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Justamum

cuddles123 wrote: »

I have a virus on my laptop

BE WARNED

Its called Windows Disk Scan and a warning flashes up telling you to defrag as you are short of disc space. The defrag identifies a problem with your hard drive.
It then asks you to do an advanced defrag.
To do that you need to pay for a programme
I am so annoyed as it looks very genuine.
Have tried googling for help, but the programme is not in any of the places mentioned, so can't find it to delete it

I've had a virus which pretends to be a virus detector - I can't remember the exact name, but it's got 'shield' in the name. I don't know why people make things like that just to destroy other peoples computers. Do they think it's funny?

Someone on the 'techies' forum might be able to help. I'm not very computer literate - I want to be able to switch on and have the d*mn thing to just work - so no matter how simple they make the instructions I can't fathom them

witchwoopiggy

cuddles123 wrote: »

I have a virus on my laptop

BE WARNED

Its called Windows Disk Scan and a warning flashes up telling you to defrag as you are short of disc space. The defrag identifies a problem with your hard drive.
It then asks you to do an advanced defrag.
To do that you need to pay for a programme
I am so annoyed as it looks very genuine.
Have tried googling for help, but the programme is not in any of the places mentioned, so can't find it to delete it

cuddles i had this
how to solve this download a anti malware program like

http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

this is free
and run program then use

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

which is also free to get rid of the rest of the rubbish

hope this helps

wendym

Bunny200 wrote: »

HELP!!!!!
I'm making a shirt from cotton lycra fabric and using medium iron-on interfacing on the collar, cuff and facing. Every time I've come to sew the interfacing such as top-stitching I keep getting skipped stitches. I've replaced my needle for each piece but its not making any difference. I'm currently trying to top stitch the cuff so I want it to be really neat but I'm tearing my hair out. I've had a quick google and will carry on but has anyone had this problem? I've tried everything I can think of, rethreading, new needles, cleaning etc. Its fine on un-interfaced fabric. I've never had this problem before and I've used interfacing loads, the stuff I'm using was already in the cupboard so its not a new batch that might be different.

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!

If it's fine on un-interfaced fabric, I think the problem might be iron-on interfacing on fabric with Lycra. You can buy special interfacing for use on fabric with stretch. Can you remove the interfacing and replace it with an extra layer of the main fabric? Sewn in place as if it were old-fashioned non-iron interfacing it might work, although the cuff might not be crisp enough.

cuddles123

Thanks everyone.

Managed to get rid of it with Malware - phew

Tamster150

cuddles123 wrote: »

I have a virus on my laptop

BE WARNED

Its called Windows Disk Scan and a warning flashes up telling you to defrag as you are short of disc space. The defrag identifies a problem with your hard drive.
It then asks you to do an advanced defrag.
To do that you need to pay for a programme
I am so annoyed as it looks very genuine.
Have tried googling for help, but the programme is not in any of the places mentioned, so can't find it to delete it

I had something similar once. Managed to get rid following the instructions on the sticky in the techie bit on here.

Might be worth you checking that your anti-virus is up-to-date and the best one atm. I am not technical minded at all but rely on the freebie anti-virus products. I look in the techie bit every once in a while to see which one is the current reccomended as they chop & change.

I also changed to firefox as recommended on here and have some security firefox add-ons also reccomended on here.

PootleFlump_3

Bunny200 wrote: »

HELP!!!!!
I'm making a shirt from cotton lycra fabric and using medium iron-on interfacing on the collar, cuff and facing. Every time I've come to sew the interfacing such as top-stitching I keep getting skipped stitches. I've replaced my needle for each piece but its not making any difference. I'm currently trying to top stitch the cuff so I want it to be really neat but I'm tearing my hair out. I've had a quick google and will carry on but has anyone had this problem? I've tried everything I can think of, rethreading, new needles, cleaning etc. Its fine on un-interfaced fabric. I've never had this problem before and I've used interfacing loads, the stuff I'm using was already in the cupboard so its not a new batch that might be different.

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Bunny, I think you would be best to use sew in interfacing rather than iron on for that kind of fabric.

nykied

cuddles123 wrote: »

I have a virus on my laptop

BE WARNED

Its called Windows Disk Scan and a warning flashes up telling you to defrag as you are short of disc space. The defrag identifies a problem with your hard drive.
It then asks you to do an advanced defrag.
To do that you need to pay for a programme
I am so annoyed as it looks very genuine.
Have tried googling for help, but the programme is not in any of the places mentioned, so can't find it to delete it

If you search for sewing patterns, there's a site that has something about pet food in the web address. I didn't check the web address before I clicked on it, but it started up a 'your computer has viruses' screen and I couldn't shut it down until I started up taskmanager.

This is a work laptop and, as I work for an IT company which gets all software for free, it's got pretty good anti-virus/malware stuff on it, so luckily I was safe.

nykied

On a sewing-related note, I've sewn the outside bit of my Kindle Keeper, but I have one question:

HOW ON EARTH DO YOU SEW IN A STRAIGHT LINE WHEN YOU DOING ZIGZAG STITCH???? :mad:

cuddles123

I managed to get rid of my virus using Malware - thank goodness!

These people who try to put viruses on your PC are so clever these days.