Re: 819696

From: Jerold Schulman (Jerry_at_jsiinc.com)
Date: 02/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 09:10:46 -0500

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:09:27 -0800, "Tony Veeneman" <Tony@internetmath.net>
wrote:

>I reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled Windows 2000
>and SP4. Every day I get an automatic update to reinstall
>819696 security for directX. I reinstall it and the next
>day I have to reinstall it again. It apparently is being
>over written by the original disk copy which then requires
>reinstallation. I run Norton Virus Checker with up to
>date virus definition files and scan my computer
>everyday. I have no viruses that I know of yet people who
>use hotmail tell me that they get messages that I am
>sending a virus. Any idea?

Use the registry editor to navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Windows 2000

Locate the Q or KB 819696 sub-key in the SP4 or SP5 subkey
and delete it.
Restart your computer and install 819696 from Windows Update.

Your virus concern is likely some virus on someone elses computer
spamming your name.

Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

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