Okay, I have been having some problems with my computer.
First, some type of toolbar seems to have installed itself on my computer (and runs itself with Internet Explorer). I can't uninstall this thing and I have no idea where it came from (although I do know that my sister may have caused it to happen when she was using the computer). This thing is pretty wierd because in every website I go to this thing makes hyperlinks out of most words in the site leading to the search engine that powers this toolbar.
Here's the toolbar:
Next, I have a strange program that I downloaded that my friend told me to dl when we were talking on AIM. I have no clue what it is, it doesn't work, and gives an error message when I try to delete it (it's on my desktop), and I also think it runs at startup because the taskbar shows the icon for it breifly. This program is titled 'pictures', has no icon, and it is considered a MS-DOS program, which is kind of odd. When I try to run it, nothing happens. It shows up in the processes section of the Task Manager as 'pictures.com'.
Now, something I just noticed while I was writing this post, my task manager is showing that a large number of instances of a program that I wrote with C++ is running even though I never ran it. Of course, this damn thing I wrote was to be annoying, but I doesn't make copies of itself like that. In the task manager, I right clicked one of the instances of that program, selected 'Goto Process', and it listed a strange .exe that I've never heard of. Its name was 'kalnder.exe'. I don't know what to make of this, but the program seems to keep making new instances of itself (running itself over and over again). I'm not even sure if this is the same 'Project1' that I wrote.
Does anyone know what to make of these different things? Are they linked?
First, some type of toolbar seems to have installed itself on my computer (and runs itself with Internet Explorer). I can't uninstall this thing and I have no idea where it came from (although I do know that my sister may have caused it to happen when she was using the computer). This thing is pretty wierd because in every website I go to this thing makes hyperlinks out of most words in the site leading to the search engine that powers this toolbar.
Here's the toolbar:
Next, I have a strange program that I downloaded that my friend told me to dl when we were talking on AIM. I have no clue what it is, it doesn't work, and gives an error message when I try to delete it (it's on my desktop), and I also think it runs at startup because the taskbar shows the icon for it breifly. This program is titled 'pictures', has no icon, and it is considered a MS-DOS program, which is kind of odd. When I try to run it, nothing happens. It shows up in the processes section of the Task Manager as 'pictures.com'.
Now, something I just noticed while I was writing this post, my task manager is showing that a large number of instances of a program that I wrote with C++ is running even though I never ran it. Of course, this damn thing I wrote was to be annoying, but I doesn't make copies of itself like that. In the task manager, I right clicked one of the instances of that program, selected 'Goto Process', and it listed a strange .exe that I've never heard of. Its name was 'kalnder.exe'. I don't know what to make of this, but the program seems to keep making new instances of itself (running itself over and over again). I'm not even sure if this is the same 'Project1' that I wrote.
Does anyone know what to make of these different things? Are they linked?
