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There are a number of commerical computer programs that do that (Shutdown Now comes to mind)
If you don't need anything fancy, you can use the windows shutdown program to shut off your computer after a set interval (after you type the command). Open up a command prompt, and type shutdown to see all the options availible.

If you're running Windows 3.1 (unlikely, to say the least), the hardware should be dead by now (well, for any relatively common tasks today it's already unusable).

You need to consult someone proffesional with physical access to your laptop -- laptops are rather messy to open up and examine yourself (it's too easy to damage things). If the hard drive is not dead, you can probably arrange some sort of transfer through a 3rd party (computer experts at your local shops?), even if the rest of the laptop is.

Has anyone heard of something called MidAddle or ads234? It's really messing with my internet connection. Everytime I try to go to a website, it'll redirect me to ads234.com then take me to the site. I tried searching Google (which took forever) for different methods to get rid of it, but it just...won't...die!

Also, both Ad-aware and SpyBot can't seem to pick it up.

Optimus, if you're still around - I just got to reading this very good topic!

Hmm, I've never heard of anything that auto-deletes cookies and temp files with the exception of maybe Norton Ghost (called something like that) - part of Norton security. Is your homepage changing? Asking in light of the fact you did have bad stuff on your computer. Is Norton the a/v you've got now? But even that shouldn't be doing that ... it should do it after you log out, not while you're on a site. Almost sounds like a timing out thing, which is too frustrating for me. Did you install SP2? that thing is pure evil! I installed it and uninstalled the next day, too many problems, too much not working.

You've got hijackthis ... that's a good thing - but I won't touch anything after scanning with that - I'm not that savvy. Get Spybot Search and Destroy - official site is: http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html Also definitely get spywareblaster. I think there's a link to them on the spybot site. I have CWShredder which saved my puter from a hijacker once (from flamingtext) and ad-aware is my "back up", along with McAfee a/v and I did d/l stinger which is a free stand alone (looks more specifically for certain virus/trojans, etc. - will get rid of mydoom, things like that) you can get from the McAfee site.

Personally, I do go to setting and delete cookies and temp after any site I visit as part of my safe surfing. Also have cookie handling set up a bit differently than some people I know. Go to your internet settings. Click Privacy, then Advanced. Put a checkmark next to Override Automatic Cookie Handling. First Party Cookies - select Accept. Third Party Cookies - select Block. Put a checkmark next to Always Allow Session Cookies.

You may be surprised at the number of privacy reports that appear in the lower right hand corner of your IE screen - and where some of them come from. Especially if you do get spywareblaster.

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