re: Question about 'Prevent file corruption problems'
Saturday, August 9, 2003 at 3:47 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Tom Swanson
(5553 messages posted)
Your computer either has a virus or you have a corrupted system. Visit McAfee or
Norton and have an online virus scan run on your computer. That is the only way to
get a reliable virus scan.
You should also be running a good spyware/adware scan daily. Spybot and/or AdAware
6 are both very good. There are only a few reliable apps that provide virus and spyware
protection. Once you correct the current problem, use the reccomended apps, not the
ones that give the biggest hype (in some cases that may be the same app).
If this doesn't solve the problem, do a clean install of XP. New partitions, reformat
and start over with a fresh harddrive.
On Saturday, August 9, 2003 at 11:24 am, Maryellen wrote:
>I have a question about Prevent
>file corruption problems: I read the thread all the way back and no one
here
>has ever had my problem. Perhaps no one who has ever had a computer has had this
>problem. It is embarrassing and I am not crazy. Nor does the computer have a
virus.
> This damn computer turns text files into some kind of hieroglyphics that myself
>and the Word Perfect converter don't know. It also singles out graphics or pulls
>them out of the air and turns text into gif files. I am deadly serious. I have
>a picture of a safety pin that was a book review, and I never put any picture of
>any safety pin in the file or even in the computer. I print and store my files
>in folders now that's how bad it is. If it doesn't do either of these two things,
> then the file just vanishes most of the time. I called Dell (many times) and
>they wanted me to do a repair reinstall. This is my first computer and I've only
>had it since March. I can't work the taskbar and quick launch links yet. I don't
>think I'm ready for a repair reinstall. I just did CHKDSK again both ways after
>reading the thread and it's fine. I am constantly running tests on it and it passes.
> I scan for viruses all the time. I have several firewalls. Here is a sample of
>what I found today when I went to retrieve some text I had filed: iij㒒jjm~~ffgnnn֭xx
>
>
>Can anyone help me? I was having a problem in that I no matter what I did I could
>not get rid of files offering to "open with paint." But now I let the paint program
>expire and deleted it entirely from the file associations to open with for every
>single file extension and it is still happening. I changed each file extension
>by hand for file associations "open with," but then I'm still afraid so I stick
>with mostly internet explorer on the fly or AOL to open. I would suspect AOL and
>their habit of collapsing graphics but their files seem to be the only ones that
>don't turn turn into crazy pictures.
>
>Do I just need Dell to give me another new computer (this is number two) or what?
> Have any of you ever heard of such a thing? Can you imagine how it is happening?
> What would you do?
>
>I am so beaten by this problem I didn't even tell you the worst. The computer keeps
>jumbling the files. There are system files hiding in files like "favorites." I
>mean there are some important sounding files that are SYS just buried with a bunch
>of junk several layers down into documents.
>
>I have never even opened the registry for fear of what I might find and what opening
>it might do.
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