Welcome to the real world! Your system has been partially taken over by insidious adware programs written by hackers with malicious intentions.
(1) Disconnect the computer from internet. Pull out the cable to the wall or disable the ethernet/modem device.
(2) Use a professional adware/virus/worm/trojan removal tool and clean up the system. If you want to use online tools to remove them, then don't disconnect from internet. You may use reputed services such as "symantec" or "trendmicro" tools and detect/remove the nasty stuff through online assistance. These companies offer free services to remove them for home users.
(3) Once you remove them, go to internet-explorer options, security and disable a whole lot of features:
-disable scripting. This will turnoff javascripting and prevent crooks from repeating it. You can add selected sites to "trusted sites" and allow scripting there.
-disable java, disable applets, disable activeX altogether, disable software permissions, increase safety level etc. Occasionally you may get warning notices while browsing internet "you have disabled activeX!" but that nuisance is a small price for security.
You should always be able to go to Task Manager using CTRL-ALT-DELETE. If this is also disabled, then you may have to reboot in safe-mode and start cleaning.
Also, change all your passwords that you have set in internet sites, since some worms would have screen-captured your keyboard and forwarded them to some other website for storage.
I would like to personally meet those crooks who write such software and break their fingers one by one. I am pissed off! They have wasted so many days of my life.
(1) Disconnect the computer from internet. Pull out the cable to the wall or disable the ethernet/modem device.
(2) Use a professional adware/virus/worm/trojan removal tool and clean up the system. If you want to use online tools to remove them, then don't disconnect from internet. You may use reputed services such as "symantec" or "trendmicro" tools and detect/remove the nasty stuff through online assistance. These companies offer free services to remove them for home users.
(3) Once you remove them, go to internet-explorer options, security and disable a whole lot of features:
-disable scripting. This will turnoff javascripting and prevent crooks from repeating it. You can add selected sites to "trusted sites" and allow scripting there.
-disable java, disable applets, disable activeX altogether, disable software permissions, increase safety level etc. Occasionally you may get warning notices while browsing internet "you have disabled activeX!" but that nuisance is a small price for security.
You should always be able to go to Task Manager using CTRL-ALT-DELETE. If this is also disabled, then you may have to reboot in safe-mode and start cleaning.
Also, change all your passwords that you have set in internet sites, since some worms would have screen-captured your keyboard and forwarded them to some other website for storage.
I would like to personally meet those crooks who write such software and break their fingers one by one. I am pissed off! They have wasted so many days of my life.
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