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  1. Oldfart3

    McAfee & Microsoft pages inaccessible...

    A run of bad luck here -- 'my' computer came up lame yesterday afternoon and when rebooting, the startup window tells me "Pri Master Hard Disk: S.M.A.R.T. Status BAD, Backup and Replace." From what I read, SMART is not usually wrong in its advance notice of a disk problem, and that a person...
  2. Oldfart3

    McAfee & Microsoft pages inaccessible...

    Thanks again, FaiTHLeSS, I get the same address as you when pinging www.mcafee.com. I have no 'host' or 'hosts' file anywhere on C:\ except for the hosts.sam (sample) file installed by Win98 in C:\windows (installed in 1998). It has only two 'example' entries and nothing concerning mcafee or...
  3. Oldfart3

    McAfee & Microsoft pages inaccessible...

    Thanks for your input. I'm sorry to say that no files or registry entries described for W32.Gaobot.ALO can be found. There also are no activities or events as described for this virus. I have no 'host' or 'hosts' file in Windows Root or System folders, or anywhere in C:\ for that matter --...
  4. Oldfart3

    McAfee & Microsoft pages inaccessible...

    Hello all, New member here, I hope to contribute but am first hoping to obtain some input as I'm at wit's end! My wife's computer ('99 trouble-free e-machine, Win98, IE6, 128MB mem, McAfee VirusScan8 with no firewall, 128MB mem) is home-networked with mine that I built last year (WinXP Home...

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