Richard,
OK. I will accept this at its' face value. But, as this XP install is
6+months old and no hardware changes have been made......WTF? When the
system was built, I did dl all the MS required check/certify stuff to
establish/prove my OS was "genuine." Now, MS just decides my OS in now
"not genuine." This is very odd; and, I fear way above my pay
grade........... :)
But, OK; I'll deal with this somehow.................like reload
W2Kpro............ :)
Thank you,
Duncan
At 16:18 03/21/2009 -0400, you wrote:
Sounds like windows update got you.
Richard E. Quilhot C.N.A.
quilh...@gmail.com
Samuel Beckett - "Birth was the death of him."
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 3:21 PM, DHSinclair <dsinc...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Chris,
> The "dnetc" business is not the problem....Yes, it stopped/deleted as
> expected.
> I even used 'eraser' to clean the "recycle bin." Dnetc is gone.
> There is something else problematic here.
> Thanks,
> Duncan
>
>
> At 18:53 03/21/2009 +0000, you wrote:
>
>> Dnetc goes back... Way back. Its just a background task that crunches
>> numbers for distributed computing. You should be able to find and delete.
>> Sent via BlackBerry
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: DHSinclair <dsinc...@bellsouth.net>
>>
>> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:44:41
>> To: Hardware Group<hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
>> Subject: [H] WinXP Question(?)
>>
>>
>> I have now had one of my new (6mo+) WinXP machines do something very
>> strange and scary (well to me anyway). Yes, I am freaked out ATM!
>>
>> Late last night I went to this machine to flush and shutdown the Dnetc
>> application "rc5-72."
>> I did this, no problem. Then I chose to update both my MalwareBytes and
>> SpybotS&D signature files. This machine has ESET a/v installed and is on
>> my
>> lan behind a NAT router.
>>
>> Post the updates, the default screen background (Bliss-the meadow scene)
>> kind of like un-scrolled, erased, leaving me with a plain black
>> background! This was followed by the appearance of a very official
>> looking
>> MS "Genuine Advantage" window in the lower right corner telling me that my
>> WinXP installed OS now appears to be suspect! It wanted me to go get some
>> file and run it. I did not!!!!!
>>
>> Is this real? Is this a worm/virus/trojan I now need to go find?
>>
>> I rebooted to SafeMode and hard scanned the machine with ESET. I found
>> nothing.
>> No, I did NOT try to run MWBytes or SpybotS&D in SafeMode......dumb me!!!!
>> I may try this later this afternoon off the lan!
>> I believe that I fully backed up this machine this past December; so if I
>> have to kill/rebuild it I should loose very little. The system is ~6mo
>> old.
>>
>> The machine is now OFF (psu=0) and disconnected from the lan.
>> Thanks,
>> Duncan
>>
>
>
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