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  #11  
Old May 17th 07, 07:26 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.setup
Mike M
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Default ME firewall????

The main thing that would point me to a virus is that ad-aware picks
up alot of things like cookies and stuff like that


Which, as has already been mentioned, has nothing to do with the error you
see when booting.

Gary has explained some of the problems that AdAware might be flagging up
although this won't affect the system when booting. Gary has also
suggested steps you might want to take that should reduce the number of
problematic cookies that you have on your system. As for MRUs, Gary and
myself disagree. I see no problem in the registry containing details of
my most recently used entries in the likes of Excel, WinZip, Word, WMP
etc. etc. although I suppose that where a system is used by multiple users
and one user does not want another user to know what the first user was
doing then clearing MRUs may have some benefit.
--
Mike Maltby
MS-MVP Windows



Ledheadpb wrote:

The main thing that would point me to a virus is that ad-aware picks
up alot of things like cookies and stuff like that but i will try the
video driver and other hardware drivers and update them

Thank you for your help


  #12  
Old May 17th 07, 07:27 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.setup
Ledheadpb
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Default ME firewall????

Alright i always wondered myself about those type of cookies. I will
deffantly do that . Im currently waiting for the IT manager to agree that im
right lol. So it might be a day or so before i can get on the computer that
is cause problems to try the video driver problems

You guys are a big help

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

AdAware and other anti-spyware apps will flag lots of innocuous things like
harmless cookies and Registry entries that are installed by Windows and will
very soon get reinstalled if you remove them. IOW, not everything AdAware et
al find is necessary to delete. Next time you run it, post the results here
(not every one, just the main headers). Same goes for MRU (Most Recently
Used) entries. You are advised about them because they can give insight to a
stranger as to what you've been up to, but the stranger has to get into your
machine first. Just because AdAware flags them doesn't mean you have to
delete them. I certainly don't. I like MRUs.

With specific regard to cookies, you might want to do what I do. Open
Internet Options, go to the Privacy tab, click on Advanced. Override
automatic cookie handling, Prompt for first-party cookies, Block third-party
cookies and Always allow session cookies. Gives you lots more control over
who gets to set a cookie.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"Ledheadpb" wrote in message
...
The main thing that would point me to a virus is that ad-aware picks up
alot
of things like cookies and stuff like that but i will try the video driver
and other hardware drivers and update them

Thank you for your help

"Mike M" wrote:

Check your video drivers. Boot, to Safe Mode if easier, and check the
version of your video drivers in Device Manager.

If not video, what other hardware or driver changes have you made to your
system recently? Errors such as you have now described have little to do
with the registry nor, as Gary has already said, a possible virus but
rather are often driver related.

Why do you think that such an error is either virus or cookie problem?
--
Mike Maltby
MS-MVP Windows



Ledheadpb wrote:

i happens apon start up and no i dont see the desktop and to fix or
make it go away i just hit enter and it works but sometimes i have to
restart it happens about 60% of the time and with the virus thing
that more of a cookie problem





  #13  
Old May 17th 07, 07:35 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.setup
Ledheadpb
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Default ME firewall????

are there any other good free adware spyware type programs out there

"Ledheadpb" wrote:

Does Windows ME even have a firewall. I have looked in almost every place
possible and cant seem to find one. I dont know when i last updated the
windows either because it is not my home PC and i dont use it everyday, but
it seems to get virus all the time.

Another problem that does happen is apoun start-up i do recieve some errors
that seem to be registry type errors.


If you have any help with any of these issues please help me out

Thank you

  #14  
Old May 17th 07, 07:42 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.setup
Gary S. Terhune[_2_]
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Default ME firewall????

Mike, I *like* MRUs. We agree on that point, s.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"Mike M" wrote in message
...
The main thing that would point me to a virus is that ad-aware picks
up alot of things like cookies and stuff like that


Which, as has already been mentioned, has nothing to do with the error you
see when booting.

Gary has explained some of the problems that AdAware might be flagging up
although this won't affect the system when booting. Gary has also
suggested steps you might want to take that should reduce the number of
problematic cookies that you have on your system. As for MRUs, Gary and
myself disagree. I see no problem in the registry containing details of
my most recently used entries in the likes of Excel, WinZip, Word, WMP
etc. etc. although I suppose that where a system is used by multiple users
and one user does not want another user to know what the first user was
doing then clearing MRUs may have some benefit.
--
Mike Maltby
MS-MVP Windows



Ledheadpb wrote:

The main thing that would point me to a virus is that ad-aware picks
up alot of things like cookies and stuff like that but i will try the
video driver and other hardware drivers and update them

Thank you for your help




  #15  
Old May 17th 07, 07:47 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.setup
Gary S. Terhune[_2_]
External Usenet User
 
Posts: 2,158
Default ME firewall????

See http://aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm

If you've got AdAware, you've got the most important piece, though
SpywareBlaster will help prevent nasty sites from doing nasty things. I use
those two and Spybot Search & Destroy. Plus Avast! antivirus. All are free
for personal use, but indicate elsewhere that you have an IT manager. The
free stuff isn't for business machines. Should pay for the apps in that
case.

