Computer Viruses

Typically they can not, unless they programed to do so. Most of the time it depends on the virus and what it's targeting.

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The first part of that answer says nothing. The last part is relevent. If the virus is designed to attack the restore points, yes it could.

The best antivirus protection comes from the following programs. If you're looking for free ones use, Avg, Avira, or Avast. I personally tried all three and like Avast the best. Mostly because it has a better anti-rookit engine, with less annoying pop-ups. These pop-ups have to do with updates, and false warnings. If you want a commercial antivirus program try BitDefender Plus, it has the best features and lowest price. Seoond place is Kaspersky, which has really good features and protection more expensive though. Third place is Norton and Webroot both cost the same and nearly on equally footing, but Webroot is a bit better. This is my honest, original, correct answer.

More than likely there is too much junk being loaded up at start-up. Login to safe mode and uninstall some stuff. I get at least 2 computers with that same problem to fix guaranteed every week. I find some of the biggest culprits are msn, windows live and sign-in assistant and especially any emoticons packages you may have downloaded.... Norton is very resource hungry too and so is AVG. When your back up and running do a disk defragmentation and a general clean-up. Do your windows updates and get any service packs you may need and perhaps, if your computers really slow you could wipe it. If you need any more assistance just message me. thanks this helped :-)

You can try system utility sfc

Press "Win + R" buttons on your keyboard and type sfc /scannow

If that won't help you can try to download Special utility - as I remember Svchost Fix Wizard (google it) - it cost money but it helped me.

No HyperCam don't have virus.

hypercam 3 from cnet downloads has a virus. I downloaded it and AVG said it was a threat so i moved it to the virus vault

It depends on what type of threat you have and you should ask Dave Kaspersky or the Norton anti-virus people try calling them.

Generally, taskeng.exe is not a virus. It's a component of the Windows Task Scheduler subsystem. If the file is located in the system32 directory it's a legitimate part of the OS. If it's elsewhere on your system, it could be malware masquerading as a legitimate Windows component.

SASI ( very, very old )

ST-412 ( old )

SCSI

IDE/ATA

SATA

I am not sure what you mean. 7777777 to me sounds like your the lucky winner.

I think what your computer has a virus. If you don't want to spend any money you could run a clean install, but that would wipe out everything on the computer and you would have to rerun the start up disk. Or if you spend a good chunk of money, you could get a professional to open up the command prompt to remove the virus.

Your computer may have the Ezula virus, that's what my computer had and it did the same thing.

A program is essentially a set of files. To remove a program that "Add or Remove Programs" cannot find, you need to delete the files. If you cannot find those files, it is likely that the program has already been uninstalled.

its phishing

no but the site has holes,which means that if a hacker/virus is on the site,the site is not good enough to not let viruses through the site

If you are running windows this is easy if you have not permanently deleted what you want..

Just click on the recycle bin and you will see a list of everything you have deleted.

Click on what you want to restore and click on "restore this item". It will go back to where it was when you deleted it.

If you have emptied your wastebasket it will be really hard to get something back.

If it is something really really valuable you might be able to pay an expert to retrieve it from

your hard drive because you see, when you "permanently" delete a file, all that is really

deleted is the address of the file in the directory. Until another file is written over it, which happens somewhat randomly, it can be recovered. This is why old hard drives should be reformatted or destroyed when a computer is sold or retired if it held sensitive information.

The three most common types of computer viruses are Trojans, Worms and email viruses. You can find these lurking anywhere on the Internet so the best solution is to have a good firewall and anti virus installed on your desktop PC and/or laptop.

Learn about viruses, worms, Trojan horse programs, etc. with these:

The Computer Virus Handbookby Harold Joseph Highland

Defense and Detection Strategies against Internet Wormsby Jose Nazario

Malware: Fighting Malicious Codeby Ed Skoudis, Lenny Zeltser

E-mail Virus Protection Handbook : Protect your E-mail from Viruses, Tojan Horses,

and Mobile Code Attacksby Syngress Publishing

Computer Security

Desktop Witness: The Do's & Don'ts of Personal Computer Securityby Michael A. Caloyannides

Computer Securityby Dieter Gollmann

Anti-Hacker Tool Kitby Keith J. Jones, Mike Shema, Bradley C. Johnson

Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker, Second Editionby William R. Cheswick, Steven M. Bellovin, Aviel D. Rubin

Software:

Panda Titanium Antivirus 2004Windows XP / NT / 2000 / Me / 95 / 98

Norton AntiVirus Professional & Personal Firewall 2004 Bundle

GhostSurf Professional

Webroot Spy Sweeper

Zerospyware 1.2

This is an interesting book I found about the creators of viruses and the developers of antivirus software:

The Virus Creation Labs: A Journey into the Undergroundby George Smith

How about you go to the local police station and tell them. Or go to Crime stoppers. Don't know if that have that in America though. Have a nice day. =D

Virus-L and computer virus are discussions forums which focus on computer virus issues

I don't think this problem is related to a virus, most likely this is a hardware relate issue.

Here are some troubleshooting tips.

Test your laptop with an external monitor attached to the VGA port. If the external video is working fine then most likely there is nothing wrong with the motherboard or video card and the problem is somewhere inside the laptop display panel. Most likely you have a bad LCD screen.

I doubt that this problem is related to the video cable because when you have a bad video cable it affects video on the whole screen, not just on the part of the screen.

I guess you'll have to replace the laptop screen.

AVG keeps giving me this pop-up...

"Exploit Fake Video Player Type1750"

What is this, and how do I get rid of it? It's *super* annoying, every 5 seconds!

antivirus software, such as Norton 360

true

You can get your password key for AVAST by first logging into your online avast system and then navigating to your account settings and changing the password key.

If you have antivirus no but if you don't yes