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I recently went to a fake youtube site by accident and got a trojan named Trojan.Tracur which has a file name of arg133726.exe Microsoft Security essentials notified in about 10 sec that it had detected a threat and it asked me to clean my computer. It delted the trojan and all seemed to be...

a couple weeks ago my elderly and hesitant father decided to burn some dvd's in the early morning and because I was barely concious and I could not help him in a milllisecond, he went to google and got some random free dvd burning software (he cannot recall the name). Along with it, I noticed...

My Elderly father decided to get one of those Blockbuster Kiosk dvds that are in supermarkets and put it in my pc to play it. If you have used these dvd's, you know many of them are corrupted (freezes, color distortions, extreme pixelation, graphical problems). MY question is: Could someone just...

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I ran the uninstaller and it removed norton online security, but not norton pc checkup. This is an issue because norton got corrupted and I have symantec framework process running... Anyway, I need to remove everything of norton. How can I do this?

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yea, I am guessing that too, but how was it corrupted and should I be worried about other stuff being corrupted as well? system restore was done by the time I tried to uninstall again, system restore reboots the pc so I had to. Should I try to cancel the system restore or will I ruin the pc even...

I just uninstalled norton from my computer. After starting to restart from the norton uninstaller, an error message that said something about norton popped up and the computer shut down before I was able to read it. After I booted up again, I restored the system to an earlier uninstalling of...

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Thanks Nikorr, looks like i'm not the only one getting funny (it isn't really) bugs.

I just restarted my computer, and the bot menu where it normally dislays the intel logo it had also a pentium logo instead of the regular centrino one ( I have a centrino). When I normally boot, I also have a boot password that I have to enter, that wasn't even there, it went straight into...

All right this is very strange, some more things on the desktop have dissapeared ( I do not know which since other's in my household have used it without permission), and I have a gigabyte of free space on c drive. As I said, I have used your tutorial on removing viruses and nothing.

Yeah, I suspect that myself. I just don't know what to do to find out if I truly am if no anti virus, anti malware, anti spyware programs can detect an infection. Another theiry could be that when I go to web pages on firefox which is in my c drive, that the webpages overwrite other things on my...