Tricky XP Question

[Dex]

Alright, I just got a new laptop (Livestrong edition HP 2310, fully loaded for $699), installed with Windows XP Professional.

For some reason, every webpage I load comes up like this:

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i29/platonicplayground/blah.gif

All the backgrounds just seem to come up white, and a lot of the time, the text fonts/sizes will be all screwed. The case is the same for IE and Firefox. Things seem to load fine in Netscape, but who the fuck wants to use Netscape for anything.

I've looked around in the Internet Options, Display Settings, changed the Accessibility settings, everything I could figure, but have had zero luck. Any of you computer whizzes have the magic idea?

[Sapphire]

That has happened to me before and I had a virus or spyware or something like that. A friend of mine cleaned it off for me, and that fixed it. Sorry I don't remember what he used, but I'm sure one of the gurus on here can help.
On my other computer I downloaded something from Microsoft's website and it seemed to work great at cleaning my system up, so you might check there, too.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

1. Download Spybot S&D

2. Download MS Anti-Spyware

3. Right click My Computer, choose properties. Click on the tab that says System Restore, uncheck the box for system restore. Click OK

4. Run Spybot

5. Run MS ANti-Spyware

6. Go trendmicro.com and run Housecall

7. Quit going to sketchy porno sites.

[Marklar MM]

LOL. My laptop is wierd. I can watch flash videos in IE and through Bitcomet...but Firefox says I need to install flash or turn on javascript. JScript is on and I installed flash tons of times. And IE never works for me...always freezes.

[leemajors]

Alright, I just got a new laptop (Livestrong edition HP 2310, fully loaded for $699), installed with Windows XP Professional.

For some reason, every webpage I load comes up like this:

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i29/platonicplayground/blah.gif

All the backgrounds just seem to come up white, and a lot of the time, the text fonts/sizes will be all screwed. The case is the same for IE and Firefox. Things seem to load fine in Netscape, but who the fuck wants to use Netscape for anything.

I've looked around in the Internet Options, Display Settings, changed the Accessibility settings, everything I could figure, but have had zero luck. Any of you computer whizzes have the magic idea?

AHF is right, you have some sort of spyware. i think microsoft's new anti-spyware stuff is called Windows Defender. it should get rid of it.

[leemajors]

LOL. My laptop is wierd. I can watch flash videos in IE and through Bitcomet...but Firefox says I need to install flash or turn on javascript. JScript is on and I installed flash tons of times. And IE never works for me...always freezes.

there's a plugin called "Media Player Connectivity" you can download that should fix that. you can set it either to open the respective players like flash,quicktime, wmp, etc in a different window to show the content or leave it embedded in the page.

[Dex]

1. Download Spybot S&D

2. Download MS Anti-Spyware

3. Right click My Computer, choose properties. Click on the tab that says System Restore, uncheck the box for system restore. Click OK

4. Run Spybot

5. Run MS ANti-Spyware

6. Go trendmicro.com and run Housecall

7. Quit going to sketchy porno sites.

Alright, i'll give that list the good rundown and let you know how it works out.

The funny thing is, this laptop was the display model (last one they had) at CompUSA, so it's had the spyware on it ever since I picked it up. What I want to know is, who the hell is checking out cheap porn on the displays at CompUSA? :oops

Sounds like a cheap excuse, but I'm serious. I get my porn from a secure location, thank you very much. :lol

Thanks AHF.

[The sone]

doode hate to tell you hou have a bot lurking in your cpu... purchase some really raeally good spyware and run the crap out of it. your "homepage has been hijacked"... look that up in google. if you cant figure it out from there, spend the money on "kapersky"...i think thats how its spelled. then run it. then quit visiting the porn pages..:)

[ChumpDumper]

Actually, if it's new, you might be better off just running the system restore discs that hopefully come with your computer. if they didn't, they are worth buying for insurance if nothing else. You'll lose any data you've added since you bought it, but you won't have any of the problems you got when you bought it either. Usually the restore discs work without any verification/activation issues so don't worry about that.

[Dex]

Yeah, I gave my laptop the complete spyware clinic, and it didn't fix the problem. I'm probably just going to have to go with the system restore, I just didn't want to have to reformat a computer I've had for 2 freakin weeks.

I guess that's what I get for caving for the display.

[dougp]

Yeah, I gave my laptop the complete spyware clinic, and it didn't fix the problem. I'm probably just going to have to go with the system restore, I just didn't want to have to reformat a computer I've had for 2 freakin weeks.

I guess that's what I get for caving for the display.
2 weeks is nothing - but this is why you need an external drive for back ups.

Until the day you decide to try Vista, and upon reinstalling XP forget that for some retarded reason, the install lists your external hard drive first and you try to figure out why you just deleted your mobile hard drive from the partition record.

That day sucked ... so many MP3s, apps and games. :depressed