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Interesting Computer problem
oniian
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Last Sunday my gf was going online to look something up using Firefox on my XP partition. Except that when ever she would enter in a search, the browser would automatically take her back to the previous page.
She told me about it and I experienced the same problem. But this also was occurring with IE 6 and File Explorer, essentially disabling me from navigating my computer when not using CMD,
I have AVG and Ad-aware and they came back with nothing. As did the several other test I ran, most of which involved following the steps listed here.
So all the test came back negative. And now, to boot, the problem is not occurring any more. The only thing that was of any interest is AVG saying that several files had changed that such as the kernel32.dll in the system32 folder. But I did run some Microsoft updates before all of this occurred.
Does anyone have any idea what this might be related to or have an option as to what I should do next? I can post my "Hijack This" log or Process Explorer too if anyone is curious.
Up to this point I was seriously considering reformatting and installing but now I am on fence about that.
She told me about it and I experienced the same problem. But this also was occurring with IE 6 and File Explorer, essentially disabling me from navigating my computer when not using CMD,
I have AVG and Ad-aware and they came back with nothing. As did the several other test I ran, most of which involved following the steps listed here.
So all the test came back negative. And now, to boot, the problem is not occurring any more. The only thing that was of any interest is AVG saying that several files had changed that such as the kernel32.dll in the system32 folder. But I did run some Microsoft updates before all of this occurred.
Does anyone have any idea what this might be related to or have an option as to what I should do next? I can post my "Hijack This" log or Process Explorer too if anyone is curious.
Up to this point I was seriously considering reformatting and installing but now I am on fence about that.
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I guess it also worth mentioning that this problem has happened several times after several reboots.
Honestly, do you want to be putting up with this every other time you boot up the computer?