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What computer virus do I have? or Can you give me any insight as to what is wrong with my computer?

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Hi everyone! Thanks for viewing my question...

I have windows XP Pro. I have Internet Explorer 7. This has been going on for a while and I dont know what to do, so if you can head me in the right direction I will totally appreciate it. Okay...

When I start my computer, I get a message on the lower right hand side of the screen that says I do not have automatic updates on and that my security software can't be detected. I proceed to turn on automatic updates manually to find out it is turned on already... When I try to go to the microsoft update page I am getting a cannot load page. However I can access other webpages. So my computer cannot update. I have adaware version 8.0 (which has been going great until the update problem) and I am unable to download the updates for that... I get a message that the server connection failed. The same message appears when i try to update my anti-virus software...I uninstalled the anti-virus and I am unable to download the software again... I am unable to perform ANY updates....

Also, when I open internet explorer, I can view my homepage (yahoo.com) however when i perform a search and click on the found webpage, I am automatically taken to another weird site... while this is going on... I am getting numerous ad pop ups that are maximized windows...when i close these windows I am forced to close internet explorer all together.... This happens every single time...

The other aspects of my computer work as I can tell.... no issues with automatically restarting or anything like that...

So any information can really help me out... Thanks in advance!

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  1. i suggest you do a system restore

    go to start then help and support then undo changes to my computer using system restore

    that way you can set it back to the way it was before


  2. I know a company that help with almost any computer problem. They are btexpress computer repair. They are great. I went to them and they know what they are doing. I love what they done to my computer. It was not fast and had viruses on it but, now it is clean and fast as lighten. If you would like to visit them the link is in my profile. btexpress computer repair is great

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