Hi Scott,
That's what I thought - so far the only targets are Firefox and IE. I've
use NS a couple of times to test and so far it's not done it in NS.
I've now run 2 spyware and 1 adware on it and cleaned out what was
found. The only thing that the Trend Micro showed me that I did nothing
about was 35 errors having to do w/critical updates. Two anti-virus scans
(different products) showed no viruses. I wasn't about to attempt that on
the spur of the moment as I have a feeling it would kick me into some kind
of SP2 upgrade and I'm not ready to do that w/o first checking out that I
have the right hardware etc ... some of these were directed at Office 2000
which is what I have and barely ever use except occasionally a WORD doc.
I just finished taking the cover off and blowing the dust out - can't hurt,
right? I had done that not so long ago so didn't think it would be as bad
as it was. Now I have to test again to see if it helped. It's getting so
I'm afraid to do it - that one of these times it won't boot back up! Guess
I'll go find out if anything I've done now has helped.
Deb
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At 12:28 PM 9/17/2005, you wrote:
I have seen similar problems that were created by Spyware -- something
most antivirus programs do not detect. If this seems to be happening
after the browser is opened, then try running an anti-spyware program. I
use McAfee's anti-spyware and have had no problems.
If the problem was hardware related, then it should happen regardless of
when or if a certain application was being used.
At 10:11 AM 9/17/2005, you wrote:
PBC Web Design wrote:
Hi,
I'm having a ~really scary~ problem. Two days ago my computer started
acting up. It seems to be browser related from what I can tell so
far. What happens is that when I open my browser (so far Firefox and
IE6) my computer goes into a reboot all on it's own no matter what's open
for
<<::SNIP::>>
Sure hate to tell you this, but I ran into a similar problem two months
ago and it turned out to be a hardware failure. I ended up installing a
new motherboard, processor, and memory. By the time I had been through
all the troubleshooting, etc., I had had so many spontaneous reboots that
XP was pretty much hosed, so I ended up taking it down to bare metal and
reinstalling XP, then SP2, all the updates, etc. My problem was not
identical; it didn't happen merely from starting the browser (any
browser), but as soon as I tried to scroll the window, blip! she was
gone--spontaneous reboot. I tried all the usual suspects, turned off
hardware acceleration, used msconfig to minimize startup programs, etc.
Although it was a right pain in the ass doing the system rebuild, I was a
tad fortunate in that my C: drive is used almost exclusively for the OS
and such programs as firewall, antivirus, etc. Everything else, including
My Documents, is on one of my other logical drives. Formatting C: and
reinstalling, therefore, didn't hit my productivity apps. After the
reinstall I just went back and reinstalled all my apps into their
existing folders so that Windows could find them. I must say, I'm almost
grateful it happened, since in the process the upgrade approximately
doubled my system speed, and it is now Gibraltar solid and stable. Would
I go through it again? Nope, not voluntarily. But now that I'm looking
back at the upgrade and rebuild process instead of forward to it, I'm
kinda glad I was forced into an upgrade that was long overdue anyway.
Cheers,
Scott
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