task manager unavailable

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Hi,

Spyware and adware will cause these symptoms, so will some viruses.

1) Install, update, and run AdawareSE from www.lavasoft.de

2) Install and run Spybot from www.safer-networking.org

3) Install and run Spyware Blaster from
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

4) Turn on the native firewall or install a third-party one (a third party
firewall will notify you of outgoing traffic as spyware programs "phone
home", the native one won't).

http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp
http://www.tinysoftware.com/home/tiny2?la=EN

5) Also check these links for helpful advice on removing garbage:
http://aumha.org/a/noads.htm
http://aumha.org/win5/a/parasite.htm
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/Darnit.htm

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Shaakir" <Shaakir@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5F1612BE-1942-45D8-843D-98B4EA64EDD9@microsoft.com...
>i have few problems
> 1) my task manager does not show when i hold down ctrl+alt+delet.... just
> the icon stays at the taskbar
> 2)my browser does not seem to work. when i click on my explorer (homepage
> is
> yahoo.com) something else pops up and asks me to download screensaver. if
> i
> say no it keeps on poping up.
> 3) my pc is soo slow and freezes every few minutes... the only thing which
> seems to work is my msn messenger... some1 help
> i cant seem to save.

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers (More info?)

Hi

Please try these programs as well to check for any spyware that may be on
your
system:

Ad-Aware - www.lavasoftusa.com
Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/
CWShredder - http://forum.aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip
Spy Sweeper - www.webroot.com

Try SpyWareBlaster to stop intrusions:

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Also see the following links:

http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/security/articles/spyware.asp

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
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"Shaakir" <Shaakir@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5F1612BE-1942-45D8-843D-98B4EA64EDD9@microsoft.com...
>i have few problems
> 1) my task manager does not show when i hold down ctrl+alt+delet.... just
> the icon stays at the taskbar
> 2)my browser does not seem to work. when i click on my explorer (homepage
> is
> yahoo.com) something else pops up and asks me to download screensaver. if
> i
> say no it keeps on poping up.
> 3) my pc is soo slow and freezes every few minutes... the only thing which
> seems to work is my msn messenger... some1 help
> i cant seem to save.