Seriously need PC help

Katyag

Not sure whats up with this thing but its periously close to being slung out the nearest window!!

Its just over a year old and its switching itself off whenever it feel like it. I get 2 boxes on the screen saying something along the lines of 'no digital input' and 'power down'. Ive tried running virus scans and spyware scans but it very rarely gets to the end before it yet again switches off. (I will be lucky if i can get this posted in time)

Ive got McAfree firewall, AVG anti virus, Ad-Aware and Spybot. Running scans with either of the last three (not at the same time tho) just dont get to the end and dont seem to flush anything out.

Im sure its riddled with spy stuff as my home page keeps changing to some best security site no matter how many times i change it, yet running the scans doesnt fix it. Its only been in the last week or so the home page has changed.

I phoned some people out of the local paper who fix pc's, but im wary of having strange men come to my house to look at my pc. Not that i have anything to hide tho just scared they make it worse!!!

Out of me and DH im the more pc useful one, hes no use at all so its down to me to fix it and i think its gone beyond me now.

Any wonderful advice from you lovely clever people?????

iwanttosave_2

Is the website it goes to called winfixer? Sounds like you have some malware on there.

Have a read through of this thread, it helped me so I always recomend it :beer:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=158474&highlight=winfixer

albertross_2

'no digital input' and 'power down' - are these TFT monitor messages, or generated from the PC?

Have you checked all the leads, has it been moved recently, if so make sure that all the cards are firmly pushed in.

Could be the power supply (£15 ish) or the video card. (a bit more).

Re: possible malware, try a scan:

http://safety.live.com/

http://www.f-secure.com/blacklight/try.shtml


http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/RootkitRevealer.html

be careful which malware scanners you use, some are malware themselves. Stick to well know scanners.

http://www.network54.com/Forum/476391/

Katyag

iwanttosave wrote:

Is the website it goes to called winfixer? Sounds like you have some malware on there.

Have a read through of this thread, it helped me so I always recomend it :beer:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=158474&highlight=winfixer

No its this site and its driving me crazy!

Thanks will have a good read thru that other thread.

Katyag

albertross wrote:

'no digital input' and 'power down' - are these TFT monitor messages, or generated from the PC?

Have you checked all the leads, has it been moved recently, if so make sure that all the cards are firmly pushed in.

Could be the power supply (£15 ish) or the video card. (a bit more).

Re: possible malware, try a scan:

http://safety.live.com/

Well the pc on button light goes off and then the message comes up so guess it must be TFT monitor messages.

We moved house at xmas but it had started doing this before then but yes could have easily have been moved and something nudged. Thanks for the link will have a look now.

iwanttosave_2

Katyag wrote:

No its this site ************ and its driving me crazy!

Thanks will have a good read thru that other thread.

That link has it init, I just got it but thats fine coz I know how to get rid.

Also I would take the link down incase anyone else clicks it

albertross_2

you could also try defender:

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

Katyag

iwanttosave wrote:

That link has it init, I just got it but thats fine coz I know how to get rid.

Also I would take the link down incase anyone else clicks it

Sorry, have removed it now. How did you get rid then??

tesuhoha

Have you tried system restore?

tesuhoha

Also do you run the spyware scans with the internet switched off? i had a similar thing happen to me and managed to fix it by resetting the computer as soon as the scan had finished and then ran a 2nd scan immediately afterwards to check that everything had gone.

amosworks

memtest86 might also be worth a shot if your viral/malware scans don't reveal anything
Also is your PC overheating?