Re: Two issues to resolve

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I ran Norton antivirus 2005 and Spybot last night, both up to date. Should I
download and run Ad-Aware too? The Red Circle and X message still appears
though on boot up.
Could you possibly address the other issue with the SIS Port Driver?
Thanks


"Doug Sherman [MVP]" wrote:

> This is spyware, a virus, or the remains thereof. Run an up to date anti
> virus and anti spyware scan.
>
> Doug Sherman
> MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP
>
> "Beaner" <Beaner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:84EB4A25-13D4-45A5-9427-F2A643C544F3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Issue 1 - I have WinXP Home SP2. When I turn on the laptop I get a window
> > with a Red circle with an "X", it says it cannot locate svchost.exe in
> > C:/Windows. I checked and I have this file in 2 places. place
> > #1.-c/windows/system32 and place #2.-c/windows/servicepackfiles/i386,
> > 14kb each place. What if I copy the file and install it into c/windows...
> > will this stop the alert message that wants to find it in c/windows? Or,
> what
> > else would you recommend?
> >
> > Issue 2 - Again, when turning on the laptop I get the Hardware Wizard"
> > wanting to install the SIS PORT DRIVER. I tried to do this through Device
> > Manager and it says there either is no driver installed or it doesn't need
> > one. Apparently its looking for something that's causing the message to
> > appear. I can't get it to reinstall from the system harddrive files or
> from
> > the internet or rollback and I don't have a winXP cd. So, I disabled it in
> > Device Manager, the message stopped on boot up and things seem to be
> working
> > fine with it in the disabled state. This doesn't feel like the right way
> to
> > fix this problem. What do you think happened? I read where one of the
> above
> > issues (not sure which one) might be the result of a previous windows
> update
> > file. Hope you can help a person who knows only enough to be dangerous
> with
> > computers.
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Beaner
>
>
>
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