Is/are the machine(s) you're concerned with under the authority of the IT
manager or are they personal machines? Don't go messing with the machines
under the IT manager's control. That is not nice and you don't know enough
to safely override his/her authority.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"Ledheadpb" wrote in message
...
are there any other good free adware spyware type programs out there

"Ledheadpb" wrote:

Does Windows ME even have a firewall. I have looked in almost every
place
possible and cant seem to find one. I dont know when i last updated the
windows either because it is not my home PC and i dont use it everyday,
but
it seems to get virus all the time.

Another problem that does happen is apoun start-up i do recieve some
errors
that seem to be registry type errors.


If you have any help with any of these issues please help me out

Thank you



  #16  
Old May 17th 07, 07:54 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.setup
Mike M
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Posts: 2,047
Default ME firewall????

Gary,

My bad. I blame speed reading. I read your "I certainly don't. I like
MRUs." as " I certainly don't like MRUs.". vbg
--
Mike M


Gary S. Terhune none wrote:

Mike, I *like* MRUs. We agree on that point, s.


  #17  
Old May 17th 07, 08:25 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.setup
Gary S. Terhune[_2_]
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Posts: 2,158
Default ME firewall????

LOL! I didn't even notice that possibility, g.

Me, I can't speed read anymore. Can't even pay attention to what people are
saying half the time, especially when multi-tasking is involved. I just
don't do multi-tasking anymore. Add a serious problem with my memory over
the last few years, and life is actually getting to be a bit blissful, in an
ignorant kind of way. (No problem watching reruns. They're all new to me,
bg.)

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"Mike M" wrote in message
...
Gary,

My bad. I blame speed reading. I read your "I certainly don't. I like
MRUs." as " I certainly don't like MRUs.". vbg
--
Mike M


Gary S. Terhune none wrote:

Mike, I *like* MRUs. We agree on that point, s.




  #18  
Old May 17th 07, 08:41 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.setup
Mike M
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Posts: 2,047
Default ME firewall????

Gary,

Talking of memory, I bet you can't remember meeting and talking with me at
the 2003 Summit. Are you still publishing guides and the like? What
sticks in my mine, as a Brit, was your hat. We were both staying at the
Four Seasons (or at least I was, you might have been visiting) on
University Street.
--
Mike M


Gary S. Terhune none wrote:

LOL! I didn't even notice that possibility, g.

Me, I can't speed read anymore. Can't even pay attention to what
people are saying half the time, especially when multi-tasking is
involved. I just don't do multi-tasking anymore. Add a serious
problem with my memory over the last few years, and life is actually
getting to be a bit blissful, in an ignorant kind of way. (No problem
watching reruns. They're all new to me, bg.)


  #19  
Old May 17th 07, 09:04 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.setup
Mike M
External Usenet User
 
Posts: 2,047
Default ME firewall????

.... in my mine, should have read ... in my minD.
--
Mike M


Mike M wrote:

Talking of memory, I bet you can't remember meeting and talking with
me at the 2003 Summit. Are you still publishing guides and the like?
What sticks in my mine, as a Brit, was your hat. We were both
staying at the Four Seasons (or at least I was, you might have been
visiting) on University Street.


  #20  
Old May 17th 07, 09:09 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.setup
Ledheadpb
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Posts: 9
Default ME firewall????

Well what i do is give him my opinion and he deciedes what to do , if that is
to try what i suggest or not. We are a small business so everyone trys to
help with the IT problems around here. He was more or less given the task of
working with the computers around here and i have given him my knowledge from
the little experience that i have which is a little more then what he knows.

All the programs that you listed i use on my computer at home and are in
place here except for Avast we have PCchillin as are main anti-virus
software.

For myself i have had alot of experience with computers from building my own
home PC and things like that but have not had the experience in an office
with multipul computers and a server. But thank God i found this Forum.

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

See http://aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm

If you've got AdAware, you've got the most important piece, though
SpywareBlaster will help prevent nasty sites from doing nasty things. I use
those two and Spybot Search & Destroy. Plus Avast! antivirus. All are free
for personal use, but indicate elsewhere that you have an IT manager. The
free stuff isn't for business machines. Should pay for the apps in that
case.

Is/are the machine(s) you're concerned with under the authority of the IT
manager or are they personal machines? Don't go messing with the machines
under the IT manager's control. That is not nice and you don't know enough
to safely override his/her authority.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"Ledheadpb" wrote in message
...
are there any other good free adware spyware type programs out there

"Ledheadpb" wrote:

Does Windows ME even have a firewall. I have looked in almost every
place
possible and cant seem to find one. I dont know when i last updated the
windows either because it is not my home PC and i dont use it everyday,
but
it seems to get virus all the time.

Another problem that does happen is apoun start-up i do recieve some
errors
that seem to be registry type errors.


If you have any help with any of these issues please help me out

Thank you




 




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