Curse

Poison Ivy · Aug 03, 2006, 02:21 AM // 02:21

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.

Tachyon · Aug 03, 2006, 02:38 AM // 02:38

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.

Poison Ivy · Aug 03, 2006, 02:46 AM // 02:46

Awesome, I'll download it right away, thanks for the fast responce.

If this doesn't fix my problem...heh, I dunno what will.

xerverkillah · Aug 03, 2006, 07:07 AM // 07:07

random ie pop ups usually indicate spyware

erick5876 · Aug 03, 2006, 03:25 PM // 15:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by xerverkillah

random ie pop ups usually indicate spyware

Quote:

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...

What xerverkillah said is true. And, like Azagoth said, I'd get Spybot, and maybe Adaware also. But what's wierd is that it happens while you're running the game. Do you mean that it happens only when running the game?

If so, that could be a much larger problem.

causation · Aug 03, 2006, 06:01 PM // 18:01

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 · Aug 03, 2006, 06:09 PM // 18:09

Mozilla FTW

Tachyon · Aug 03, 2006, 06:46 PM // 18:46

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Originally Posted by Enchanted Warrior

Mozilla FTW

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

Feminist Terrorist · Aug 03, 2006, 07:11 PM // 19:11

Quote:

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.

Excellent advice. Never mess with Hijack This on your own. It could be very dangerous, as in, you might really mess with your computer. Hopefully it's something as simple as adware that Spybot can find.

Poison Ivy · Aug 04, 2006, 02:00 AM // 02:00

Well it was just a virus problem after all, I removed it with Spybot, very useful

Thanks for the advice everyone, kudos.

erick5876 · Aug 04, 2006, 09:13 PM // 21:13

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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

Why not jsut turn on auto-update, and bypass IE altogether?

Kaguya · Aug 04, 2006, 09:39 PM // 21:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by erick5876

Why not jsut turn on auto-update, and bypass IE altogether?

Or use WindizUpdate instead