kram 2.0
06-20-2004, 03:31 PM
Hey,
My sister, who has a Win2000 Toshiba laptop, has been having some trouble with viri lately. Her laptop is equipped with an all good updated <a href="http://www.trendmicro.com">TrendMicro OfficeScan NT</a>, which catches some stuff, but generally refuses to clean them (typical of TrendMicro ;) ). She also runs the updated versions of <a href="http://www.adaware.com">Adaware 6</a> and <a href="http://www.safer-networking.org/">Spybot S&D 1.3</a>.
The symptoms are the incessant popups that occur. Usually, Spybot or Adaware detects them and then deletes them, and for a while, they're fine. But when we restart, the laptop generally reproduces the viri and they reappear. As a general degree of precaution, I downloaded and ran <a href="http://www.grisoft.com">AVG</a> and got several viri which were either embargoed/blockaded or deleted. We got seven detection to which action was prompted.
The most annoying symptom to my sister is the inability to open up Windows Media Player 9, of which we were having problems opening it a few weeks earlier. Of course, I just reinstalled/updated her Windows Media Player 6 to WMP 9. Then it worked for a while, then stopped. Any ideas of what I should do?
Thanks,
kram
My sister, who has a Win2000 Toshiba laptop, has been having some trouble with viri lately. Her laptop is equipped with an all good updated <a href="http://www.trendmicro.com">TrendMicro OfficeScan NT</a>, which catches some stuff, but generally refuses to clean them (typical of TrendMicro ;) ). She also runs the updated versions of <a href="http://www.adaware.com">Adaware 6</a> and <a href="http://www.safer-networking.org/">Spybot S&D 1.3</a>.
The symptoms are the incessant popups that occur. Usually, Spybot or Adaware detects them and then deletes them, and for a while, they're fine. But when we restart, the laptop generally reproduces the viri and they reappear. As a general degree of precaution, I downloaded and ran <a href="http://www.grisoft.com">AVG</a> and got several viri which were either embargoed/blockaded or deleted. We got seven detection to which action was prompted.
The most annoying symptom to my sister is the inability to open up Windows Media Player 9, of which we were having problems opening it a few weeks earlier. Of course, I just reinstalled/updated her Windows Media Player 6 to WMP 9. Then it worked for a while, then stopped. Any ideas of what I should do?
Thanks,
kram