) while running Guild Wars, gw freezes and a bunch of IE ad pop ups comes up, and I have no choice but to alt+ctrl+delete and stop gw.exe from running, and if I start it again, it freezes after running for 5 seconds (every single d* time).
I've also tried running gw.exe then opening up a browser without ANY firewalls or anti virus protections up at all, same problem.
Also I can't use my left click button on my desktop or by bottom right task bar.
Here's what I don't get, I've done a full virus scan before AND repairing my windows (with the windows xp repair disk), it didn't find a thing, not even adware, also I ran a ad-ware cheak with Windows Defender and ad-adware SE personal, both of them didn't a thing. (And yes, my softwares I used for scanning were fully updated)
The bottom line is, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?
Thanks for reading this, if you have any suggestions, please share them, I'm seriously pissed right now and would like some feedbacks asap.
(I belive it's a virus that my anti-virus software hasn't been able to find yet, and I hope it's as minor)
Might even give away a bunch of platiums to the person who finds the solution.
Tachyon
Have you tried downloading and running Spybot S&D? I use that, AdAware Pro and Crap Cleaner. The thing is, Spybot normally catches things that AdAware won't. Many times I've ran AdAware and came up clean, yet Spybot catches the pesky things straight afterwards. Foe instance, I got caught by that bloody 'WinAntiSpyware 2006' malware about a fortnight back, SpyBot caught it and AdAware Pro didn't.
http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html
Download it, install it then before you run an actual scan do an update check first for new definition packages.
http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html
Download it, install it then before you run an actual scan do an update check first for new definition packages.
Poison Ivy
Awesome, I'll download it right away, thanks for the fast responce.
If this doesn't fix my problem...heh, I dunno what will.
If this doesn't fix my problem...heh, I dunno what will.
xerverkillah
random ie pop ups usually indicate spyware
erick5876
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Originally Posted by xerverkillah
random ie pop ups usually indicate spyware
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Originally Posted by Poison Ivy
Everytime I open up a browser (like IE and Firefox) while running Guild Wars, gw freezes and a bunch of IE ad pop ups comes up...
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causation
Poison Ivy. You could try downloading HiJackThis, which is pretty damn good and sending the report to one of the internet security sites, for them to have a proper look at, and advise you.
Enchanted Warrior
Mozilla FTW
Tachyon
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Originally Posted by Enchanted Warrior
Mozilla FTW
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The only problem is that we're forced to use IE for Windows Updates, so that's when you realise that IE has become infected with malware. It wouldn't be so bad if the M$ update site could be fooled by Firefox's 'User Agent Switcher' extension, sadly though it can't
Feminist Terrorist
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Originally Posted by causation
Poison Ivy. You could try downloading HiJackThis, which is pretty damn good and sending the report to one of the internet security sites, for them to have a proper look at, and advise you.
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Poison Ivy
Well it was just a virus problem after all, I removed it with Spybot, very useful
Thanks for the advice everyone, kudos.
Thanks for the advice everyone, kudos.
erick5876
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Originally Posted by Azagoth
Diehard Firefox user here!
The only problem is that we're forced to use IE for Windows Updates, so that's when you realise that IE has become infected with malware. It wouldn't be so bad if the M$ update site could be fooled by Firefox's 'User Agent Switcher' extension, sadly though it can't |
Kaguya
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Originally Posted by erick5876
Why not jsut turn on auto-update, and bypass IE altogether?
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