anyone got any ideas about the block trades that went through today?

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SWW, if Spybot doesn't fix it then try Ad-Aware, I use both of them. Beats a hammer through the gard drive!

A good weekend to you too, and to everyone else.

Blimey!

Spybot Worm Virus.

A real killer, and I had it on my machine!

What could I do to prevent a slaughter?

I patiently worked through the Symantec program fix but I could not kill it.

I deleted one piece, and another appeared.

Like a Hydra, many heads kept appearing as I snuffed others out.

It was slowly number crunching my system with it's vile virus, sapping the very life blood of my financial empire.

Sadly, I resolved to kill it or I would take the life of my trusty steed in a show of mercy.

On my quest, I went into places on the computer that have never seen the light of day!

A thick stinking goo covered the ground, and streams of the putrid muck gurgled and spluttered either side of the narrow pathway ready to take the unwary to a terrible stinking death.

A luminous green slime hung from the ceiling.

It was dark, well not quite!

The luminence gave a little relief to my straining eyes.

Suddenly the hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I heard a slithering off to my left.

I gripped my sword tighter and peered into the gloom.

There it was!

The hideous grinning worm.................

Terrifying!

Raising itself up on that round pink belly, it drooled as it saw me.

"Arrrgh............" I cried.

A swish of my sword, and it was all over.

The beast looked surprised as my leg fell to the floor beside it, and I sank to the floor.

The spybot worm had won.

I was as good as dead.

Or was I?

As Spybot towered over me to turn me into goo, I raised my sword and with my last breath, sank the blade into it's soft glistening skin.

A wimper, it was dead.

If anyone else needs help with computer problems, be sure to give me a call.

sww.

WOW. That's impressive....you're sure having an exciting weekend!

SWW,

What an absolutely cracking post! If ever I need someone to rid my pc of any little blighters then I know who to call! Hopefully your financial centre is back to normality now that you have been swishing your sword into the beast! By the sound of things, it didn't stand a chance!

Cheers

Gav

sww- i think i'm going mad when you mentioned goo in your post i thought you were refering to gold oil- check them out!! must have trading on the brain.

download prevx, free firewall it is excellent, have a few IT friends and they all recommend it... (www.prevx.com). Also you might want to think about Mozilla rather than internet explorer...

Unfortunately this worm entered via a disk my son used, courtesy of x box.

It is key and password raider and as I had so much trouble killing it, the only safe answer was a complete deletion via fdisk and load a fresh copy of windows xp and SP2.

The reason I load SP2 straight away is because there is a trojan that waits for unsuspecting souls to go online without the latest security patch from Microsoft.

They are killable but why have it enter your computer when it is avoidable.

I had symantec virus and firewall which I had subscribed to, but they had not downloaded worm detection and deletion software, (it seems).

They were the 2002 versions and I had not experienced any problems since then using updates as they became available.

The worm was avoidable but only if I had sat at the computer and checked his disk before he loaded it.

www.prevx.com, if I had seen this link before I had fixed I would have used it. It looks a very good system.

I have used other browsers but still prefer IE, which I know has prolems but there you go.

Thanks for the tips, I will pass them on to others..

No problem, I have been told don't bother buying norton or mcafee as better free options around, a good web site to put in favourites is download.com all the free software you need ie firewall, spy ware trackers etc... Good Luck.

Lots of buys going through today so far, are we expecting news...

Always, but none that I know of immenent.

Small buyers out in force as this slides through resistence of 17.5p

May go another notch if the rate of buying is maintained.

All imo etc........

Not that I know much obviously!!!!!

Another tick up on the offer. SEY looking strong again.

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/050129/2005012906.html

great posts, this thread gets more entertaining week by week. is there no end to your talents SWW??!!!

Yes, unfortunately!

don't burst the image i have...

Ha!

i have an annoying laptop probelm. my cpu runs at 100% and is so damn slow. am intensing to format the disk for the first time...any sites to recommend to walk me through the process?

prop, I will email you.

http://www.bootdisk.com/

Make sure that you need to do that first having cleaned and tuned your hard drive.

Need any more, I am here.

cheers sir

prop - hang on one moment. You're problem sounds like the same thing that I have been suffering from for ages - but fixed this weekend. I was finding that my CPU was running an excessive amount of time causing other applications to slow down. If you check with Task Manager (CTRL-ALT-DEL) then under the processes tab check out how much time is being occupied by System Idle Process. If all other applications are off, then System Idle should take up at least 91-93% of the time. If it is lower, then you have another background process running. Or apparently so. This was my problem, but under the tab 'applications' no other processes were reported as running. I was ready to reformat the hard drive and re-install windows again, when I was advised to check the BIOS.

I found the latest BIOS version for my laptop off the net and went to install it through windows. However, this reported back that my BIOS was the most recent version and therefore didn't need updating. But don't necessarily believe that. Yes, my BIOS was the latest version, but it was subtely damaged.

To force the BIOS upgrade requires installation at power up off of a floppy disk.
Did this, and lo and behold, PC running nicely and cooler. My CPU used to run at 85 degC, but is now back to 45 degC.

This may be your problem too. Then again, maybe not. Hope this helps. :>)