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From: jones on 16 May 2010 20:53 Windows7 is the only operating sys installed. Several months ago, Windows boot manager started appearing at startup and after starting, when I clicked on start, I would get a small progress bar across the search area. After that the screen would go dark momentarily and then go back to normal. The same thing would happen again if I clicked on start. I formatted the hard drive and reinstalled win7. Everything was fine for several months and it is starting again. Should I have gone farther and repartitioned the HD? Any ideas? Do I have a virus? Has anyone heard of this? Thanks in advance, Jones.
From: David H. Lipman on 16 May 2010 21:39 From: "jones" <till_00(a)yahoo.com> | Windows7 is the only operating sys installed. | Several months ago, Windows boot manager started appearing at startup | and after starting, | when I clicked on start, I would get a small progress bar across the | search area. After that the screen would go dark momentarily and then | go back to normal. The same thing would happen again if I clicked on | start. I formatted the hard drive and reinstalled win7. Everything | was fine for several months and it is starting again. Should I have | gone farther and repartitioned the HD? Any ideas? Do I have a | virus? Has anyone heard of this? Thanks in advance, Jones. Please don't assume it is a virus. Most malware are not viruses and are trojans and thus non-viral malware. What you post does not sound like malware but something you are not used to in the Win7 OS. What anti virus/anti malware do you have installed, besides Windows Defender ? -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: jones on 16 May 2010 22:13 On May 16, 6:39 pm, "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nosp...(a)Verizon.Net> wrote: > From: "jones" <till...(a)yahoo.com> > > | Windows7 is the only operating sys installed. > | Several months ago, Windows boot manager started appearing at startup > | and after starting, > | when I clicked on start, I would get a small progress bar across the > | search area. After that the screen would go dark momentarily and then > | go back to normal. The same thing would happen again if I clicked on > | start. I formatted the hard drive and reinstalled win7. Everything > | was fine for several months and it is starting again. Should I have > | gone farther and repartitioned the HD? Any ideas? Do I have a > | virus? Has anyone heard of this? Thanks in advance, Jones. > > Please don't assume it is a virus. Most malware are not viruses and are trojans and thus > non-viral malware. > > What you post does not sound like malware but something you are not used to in the Win7 > OS. > > What anti virus/anti malware do you have installed, besides Windows Defender ? > > -- > Davehttp://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html > Multi-AV -http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp I use McAfee and it is updated on a regular basis. I ran a full scan when this was happening and it showed no problems. Afterwards, when I was sitting here thinking, the av program went red in several places, stating that I had lost protection and did I want it fixed. I clicked ok and then a message came up saying that it was unable to complete the job. But, the problem appears to have cleared up-for now. Hopefully, for good! I would like to understand what is going on and that is why I posted. It could be something that I am not used to in W7, that would be very interesting-especially after formatting the HD to get rid of it. :) Thanks again. Jones.
From: David H. Lipman on 16 May 2010 23:18 From: "jones" <till_00(a)yahoo.com> | I use McAfee and it is updated on a regular basis. I ran a full scan | when this was happening and it showed no problems. | Afterwards, when I was sitting here thinking, the av program went red | in several places, stating that I had lost protection and | did I want it fixed. I clicked ok and then a message came up saying | that it was unable to complete the job. But, the problem | appears to have cleared up-for now. Hopefully, for good! I would | like to understand what is going on and that is why I posted. | It could be something that I am not used to in W7, that would be very | interesting-especially after formatting the HD to get rid of it. :) | Thanks again. Jones. McAfee just isn't that good anymore and stating "the av program went red in several places, stating that I had lost protection and did I want it fixed" doesn'r really help. :-( Download, install, update and then execute, Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam/program/mbam-setup.exe -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: JD on 17 May 2010 00:46 The Real Truth MVP wrote: > Try upgrading your video drivers. > > > The Real Truth MVP is not listed on the MVP list: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ The web page http://www.ms-mvp.org/ uses Godaddy's stealth frame-redirection to redirect you to: http://pcbutts1.com/downloads/tools/tools.htm Check out �pcbutts� using your favorite search engine. Can you really trust someone like this? Do you really want to follow his advice? -- JD..
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