I've picked up horrid buggy thing(s) and have been 3 days trying to get rid of it. Partial successes work for a while then I get refestered. If I can't sort it, will have to take the m/c to my man and may be offline for a few days.

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Something keeps chsnging my settings. All my saved passwords keep getting unsaved and AVG no longer shows up when I turn the pc on. It still works though, just hidden away in the background.

Hah! my buggy got into AVG files and stopped it working, also my NVidia settings. Things disappear, don't work etc. Also Web pages leap out of nowhere randomly. I am fighting an organised retreat expecting to loose this one in the end. Working perfectly at the mo.

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P.S. There is a very recent AVG update available (this PM) might be worth getting. My m/c went a bit crazy whilst the download was ongoing. Said I was unprotected and red boxes appearing.

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Run that update for 2011, and you're looking at a bigger direct debit.

That scary nonsence was a Norton ploy a few years back, I'm sorry that AVG stooped that low, I respect them. I'm staying with - please email if you want to know.

Also running with HSBC's free Trusteer Rapport in the back office - which specifically removes the line hook and sinker from bank fishers.

BTW Virgin's claim to get remotely anywhere near 20 meg BB if you are near a BT Infinity exchange or fibre optic Tool Up is the biggest load of Bull Poopie I know. Virgin's cable speed is OK though, near 50% of the claim.

Something keeps chsnging my settings

Yeah, if your service provider is recalibrating their speed issues, and charge rate bands, and you are on a general 8 meg tops BB speed at old prices - you may find you laptop, thinkpad, or whatever, completely looses it's IP if off for several days, and you have to re-configure you wireless connection to your router. It's a game, cos you may have to phone the techy number if you know sweet FA, and they'll talk you into bigger direct debits each month.

Edit again - Goose The yello, blue, red and green cushions forming a square icon should be resident on the tool bar in the bottom right corner - next to the time if you are using classic desktop

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Try a search for "Exploit_c.RQJ"

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That's where AVG was but now it's gorne and I cannpt get it back. This all happened after I downloaded a big Microsoft update last week.

As well as passwords disappearing I now have to go into Google to access my Hotmail account. If I clicked on an email address Hotmail would bring up the write email screen but now Microsoft tells me that I have no email accounts but when I go to Hotmail via Google I am still signed into Hotmail.

I downloaded the AVG update wih no problems.

I don't think this is a bug just Microsoft overwriting my settings.

Iv'e deleted a huge amount of BP and reckon I'm just about drawing at the mo. Worked perfectly this AM apart from the pop-up web page I deleted it's registry entry bu still thay came, I'm back to starting in safe mode now. Am about 8 levels deep in the registry searching for oddities that my AV software can't find.

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Try Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware.

I find it clears up a lot of that sort of stuff that the big AV products don't touch.

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Many tx Mr.T...it found a beastie masquerading as an Adobe update. Has started in normal mode again, but we shall see...however there's a half bottle of on the way for you.

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Glad it seems to have done the trick. I've never had the Blossom Hill, but I actually quite like White Zinfandel

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Reckon MW has bin gon dun kraktit. Did a full cold reboot with some tepidation but it went smooth and kwik. A few formats still out of kilter but they can be reset. Tx again. Have passed the prog onto a few pals. I think a drink to celebrate is in order.

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Draaaaat, they're back. Not the web pages but the desktop killer. Searched again for the original which I had removed and found 12, yes 12 copies of it hiding all over the shop. Takatakatakatak...I need a drink.

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Have you tried system restore. This has worked for me twice when my desktop had been taken over by a fake anti virus scam.

AVG and Tribs Antmalware link found nothing and all seems well again.

Don't work G, tried everything and more. My man is on hols...of course. Can work in safe mode so no real problem. Ran a Tribs full scan which found another 19 slagheaps. Cleaned up, reg clean, all that **** restarted...failed. Need a drink...

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