Why does my computer keep freezing, even on boot up and
what can be wrong?
The other thing I need help with is - to defrag I have to
start in Safe Mode, which I do. I am told something is
working in the back ground, how can I find out what this
is and what can I do aboutit. Thanks a lot.

Re: Freezing by Noel

Noel
Mon Oct 11 13:21:35 CDT 2004

You may have a virus/spyware hijack

download the Stinger from here and run it to make sure that A-V-disabling
viruses are not present on your PC
http://download.nai.com/products/mcafee-avert/stinger.exe

- update your virus scanner and run a full system scan of all files.

Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove variants of the
CoolWebSearch hijacker.
http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html

Use CWShredder, the removal tool:
http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip
http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads/tools/CWShredder.exe
http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip

download AdAware from www.lavasoftusa.com, install, update, and run it to
remove spyware, adware,
and other such nasties from your system.


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"Kay" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:339801c4af1d$03ad2dd0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Why does my computer keep freezing, even on boot up and
> what can be wrong?
> The other thing I need help with is - to defrag I have to
> start in Safe Mode, which I do. I am told something is
> working in the back ground, how can I find out what this
> is and what can I do aboutit. Thanks a lot.