Re: qedwipes.dll

From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 03/11/05


Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:38:43 GMT

From: "theMIKEYshow" <bitemepammers@jkdl.com>

| I appreciate all of your help...I did what you guys recommended, but
| unfortunately I'm having the same problems...but I'm noticing a pattern: the
| virusscan keeps stalling on those dll's that start with Q....I deleted
| qedwipes.dll and quartz.dll and stalls on the next file after those. I'm
| thinking this has to do with firefox....I installed it, then uninstalled it
| a few weeks later...if those files have to do with directX then I'm thinking
| firefox messed it all up...I have another computer I think I'll take that
| directory from and replace it on mine...I'm also having problems with system
| restore...its not keeping any restore dates...its on, and to the maximum
| storage setting..is there a virus that can be linked to any of this? or
| just dumb luck errors?
| | "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message

The FireFox idea is a Red Herring.

Go to the hard disk manufacturer's web site and download their diagnostic software
respective to your hard disk. After the test, you will know if the hard disk is bad or
not..

Quantum/Maxtor - PowerMax
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm

Western Digital - Data LifeGuard Tools (DLGDiag)
http://support.wdc.com/download/

Hitachi/IBM - Drive Fitness Test (DFT)
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

Seagate - SeaTools
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/

Fujitsu - Diagnostic Tool
http://www.fcpa.com/download/hard-drives/

Samsung - Disk manager
http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/shdiag.htm

-- 
Dave


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