Silly Computer, stop opening that!
By jenni7202
@jenni7202 (1598)
United States
April 22, 2008 10:36pm CST
Well, I was just sitting here on the computer, and all of a sudden my web browser started opening up tabs like crazy!! I had so many tabs opening, that it was actually opening up new windows over and over! I couldn't click out of any of them, and ended up just shutting the computer down improperly, because it wouldn't allow me to do anything else.
Do you think I could have a virus that caused that?
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13 responses
@luvstochat (6907)
• United States
23 Apr 08
It does sound like you have a virus. I had a virus in one of my old computer and it kept opening up this one website all the time. I think that if you computer is opening a bunch of sites at once sounds like a virus run your virus scanner.
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@deeeky (3667)
• Edinburgh, Scotland
23 Apr 08
If you do not a virus protection then you will surely receive viruses.
AVG are a good company and automatically update everyday.
Use restore and go back to another good working day and if that does not work then re-install windows.
Have a great day from Deeeky.

@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
23 Apr 08
Yep, you have a virus. Run a good anti-virus program and that should resolve your issue.
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@julyteen (13252)
• Davao, Philippines
25 Apr 08
definitely! some virus caused like what you have. i also experience that, opening one site and many windows open. after that i scan my computer with my anti-virus and found 44 virus so i clean and now no more windows open.
@mnsrwt123 (2057)
• India
23 Apr 08
whew, thats really something wierdy to your computer, maybe its done by something called virus activity. And if its not the virus then might be your web browser gets corrupt and all you have to do is Re-Install the web browser or install a new one like firefox,opera etc... And I can really understand what and how it effects us when our computer do these types of stuffs,.,..
A few days ago my computer also stop responding whenever I put it on for 1 hours and after 1 hours it just shows an error and I just need to restart it, and later on when I reformat my machine then its working pretty fine, So I would recommend you also to format your PC within every 1 months so that your computer remain virus free.
Cheers!!!
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@nocovi (514)
• China
25 Apr 08
Ah,that might be virus.But in my memory,I 've not encountered the same incident on my Windows XP,but once I encountered it on my Linux.But it is not so serious.I restarted it and there is no problem with it,I was a little surprised and I cannot believe it was just a virus on Linux.So there might be certain program error occured.I 'm good at neither Windows nor Linux,so I 'm not sure.My suggestion is that you check your computer in the first palace you restart the computer.Make sure there is no hidden danger in our computer,and then you can use it as usual.If there is some,make sure you cleaned it before you use the computer to do daily work.
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@itsmepinky (1300)
• India
23 Apr 08
It is definately a virus. Maybe u need to restart your comp in safe mode and run the antivirus software. I hope it helps.
~pinks~
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@theprogamer (10532)
• United States
23 Apr 08
Get AVG free or another antivirus Jen. Also get Adaware or AVG antispyware
Restart your computer and put it in safe mode (F8 while starting)
Run your antivirus and antispyware scans from there.
There may also be a setting in your browser (firefox and opera) where your browser when closed will restart with the same tabs you left off. Its possible something corrupted that as well. Just to be safe, be sure these settings aren't enabled. You should be able to find them in options/preferences or tools/preferences.
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@bluemars (952)
• Australia
23 Apr 08
Oh if only we could talk back to our computer and say those things and it would listen back to us. Imagine that really for a moment just imagine how much simple it would be if that were to happen. How great right? Well that is just a small dream. I think many computers have similar problems and it is so annoying to have to deal with. It really shows how poor of a quality sometimes makers are. I mean if too many people are experiencing too many problems frequently, the problems should be looked at and the future computers should be better but they are not.
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@gemini_rose (16264)
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23 Apr 08
I do not know, I have never had that happen on mine, so it could be a virus, but I think a computer will tell you if it has a virus, I know my sons did the other day.
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@zhongmingyunky (379)
• China
24 Apr 08
Should be a virus,turn off all the procedures you use antivirus software kill computer virus,if it or not,good backup of your important documents,redo WINDOWS system!
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@tripathiamit (33)
• India
23 Apr 08
It could be a virus. You should login in safe mode and use (preferably) NOD32. Make sure you have updated your virus definitions. An system which does not have an updated antivirus is as good as a system with no antivirus installed.
Although a more permanent solution to this problem would be
not to use windows. Use LINUX!! (ubuntu is not a bad start).
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