Well, guys! Thankyou SO much! It surely WAS that bloody Blaster WORM!!! Downloaded the fix tool, and the patch, did a live update and whammo - all fixed! I don't think that it actually came with the virus though as I have been surfing the internet for the past two days, downloading service packs, software updates, patches etc, and it didn't occured to me until this morning that I didn't have any Anti virus installed. So I quickly installed Norton's System Works, but obviously it was too late by then!
So, thankyou to all who replied and particularly to John and David for your very detailed and most helpful responses!! tan. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David C Miers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 5:34 AM Subject: Re: Re: OT- Windows and Explorer Help needed.... > I've been getting up to 3 viruses a day in email these days. I'd vote for > the virus infection too. I just recently went back to win 2000 on my laptop > and main system for the purposes of large picture file editing. 2000 runs > much faster then XP to my notion. I did have several glitches, but most of > them were removed by installing all the updates. Networking is much faster > and glitchless when using 2 win 2000 based machines together as well. > Another adantage to my notion that may be of assistance to you is the IE 6 > repair function. Simply go to control panel/add-remove software/ Microsoft > Internet Explorer 6 SP 1. Click the change/remove button and you will get > options to downgrade to IE 5 or repair IE 6. > > Win 2000 is a bit more difficult to repair then some operating systems, but > worth it IMHO. Suggest going to Microsoft Knowledge base and google doing > searchs for the problems your having. Using the event viewer to see errors > happening is very important. I usually get the text for my searches there. > You can get there from Control Panel/administrative tools/event viewer. You > can use the Services menu to trouble shoot problems as well stopping > operations currently running to isolate problems. There are some services > you will not want to mess with, so you should do a search for the critical > win 2000 services before doing this. I can't remember which ones are a > problem right off the top of my head. You can also use "regedit" with the > run command to change registry settings. BE CAREFUL HERE!!! Go to > HKEY_LOCAL-MACHINES\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Here > you can see programs starting that may not be in the services menu. By > simply selecting a key and choosing modify, you can disable that key by > putting the letters "rem" in front of the key. This way the key is not > deleted, but is still disabled for trouble shooting reasons. You can also > go to the start menu and make a folder called "disabled startup items" Go > into the startup folder can cut and paste anything you do not want running > into this folder. To reenable simply cut and paste back into the startup > folder. > > Check out all your running processes one at a time. Verify that these are > not viruses. When you get to the point that no errors are showing in the > events your system should be running seemlessly. > > Hope that might help. > > Dave > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 4:58 AM > Subject: Re: Re: OT- Windows and Explorer Help needed.... > > > > > > Hi, > > I think the w2k.blaster.worm or what ever it's name was can be the > > course for it. There's a remove-tool, I think you can get it from the > > symantec website. > > > > I don't know what mouse you have, but I had problems with my mouse and > > laptop too, and that was a hardware problem. Microsoft optical wheel > > mouse (at least the older ones) has _sometimes_ problems working on a > > laptop. it worked sometimes and then suddenly stopped working... you > > could do whatever you want (reboot, etc) it just didn't work again.. and > > sometimes it started to work again days later... but at an other pc it > > was just fine... there was also a microsoft page about it, but I can't > > find it again... > > > > hope this helps.. > > bye Katrin > > > > > > danilo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 12.01.2004, 11:46:17: > > > > > > Hi, > > > It seems like a virus infection. > > > or, maybe, windows is bored of life, you must re-install it. But windows > 2000 > > > is a quite stable OS, so the former seems the most realistic hypotesis. > > > > > > Hoping it isn't an hardware problem... > > > > > > ciao, > > > Danilo. > > > > > >
