OK I LOST THE LOST REINSTALL DISK FOR XP...IT SUCKS ..UM MY PC IS BASICALLY SCREWED BECAUSE I GOT MY BACKGROUND HACKED AND WHEN I GET ON MY PC THERE ARE SO MANY POP UPS IT SO SLOW IT TAKES LIKE 30MINS TO JUST BOOT SO I NEED TO FIGURE THIS OUT.. I NEED HELP ............... I WANT TO FIND OUT IF THERE IS A WAY TO REINSTALL WINDOWS WITH OUT HAVING TO BUY XP AGIAN ..BECAUSE I WOULD SORDA LIKE TO SAVE $200... IF THIS HELPS I HAVE A DELL DIMENSION 2350 ..AND WINDOWS XP HOME ED. SHERM
First off, [bold]STOP SHOUTING (using all capitals), IT IS CONSIDERED RUDE, AND AGAINST FORUM RULES[/bold] Ok,now that i've gotten that out of the way, what do you mean with "i got my background hacked" ? Be more specific, calm down, and give us some details as to what exactly is going on, how you think it happened, etc.
If your windows is still running with a fair ammount of stabilty (apart from the "back ground hacking") then theres a way to make your own windows xp installation cd, the people at Dell told this to my bro and he did it just fine. An yeh, i bet it realy does suck Btw, you need to have your orriginal or atleast a legit xp license key before you even think of trying it.. I assume your on it now, i'd try and clean it up if i was me, but i don't know just how bad it might be..
Ok..Well no im not on it im using another pc that does not have "limewire" ..thats how i think i got my background hacked .. When i say background i mean wallpaper... i ..the pc is still in running shape i can do a few things on it and like spyware has disabled the taskmanager which ..was from limewire also .. The make your own install disk is that in the control panel somewhere?? i think i have saw it before
Hello shermie Your walpaper changed?? what was it like, if it said something like "Spyware Infection" you have SmitFraud/SpyAxe. You probaly just have some spyware etc, just clean it up rather than reinstalling your OS yet, post a HJT log in the windows spyware and viruses forums.
ok well i fixed the background part i got a program called hi jack this and it got rid of it ..hackers use it as like a test before they try to really hack...i called dell they are sendin me a new cd ...dell is awesome thanks for the help
Hey why did'nt you say you had a Dell.. You can make your own OS cd so easily: http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/kb/en/document?c=us&DN=1090151&l=en&s=gen You can also Click Start->Program files->Dell->Create OS Recovery CD. ??? Thats not the HijackThis i use every day..hackers dont use it before they realy try to hack ?? :s I did tell you to run hjt in the above post
No, I was talking about the hacking background part sorry for the misunderstanding .. Umm yea ill try the OS thingy . But, i have a disk coming in the mail. thanks for all your help
