Topic: Having a problem... (Read 1476 times)

Sandman3D · « **on:** December 02, 2004, 10:50:46 pm »

...accessing my Titan thread and DD's thread...puter locks up, the IE starts losing buttons and then starts flashing...have to cntrl-alt-del to close it. Any ideas? ???

Dawntreader · « **Reply #1 on:** December 03, 2004, 02:42:30 am »

Sounds like a virus.

Sapharite · « **Reply #2 on:** December 03, 2004, 04:51:48 am »

Sounds like a virus or too much Spyware software on your Hard Drive which occupy your system memory (RAM) :/ I suggest you download or buy AD-Aware 6.0 or AD-Aware Gold which is considered to be the best program removing Spy Ware sh*t from you HDD (I have the same problem and I'm getting rid of it

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MajorRacal · « **Reply #3 on:** December 03, 2004, 05:13:31 am »

'tis strange. I've been having problems accessing Dynaverse for the past couple of days - often getting the dreaded "page not found" message... last night, it took three attempts to post my latest release, and today I've had problems accessing a couple of threads (mostly the ones with pictures). I'm pretty certain its not spyware on my part as I run Ad-Aware and EasyClean on a daily basis to keep this old thing running as smoothly as I can.

MajorRacal

Core · « **Reply #4 on:** December 03, 2004, 06:34:48 am »

I'm having a different reaction .... i connect and after an hoer or so the connection is lost .... first the speed is decreased the the connection is lost all together and iv got all the spywear blockers in the world and AV programs to batell this.....

Sandman3D · « **Reply #5 on:** December 03, 2004, 09:44:59 am »

I have Ad-Aware, have it set to run at start-up. $:-\$ Strange...maybe something the admins need to chk into, see if something on their end has been corrupted? ???

MrCue · « **Reply #6 on:** December 03, 2004, 05:18:51 pm »

Profile -> Look and Layout Preferences -> Don't show other users' signatures. (tick) -> Save

Sandman3D · « **Reply #7 on:** December 03, 2004, 09:23:31 pm »

Hehe, just went and deleted the Temp. Internet Files....took 5 minutes for my puter to delete 'em all!

Even if that doesn't help this problem, it should help others!!

E_Look · « **Reply #8 on:** December 04, 2004, 10:24:18 pm »

Glad you found the "bug".

But for future reference, you might want to run BOTH Ad-Aware and Spybot in tandem, that is, one right after the other, and then your favorite AV program.

That's what I do and at the end of the week, there's always a few bums to toss outta the HD. A couple even come in from some merchant sites, even ones that I WOULD trust not to cheat me in an transaction.

Lord Schtupp · « **Reply #9 on:** December 05, 2004, 11:28:55 pm »

Im having the same problem with DDs thread, except that IE just freezes. Turned off avatars, sigs, did disk cleanup, still the problem persists.

Grim Reaper · « **Reply #10 on:** December 06, 2004, 01:44:37 pm »

Try using FireFox http://www.mozilla.org/. 0 problems + tab browsing. And less chance of spyware.

Sapharite · « **Reply #11 on:** December 07, 2004, 02:12:20 pm »

Quote from: E_Look on December 04, 2004, 10:24:18 pm

Glad you found the "bug".

But for future reference, you might want to run BOTH Ad-Aware and Spybot in tandem, that is, one right after the other, and then your favorite AV program.

That's what I do and at the end of the week, there's always a few bums to toss outta the HD. A couple even come in from some merchant sites, even ones that I WOULD trust not to cheat me in an transaction.

Yes he is right. You forget that spyware resides in systems registry files as well as in Windows folder

Azel · « **Reply #12 on:** December 07, 2004, 02:59:51 pm »

Ok thanks mates...Its not spyware...I killed that and its not a virus either...but some threads are acting up strange...
its weird because my Desktop is fine but my laptop acts up here

wulf111 · « **Reply #13 on:** December 07, 2004, 03:06:58 pm »

my system is doing it also but intermittently especially in posts with animated gifs as sigs it really lags the system

Starforce2 · « **Reply #14 on:** December 07, 2004, 03:15:34 pm »

I've been having it to and I did an online virus scan and no results, so the forum doesn't have a virus (or atleast not one that it is spreading)

Sandman3D · « **Reply #15 on:** December 07, 2004, 05:41:47 pm »

Quote from: MrCue on December 03, 2004, 05:18:51 pm

Profile -> Look and Layout Preferences -> Don't show other users' signatures. (tick) -> Save

Maybe we need to do this, until we can convince people not to use animated sigs.

MajorRacal · « **Reply #16 on:** December 07, 2004, 06:12:19 pm »

My personal view on Sigs is that they take up waaay too much space and I've had them switched off for a long time. They may look pretty, but it's kinda frustrating sifting through page after page of them to find the actual message.

MrCue · « **Reply #17 on:** December 07, 2004, 06:17:05 pm »

Exactly why mine have been turned off for a long time.

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