Rick I'm glad you got up and running, however, can I provide some advice (and, I'm sure Neal will back me up on this).
Sadly, there is no way to be 100% sure that you have totally solved your virus issue. The AV products only find those that are playing to the Windows OS rules. I am very certain that you will continue to have problems that will return. The fact it took 3 paces to get the drivers back on tell me it is not totally fixed. May I make a few recommendations: - First, go to AVG and get their rescue CD http://www.avg.com/us-en/avg-rescue-cd. You will boot this CD and have it scan the system. Make sure your computer is connected by Lan cable to the internet (not wifi) so that it can do its update of the signatures. This tool scans the drive by taking it totally offline (this is a must do). Be happy if it finds something. - Run Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool (Start/Run/MRT). Make sure it is up to date and do a deep scan. That gets you through the next few days while you plan the following. - Do a full backup of your data. An easy way to do this is to use Microsoft's File and Transfer Wizard. Just follow the instructions, and it nicely saves lots of your settings, etc. Park all the data on a USB drive. - Next, plan to reinstall windows from scratch. This is the only way to be 100% sure that your box is now clean. There is no other way despite what those that sell AV products will tell you. - After reinstalling Windows (if it was an old hard drive (>2 years), this might be a good time to replace it), install all your Applications (Flex, Office, AV, etc.) (I'm liking Windows Security Essentials for AV and it is free). Also, stop using IE for your browser and switch to either Firefox or Google Chrome. Chrome is great is it automatically updates itself ensure it is the most current for any security exploits. IE is one of the number one target applications for virus writers (followed by Adobe Acrobat). Did you know an unpatched IE can allow a JPEG picture to install a virus? - Now, run File and Transfer Wizard to return everything back to the new drive. - Make sure you allow windows to do automatic updates for security issues. I know all of the above sounds like a pain, but in the long run, your box will run so much better. I've had many people come to me with problems like yours, and this was the ONLY way that was 100% reliable. I can't tell you how many times Mike VA3MW On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Rick Tharrington <r...@earthlink.net>wrote: > Tim, > > That did it ,I had to do 3 passes to get all of the drivers installed. But > it worked! Power SDR V2.0.16 is up and running great . Thanks for the input > from everyone. > Rick Kd4jrx > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Ellison [mailto:telli...@itsco.com] > Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2010 8:02 AM > To: Rick Tharrington; flexradio@flex-radio.biz > Subject: RE: [Flexradio] HELP FLEX 1500 REINSTALL PROBLEMS?? HELP HELP! > > Rick, > > Install PowerSDR v2.0.16. It will re-install the drivers along with giving > you a more improved version of PowerSDR than 2.0.8 > > > -Tim > > > -----Original Message----- > From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz > [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Rick Tharrington > Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2010 3:35 AM > To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz > Subject: [Flexradio] HELP FLEX 1500 REINSTALL PROBLEMS?? HELP HELP! > Importance: High > > Had a virus and malware problem yesterday on my Flex PC. Spyware Doctor > took > care of the PC is up and running fast and great! USB port printer and mouse > running just fine. But I noticed my SDR 2.08 would not come up it would > lock up on start up. So I uninstalled everything and done a reinstall. > Things got worse and worse. See Fatal Error mesg below. > > FATAL ERROR > OBJECT REFERENCE NOT SET TO AN INSTANCE OF AN OBJECT AT POWERSDR.FLEX1500 > USB.RADIO.READOP UINT32 OPCODE,UINT32.PARN1,PARN2 AND UINT32&VAL. > AT POWER SDR FLEX1500 USB.RADIO. GET SER NUMBER STRING & SEAL AT POWER SDR > FLEX1500 INIT {} AT POWER SDR FLEX1500 CONSOLE.CTOR.(STRING {} angs) AT > POWER SDR FLEX1500 MAIN (STRING {} angs > > Then it would send a error report to who ever ??? > > IS THERE ARE HARDWARE RESET ON THE FLEX ??? > > All other programs software and hardware are working great on this Windows > XP PC and up until this I have not had one problem with the FLEX 1500 > running on this pc. HELP! > Have got to re install windows and start over with this PC > > > Rick Tharrington > KD4JRX r...@earthlink.net > 910-279-7088 > > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flexradio.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flexradio.com/ > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
