Post by Gaz2195 on Dec 15, 2006 14:10:58 GMT
Hi,
Yesterday while visiting a share website i clicked a link and a box appeared which looked very suspect. it was what looked like a windows box which said something to the effect of "execute command" in the title bar with a field underneath which has something highlighted but you could see what it was. i pressed "ctrl+alt+del" to exit out of it through my tasks box.
as the box came up my virus scan flashed up with three different items (not sure what they were as i panicked a bit) and so i instructed my virus software to remove them. i then restarted the computer with an avast scan on startup which found a couple of items that i also deleted.
when my computer came back on everything seemed fine but when i tried to connect to the internet i got the message that "the page cannot be found" and all the reasons why ie. is it spelt incorrectly, is my commputer connected to the internet, etc. i tried to connect to google as a teat and it could not find it.
i checked to see if i was connected and i was. my computer must have an active connection as after i had restarted it i managed to download the windows updates from a notification albeit very slowly.
is there anything that i can try which may enable me to get my browser viewing pages again? i was going to try and do the trend micro housecall scan but until it recognises the page i cannot start it.
i am currently running windows xp and the latest windows upadte installed internet explorer 7 (the update was done after i found out i couldnt get on the internet so i know its not that)
Thanks to anyone who can help.
Gaz
Yesterday while visiting a share website i clicked a link and a box appeared which looked very suspect. it was what looked like a windows box which said something to the effect of "execute command" in the title bar with a field underneath which has something highlighted but you could see what it was. i pressed "ctrl+alt+del" to exit out of it through my tasks box.
as the box came up my virus scan flashed up with three different items (not sure what they were as i panicked a bit) and so i instructed my virus software to remove them. i then restarted the computer with an avast scan on startup which found a couple of items that i also deleted.
when my computer came back on everything seemed fine but when i tried to connect to the internet i got the message that "the page cannot be found" and all the reasons why ie. is it spelt incorrectly, is my commputer connected to the internet, etc. i tried to connect to google as a teat and it could not find it.
i checked to see if i was connected and i was. my computer must have an active connection as after i had restarted it i managed to download the windows updates from a notification albeit very slowly.
is there anything that i can try which may enable me to get my browser viewing pages again? i was going to try and do the trend micro housecall scan but until it recognises the page i cannot start it.
i am currently running windows xp and the latest windows upadte installed internet explorer 7 (the update was done after i found out i couldnt get on the internet so i know its not that)
Thanks to anyone who can help.
Gaz