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A man walks into the kitchen with a duck under his arm and says : " This is the pig that I've been doing the last 20 years. " His wife says to him : " Thats not a pig, it's a duck! " He replies: " I was talking to the duck. " I hope this joke is acceptable.

Well, the first time that I touched a pc was when I was 17. I'm now 23 and its really just in this past year or so that I really got to play on a pc. So just about 90 percent of my knowledge is thanks to a french guy ( who cant speak a word of english ) who is a computer technician. So Imagine all the dumb moments I'm feeling, trying to learn computers and french!! Btw I'm from South Africa, and never heard french before untill 18. Immigrated when I was 21.

No problem, here we go. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 10:28:53 AM, on 2007/05/08 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5\guard.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5\avgas.exe C:\

Hi! Well, I was playing around my options in the firfox browser and saw that the sites where the popups comes from, was somehow authorised. So I deleted that lists and no more popups. Dont know how they got athourised, but they gone now.

Thanks a lot for your help. Avg found a trojan that adaware se didnt or couldnt. I still have the popup problem though. I did install vnc, found it usefull in my neighbourhood ( that meaning my wife who calls me every two minutes to look at something on her pc ) Spywarebot? I installed spybot sd, spywaregaurd ( thats very good against browser hijacking and spywareblaster ( wich I think I will uninstall ). I will post another log in a few days time and give my pc time to see what happenes. But thanks again! You guys are great!

Also, the problem with the spreadsheet is that it runs on the worldcup, i wanna do one for the local team. Thanks anyway!

Firstly, thanx a lot! it just goes to show, its not what u know, but who u know ( in my case, met ) new hjt log: Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 10:43:23 AM, on 2007/05/03 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\Program Files\Fichiers communs\Real\Update_OB\realsche

Wow! thanx, will have a look!

Hi, worked it out in the end. I've got python. Thanks. I will also check on the the other suggestion, to have a skeleton idea. Thanks all!

I went to add/remove and searched for python. It was allready checked and they said that its allready installed. But I cant find it!

Thanx! u guys rock!

Hi guys! I would like to write a program from scratch to keep score and statistics for our cricket team. I have never attemted something like this, but would like to try it as a hobbie, so time is not of the essence. What should I learn and which programs should I use? I would preferably like to do this on linux.

I'm not french, can only speak basic french, so imagine how hard it is to learn computers here! Anyway, I'm totally , how shall I put it, dumb at the moment, so sites like these and this forum helps me!

Salut! Well I find this site usefull for abreviations that I dont understand. Seeing as I cant spell either its worth the look! http://www.webopedia.com Hope u guys find it helpfull!

Hi! I dont know if this will help you but I use it and it gives me all the info on my pc. http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/AIDA.shtml Hope it helps!

Hi guys. Downloaded hjt and did a scan. Here is my log. I dont have any serious problems, just popups that keep pestering me. Thanx in advance! Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 03:37:44 PM, on 2007/05/02 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\Program Files\Fichiers c

Oops! Sorry about the language.

I thank all of you in advance!

I changed from Internet explorer to firefox because for one reason, there was less popups. Now it seems that popups have caught on. Stupid stuff, sites for the french election, online casinos and even online cloths shops. Anyone know why? I update firefox regularly.

This looks like a helpfull and cool forum, so I hope you guys dont mind having a "dummy" on board. Please be patient if I'm asking dumb questions, I am looking to expand my computer knowledge.