I'm having a problem where my computer is running really slow. About every 5 sec. the working in background and busy icons pops up. And when I CTRL+ALT+DEL there are a shitload of Wscript things in the window. I click end task on them and it says "program is not responding" and still stays in the box. Does anybody know how to fix this? It's annoying as hell!

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Go to start...up to run...click on that.

In the run field type in: msconfig

Click on the starup tab at the top

Uncheck anything and everything that you see in regards too Wscript

Click apply, reboot and that program should stop running next time you boot up, and hopefully will stop your problem.

Steve

Hmm...I think I might have found out what the problem is. I have a virus, the Wscript.KakWorm

Read about it here: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ve...pt.kakworm.html

Fucking Outlook Express...I've told my parents the things that can happen with it before but they don't listen and it seems that I've gotten this virus from that. Well, if any of u know how to get rid of these things please help. I've already scanned with McAfee Antivirus.

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Yeah, I've done that msconfig thing already. I didn't see anything that shouldn't be in there, but I don't know what the vital things are that should be so I'm not going to mess with that all that much.

I ran a program to get rid of that Wscript.KakWorm but it didn't detect any and now I'm getting about 30-50 of these Wscript things in the box when I CTRL+ALT+DEL, rendering my computer basically useless...they're eating up all my system resources (I have 192MB RAM too).

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Originally posted by TeKnoHe@d2025 Yeah, I've done that msconfig thing already. I didn't see anything that shouldn't be in there, but I don't know what the vital things are that should be so I'm not going to mess with that all that much. I ran a program to get rid of that Wscript.KakWorm but it didn't detect any and now I'm getting about 30-50 of these Wscript things in the box when I CTRL+ALT+DEL, rendering my computer basically useless...they're eating up all my system resources (I have 192MB RAM too).

Go back into the roots (MS-DOS) I'm sure you can delete it there...

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U can get some AV progs from here, I trust this site completely:

http://kickme.to/siana

Anywayz, gl with trying to defeat the virus, after killing it, maybe u should go update ur outlook express and windows protection thru windows update (ie -> tools -> windows update)

Crusader

Get an anti-virus program called Anti-Viral Toolkit Pro (AVP).

I don't know the official website but just download the demo from there and then its easy to find a crack for it on the net. It is supposed to be the best virus scanner out there it works wonders for me.

Hope this helps!!

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Originally posted by Cru5ad3r Anywayz, gl with trying to defeat the virus, after killing it, maybe u should go update ur outlook express and windows protection thru windows update (ie -> tools -> windows update) Crusader

Well I stopped whatever was going on by finding a program that stops scripts from running so that's fixed.

And I followed your advice w/ updating the windows thing and now every time I open a damn folder this message pops up:

"Some software (ActiveX contols) on this page might be unsafe. It is recommended that you not run it. Do you want to allow it to run? yes or no?" U know how to fix that?

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*bump* anybody know how to fix that last problem? nothing big, but it can get annoying.

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I think that you may have the security on your browser turned all the way up.

To fix this in I.E. 5 go to:

Tools--->Internet Options--->Security

There should be something in there to solve your problem.

Hmm...I played around w/ them but it's still happening. Here's what the security settings are set to:

Internet: Medium
Local Intranet- Medium-low
Trusted sites- Low
Restricted Sites- High

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If you click the custom level button while still in the security tab, you can pick what you want for security measures. The first 4 or 5 all have to do with active x. Try that maybe it will work???