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General Category => Technology and Programming => Topic started by: Boulvae on June 30, 2008, 04:57:34 pm
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I seem to have problems connecting to particular servers. Not only that but I am unable to view specific youtube videos, it's "no longer available" but this only aplies to specific users and not the video itself. Images like the ones below the avatars are viewed as X-pages. And sites from particular addresses list the servers as no longer accessable.
The first time this happened was when I cleared my cache, the second time literally happened spontaneously over night while I was on the computer. I only noticed 5 minutes later when trying to access some sites.
I'm not a computer savy so i'm not sure, any ideas what it could be?
Also apparently the svchost.exe is listed 7 times in Proccesses is that normal?
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Also apparently the svchost.exe is listed 7 times in Proccesses is that normal?
yes
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What internet browser are you using? Try clearing all cookies, internet files, etc. If you use Mozilla, you might have an add-on thats blocking images. I know NoScript blocks java and images if you set it to.
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Have you tried connecting to the sites with different browsers? Make sure they're set to refresh on every page load.
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I'm using Internet Explorer, and clearing my cache of everything including cookies is what caused the first time this problem to occur.
I've tried other browsers and it ends up the same thing, except for one where it logs me in but it's basically just an entire list of text and X-paged pictures then it'll tell me an error has occured and will boot me off.
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Why are you using internet explorer?
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It's right there? Laziness mostly but i'm moving soon and it's just more convenient to use this one right now, plus I have a lab-top seperate from the one i'm using is where all the stuff I deem important is in thats not connected to the enternet period.
I just want to try to fix this problem before I move.
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It's right there? Laziness mostly but i'm moving soon and it's just more convenient to use this one right now, plus I have a lab-top seperate from the one i'm using is where all the stuff I deem important is in thats not connected to the enternet period.
I just want to try to fix this problem before I move.
What kind of internet connection are you on? Laziness isn't really a good excuse for BAD SECURITY as on a decent connection getting firefox or opera will only take a couple of minutes. You should run a virus scan, though and see if you have any virusesss.
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I figured it out, it's a trojan horse proxy, any good effective ways to get rid of it incase a trojan remover doesn't work (which i doubt it will).
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If you know the specific version, some trojans/viruses/backdoors have custom made applications and utilities to remove them. If you don't know it, try something general like a big name virus scanner like Norton or Mcaffe or Panda or BitDefender or similar.
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I've gotten rid of it, but it hasn't completely solved the problem. I can still go to sites however now the layouts look entirely nonexistant like if you were to copy and paste the entire site into microsoft word.
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Describe nonexistant looking. And what version of IE do you have?
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I am using IE7.
Basically the title page of a site isn't being as it ussually is, instead it's one or maybe two pictures on top then a whole lot of text and links with some more pictures going downwards. It's exactly like copy and pasting all the text, links, and pictures and pasting it into Microsoft Word. With a different colour if the site had a different colour.
I also discovered another trojan, a statuslinkhandler, it's in my back up files but i'm unsure what this one does. It contains something called MEW. It was located in LimeWire.jar, should I get rid of this one too cause if i'm not mistaken i'd say that the other trojan probably came from this one.