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OK got it working again by using "SCANREG

Hi i am trying to fix a Win 98 machine that stopped working after running and fixing some problems with spybot. When the machine was supposed to restart spybot was going to perform additional cleanups. Now all I get is a Win 98 Setup wizard screen asking for user name and password ? Any clues

Hi I have been having a problem with my machine for sometime, basically on startup W2000 became very slow. I found out that WINLOGON.EXE was using a large amount of processor % for a long period of time. With the help of BCASTNER in the W2000 forum we identified that the delay was being...

Micheal Early symptoms were ; V slow bootup Browser hijacked Powerscan 1.1 popups Blank internet explorer pages Currently after running all the normal suggestions from this forum which included : Manual Live update of Norton AV Full Scan with Norton AV CWshredder x 2 Spybot x 2 AD Aware x 3...

Bill I have disabled the Autoprotect feature from being started at boot up and the problem has gone away! This is obviously not the ideal way to start up the PC but it identifies that your earlier comments were once again correct. I have followed the link you sent me and looked at some others...

Sorry I dont get the BITS one but I am looking into the following ; Event ID 1005 - Source SAVRT Symantec AntiVirus Auto-Protect could not scan file C:\WINNT\System32\ati3d1ag.dll for viruses due to low kernel stack. - appears 20 times Symantec AntiVirus Auto-Protect could not scan file...

The ASRW.EXE didnt exist but the file IUHO.EXE did.

Taken from MAJORGEEKS ........ thanks to "QWERT" The file you are seeing is actaully "?ttrib.exe". It appears to be attrib.exe because of some unicode conversion vulnerbility or something like that. Therefore, it's not the microsoft window's attirbute utility. First you have to go to Tools->...

The ?ttrib.exe will that display as attrib.exe in task manager ? Jason

Thanks for the Reply. I take it I use HijackThis for killing and removing ? Jason

Hi I am getting this log after following the best practise list of scanning and using the above utilities. Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 Scan saved at 15:01:44, on 12/11/2004 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes...

OK I have Symantec Norton Internet Security Pro 2004. I will try their web site for support ideas. Jason

Bill If I log off then re log on as the same user i dont get the delay or see the winlogon.exe using the CPU. I will try some of your suggestions Thanks.

Bcastner The pc is only running W2000 Pro, and its only during the startup / login process this is happening. What can i check on the DNS settings ? Jason

Hi My W2000 machine has recently started have a slow startup. In task manager the winlogon.exe process has about 40-50% CPU useage and System idle process about has about 40-50% CPU useage. This displays on the graph as about 90-100% total usage. After about 2-3 mins the winlogon.exe process...

Hi all I have been having no trouble with XP sp2 and Symnatec's Norton Antivirus 2004 until today..... Installed XP then SP2 then ran Norton install. Did the usual live update after install and had the "re-run liveupdate to get all updates message". Rebooted, re-ran live update - No updates...

2 New PC's running XP Pro SP2. Linked via network switch. One PC has the data base saved on its hard drive. Question ; what is the most secure way to have another user access this data from the other PC ? We will be having ADSL installed in the future and want to maintain a good level of...

Hi, I am having trouble with a W98 machine the error "Operational system not found" keeps appearing. This requires powering off and on to get going again Where / what is the best tool to run for checking the hard drive in W98 ? I have a W98 boot disk, and wonder if booting from this and...

Bcastner, If you think this may be a worm does the Panda and Trend micro scanners look for these? or is there a better scanner ? I am thinking of talking the user (over the phone)through using something to scan with. Jason

I was called out to this users PC because they were reporting abnormally slow operation. One thing I did was to stop messenger appearing at start up. Although as with all intermittent faults / events I could not replicate the slowing down fault. I will revisit the users site and follow some...