What the heck is wrong with this crazy computer?

Dell diminsion 2400, will crash and turn power off.

I have installed new anti-virus protection, new modem, all i have available for now is dial up where I live. had 256 ram installed another 512 have windows defender,spy bot S/D. I have windows XP home. Most crashes occur when trying to connect with internet but not always. Cleaned out cobwebs and dust bunnies, hooked up a fan blowing directly on inside of puter. Basicly done all I have been told to do. When I do connect I can be surfing and sometimes it will randomly shut down. Would love to resolve this myself if possible. My recovery disk has been lost or I would try to wipe hard drive and reinstall win.XP Please can anyone give me a helping hand with this. If I can find someone I would spend my dime on a call for the help.

THANKS in advance for all input.

Also along with these problems there are times when the CD-ROM will open and close ALL BY ITSELF. This is driving me nuts. Thanx for any help

What the heck is wrong with this crazy computer?photoshop

Go to Microsoft.com and look up support for this problem. They will instruct you on how to read the error logs after an unexpected shutdown. Or how to make your system didplay the error type you are having instead of shutting down.

Eventhough this link does not list your problems exactly as you described them, it will give you the tools you need to capture any errors that are occuring that could be causing your problems.

What's the best virus protection for computers?

Kaspersky

http://www.kaspersky.com/

Then probably NOD32

http://www.eset.com/

There are free anti-virus scanners availble. They work well. I like AVG the best of all the free anti-virus programs. If you are not currently running anything at least install AVG

avg

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

avast

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.ht...

Avira AntiVir

http://www.free-av.com/

What's the best virus protection for computers?pop up blocker

PC World says ''TrendMicro''

What's the best virus protection for computers?systemworks

Kaspersky has the best detection rate. Also, McAfee is good and AVG too.
Well, there are tons of free antivirus programs out there. However, the new device used to disrupt your PC harmony is spyware. People contract spyware up 200 more times than computer viruses. The best thing to do is to get antispyware computer that is bundled with anitviurs program. That way you get full protection without software conflict etc. The page below offers some free scans. Hope this helps!

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http://www.kaspersky.com/trials

Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0 combines all the latest technological developments from Kaspersky Lab to protect against malware, repel network attacks and prevent spam. Our powerful personal firewall and our antispam module is seamlessly integrated with our award-winning antivirus %26 antispyware software to provide you with the best protection available.

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No antivirus installed, but Security Center says Virus Protection is ON?

Whenever I go to Control Panel -%26gt; Security Center, I see that my antivirus protection is on, even though I do not have any antivirus software installed on my computer. How do I fix this?

No antivirus installed, but Security Center says Virus Protection is ON?product key

you must have one that you are not aware of. this free tool has an option for start up items.it shows every thing that is running on your pc and gives you the option to stop any thing you want to. http://www.iobit.com run the updates and then click on tools up top when tool is open and then startup then look at whats running. good luck.

No antivirus installed, but Security Center says Virus Protection is ON?triumph

Your computer must have come with a virus protect already installed that you are unaware of.

How can i get around media(music) file protection to burn that file on a cd using nero 4 burning sof

I bought many cd's and copied them onto my computer using Windows Media Player 9. Now I want to make some mixed cd's but every single song is protected; i can't burn cd's with wma files, only wave files. What do i do?

How can i get around media(music) file protection to burn that file on a cd using nero 4 burning software?security

To turn off content protection when copying CDs

On the Tools menu, click Options.

Click the Copy Music tab.

Clear the Copy protect music check box.

Note

Content protection helps to protect tracks copied from CDs from illegal distribution. This feature applies only to tracks copied from CDs to Media Library that are Windows Media Audio files.

Is there a special tool for a browser or a browser that has a pasword protection before you can acce

i have IE, Fierefox %26 Opera. is there any more browsers that cann offer password before accessing the net. coz my sisters keeps on doing her myspace, friendster, facebook %26 etc. on my computer and it pisses me off. hope you guys can help me! thanks!

Is there a special tool for a browser or a browser that has a pasword protection before you can access the netsoftware

Well its easy ,in iexplorer go to ''tools'' and ''internet option''

and ''content '' you will have a tab saying ''content advisor ''

just click enable give a pass word and you can select limited sites for browsing without password or you can also make it fully blocked with your pass word ,if you want to browse disable that option and get going and dont forget to again enable it or your sister will have a nice time browsing

bye ....

Is there a special tool for a browser or a browser that has a pasword protection before you can access the netvincent

OK. if you a have a Vista go to control Panael and click parenting control.Same with XP.Then it tells you instructions

Am i safe if i turn my computer off when someone is trying to hack in?

It said that there has been an internet attack. i ran both of my protection programs. One said i didnt have any infections. The other said i only had one. What the heck should i do? i turned my computer off so... please your help will be much appreciated!!!!

Am i safe if i turn my computer off when someone is trying to hack in?spyware removal

Just pull out your internet cable, boot into SafeMode and run the tests again

Am i safe if i turn my computer off when someone is trying to hack in?virus protection software

Firewall protection is key, it should stop hackers from getting in.

If you turn your computer off, they wont be able to get in, no.....but once you turn it back on, its open world to them

Just keep your firewall protection updated.
Your question is very misleading. You made it sound as though a hacker (which is an outdated term) is trying to personally break into your computer. That's apparently not the case. You either have a virus or spyware. If you do have either one, turning off the computer won't stop them. Antivirus and antispyware will.

Even after disabling firewall protection with Norton's help, I still can't open email atta

I have a new computer and the Norton's internet security package that came with it. When I try to open an e-mail attachment, I get the window showing papers moving from a globe to a folder. It never ends, however, and even twenty minutes later it's still going at it. As noted, I disabled the personal firewall, and it still didn't work. Any ideas on how to open attachments?

Even after disabling firewall protection with Norton's help, I still can't open email attachments. Any tips?spyware remove

turn off firewall is wrong, go to option and disable block dangerous attachement it will block all the attachement so disable it in norton

Even after disabling firewall protection with Norton's help, I still can't open email attachments. Any tips?virus protection

well, you have two choices. it's either your firewall that is blocking, or try going through your internet settings.
get rid of norton...we had it when we got our computer and had nothing but problems...get macafee
Norton is probably the most problematic piece of software you can install on your PC. It is a resource hog but even worse it does what it wants to do not what you want it to do, which in my opinion is very deceptive.