Security Now.. Episode #20 | 29 Dec 2005 | 54 min. A SERIOUS new Windows vulnerability -- and Listener Q&A "On December 28th a serious new Windows vulnerability has appeared and been immediately exploited by a growing number of malicious web sites to install malware. Many worse viruses and worms...

Hi I am trying to help a friend reinstall windows ME from a completely formatted pc. He has what appears to be a working boot disk. Everythink seems to go OK but the cd drive seems to have been changed from "d" to "e". When i get the E: prompt i type in setup and it seems to try to read the cdrom...

When I open Explorer and click on Compact disc: "D" to use my cd burning software, I am not able to view the files on the audio cd. It will also say "Insert disc in drive D." Why is it not displaying a disk in drive "D" when there is one in there to start with? Is there a way in ME to enable...

I want to wish all my wonderful friends here on the WinME group and their families the happiest, healthiest and most prosperous new year ever. May 2006 bring you all the very best! Jan :)

My second computer has the following and would like to know which ng would be the best place for advice. Generic Malware PV -numbers Backdoor.IRC.Based. H Not a lot on the net about these two. Thanks Using avg and lavasoft. Both come up clean, when I run bitfender using java it shows it, will not

A big smooch - Joanie, may 2006 be a great year for you! And, for all of you in which helped me become what I've become - helping others help themselves. Best regards from Canada! Randy aka 'Silj' -- siljaline

Thanks to Ian Kenefick on alt.comp.virus.....Heather Source: http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=992 and http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-012006.html#00000758 It might be a good idea to apply that patch Mikko Hypponen (F-Secure) mentions in his post on the F-Secure Weblog (see...

Just had a very weird thing happen to my WinME system, and I need help to recover. I removed ZoneAlarm 6.0 in order to do a "Clean Install" of 6.1, as it was exhibiting setup problems, and wouldn't complete an upgrade either. When I re-booted after removing ZA and logged in, my profile was...

S.O.S.: Out of the blue sky this message appears upon startup: "The following file is missing or corrupted: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\VMM32.VXD. Type the name of the windows loader (e.g., C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\VMM32.VXD) C:_"( _ is blinking). I did a scanreg /fix and restore with no success and am unable to...

http://msmvps.com/blogs/siljaline/archive/2005/12/31/80054.aspx Silj -- siljaline MS - MVP Windows (IE/OE) & Security, AH-VSOP _________________________________________ Security Tools Updates

Need the description of the OE6 NG. Much obliged. Harry.

Scanned,Lasvasoft,& defraged,Maintenance etc

Get this error message on boot up of my Window ME PC: MSVFW32.DLL linked to missing export file NTDLL.DLL What does this mean? Do I need a new one? Where do I get one on the web? Thanks. --

"Vicc" wrote: Hello. I Have A Compaq Computer With Windows ME and I Wanted To Do A Quick Restore. When It Restarted And Took Me To The Quick Restore Screen, It Said "Rebooting Please Wait". So It Would Reboot And Start All Over Again And Contuniously Says "Rebooting"...And Everytime I...

I have used Me for 3 years. Tonight when I turned the machine on the message came cannot find system.ini . Insert Emergency Boot Disk and type scanreg /restore. I do nto have a emergency bootdisk. Any idesa?

Hi, An odd icon has appeared in Win Explorer on the same screen with the disk and control panel icons. This one says "Allaire FTP & RDS" which tells me nothing. Nor, does the icon do anything that I can detect. The icon cannot be deleted from this screen in WE. Nor can its properties be check...

I have recently had to replace my hard drive 45Gb with an 80Gb. I got some advice from here and all went well. I was going to do a clean install of Windows ME but just copied the whole drive in the end. I used a program called Trueimage 9.0. Everything works and seems fine. I check my...

Damn, Trying to see some videos and they require Media Player 9 and Win XP.They ain't even porn vids, driving me crazy. Looks like I have to get it from a friend, but don't want to. Will format drive to have both, what a pain in the *ss. Any way around it??

I've got an IPod Shuffle which comes with Itunes software. This software is only supported for Win XP of Win 2k but my OS is Windows ME. Short of changing my OS to one of those, anybody know of a way around this ?

I'm having a problem with my USB Ports. When I try to install a new printer it recognizes that something is hooked up but it comes up as an "Unknown Device". So when I try to install the printer software it says that no printer is hooked up. This wasn't a problem 6 months ago when I had a webcam...