A problem worse than a virus
By maximax8
@maximax8 (31046)
United Kingdom
April 4, 2009 2:55pm CST
My older son is almost age 14. A couple of weeks ago I bought a game disk for his laptop and he has been unable to install this. I got my brother-in-law to try to install the game but he said the game was too powerful for my son's laptop. My son had to put a copy of 'steam' on his laptop before he tried to install the game. Today 250 copies of steam came up on his laptop. He deleted them one by one and used the Internet for a couple of hours. Just half an hour ago the problem occurred again. I wonder why 'steam' keeps coming on to his laptop screen. Just imagine 250 copies of the My Lot home page. One copy would be enough. What do you think is happening? Have you ever had a problem with your laptop?
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4 responses
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
9 Apr 09
I do not have a laptop, but there are some programs that you have to make a copy of and post on the hard drive because you cannot install them from the Cd. I had a singing instruction program like that. I tried to install it from the Cd but it did not work. I had to copy the install file onto my hard drive and extract that from that. And sometimes if your hands do not work right, you will find yourself with several copies. My younger son had that problem, but I have not yet.
@kodigo (171)
• Philippines
9 Apr 09
Steam? what i know, it is a "game download server" . If you have an account with them . you can download your purchased game any where you are as long as you already purchased that said game from Steam.
If it is showing a lot of "myLot webpage" then it would've been a malware. you may check the latest download of your son on the system or try uninstalling Steam if he doesnt have an account on it.
Last resort is maybe performing a system restore to the date when your Sons Laptop is working properly without the pop-ups
@Darkwing (21583)
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6 Apr 09
I haven't had my laptop for long, so no, I haven't had problems with it. It sounds to me as though he needs to either turn off a pop-up blocker or put an adware/spyware scanner on. It's not natural for this many copies to come up, and it seems that it might have adware attached to the 'steam' programme.
Brightest Blessings.
@TazRes (827)
• United States
4 Apr 09
Hi my friend!
I'm not sure of what you mean, but I would run a Virus scan on it to make sure it's not infected.
