OT Help please. Computer problems

Willem,
Download a free ware program called SPYBOT and see if it can help you. It's got me out of trouble in the past.
Steve

Willem,

Do a Google on adir.dll. It will give a list of possible solutions. Unfortunately EO won't use the link in my reply (it may be too long ???? )

Hi Willem,
Download and install AVG Free edition It will do a scan when installing.

It's a 16MB download (not so good for you on dial-up I'm afraid) and gives you an excellent Anti Virus product with regular updates free of charge. The commercial version includes Spam and Spyware protection plus a firewall but all you really need is the Anti Virus package, a good firewall like Zonelabs ZoneAlarm (also free) and Spybot. Why pay for protection when you can get it for nothing? :-)

Thanks fellas

I tried a NoAdware program(adir.dll remover...so they say) which scanned my computer and found 63 bugs etc but then wanted $37 USD to remove them. So.................

I downloaded AVG a couple of days ago but then it came with a file extension I could not open so it too was removed.

Will go to Spybot next if I can get Google open again...

Cheers

Buy a recognised anti virus such as norton internet security 2007 ya tightass .LOL . Seriously i have had a puuter for 5 years and norton has not let in a single virus ever . The 2006 edition was far better than any previous edition so 2007 should be great . Some might say it slows the puuter down but with todays specs thats a croc . Cheers and have a safe and virus free new year .

Willem,

This dll file is not a Windows file so your system, or applications you have installed, may not need it. (I ran a search and it is not on my Windows XP System)

Try renaming it, or copying it to a removable medium such as a "stick drive".
If you can successfully copy it, delete the original from the win32/Sinteri directory.
Reboot your PC. If it doesn't complain about the missing, or renamed file, you don't need it and can be permanently deleted. The Sinteri sub directory is probably from a specific application installation.

Run the various applications you have got loaded to check if one of them needs the file. If it does, maybe reinstallation of that application will resolve your problem in the meantime.

Quite often a virus infection adds a new dll file, rather than infecting an existing one.

Good luck.

Willem, before going much further I'd do a backup of my essential data, email lists etc onto a disk or cdrom. Bear in mind that the backup might be infected.
Then I'd get rid of the problem. Be sure to disinfect the backup with whatever you use to get rid of the bug.
This way if anything goes wrong , you should still have your personal data availiable.
I can sympathize with your hassles.
I've had to replace hard drives because of virus activity.
Takes ages to set the puter up again , and I've learned the hard way about backups :((
Good luck with it.

Try going back to a restore point on your computer before you downloaded the attachment. Remember that you wil loose information on your computer that you downloaded since that time.

Hi Willem

I would actually try and get the file off another computer, change the file_name on yours first,,,add the file, then delete the other one..

If you need toreformat I have a corporate version of XP Pro, service pak 2, or anything else , just yell out,, and I will gladly do you a copy

I don't get cought with virus's ( touch_wood )
Here is what I do !

I go to " webmail " on my ISP's site,,
,,, webmail allows me to check my emails on their computers, monitor all the files ( believe me,,I get about 20-30 a day )
I am " ruthless ", I delete all I do not know ,,,

I then empty/purge the deleted files folder..

Then I recieve my emails, via Incredemail ( it appears less succeptible to problems than Outlook )

Now in the Options folder or your email client, I go to" CHECK for NEW MESSAGES " option and put it up to 180 minutes,,

By doing this, you eliminate any chance of automatically downloading " trouoble ".


doing this for 4 years now, and trust me its the only way..

Cheers Mate
Bucky
ps have a happy new year

Google for a program called hijackthis, run it and submit the logfile to w w w . h i j a c k t h i s . d e / ( remove the spaces ), if it finds trouble their forum is very helpfull to

This has happened a few times to me Willem.

The only real solution I have found is to 'restore' your computer to a date before it happened.

Hi Willem - As you know - when all else fails, do a clean reinstall of Windows.
In some cases this is the only way to guarantee success, plus it gives you a clean registry.
One solution to keeping data safe: before you re-install Windows, partition the hard drive into 2 drives - a C drive and a D drive.

A partition is like putting a cargo barrier in the 4wd. The operating system goes on one side of the cargo barrier (the C drive), your data goes on the D drive.

If there is a crash or virus etc, you can reformat C drive and re-install windows, but your data stays safe on the D drive. We all know we should back-up, but we are human - and most never do (myself included). So - Partition the drive and your data is safe. Have used this on many computers over the years.

(To move your data to another drive, click Start; then right click MY Documents; click Properties; click Move.).....................Keith

willem
i have just rebooted after being infected since 23 dec.... with a clean machine..I Hope?...it took all day yesterday and last night letting spysweeper do last clean up over night, and this morning its now 11.10am...i have run all antispyware programs stuff again this morning...so i have my fingers crossed...if it does work i am going out to get a new compter and give this one to the mongrel who downloaded the shiet..my eldest boy!

Go to bleepingcomputers.com and majorgeeks.com (yes you heard right ..dont sound llike safe or good sites but they are) for info and free scanners and follow thier directions to the word...seems to work. You will need to join as a member to be able to down load a couple of small files. But they tell you where to go to get some goodens..even if only trial. One gooden is called hijackthis.

But i did have a particular nasty one so only time will tell. I ended up with smitfraud, along with a couple of other nasties and vet kept on deleting clspring virus that kept reappearing as did smity and the others even though i removed them from the registry as well.... they say trojans usualy come down in groups and they look after each other...so if you delete one ,the others reinfect you with it again.

the time it has taken me to write this i would have been redirected to winantvirus pro 2006 ((DO NOT GO THERE)...its a bad site so google says) and some othermm...10 or so antivirus sites by now...but so far not one