so my computer is about to go bye byes and i have no idea what to do
1. IE decides that its going to close spontaneously
2. norton keeps telling me i have a virus, but not how to fix it
3. norton 09 says my SONAR is off
4. my computer will freeze and only the mouse is movable
5. i hafta hold the power button to restart and it tells me veiwsomething error and to send error report

anyone have any ideas before i pay an arm and a leg to have it fixed?

talk to Ed or Rod Ashley.

run a scan on you c: drive down load avg free.

sounds like a virus either try to restore it back by going start,all programs,accesories,systemtools,system restore or just put in the windows disk and start over from scratch

um i was thinking along the lines of backing up all my pictures and songs and either throwing it at someone or crying until someone pays for it to be fixed

Sounds like you may have the Vundo virus/trojan.

Does Nortan specify what virus was found?

try adaware and AVAST!

but it sounds like you woulndt be able to DL them

it said "3001 something or other idk i just cried
something after i installed ie8

it seems ok now only giving me a problem on facebook, to which is the soul of my existence

first thing ot do is get rid of norton. its bloated and a waste of money and space

no i love my norton
i think i just spend too much time and upload my 9 bazzilion pics i take of the stupid shit ever lol and stop spending so much time on facebook



or i should just buy a mac

macs are no better.

and AVAST! and AVG are argueably better than norton, and theyre both free.

this all makes my head hurt, can't someone just make it all better? i will hand over the laptop (after deleting everything random)

i dont want that responsibility, just tryin to help you.


if you have a virus you should be able to delete it with norton. I dont know how it works but with avast and AVG its very easy to delete and fix the virus.

crapcleaner, and malewarebytes are also good programs.

meh ill just beg my friend ryan to wipe my hard drive again and start from scratch

its at least worth a shot.

ive given people the same advice and it has fixed the problem

you love norton untill you realize how much faster your computer will be without that trash.

he speaks the truth.

i love when my computer works thats about it havent had any problems till i overloaded the hardrive and crashed the mother board with too many open applicatiosn downloads and uploads....lol im a multi tasker and can crash a computer very easily.....this would be the 6th times ive come close to or actually crashed a computer beyond repair, once was a mac

there has been viruses/trojans going around facebook recently, if you live on there, good chance you could have caught it.

how the hell does one get a virus from facebook....ive got one of those super duper blocked forever u need to kno the answer to the meaning of life to look it profiles

very easily actually.

get any messages from firneds that didnt make sense recently?

i say throw the comp. out the window

then let panda steve get his hands on it

I also run Norton and I may end up ditching it for ome of these other programs you guys suggested to her. Do these programs offer spyware and all that other good crap? Do they offer live updates? My Norton has worked fine for me and it is deleting viruses as I type. I picked up about 30 or so trogans last week.

I just dnt want to download a new antivirus program and then uninstall Norton only to not like the new program.

Oh and Ashley, if i was you, I would try to start saving as much as you can now if you plan on dumping your computer and starting over

nope not at all

running alot of programs at once shouldnt make a pc shit the bed. pcs are meant for multitasking

+ 1 on AVG or Avast

AVG auto updates


i use seperate anti spyware programs
-malwarebytes anti-malware
-spyware blaster

i also like Advanced SystemCare

and to make it easy for you

avg
malwarebytes
spyware blaster
advanced systemcare

Avg and avast are much better than norton, your pc probably needs a good cleaning. If you are local I can do it at work when I have some free time just make sure you back up everything that is important to you and delete anything embarrassing first. You wouldn't believe the things we have seen on customers computers. Girls seem to be worse than guys!

she watches too much porn

Well the internet is for porn

I won't add to the crap load of advise already listed, but I will offer to look at it if you'd like. I would agree that you do not need norton, but I wouldn't say you should get rid of it. Norton will work fine on the right machine. If your computer has the minimum recommended hardware (like most), then yes it would run better on one of the free AVs mentioned. Also, Avast owns AVG in my opinion. I'd had Avast in most of my machines over the last 5 years or so. I love it. I'm using AVG on the laptop i'm using right now. I don't like it as much. With that said, PM me if you like more help and/or advise.

one more thing.....myspace and facebook = bad

I've seen more PCs jacked up from myspace/facebook junkies and anything else over the last year or two.

um i gave it to my boss cause her husband is an it guy and he has a pavilion hp windows xp recovery disk. he is going to save my pics and music and just wipe it clean to factory settings. and i already deleted anything incriminating



u are wrong

ok i only speak girl...not computers....ill give someone 10 bucks to make it me proof lol

im hoping wed and good luck
ive crashed a gateway, a imac, compac, and my pavillion twice

nevermind how you threw a computer across the room and literally crashed it

shut up!!!

Scratch all that






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my laptop is all better i am happy everything bad was taken out INCLUDING norton and was told to get malware

no kellz needs to stop downloading porn on my computer

i filled mine up, so i need to use hers

except i have no problems with mine