COMPUTER HELP!!

“Control Panel
Taskbar and Start Menu
Start Menu
Customize...”

“just kick the shlt outa the bastard.......”

“Do a real good virus scan on the machine. There are some exploits that use IE to gain control of a computer. This could very well cause the program to launch itself.”

“Yup, sounds like a virus to me.”

“Please help....

Can anyone tell me how to make "Internet Jumping" stop?! I need my Google back!!
For those of you who have not experienced this it consists of doing a search, trying to click on a link from the search and being redirected to another search engine, generally Lycos or some stupid shopping site that has absolutely nothing to do with the original search. If I click back and try again, over and over, I can usually get where I want to go by the fourth try. It's frustrating as heck and I HATE IT!
Someone please tell me how to stop it.”

“I just double click the back arrow and that works, or just use the drop down menu and click the page you want to go back to.”

“What crash blood said :)”

“Thanks alot Crash Bang. Dork. =P”

“Your browser has been hijacked.

http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/hijacked/”

“Long story short, it was an IE thing. They sent an "emergency update" last night that said something about a malicious something or nother. The update fixed the problem. UPluver thanks for your help!”

“YW Sass...glad I could help :)
(besides now you owe me :D lol)”

“yeah, a malicious hijack”

“The emergency update that was sent out last night would not fix the problem you mentioned. It would at most, cover up one of the ways the problem could have been initiated. If the problem you mentioned went away last night just be applying the security update, your problem did not go away, even if it appears that it has.

Look under the 3rd critical update. It's the only one that affects Explorer.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-oct.mspx

Your browser is still hijacked if all you did is what you said you did.”

“Does anyone know if there is anything like disk defragmenter on the PC on a Mac? My bosses computer is running ridiculously slow lately.”

“http://www.ehow.com/how_8173_defragment-mac-hard.html

http://www.essentialmac.com/fix/defragment.html

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25668

Do I need to optimize?

You probably won't need to optimize at all if you use Mac OS X. Here's why:

Hard disk capacity is generally much greater now than a few years ago. With more free space available, the file system doesn't need to fill up every "nook and cranny." Mac OS Extended formatting (HFS Plus) avoids reusing space from deleted files as much as possible, to avoid prematurely filling small areas of recently-freed space.


Mac OS X 10.2 and later includes delayed allocation for Mac OS X Extended-formatted volumes. This allows a number of small allocations to be combined into a single large allocation in one area of the disk.


Fragmentation was often caused by continually appending data to existing files, especially with resource forks. With faster hard drives and better caching, as well as the new application packaging format, many applications simply rewrite the entire file each time. Mac OS X 10.3 Panther can also automatically defragment such slow-growing files. This process is sometimes known as "Hot-File-Adaptive-Clustering."


Aggressive read-ahead and write-behind caching means that minor fragmentation has less effect on perceived system performance.

For these reasons, there is little benefit to defragmenting.

Note:Mac OS X systems use hundreds of thousands of small files, many of which are rarely accessed. Optimizing them can be a major effort for very little practical gain. There is also a chance that one of the files placed in the "hot band" for rapid reads during system startup might be moved during defragmentation, which would decrease performance.”

“Ok any solution as to how to get the machine to preform better? The machine has be progressively getting slower over the past month or so.”

“Sorry, I won't be much help there.

My only suggestion (not coming from a Mac background), would be to scan his computer for adware. My limited understanding though is that won't be a likely cause of the problem on a Mac.

Sorry.

The first thing I'd do is check to see how the memory is allocated and look for problems. Possibly google for that.”