Re: tasks unexpectedly close down

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From: David Candy (david_at_mvps.org)
Date: 05/03/04


Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 00:27:50 +1000

Well you do have a virus. It's stopping McAfee and regedit.

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"William" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:77c901c4311a$25001690$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> After the fault described below I formatted my hard drive 
> then re-installed Win XP Home.  Then Mcffee Virus scan 
> 7.0. Then Speedtouch ADSL drivers for broadband 
> connection. Nothing else.
> 
> Problem.
> Now when using my PC, the McAfee icon on the taskbar will 
> disappear usually after I connect to the internet. (But 
> not always), once this effect is observed Regedit will 
> not stay open for more than a few seconds before simply 
> disappearing as if I had closed it down.
> 
> This is not an exhastive list of symptoms. I first 
> started to see this happen when I re-connected another PC 
> on a home network.
> 
> I had downloaded all of the relevant updates from McAfee 
> but found no viruses.
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as how to go 
> about tracking this down.
> 
> Many thanks.


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