i may have downloaded a virus yet my norton has not detected it.. every time boot up my system alwys says "Completed updating files" .. norton has not detected it.. any ideas??

hello mine says that too so does ever computer runing windows.wonder what gives? they all infected dam! lol its normale operation have no fear. have a nice day big brother is watching you!!!!!!

Hey WaWa where do you get the idea that every computer running Windows says that? Mine doesn't-- but it does say "Veryfing DMI Pool data" -- just for a few seconds then it has finished booting up--

your pc should only give a "completed updated files" if some change has been made on yoru pc.. for example if you install new software and it has to reboot. then you will see the message. it does NOT appear every single time.. it appears that somethign is updating my system either deleting files slowly or doing something else that requires the boot up to finish completing the update.. this is NOT a normal message upon bootup unless changes are taking place on your PC

The thing that drives this message is the contents of WINININT.ini and the previous file from the previous boot (where changes were made) are in WININIT.bak Post the contents of the INI back here.

gerri your right my mistake sorry all

here is my winini file... 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