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Something is seriously wrong with my PC, can anyone help?

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jhocking:

--- Quote from: Mr Putter ---See if you can convince someone to lend you their iPod/Hard disk, then you can dump all your media and important stuff onto it and get it back once you've reformatted.
--- End quote ---

Or just buy one (an external harddrive that is.)  $100 is easily worth having a backup of your entire computer.

5thWheel:

--- Quote from: ASturge ---The only thing I can think of that may be doing it is the fact that when i hit Control+Alt+Delete, i have about a million apps running which i dont know about and that have funny names like "ashwebserver"
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That suggests virussy trojanny spywarey things are still lurking to me.
You could try a different virus scanner (www.nod32.com do a 30 day full-feature evaulation for free, which I have used before when Avast failed to spot stuff).

You could try googling for each process you see in task manager.  There are lots of sites that tell you what is essential to windows and what is not.
You can prevent stuff from running on startup by doing
Start->Run->msconfig
and unticking startup items, but not all os's have this.

You can manually prevent stuff from starting up by looking in the registry
(Start->Run->Regedit - only if you are feeling brave!)
under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run
and deleting anything suspicious (AFAIK Win2k and XP don't need anything under this registry key, but your printer driver etc might legitimately put stuff here).

Also (more obviously) in your start menu in the "Startup" folder AFAIK nothing is required by windows.

XP services can be enabled/disabled using msconfig (and it helpfully allows you to distinguish between MS ones and non MS ones).
You can disable 2k services by right clicking my computer and hitting "manage".  If you disable an important MS service you may end up screwed.

Unfortunately, nastier things (MS ActiveSync for one :p ) will automatically reinsert themselves into the startup groups.  Starting in safe mode may allow you to edit them out while they are not running, I am not sure.

Disclaimer: you can *really* bugger up your PC by messing in the registry, and can probably do bad things to it if you disable essential services.

LiterSize:
Hopefully you have a system restore point set before the computer did all this?  (If you have system restore available on your comp.)  I just used it to save mine and my sister's computers recently (Easier than reformatting, IMO).  I think it automatically does a point once a month and you'll only lose any programs that were installed AFTER that date.  Basically a month's stuff (my pictures and music were intact after the fact, still)


Good luck.  And thanks 5th wheel, I've been trying to remember what that command was!

Matteh99:
I would say back up your stuff and format the sucker..  If you don't have original disks that came with your computer Driverguide.com has a great tool that will let you backup all of your non microsoft drivers.

I have worked on hundreds of computers with spyware and viruses and usually they end up having to be formated.  I run spybot, adaware, spysweeper, microsoft anti spy, trendmicro's spyware remover and alot of the time the computers are still screwed up.  System restore never seems to do any thing accept bring back the spyware.  The only thing that works for sure is a format..

Backups are good to have any way...

Eric Matt

ASturge:
Ok, i totally restarted the computer...

All the weird processes are STILL THERE

!?!?!?!??!?!?!

I hate all technology

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