All your PC problems, Volume 2

Stanley Road

send it to me stanley.road@gmail.com

mehro

Sent. The file sizes are ridiculously small. They should be around 300kb but are around 25kb.

Stanley Road

There's nothing in them apart from black square

They're fucked

I didn't get any errors opening them tho

mehro

Fucking shit. I'll have to do all the simulations and calculations again. Fuck.

jdmufc

i´m using utorrent and at the bottom of the screen there is a little orange triangle which says "no incoming connections" and then says that there may be a problem with my network configuration......i got no idea what this means.
any ideas???

Stanley Road

Firewall

jdmufc

i´ve got utorrent on my exceptions on my firewall so why would it be this??

Stanley Road

Router?

UnitedBoy

can somone help me, i cant get the disk out of the machine, yes i have pressed the button any clues?

UnitedBoy

oh wait, havent inserted the disk yet..

lynchie

Hey guys

Trying to uninstall Symantec Antivirus. Didn't work the normal add/remove programmes route, so I went about stopping all the services to delete it manually. All the services stopped except for the one called Symantec Antivirus, which wont stop at all, and so I can't uninstall it. I've tried restarting. Anyone got any ideas???

jdmufc

from what i remember if you go to the symantec website you can get help there to delete the program

ZIDANE

I'm not really sure but you may not be able to stop it like that because it is an anti virus and in the event of an 'attack' or virus they may not allow you to do it.

Anyway you could try going on the site like the above poster said or maybe their forums.

The only real thing I could suggest is try doing all that in 'safe mode' but you probably have done all that.

Stanley Road

Symantec site

Download NONAV

dangercat

SymNRT

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Norton_Rem...NRT_d4749.html

You can also get it on their site, but the site is slow so grabbed the one above

Ruben

I`ve now (for some reason) got this "Mirar" toolbar on my Explorer. It`s just like a nice Google toolbar except that it sucks and keeps on making noice.

I`ve tried removing by using the "view" alternative, like you would with a yahoo or google toolbar but I can`t find it there.

Any tips to how I can get rid of the cunting thing?

Lizard King

It will probably be there in your add/remove programs, so you can get rid of it.

Ruben

Where do you find that function? You have to take it easy with me, I`m like a virgin on PC things...

Lizard King

Haha, just go to control panel > add/remove programs > then find it.

Ruben

Ok, can`t find anything called mirar. But there is only one program added today - It`s a Windows XP update. Could that be it?

101

No. What program did you install with which that toolbar came as an add-on? Could be a virus

Ruben

Probably is, it just sort of appeared. A lot of popups came and I just clicked "ok" on some of them and there it was.

ZIDANE

It most likely came with another piece of software or something you have downloaded/accepted recently. If you cannot remember then try doing a search in you're program files for 'mirar' it may bring up a directory with the uninstall files or the actual program it came with.

If all the above fail I'd suggest you run a virus check or spyware check. (search for Spybot in google if you don't have a spyware checker)

This will most likely bring up the infected files and remove them for you.

Ruben

I`ve done a program search, and deleted the small files that turned up, but it didn`t help. I think I`m going to delete my Windows update as well, think that`s the root. Am currently running a virus check.

CockneyHammer

Mirar is sort of adware, this is what a web search brings up;

Mirar Toolbar is a toolbar addon for internet explorer. It has the ability to hide, and then re-emerge, making removal difficult and very annoying. Mirar attempts to find Web pages that are related to the Web page currently being viewed. It also displays advertisements based on the URLs and search terms used while navigating the Internet. It will also attempt to download and install the Mirar toolbar from a predetermined Web site.

This will tell you how to remove it

It's not an easy or quick process though your best bet would be to install a spyware protection program

ZIDANE

I doubt the windows update will be the source of the problem as they are normally secure when downloaded off the Microsoft site. It will most likely be a piece of spyware/adaware. It is useless deleting the actual files as in many cases they are just brought back.

If you do the steps described in the above post it will be removed but it is tricky.

Highly recommended spyware and adaware products. (FREE)

http://www.spybot.info/en/spybotsd/index.html

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad_aware_free.php

Run the above and it may remove it and any others that are undoubtedly on you're computer.

Also a program that prevents them going on to you're computer which you do not have to run unless to update every so often.

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

I virus checker alone will not stop or get rid of the above problems in most cases so I'd advise you to install the above, which will stop you getting infected 99% of the time.

Ruben

Thanks ZIDANE and cockneyHammer.


I`ll give it a go in the morning.

Desert Eagle

Is there anyway to break down a 700mb file into two seperate 350mb files?

viiinz

just use winrar and separate it into as many parts as you want, then if you want them back, just extract it

Stanley Road

Toolbars!!