comp woes
 

any techie types on? iv been using the comp and noticed this ,my boy told that its been like this for a few days my comps playing up and i dont know how to fix it any ideas ?heres whats happ-i cant acess any e-mail accounts (or any msn pages for that matter) and when in e-bay when i click on'watch this item ' it comes up a white page with text @this page is unavailable'wtf ..ive been on somebody elses comp and its not the site,i can acess all else but these pages are not right .iv tried disabling the firewall but it made no diff :wink:

Sound like a spyware issue or virus.

Download Adaware and make sure you AV software is up to date.

I say what any old tech support would tell you: reinstall windows.
And then get some proper protecteion (norton antivirus 2006 for example. It might be a tad bit slow, but it certainly does the trick) and perhaps some firewall (be it software or hardware)

I wouldn't enter any personal details until you got this sorted as well.
And if you have bought anything online, be sure to check your cc statements just to be sure nobody has nicked your cc number... Happends all the time :evil:

Would they? I certainly wouldnt. Reinstalling should be a last resort as most people have data they wish to keep and to perform a "true" reinstall it would require the drive to be blank.



I would first try and salvage the current OS. If that wasnt possible i'd move onto other options and only once all personal data is in a safe place would i recommend a reinstall.

Last time this happened to me it was the norton anti-virus update, I had to resort to system restore to get the E-mail and E-bay working.

chris

Er it doesn't sound anything like an OS problem seeing as he hasn't mentioned any crashes or anything else. It sounds like you are having problems viewing web pages that need cookies. Try deleting your temporary internet files and cookies, and also check your cookies settings, they may have been set to not accept anything which would explain your website viewing problems.

Nick