Matt Parkman.
Student Shakespeare
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Posts: 9484 | August 13th, 2008 at 06:49pm Recently, on my other laptop, my little brother has been having some problems.
I don't have a clue what's caused this, I only know the effects. Which are.
- Occasionally myspace will duplicate the browser window, so in the end you have a million odd myspace windows open.
- The laptop is running seriously slow
- Other effects of minor virus/spyware.
I'm pretty good with computers, so I know how to fix it, and I have other ways around it without wiping the laptop.
I'm just wondering if you've had any experiences with this, and if you know what caused it, so I can slap Andrew and tell him what not to do! |
die sektor
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Posts: 600 | August 14th, 2008 at 02:12am Well, I know that Myspace is a good place to find spammers who try to link people to virus-y webpages. Ever seen those ads in people's comments on Myspace which are like "Click here for the Myspace Tracker!!" or "click here to buy this Gift Card!!!"? They're all links to virus-y pages (or they're phishing scams), so perhaps your brother clicked on one of those and let a virus in? That's the first thing I thought of... |
ChemicallyImbalanced
Wordsmith
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 10251 | August 14th, 2008 at 12:24pm Downloading anything from the internet lately?
Because alot of the time anything that you download sometimes have viruses attatched to the file. |
Matt Parkman.
Student Shakespeare
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Posts: 9484 | August 14th, 2008 at 02:39pm Yeah I know, but I don't think so.
I find it strange that it only happens when MySpace is open and it only duplicates the MySpace window.
I'm thinking it might be an app, because there was a bulletin going round warning you about it, but I thought scam at first, but after reading it, I realised that it is possible. So d'ya think it might be a dodgey app he installed, and has now installed a temp file or something with a virus? |
Kevin.
Amateur Author
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Posts: 179 | August 14th, 2008 at 04:56pm If the bulletin was from the mods at MySpace then it probably is the application.
Try filtering your temporary files to make sure it gets deleted. If it's not a virus and is only the application, it shouldn't be too hard to get rid of.
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Matt Parkman.
Student Shakespeare
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Posts: 9484 | August 27th, 2008 at 01:31pm Yeah. I know what to do and everything, I just found it a little creepy.
But now it did it with facebook and hasn't done it for about a month.
Weird, but Iunno. |
o rly?
Ink Slinger
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 884 | August 27th, 2008 at 10:50pm This happens to me, too! I'll open up a window, and then all of a sudden there are like 40 duplicates popping open, and their MySpace song is playing 40 different times, nonsimultaneously. It's horrible.
When it happens, I usually press Alt + F4 to control it, and then just do the whole Ctrl + Alt + Delete thing. It helps.
Also, I think it only happens when you open something in a new window, but not when you use tabs... |
yours to keep
Writer's Block
Age: -
Gender: Female
Posts: 25 | November 29th, 2008 at 05:52am Same here! then I have to use my task manager to delete them all, them all my windows close down. I get soo pissed off.
xD |
