Thanks Fred, Understand "no local" w/free AVG. I'll try and get the installed modem working. Really didn't want to but will ... :)
System Restore Disk. Ha! Ha! What's that? All I got was a box! I may play with some of the Dell tools and see what happens. Or, do you mean a WinME Restore Disk? I'll see if I can create one. Not even sure the fdd even works, yet. Thanks, Duncan On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:31 , FORC5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: > >AVG free can not updated local > >Want advice ( having been here many times ) Run the system restore disk, it >really is the only way to guaranty 100% >Save their data to thumb drive or burn to cd if they have a burner. >fred >luck > >At 09:52 AM 9/27/2006, dhs Poked the stick with: > >>trying to help a neighbor clean up a PC for the GF to use for EMT school. >>PC is a dell Dimension 4100 w/intel 1GHz p3, 128MB ram and Windows ME. >> >>I've got it connected to my kvm but not my lan until I get it somewhat >>de-loused. >>So far P-cillin and AVG have found lots of trojans! Duh ... :) >> >>About AVG, is there some special process to get AVG to read the update file >>from >>a local directory? The file is U7F394AX.BIN (6855KB). I can get AVG to >>point at a >>directory, but not read/use the file. Hmm ... :( >> >>Yes, could try to hook the machine's modem to the phone line, but really do >>not want >>to run it thru my isp (with my acct info) until it is a bit cleaner. >> >>Lastly, I am getting many hits on files in a directory of c:\_RESTORE. The >>files are all >>in a format of "A0078nnn.CPY", yet when I go look into the c:\_RESTORE >>directory, >>the only files I see are: >> >>diskcfg.dat 1KB >>srdiskid.dat 1KB >>VxDMon.cfg 1KB >>VxDmon.dat 61KB >> >>I'm thinking about just deleting to whole c:\_RESTORE directory ... :) >> >>Ideas? >>Thanks, >>Duncan >> >> >> >> >> >>This email scanned for Viruses and Spam by ZCloud.net > >-- >Tallyho ! ]:8) >Taglines below ! >-- >This mouse is loaded, who's the designated driver? > > This email scanned for Viruses and Spam by ZCloud.net
