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re: Important!! WinXP not working anymore.
Thursday, December 11, 2003 at 7:44 am
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Posted by Rich (326 messages posted)


do a system restore back to before you installed norton. Download and Run spybot and adaware..( you can google for dl links) If they don't solve it you might want to run a hijackthis log and post it here for a look.


On Thursday, December 11, 2003 at 7:34 am, JohanFruh wrote:
>My WinXP has reached a critical state.
>
>After having seen a few hints to Viral presence, I downloaded the Norton AntiVirus
>for a trial run.
>Once installed and updated, I had to restart the computer... I never managed to restart
>WindowsXP normally again.
>The only way I have access is through Safe mode.
>
>The only hints I had beforehand of any problems was:
>- an error message occuring every hour or so, about a Search.vbs problem (error number
>80004005)
>- iexplorer processes appearing in the Task Manager. They appeared randomly and often.
>After 1hour, my task manager would have at least 15 iexplorer processes open.
>-the computer started slowing down a lot, and I had troubles with navigating in internet
>explorer.
>
>I'd be extremely gratefull for any help offered, it's quite an emergency.
>Thank you


Written in response to:
Important!! WinXP not working anymore. (JohanFruh: Thursday, December 11, 2003 at 7:34 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Important!! WinXP not working anymore. (Steverz: Thursday, December 11, 2003 at 7:47 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Important!! WinXP not working anymore. (JohanFruh: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 7:34 am)
-re: Important!! WinXP not working anymore. (Rich: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 7:44 am)
-re: Important!! WinXP not working anymore. (Steverz: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 7:47 am)
*re: Important!! WinXP not working anymore. (jaf: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 8:12 am)
-The saga continues: More bad advice from Steverz (Ricer46: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 8:22 am)
*re: The saga continues: More bad advice from Steverz (jaf: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 8:31 am)
*re: Important!! WinXP not working anymore. (werner: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 10:17 am)
*re: Important!! WinXP not working anymore. (Adam Bradley: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 11:27 am)
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