While searching for free online movies, my computer suddenly went haywire at one site and tried to open up numerous I-E windows (I use Firefox tho). Opening the Task Manager showed the Page File and CPU Usage graphs maxed out. I immediately closed all browsers and any strange applications I saw on the T/M List to calm the computer down. I'm running AVG Free but it never picked up on anything being wrong, even when I scanned the comp immediately afterward {that's what you get for free, eh? }. I i...

Hey MajorGeeks! Last night while Internet surfing, everything appeared normal until the computer slowed down and nearly crashed. The Jetico Personal Firewall absolutely crashed while the computer remained slow. An ad alerting me to a "possible malware infection" prompted the option to scan. I terminated this window through Task Manager. Then I shut everything down. I re-booted in Safe Mode, followed the instructions in the READ & RUN ME, and commenced the Windows XP Cleaning Procedure. The resul...

So my previous thread got archived. Here's what I posted in it: Quote: : I forgot to mention two things: Now that I think about it, I haven't seen TeaTimer pop up in a long time (since before the symptoms started, easily). This all started recently after accessing some website through Google search and then having my computer freeze. After a while it told me that Spybot had prevented virtumonde from being installed. Panicking (what if it had missed a bit?!), I scanned with MalwareBytes, then Spy...