I want my computer back, need help

My niece came to town for the Thanksgiving holidays, I have no idea what she has done but my computer is very sluggish, every time she visits it's the same problem, when i ask she simply says she does'nt know what i'm talking about. She's always on MySpace and using her iPod. Can you go back 2 weeks and restore every thing the way it was? If it can be done please help.:cry

 

You can, if there is enough room saved for the restore to keep 2 weeks in memory.

 

Sound like you have resolved the issue before. What did you do to fix it the last times? I agree with LauraR's comment on making a secure account.

 

It's very slow when i'm on the internet. (I have high speed internet) on the bottom of my screen beside the start icon, i used to have a tab with the website i was on, when i went to a new web site it would appear where the last web site tab was. Now when i go from one web site to the next, another tab appears beside the last tab and it just keeps adding up. When i'm on for awhile i'll have more and more tabs side by side. Before there would only be one tab for the site i was on.

 

From the description it sounds like you have something causing a load of pop-ups to open.

The most likely cause is adware of some sort, although if you are accessing pop-up rich sites and your pop-up blocker has been disabled in some way then that might also be the problem.

Have you tried running the READ & RUN ME FIRST. Malware Removal Guide in the Malware removal section?

More info about the browser, system etc. might give some pointers as to the problem.

One issue I've seen fairly regularly with teenagers using computers is web messenger programs, for example MSN Messenger or Yahoo Messenger set to run on startup. This slows the startup down hugely and I don't think it's necessary to have them running all the time. If you have icons for MSN or Yahoo in the system tray (on the right hand side next to the clock) then I would stop those from running at startup. It's a simple case of opening the messenger software, finding the "options" tab and unchecking "start xxxxxxx with Windows" or similar.

Hope that helps.

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