to be fed up with my pc playing up

[2shoes]

it got a virus today(stopped it) and I keep getting pop ups and omg one was shocking.

it's so annoying when that happens. no your not being unreasonable, time on here is precious!

no your not 2shoes.mine was playing up as well today,now had a bad evening too

fingers crossed the pop ups have stopped. if ds 15 had seen it he would have died lol
but my alt-ctrl-del doesnt work

it makes me really cheesed off when something goes wrong with it,but luckily today i did a system restore and seems to be ok now.look in legal and you will see why i am also pissed off.

omg that is shit hope you get it sorted

Tnogu says go to cab ,and see what they say.they must think we are stupid if gonna continue for half pay.I only went there for 8 weeks to help them out and ive been there 32 months !

I know

do you mean you know if its legal ? any advice appreciated

I love computers but there are constant problems with them. Luckily my dh works in IT. Don't know how families without IT people survive!

please ask him how i get my alt-ctrl-del back

I would, but he's not in the country at the moment, sorry. Hope you find it soon!

just a thought 2shes ,was wondering if you did the same as i did (restore) that may do it ?

Popups are 99% of the time caused by visiting dodgy websites that take advantage of vulnerabilities in the browser - have you got somebody who's been browsing for
a) porn
b) dodgy music (sites publishing torrents, etc)
c) Hacked/cracked/serial software?

The ctrl-alt-del not working is more worrying. If hitting those three keys together doesn't bring up the either the "shut down/task manager/change password" dialogue or the task manager then something quite serious has gone wrong, possibly something like a kernel-level virus. Don't use your PC for online banking or anything that requires typing in your credit card number/passwords/other confidential stuff until you've had it checked out.

thanks have avoided doing anything like that.

if i have got a kernal thing how do you get rid of it. i have restored/scanned

think i have managed to get rid of virus. sounds funny but am wondering if it is the keyboard so am going to get anew one

If you right click on the taskbar, do you get Task Manager as one of the options?

yes

And does it come up OK if you click on it? If so it looks like the task manager file is OK - several viruses disable it.
Do the ctrl alt & delete keys work separately?

no if i click on task manager nothing happens

Oh dear - looks like your task manager file is lost/disabled/corrupted. System restore may help, but if it's a virus that's done it it may have disabled that as well.

Think you need advice from someone who knows a bit more than me {sad]

2shoes if you do have a virus and you see the name of it appear on your screen you can go onto the symantic website and they have lots of "cures " to get rid of viruses.You could also try going on to the trend micro web site and they have an online virus checker called housecall .hope this may help.you can just type in housecall in your search box.

thanks. I have been on to norton and know it was a trojan but am just trying to find the file I need to find iynwim

good luck in your search ,hope you soon get it sorted out.

i am past caring at the mo........it still works. but will have another go tomorrow