For some unknown reason Win XP keeps closing my window boxes. For example. I could be typing this post when all of a sudden the window will be sent to the background which means the keyboard won't type because it thinks the window is closed. Another very annoying thing is when I watch Movies or play emulators full screen. XP keeps closing them down every 3 minutes or so making it very annoying to watch a movie and impossible to play emulators. Does any one know why this is happening. It started 3 days ago but I have no idea why since I didn't change anything on the PC. Yakumo
Sounds like Something could be running automatically behind your programs. This happens to me, for example, when I'm playing or doing something full-screen and AVG Antivirus decides it's time for an update or a test - it runs, the machine slows down, and generally, it' minimizes my full screen programs for a moment. So see if any of your programs has scheduled functions that have been made into... every three minutes? Yeah, not very plausible. So .... What runs without one being able to see it, and behind regular programs, without being called and every two minutes? 1) Windows Automatic Update on SP2 (Which should be disabled) 2) A virus or trojan trying to use your machine to send data elsewhere 3) Spyware / Malware working continuously. So... have you run Spybot, Ad-Aware and a clean Antivirus on your machine? Sounds suspicious enough to me...
Maybe a virus or worm or simular or as XerdoPwerko stated above you might want to use some kind of spyware-finder
I ran Spybot yesterday and deleted all the spyware so today I went to Panda Software and ran their free online virus scanner (very good as well) It picked up and disinfected 2 Trojan/worms that were in the XP boot up. It also found 6 spyware adds but wouldn't disinfect them so I'm running Spybot again right now. Hopefully this will solve the problem. Actually I think it has because this window hasn't go to the background yet Yakumo
It was likely to be scumware and malware then - My guess wasn't that off. I hope now it works much better. For curiosity purposes - what were the names of the spywares and trojans detected, if you remember them?
I don't remember to be honest and for Evalngelion's question, I wasn't on porn sites. I have the real thing so no need They probably came from some keygen site I guess. Yakumo
you can get a free antivirus software (and it's even legal! ) here: http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5
I always recommend legal XP, clean install with SP2, and leave updates on unless you don't have broadband!! Yup I would've said a virus on this, or spyware. Yakumo, I'd recommend running HijackThis to see if there's anything left. If you want, I'd take a look at your log file - or use the automatic log file analyser at www.hijackthis.de Incidentally, you can get virii off ALL KINDS of sites. The usual ones are something shady - warez sites and the like, more likely than a porn site! A porn site wants your money - why would they scare you off with a virus? I went to a music site the other day, which someone told me listed the latest albums. Unfortunately, it listed the latest MP3 albums (ripped), and so being a shady site gave me 5 virii straight away! I'm very thankful I had Kaspersky on! Incidentally, AVG is better than nothing, but it isn't very good. I have seen it fail lots of times. Panda - better I suppose, the free check is handy at least. Even norton has a free online checker, though.
