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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 |
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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 |
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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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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 |
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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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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. |
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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. |
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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.) |
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.... 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. |
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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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