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Whats wrong with my computer?
Any time I get a "page not found" thing on my window (like when i try to type in an incorrect address or something) and try to use the back button, my computer starts acting crazy and all these windows pop up, like at least 25 of them and i can't exit out of them (and they're all blank...its not like pop up adds or anything, but they do have an address at the top with a bunch of letters, numbers, slashes, etc.). whats wrong with it and can I prevent this from happening??
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As well as what everyone else said you could also try using a program called hijackthis. Hijackthis scans your computer and creates a log which will tell you if there's any spyware or viruses in your computer. Hijackthis logs are hard to understand so you may need to post the log on a message board somewhere and see if anyone can help you.
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Oh, i'll tell you whats wrong with it; it has Microsoft Windows.
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Sounds a lot like an ineptly made browser hijacker. The windows probably serve some purpose - if you check page source you'll probably see a lot of gibberish that you won't be able to read but actually does something vey sinister. Like the last person said, get an antivirus tool - AVG free edition and/or AdAware personal (google should turn up a link to their respective pages no worries) are handy.
If those doesn't fix the problem, I have one other suggestion. When you say "A lot of slashes and numbers and letters," that sounds like the thing in the address bar is in hexidecimal, which a web browser will display in a form with a slash and then two letters or numbers, repeated. This is done to hide the actual address of the file which the browser is opening; so if you can translate the hex, (google 'hexidecimal translator', though you'll have to delete the slashes in the address you want to translate) you should be able to find the name of the file and delete it. Before you do that though, open it in a text editor and save a copy of the contents somewhere. It's possible that the page itself is referencing a .dll which is causing the problem, and you will have to delete that to to stop it.
uc_asc@yahoo.com for questions and comments. I have a vested interest because I once used this method to kill a browser hijacker and I'm wondering how many can be gotten rid of the same way.
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I'm not pro, but if I were you I would get an ad-aware scan and a virus scan just in case. You can go here for a free download of ad-aware: [Link](Mouse over link to see full location) Or you can download spybot s&d here: [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
Hope those pop ups go away.
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