Re: got message "you need to restart system to make settings take effect"
From: Bradley26 (someone_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/03/04
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Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 07:08:40 GMT
Steven
Thank you very much for this. What it detected was apparently macromedia
flash player. The ebay page appeared to be with lots of ? and perhaps
detected I dont have flash installed, and forced the install. it didnt ask
Ill be doing the backups more frequently, it had been a couple of years with
the one disk/install of win2000, and much had changed. AFter the new
install I learned about the sasser worm shutting down the system.
This is neat, once again I greatly appreciate it
Brad
"Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@n0-spam-for-me-comcast.net> wrote in message
news:lHL7d.403149$8_6.2018@attbi_s04...
> There is a utility from SysInternals called pendmoves that may be able to
> tell you what files are scheduled to be changed at the next boot. Find it
in
> the link below. Also use Autoruns to see if there are any bogus listings
in
> your "run or run once" registry keys that you can then disable. Run once
> would be of particular concern in your case. Eventually you will need to
> reboot your computer. I would make sure that you back up all your data
files
> and your user profile under documents and settings [My Documents and
emails
> are stored there]. Try to burn them to a cd/dvd . Then be sure you
antivirus
> is up to date and you have a parasite program like AdAware installed with
> current updates and ready to go. I would then reboot it and deal with
> whatever it is by scanning for viruses and parasite right away when you
had
> the time. In the future I suggest you make full backups of your computer.
I
> use Norton Ghost and it can burn Ghost image to different hard drive
> partition or cd/dvd. Then it is real easy to restore the operating
> system/applications and you just have to backup data files since last
Ghost
> image. There are many places online you can buy Norton SystemWorks Pro OEM
> disk [ such as NewEgg ] for around $25 and it includes Ghost. Backups are
> highly underrated way to deal with malware problems --- Steve
>
>
> http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml
> http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/autoruns.shtml
>
>
>
> "Bradley26" <someone@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:zxD7d.1898$cd1.376@trnddc03...
> > All,
> >
> > While visiting ebay, I clicked on an item to view. it took a while and
> > the
> > disk was going a lot. Ive used ebay since 1999 or so; Im running
> > Windows2000 sp4 with IE 6.0.2800 128 bit
> >
> > So the page is loading, I thought maybe some big photos of the item
taking
> > a
> > while.
> >
> > Then the message dialog box comes up from windows:
> >
> > "You must restart your computer to make the new settings take effect.
> > Restart now? yes no"
> >
> >
> > I took a snapshot of the incident and clicked NO. I sent a message to
the
> > ebay seller to ask about this. as Im typing, the restart box pops up
> > again,
> > and it was from that ebay page again, like it did a refresh.
> >
> > I checked the add/remove programs, nothing new or odd.
> >
> > this entire install is only a couple of weeks old, Ive got both trend
> > micro
> > pc cillin demo and Norton2001 with all the updates. its got the trend
> > micro firewall, only those ports I activate, I think, get used.
> >
> > I checked the snapshot, the windows update was not in the system tray, I
> > went to WU and the last update was Sept 17th or so
> >
> > my security settings are set to "high" for the internet, and I add
> > "trusted
> > sites" to a few, and have the scripts and most settings set to "prompt"
> > which is very annoying to click yes for each web page. ebay is a
trusted
> > site, but it said mixed at the bottom of the page.
> >
> > There was no warning about downloading anything, just that I have to
> > reboot
> > to make changes take effect.
> >
> > PLEASE Help, Ive got no clue what to check
> > and am afraid when I reboot, the computer will be destroyed once again
> >
> > thanks
> >
> >
>
>
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