skinny - Put the disc in the bin and go and lie in a quiet room until the urge passes.

:-)

anyone got any bright ideas for 'dealing with' surfcontrol :-(((

Neil

the troll - exactly my thoughts/action :-) - but you've got to ask!

Interesting one. Some how today an application called "Fuck off haha" has installed itself on my desktop, start-up menu and in a windows directory. I think it came in via email and might be someone trying to be funny. Didn't want to open it just in case and have scanned attachments but nothing. It also got by my firewall.

Now it may have started out as a prank but I can't delete the file from the windows directory and just gives me a message "Cannot delete Fuck off haha". It also reinstalls itself whenever I reboot.

Anyone any ideas?

Mr E: to delete the file try right-clicking on it, click on Properties, and untick all the boxes under "attributes". Then try to delete again. If it reinstalls itself on reboot you will need to edit the registry.

I've looked in the Virus information and there is no information about it which might mean it is a new virus. It's unlikely to be someone trying to be funny.

Hi K, Yes tried that and all I get on delete is "Cannot delete Fuck off haha: access is denied

Make sure the disk is not full or write protected and that the file is not in use.

This is becoming annoying.

OK that means the file is in use. Go into task manager and end the task if it has an obvious name, otherwise list the names of all the tasks here and we may be able to help...

Thanks Kayak, yes it named under a running process and deleted after that. I still don't understand how it got through a firewall and norton. Once again thanks and you still haven't given me your username :-) A couple of guys picked up that table and chairs this evening, paid cash and the notes looked ok :-)

Mr E: Kayak1960, and before you tease me about the fitness videos they are not mine :-)

Kayak, I never realised you were so busy :-) Is it worth the effort?

Mr E, I rattle them off quite quickly now so it doesn't take much time, although I agree I won't get rich. I see it more as a psychologically fulfilling way of getting rid of the junk that is lying around the house in the hope that one day it will get used. Before it used to just pile up because I would never throw away something that was still good to use. Now I try to sell it on ebay and fail, and then I throw it away, lol ;-)

lol :-) I'm going to try and stick to high value goods!

Help - I'm running a P4 2.5 GH 512Mb ram. I normally have open - aol MM5 and 6 IE windows on L2 monitors etc. Recently I keep running out of memory and the hard drive starts whizzing and the system freezes. Can I check whats causing this?

on edit windows XP home.

skinny

Right click a spare bit of your task bar and select Task Manager. The performance tab will give you a graphical display of CPU and memory usage. The processes tab lists all processes with their CPU and memory usage. Click on a column heading to change the order.

This will identify what is using the memory. You then have to find out why. It is worth checking how much disk space you have spare and whether it needs defragmenting.

Optimist - thanks - will try that next time it happens - its a new machine (2months old) 50+ Gig free space and have defraged! Out of interest, the top user at the moment is iiAppStart using 53mb.

Skinny

Best of luck. I suggest that you keep task manager open all the time then it is ready if a problem arises. If you have the screen space it has an always on top option.

Computer: Toshiba satellite laptop running Windows XP.Pentium 4
Problem: Mouse pointer slowing or stopping or jumping whilst on web sites.

diagnosis: none but have noticed it seems to get worse when popups and popbehinds appear. Find it hard to believe that perhaps the processor is being overloaded being Pentium 4.

PLEASE if anybody has any ideas let me know. Scary when trading as you can imagine.

Need spyware detection/removal program and program to check system security.

The topic did come up in the tread but I am unable to do a search since the
'all message' option is not available on this thread (too many postings?).

Thanks.

axdpc, get adaware from http://www.download.com ;-)

maddoctor, in the control panel select mouse option and make sure you have turned off snap to function and change speed of mouse if you want ;-)