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Possible Virus
Name: techwarman Date: October 26, 2004 at 18:52:02 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: 256MB
Comment:
Hello everybody, I have a friend who has a problem with his computer, he has a PC with Windows XP and he thinks that he might have a virus, this is the thing, the computer starts up but when it's done it just displays the wallpapaer, no icons, and when he tries to open a program it says that another program is using it (but it doesn't say wich program it is) and it doesn't open it, he asked me for help and I've tried to find a virus with that description but I've been ususccesful, maybe someone here can help me out in finding out what virus it is, thanks in advance for any help.
Name: Rocketmech Date: October 26, 2004 at 19:20:32 Pacific
Reply:
Have him install a Anti Virus program , a good free one is AntiVir or AVG . Then install, update, and scan in safe mode. See where that leads...
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Response Number 2
Name: RandomHero Date: October 26, 2004 at 19:55:49 Pacific
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ctrl+alt+delete applications(tab) New Task explorer.exe
it could be possible that explorer.exe isnt starting with windows.
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Response Number 3
Name: techwarman Date: October 26, 2004 at 20:29:25 Pacific
Reply:
Thanx for the replies guys I'll try to get AntiVIr for him, He says that he tried ctrl+alt+del but that it doesn't even appear or display anything, thanks again for your help
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