Unable To Access Websites That Require a Password-Please Help!
Hello out there!
I must have picked up a bug somewhere, I'm really not sure. Sometime last week something happended to my computer and I am unable to access my msn email account or any other website that requires a password. ANY assistance that anyone would provide would be greatly appreciated.
I don't know if any of this information will help but....I subscribe to Norton Antivirus and I had Cybersitter until this AM (had it for about 18 months to try and protect my kids from things I didn't want them to see). I also have XP. I tried the system restore function but that did not help. Norton doesn't list any infected files. Thanks!!
Well, my initial theory is only partially true because I had to enter a screen name and a password to log onto this forum. Something is really strange about this problem. I can access things like ebay and a boating forum but I can't access my MSN email or my Mediacom email or my Delta airlines site or Hilton website (I travel a lot so these websites are invaluable to me but I can't access them on my home computer). When I enter my user name and password and hit enter, the "this page cannot be displayed" page like you get when you are either not online trying to access a website or when your ISP is down (like Mediacom frequently is). I think this is secondary but after I found that there was a problem, I uninstalled the Cybersitter program and restrored my computer to an earlier date (before I noticed the problelm). One strange thing about the system restore is that I cannot scroll back in time to see when updates were made to my computer. Other strange things are, my Windows updates are "stuck" at 37% downloaded and I frequently hear the sound of a drop of water. As I'm sure you can tell, I am merely a basic user with limited time to become as familiar with my computer as I would like to be. Please excuse my obvious ignorance of the subject matter. If I didn't enter enough information please let me know.
Download
HiJackThis; version
1.98.2. Move it to it's own directory, then run it. Click "
Scan", then "
Save log". Copy/paste what come up, and post it back here.
Don't fix anything with it just yet, as most of what it reports is 'good'.
I thought that was going to take a long time! :-). OK, I ran the program and there are several dozen items the scan located. What should I do from here? Thanks again Mike!
Logfile of HijackThis v1.98.2
Scan saved at 7:23:35 PM, on 10/24/2004
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)
If your referring to HiJackThis, don't fix anything!...
You need to post the log it created back to this thread, so we can take a look at it and tell you which entry(s) need to be removed.
Alot of what it reports is good! And you can damage your operating system by removing the wrong entry(s). This is an analysis tool, used to manually check for 'bad' programs.
Without viewing the contents of the log it created, there's no way I can tell.
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Posted October 24th, 2004 00:00
Mike.