Re: Oh My Googness!! FREQUENT CRASH

From: Carey Frisch [MVP] (mrxp2004_at_nospamyahoo.com)
Date: 06/01/04 

Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 17:29:47 -0500

You should know that viruses/worms are oftentimes designed to corrupt
operating system files. If the following suggestions do not work,
it's time for a "Clean Install" of Windows XP.

There is a very helpful virus removal newsgroup you may wish to post to:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.security.virus

Symantec Security Check
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp?langid=ie&venid=sym

Virus Removal Tools
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/tools.list.html

Online Virus Removal Tutorials
http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/virusremoval/virusremoval_info_tutorial.html

3 Simple Steps to Insure the Security of Your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

Clean Install Windows XP
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens] 

-- 
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Be Smart!  Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
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"JOW" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message:
 news:16c0401c44824$31fa0d30$a501280a@phx.gbl...
| 
| 
| UM 
| HELP
| 
| >-----Original Message-----
| >I have a virus on my pc. i didnt know this until i 
| started 
| >suspecting when my pc crashed whenevr i played games or 
| >watched windows media movie player. So i did a virus scan 
| >and it said i have pate.b.worm or me.parite or something
| >(samething). It infects .exe and .scr files(explains why 
| >my screen saver doesnt work). I had no problems till i 
| >used the virus scanner(housecall) to clean and all it did 
| >was corrupt .exe files on my pc. but it made backups so i 
| >renamed the .rb0 backups as .exe and it worked. But my pc 
| >was still crashing. i suspected overheating, this was in 
| >the fall of 2003. Then i tried cooling it. No help. So I 
| >removed a ram stick in the first slot. It stopped 
| freezing 
| >when i played games. Now its been freezing a lot lately, 
| >and not just when i play games. so i bought a new ram 
| >stick and tried it(512 mb ram) and it crashes a lot more 
| >now, even sometimes on turn ons. when it crashes, it 
| looks 
| >like power went out..monitor goes black but then turns 
| >back on revealing the last image i saw, but this time 
| with 
| >the new stick of ram, colors are everywhere but on the 
| >last image i saw before it froze. its annoying. PLEASE 
| >HELP! i turned off system restore. The hp company(i have 
| >xp) didnt give me a restore disk..only thing i can use is 
| >windows restore. but if i turn it on, it would get 
| >infected. also, when i go to play games, i cant without 
| >reinstalling or copying the game exe from cd rom each 
| time 
| >i go to play(before it gets infected...it used to get 
| >infected a lot but still work before i used the virus 
| >scanner). any reasons for the crash and how to remove 
| this 
| >worm? these tutorials on the net suck.

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