what is it?

[QuadJunkies]

Ive got this blue Dog figure in a blue square on the bottom right hand side of any window on my computer... WTF is it?? :huh It wasnt ther a few days ago?? :confused:

[JJWB023]

maybe its some sort of search-engine-installed piece of equipment

[knighttime]

:p

[spudss]

Its not the little helper dog from microsoft word is it..

[Mxjunkie]

sounds like you have a search engine thing downloaded like dogpile or lycos or w.e it is.

[QuadJunkies]

Originally posted by knighttime
:p smarty pants !! :blah: All I know is that it wasnt there until today and I have not downloaded anything.

stay off the porn:devil:

[gojk]

Post a screen shot and we can see what you are talking about.

[Pappy]

Originally posted by gojk
Post a screen shot and we can see what you are talking about.

it doesnt really need to be of the dog:devil:

[honduh440]

go to.....
-start
-settings
-control panel
-add/remove programs

and then look for programs installed on your comp that you KNOW is not needed and delete them.......... random websites can load stuff on your computer even tho you didnt authorize it

[Punk'd]

Its most likely spyware. You can get rid of spyware many ways. Go to www.download.com and download either Adaware or Spybot. I use both and run both of them everyday. Or you can go to Microsofts website and download there spyware remover. Its just like a virus scan but for spyware! Goodluck if you have any questions just ask!

Randy

[QuadJunkies]

Originally posted by Punk'd
Its most likely spyware. You can get rid of spyware many ways. Go to www.download.com and download either Adaware or Spybot. I use both and run both of them everyday. Or you can go to Microsofts website and download there spyware remover. Its just like a virus scan but for spyware! Goodluck if you have any questions just ask!

Randy I already have both. ;) nothing detected. I tried to copy and paste the picture, but it wont let me.

[gojk]

Can you paste them into an e-mail and send them to j_gojkovich @ cox.net. Make sure you put the address back together before sending.

[QuadJunkies]

It has since dissappeared.............. weird.... :huh
Ill send it tomorrow if it appears again

[250R-Dee]

If it happens again open your task manager and check the processes that are running.

[Disaster]

Ya probably something downloaded it self when u went to a website...Happens to me all the time.

[JOEX]

A couple of other ways to keep an eye on things.....

Press ctrl/alt/delete at the same time (only once) to see what is currently running (you probably already knew that;) :p )

And...

click start>run> type msconfig> click the startup tab. That will tell you what programs will start automatically when you turn on the computer.

[QuadJunkies]

Ok Now its getting weird.... In my junk mail I am getting like 50 emails from websites Ive never been to saying "password " and that my" email has been blocked"??!! They are very random websites, I done scanned my Norton AGAIN and ran both my Adaware and my Spybot and it had detected nothing. :confused:


I was assuming I had a virus, but Im up to date and Norton has found nothing... Any ideas??

Oh and they alll have some kind of zip files, but I dont dare open them

[gojk]

The e-mail thing is a virus that just started getting passed around pretty heavily.

[QuadJunkies]

Originally posted by gojk
The e-mail thing is a virus that just started getting passed around pretty heavily. are you serious??!! :eek: How do I get it fixed??!! :mad: IVe got all the updates ....

[gojk]

Just receiving the e-mails won't infect you. Simply delete them.

[QuadJunkies]

turned out I had this........ :mad:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sober.removal.tool.html

Sober worm (or what ever its called) I downloaded the tool and its now fixed. It advises you to NOt ignore it and download the tool ;)