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anyone fancy coming round to sort this bloody pc out for me?

its poorly and its doing my nut in

i'm not using ie at the moment, i'm ATTEMPTING to use firefox (when it works) in the evening for some reason it buggers up a lot and tries to go through ask. com (which incidently i dont even have installed on my pc)

its hard to explain but it does my head in, i'll go to firefox and type in the website or click on my favourites and it goes to that stupid website

i think all it needs is windows completely taking off and re-installing, i have a windows disc here., think my pc just needs some sort of servicing....before i kick it

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Is it a proper make of PC, if so what is the make and model?

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care to elaborate on that question please Neil? lol

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Mine did the same this morning Flashers, and wont connect to my usual homepage, which is bt yahoo, so could be an ie or yahoo problem I think. And no sooner have I typed this, than it has now connected!!

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Is it a Dell or Compaq or HP and does it have a model name an number?

I ask because it might have a built in recovery partition or you may be able to download a recovery disk to put it back to how it was when it was new.

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or you could just go to a restore point before all this happened

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you using the dongle Derek?

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Compaq 6s27kn9zb002...or at least thats what it says on the sticker on the side of it

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No shaz, am on the bt router atm

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Mick i've got that much crap on this pc its unreal, it just needs wiping and re doing, just attempting to back up my music at the moment

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ahhhhhhhh, mine seems to always naff up in the evening for some weird reason, thats why i text you to ask about yours the other night

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I have lost Mozilla too, but could be something else .. have uninstalled and reinstalled, but no luck .. tells me 'Proxy server refused connection'. No trouble on IE or Opera ... so may not be similar.

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spugs been having problems with his internet ... and hes using the 3 dongle ... what it is is an update thats making it go doolally ... and the firewall .... hes been doing a system restore and uninstalling the update. hes also turned the automatic updates off.

After that you'll have to ask him ...

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ahhhhhhhhhh he's on exactly the same as i am Jen, he pm'd me about mine a few weeks back....thats exactly whats happening to mine...and more, J tried to faff about with it the other week but it was naffing up for him too


cheers for that Jen

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Kate, opera is a load of toss, it never works on mine, dont know why i bothered installing it

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This only happened earlier on this week ... he says its one of the updates for the modem .... dont know which one it is .. i'll get him online tonight when he lands ...

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mine asked me to update last week and brought up a totally different 'connect' box after i'd updated it, J thought thats why mine was naffing up(because of the update) and he uninstalled it for me and then re-did it...and its still naffed

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Mine did the update n it did the same. I unstaled it and reinstalled to the original version. The modem asked again for the update but i snoozed it for the max 3 days and keep doing it. Dont know why but it seems the update is incompatable with the old modem that run with the orange bars. Tried to mail 3 to get an answer that but still waiting. Was the uninstall don with the modem still in because if not it does not uninstall properly as I found out to my cost. Once done while in it should go back to factory settings.

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I had a problem with mine today , I found it was windows 8 that was the problem . I did "system restore" and its been fine now thanks to mick .

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Mine when it went gaga on me it hated all browsers. Yours running ok now David?

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Yes fine now spuggie . P.S. hope to meet you soon in the railway ?

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Depends if he survives till monday .....:D:D:D

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i keep doing the 'snooze' thing too spug, cant remember but i think he took it out when he uninstalled it...if you hear anything from 3, let me know...thanx for all that :)

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Firefox rules.. never use IE
Modems suck, get a router... hopefully from ISP(so you can get support), who you with?

I would just reinstall system... good to do it quite often anyway, especially on older systems that start getting a bit laggy. I googled Compaq 6s27kn9zb002 and all i got back was this thread hehe

why are you getting ask.com ? Have you got any toolbars(ask.com) on your firefox?

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if i knew why i was getting ask .com i'd get rid of it wouldnt i, i havent even got ask .com installed on my pc, been to add/remove several times looking for it and its not there

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Flashy ask.com is a website you dont install it
its another search engine type of site

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you can install it as a task bar though Mick, like google

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yes i do know that but you already said you have not done that so what are your home pages set at and do you have more than one home page set check you have not set tab browsing to ask .com as your second tab

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you can have your explorer "hijacked"..your home page may not change but when you search the only response is a set website such as ASK..it's not windows that is mis-directing your searches it's the explorer you are using.

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google Mick

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go into control panel.. internet options/security/restricted sites/sites/ and type in ask .com/..then do the same for any site you are re-directed to....it's hassle but worth a try.

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just done that, cheers Mancie, i'll see if it has worked or not if it naffs up again, your a good un :)

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ask.com isnt a malicious site though... i dont get why that is happening... mancies right, perhaps a hijack or a virus causing it

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just closed this page then tried bringing firefox back up and guess where it went....ask.com, checked to see if it was on the list on the restricted sites and it hasnt even registered :(

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It sounds like a real mash up Flashy..have you tried going back and using IE? the internet options might only work for windows IE.. there is an app called hijackthis that can sort out this sort of aggro but it needs to be downloaded.. anyway it's here

Trend Micro HijackThis - Free software downloads and reviews - CNET Download.com

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thats the other thing Mancie, i dont have IE anymore, i deleted it a while back

the ask .com thing doesnt happen all the time, it just seems to do it more in the evening

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sounds like one of your ex boyfriends:D...

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lol daft sod

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could it just be that you have Firefox home page set up for ask.com

Tools/options/Main

in the home page change the info to what site you want as homepage...
i use Google


for hijack this you need to know what to delete and where.... it doesnt do it all for you...

i dont mind but i have no idea where troublesville is :D

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lol Troublesville is Blackburn/Ossy border

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is that what they call knuzden or stan hill.. or something

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nah its called Intack lol

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lol how could i forgotten about intack :D