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Name: H898 Date: January 13, 2005 at 16:03:30 Pacific OS: xphome CPU/Ram: 1.8GHZ/ 512DDR
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as i booted in xp welcome screen active shield notified me of a virus so i loaded into my user account went to scan for virus it found 1 c:\command.exe a generic downloader trojan virus i think it said ok then it suddently exited went to re-click on the system tray menu icon that vanised aswell i took off my pop-up killer software. and tried relading it but when i go to open it,it goes again within a flash wtf is going on its as though it dont like xp home anymore and about 3 hrs ago it was working fine and i havent added any software to my pc
Name: H898 Date: January 13, 2005 at 16:12:29 Pacific
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i tried usin FREE AVG Anti-virus and it did the same so i imagine that there is a virus on me machine that affect the command line on me anti virus loading I current avoid XP SP2
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Response Number 2
Name: Tufenuf Date: January 13, 2005 at 18:06:21 Pacific
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david, Try doing a virus scan in SAFE mode and make sure that you update your virus definitions.
Tufenuf
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Response Number 3
Name: White Hat Date: January 14, 2005 at 11:06:33 Pacific
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Why dont you like Xp anymore? its the most "user friendly" M$ makes....Remove the virus manually and then see if the app will work
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Response Number 4
Name: H898 Date: January 15, 2005 at 02:40:30 Pacific
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thnx 4 the help but now it works fine again must have sorted itself out or somet
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