On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 00:46:56 -0600, Scott K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope I'm not too late, but if you're problems are due to > virii/adware/spyware installing SP2 can be a big mistake. It won't fix > those problems, and sometimes it may possibly destroy your system. > > Instead of running SP2, I would reccomend running services.msc and > msconfig, and looking for anything that's suspicious that you can > disable. Bring it up in safe mode, and run a virus scan as well. This > will frequently nab all but the most subversive and well camouflaged > adware.
That's as silly as "personal firewalls". To the novice everything in the services registry looks suspicious. Even experts are sometimes surprised at what's running on Windows or Linux. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
