Firefox not starting...

Originally Posted by MuppeTFuckeR

If that doesn't work then uninstall Firefox and download a registry cleaner to get rid of all the old Mozilla registry entries, after which you can reinstall Firefox.

I gave it another try. This time I made sure to delete the older settings that the older deinstaller left behind. It works fine now.

However, many more issues have come to my attention...mostly virus related issues.

The previous owner of this laptop didnt run any antivirus software, so this thing is riddled with them. I got rid of many of them, but a few of them keep popping up as Svchost processes and it says the infected file is none other than explorer.exe

Is there any way to fix this short of reinstalling windows? Because it doesnt seem like my antivirus software can fix it.

EDIT: This is OP actually. I didn't know my account was restored, and logged into it on accident. But my old account is restored, woot.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Zergrinch

Personally, I wouldn't bother with disinfection, especially on a laptop that did not belong to me. Just reformat the whole thing and maybe performance would even improve.

The issue here is that I have been using it for months and this only came to my attention now. I would rather disenfect just because I am too lazy to back it up to another computer.

Also, here is what my antivirus says:

On the left is what pops up very 45 seconds, and on the right is what happens when I click "Heal"



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What about the explorer.exe though?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Okay, took a few days of work, and we have eliminated most of the problems, but now there is a trojan that according to the AVG scans, planted itself in my recycle bin.

Now I am having problems finding the recycling bin...I know how bad that sounds. So obviously I cannot remove what I cannot find.

Originally Posted by Zergrinch

I still say reformatting is the best option

That is a last resort. Too many things on this computer I would need to backup.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

You misunderstand. The recycling bin is there, but when I open up a command prompt and open up the directory for it, there are a few thousands files in it.

In other news...guess what is back? And this is the only website I have gone to or the only web process that I have ran on this laptop....so ya....

Originally Posted by MTGNecro

On the left is what pops up very 45 seconds, and on the right is what happens when I click "Heal"

I would just be happy if I could get rid of that damned thing T_T The fake files are gone, deleted, but it is still running from somewhere.



EDIT: Would replacing these files with copies from another system running the same settings and windows version be a fix for it assuming that the problem is indeed with the real svchost.exe and explorer.exe files?

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And firefox is acting up again -_-

Which logs do you want (System, Security, Application) and how much of them Zerg?

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Whelp...time to reformat...thanks for the attempt to help me guys

FELIPE NO

Weeeee! Back for more computer problems. My laptop though is working fine after the reformating.

So on this desktop I am working on, multiple trojans have been detected inside of the windows volume folder. Access is restricted and the files in question (according to my virus protection) are executables...which if I recall dont belong in the volume folder correct?

So my antivirus cant remove them due to access being restricted to the folder that essentially hold the contents of my disk drives. How can I remove them?

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?