Galanoth7395
Smash Apprentice
Okay, here's what happened:
I had three tabs. On one, I had the Queen We Will Rock You music video on Youtube. On the second, I had the Super Smash Flash 2 Demo. On the third, I had Smashwiki.
But anyway, there I was minding my own business. For the last hour or so I had been getting this same pop-up at intervals, along with a few other pop-ups (in windows). The pop-up blocker let about 80% of them through for some reason. But then all hell broke loose!!!!
When I went back the Internet Explorer window, there were about eight tabs with the same URL. I don't think it was the same as that other annoying pop-up, and besides, this was in tabs. Having a slow computer as it is, the computer lagged horribly. I pressed Ctrl+Alt+Delete then clicked task manager. It actually took a while for it to pop up. I looked for anything strange in the task manager. Then I saw it: in the bottom left, it showed a process was being added every few seconds! I clicked on the Processes tab and sure enough, different processes were constantly being added. Needless to say, I was horrified. The computer was lagging ludicrously, and it would be almost impossible to click Start and shut down from there. I took matters into my own hands and held the on/off button on the computer until it turned off.
Now, pop-ups are still appearing, though not in tabs. I'm suspecting a Trojan or virus got on my computer, though I hope it isn't so. Every time I go to another page, I get nervous that the incident will happen again. There's this pop-up with the HTTP 404 Not Found thing on it, so I'm leaving that up, because I suspect whatever's going on only makes one pop-up at a time.
What is the BEST course of action I can take?
EDIT: Dangit, I got another pop-up! -.-
I had three tabs. On one, I had the Queen We Will Rock You music video on Youtube. On the second, I had the Super Smash Flash 2 Demo. On the third, I had Smashwiki.
But anyway, there I was minding my own business. For the last hour or so I had been getting this same pop-up at intervals, along with a few other pop-ups (in windows). The pop-up blocker let about 80% of them through for some reason. But then all hell broke loose!!!!
When I went back the Internet Explorer window, there were about eight tabs with the same URL. I don't think it was the same as that other annoying pop-up, and besides, this was in tabs. Having a slow computer as it is, the computer lagged horribly. I pressed Ctrl+Alt+Delete then clicked task manager. It actually took a while for it to pop up. I looked for anything strange in the task manager. Then I saw it: in the bottom left, it showed a process was being added every few seconds! I clicked on the Processes tab and sure enough, different processes were constantly being added. Needless to say, I was horrified. The computer was lagging ludicrously, and it would be almost impossible to click Start and shut down from there. I took matters into my own hands and held the on/off button on the computer until it turned off.
Now, pop-ups are still appearing, though not in tabs. I'm suspecting a Trojan or virus got on my computer, though I hope it isn't so. Every time I go to another page, I get nervous that the incident will happen again. There's this pop-up with the HTTP 404 Not Found thing on it, so I'm leaving that up, because I suspect whatever's going on only makes one pop-up at a time.
What is the BEST course of action I can take?
EDIT: Dangit, I got another pop-up! -.-
