Help! computer under attack!

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Permalink Reply by Finsbury Park Ranger on January 29, 2015 at 20:34

Get an iPad, thay kind of stuff never happens.

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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on January 29, 2015 at 20:52

This is why I shell out for Macs.

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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on January 30, 2015 at 23:01

I think you're right John. PC Windows-boxes look cheap ... at the outset. Then the costs mount, including the most insidious, that few trouble to tabulate: lost time. My guess would be that total costs of ownership – the only sensible measure – are lower on Macs.

—a quarter century on Macs (first, the Mac II cx)

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Permalink Reply by pamish on January 29, 2015 at 20:55

Try control panel > programs> install/uninstall - see if there are any new ones you dont recognise?  I let a sneaky little sod in when downloading a  sticky note program - it kept offering me  things on every commercial site, ebay etc., in a bar across the screen.  Adblock no help. Could only fix it by deleting the program, so goodbye useful stickynote program. 

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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on January 29, 2015 at 20:57

Hope Marek's bike is up to the trip to where you now are??

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Permalink Reply by Philip on January 29, 2015 at 23:17

Yup. As Pamish suggested, it was a rogue program(not always easy to spot). So I deleted it and a couple of other things which I didn't recognise but it was ok as I could download them again. Turned out to be a prog called 'Positive Resources'. No clue in the name. 

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Permalink Reply by Marek on January 30, 2015 at 10:03

Hi Phillip

If you need any computer support with your issue just let me know.

My phone number 07904507745

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Permalink Reply by Oh no: nevermind! on February 26, 2015 at 9:42

Hi Marek,

I have a sony vaio laptop. Every six months the hard drive fails which Fasteck has replaced. I am now on the 3rd hard drive!!

Now it keeps crashing saying it cannot find the operating system. I reinstall the original software, it works for a few days and then crashes. Any ideas?

Thank you.

Adrian.

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Permalink Reply by Marek on February 26, 2015 at 14:12

What about the internet and wireless connection?

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Permalink Reply by Chris on January 30, 2015 at 22:49

Unless you've deliberately changed or installed something recently there should be a backup point you can restore to prior to the pop ups which may solve the issue (afraid I haven't used windows in a while). A quick Google should show you how to do it.

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