so i traveled all week and was in the airports picking up a random pc-pc wireless connection and free airport Wi-Fi. now my laptop is all kinds of screwed up. pages keep loading and then reloading with pop u type things only minus the option to lose them, explorer keeps shutting down and say it was due to an "add-on" called horedata.dll. what is this "add on"? does it belong on my notebook? i have not had an issue with this laptop since i bought it in august and all of a sudden it is going haywire. dumb as me using it in the airport with a disable firewall i guess. just did a virus scan and all of a sudden tons of stuff is popping up. i have never had this problem before and it is really screwing up my computer. from what the macafee site says none of this stuff is a big deal so why is everything so messed up? thanks and the search is still going so the list might build.

-Exploit-ByteVerify
-Adware-DFC (X3)
-spyware webhancer

6/1/2006 12:36:40 AM

whenever i type on a reply for TWW my pop up blocker and pc go go real crazy-

6/1/2006 12:43:52 AM

btw: i keep getting randomly sent to a new pages and cannot hit back to return to the page i was browsing

registry cleaner?
error protetor?

[Edited on June 1, 2006 at 12:59 AM. Reason : .]

6/1/2006 12:47:11 AM

this is what you get for stealing internet

6/1/2006 1:11:44 AM

^thanks man- that helps alot! and i would hardly call it stealing when the airport (chicago o'hare) offers complimentary wireless in their main lobby

6/1/2006 1:29:34 AM

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"airports picking up a random pc-pc wireless connection "

Like I said.

6/1/2006 1:41:53 AM

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"and free airport Wi-Fi"

w/e maybe u could give a little helpfull input on how to fix the problem and troll it up on chit chat?

6/1/2006 1:49:26 AM

this thread is an example of why noen wont ever be a tech talk mod

6/1/2006 2:27:46 AM

whoredata.dll?

6/1/2006 2:36:54 AM

Here's the removal instructions. It should fix the horedata problem, but there could very well be a lot more wrong:

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/WinXP/Q_21843184.html

6/1/2006 3:10:03 AM

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"this is what you get for stealing internet"

Way to be a dick

I was in quite a few airports over Easter break and while using the ***FREE*** Wi-Fi (read: wi-fi installed in the airport specifically for the complimentary use by those waiting in the terminals, in other words, not stolen internet) also kept picking up these random pc-pc wireless connections and it wasn't just in one airport, it was in almost all of them and a time or two the computer would connect to it by default before I realized what it was doing.....luckily I don't seem to have any problems as a result of it but I'm glad you were picking them up too, I thought my computer was losing it....still have no idea what they were though

6/1/2006 3:34:03 AM

computers don't start showing random wireless networks when they 'lose it'

what the fuck is wrong with you people

6/1/2006 3:38:47 AM

If you have a company laptop, your IT person should be shot for not locking that thing down.

As has been said, there could be numerous problems with it. Run HiJack this, Spyboy S&D, and AdAware and report back to us.

6/1/2006 6:18:38 AM

In the future, you may want to turn off the option to automatically connect to non-preferred networks. That way you won't connect to a network you don't want to.

6/1/2006 8:58:57 AM

i am trying to do some of this stuff you guys are recomending however i am unable to finish. everytime i log online and try to search or access a web site it keeps trying to redirect me to a new page. i have had to hit the "stop" button 4 times already just to type this reply. even when i can access what i need i will get booted of the internet. i have installed and run the "anti-spy" off my yahoo toolbar and it is scanning now. will this fix anything? or is it just yahoo being yahoo andpretending to do great things?

6/1/2006 11:35:58 AM

Access the internet on another computer then. Print or read instructions on that computer instead. If there's a downloadable tool to fix it, download it on a thumb drive and get it to your computer that way.

6/1/2006 12:08:56 PM

Go to the damn link I sent you. It specifically outlines the process to remove Horedota.dll from your system.

Go to another computer and print out the page.

6/1/2006 12:13:29 PM