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\RunHere
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.
