Re: Stucked!!! Appear and dissapear...

In news:A258AA6A-972B-45E3-B39C-159C652BEBAF@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Cristian <Cristian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> How this happened I don't know, but now, when I turn on my pc, after
> I put my password and log on, and the icons at the desktop are
> loaded, the icons ad the desktop and the taskbar all dissapear for
> one or two seconds after one or two seconds after they appeared, as
> if the computer is going to turn on, and after two or three seconds,
> the icons and the taskbar appear again, and after one or two second
> they dissappear again, and this keeps going on... It is so quick that
> I can't do anything in the computer but turn it off again (by
> restarting w/ the manual switch and then turning off)
>
>> How, and why this happens?
>> Is there another action I can take to resolve this problem that is
>> not formatting?

This is USUALLY a sign of explorer.exe crashing over and over again and this
is typically caused by malware. The following is a bunch of gibberish but if
you read it through to the end and try it you might find it works. Note: Pay
attention to the reading through to the end part and to the safe mode bit.

Virus:
www.grisoft.com - AVG
www.antivir.com - AntiVir
http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/index.cfm - CA eTrust

Spyware:
www.lavasoft.de - AdAware
http://security.kolla.de/ - Spybot
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx -
Microsoft Anti-Spyware Beta

Trojan:
www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/ - a Squared
http://swatit.org/ Swat It

Before cleaning download this:

LSP-Fix - a free program to repair damaged Winsock 2 stacks:
http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm

Use that should cleaning out your PC remove or damage your in-place winsock
and you can't connect to the internet.

>From the virus and trojan category pick one application, they're all free,
download it and install it. Make sure that you update it. From the spyware
category pick all three, download them and update them to the latest
definitions. Reboot, press the F8 key over and over again, from the menu
select Safe mode without networking. Do your cleaning in there. Reboot to
regular mode and run the scans again. This isn't going to be quick or easy
but it might just solve your problems and it should prevent you from further
problems so long as you keep them updated and scan often. Most of them can
be enabled to update and scan automatically.

Galen
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Signature changed for a moment of silence.
Rest well Alex and we'll see you on the other side.


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