Re: XP Pro slow bootup

From: Patrick Casher (casher_at_qwickconnect.net)
Date: 01/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:00:26 -0600

I was overthere today for a couple of hours. I fired up Free Scan but it
only got up to 31,000 files left it running. I'll check back with them
tomorrow.

Patrick

"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
news:O%23QgTAO4DHA.564@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Stinger is NOT a cure-all. It is not really for Trojans. It is McAfee's
Internet worm
> removal tool. There are a couple of Trojans that stinger covers only
because they
> co-exist/cooperate with certain worms covered by Stinger. Stinger ONLY
covers ~39 infectors
> and their variants of the 83K+ known infectors.
>
> Please go to McAfee (http://www.mcafee.com/myapps/mfs/default.asp) and/or
Trend
> (http://housecall.antivirus.com ) and perform an online scan of your
platform then report
> back your results.
>
> Based upon those results, we can go on from there.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> "Patrick Casher" <casher@qwickconnect.net> wrote in message
> news:buodu5$jq02d$1@ID-208448.news.uni-berlin.de...
> | My son has a desktop PIII on a wireless router they use for the internet
and
> | for the children to play games with. I'm sure it's been abused. It
takes
> | about 5 min to be able to access the start menu. The boot screen comes
on
> | and after a minute the keyboard lights flash and it proceeds to slowly
boot
> | up. There doesn't appear to be too many fonts in explorer or word. I
tried
> | doing a restore going back as far as I could and it didn't help. Ran
> | ad-aware, emptied trash bin, deleted cookies and internet files, ran
disk
> | cleanup and left it doing a defrag. I'm afraid I might have to reload
XP.
> | Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
> |
> | Patrick
> |
> | The following replys were from 24hoursupport.helpdesk:
> |
> | You probrably have a virus or trojan.
> |
> | In addition to ad-aware try to run spybot - it is free.
> | Also: download stinger from NAI - scans your system for trojans.
> |
> | HTH
> |
> | They run AVG freeware I should run a scan. I've added the hosts file
and
> | restricted zone domains but I know it might be after the fact. Does
anyone
> | in this group have any input? Thanks in advance.
> |
> | Patrick
> |
> |
> |
> |
>
>

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