Re: Sudden freezes, and bits missing

OK.

One thing, though. Out of curiosity today at work, I tried the RUN sfc /
scannow and got exactly the same response as I get at home. A quick flash of
a black DOS style window.

So, either there is some mistake in the command, or alternatively there are
some administrator priviliges set up on the work machine which stop the
command working, or the commands have somehow been removed as part of the
set-up. Is it possible that my administrator settings have somehow got
screwed up here at home to give a similar effect?

FYI, I removed and reinstalled SP2 yesterday and follwed Microsoft's advice
to check for spyware, using their suggested software. It found over one
hundred!! And in the process McAfee found another virus too. None of this
has cleared up the problems, though.

I'm still fairly sure the freezing is in some way connected with internet
activity, or inactivity.

Cheers

"Galen" wrote:

> In news:27B90D96-F802-4672-9D75-8D58D9E4A902@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> Tim <Tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> had this to say:
>
> My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
>
> > Me again!
> >
> > I have subsequently got McAffey firewall sorted out and solved it's
> > problems. Can't run sfc at all. Search seemed ok in safe mode.
> > When I get a search failure it gives an IE Explorer has encountered
> > an error warning and crashes Windows explorer when you click OK. W
> > Exp then recovers.
>
> Let's play a hunch here. When you scan with McAfee you come up clean? Have
> you taken a peek at HijackThis and looked for out-of-the-ordinary files? No
> worries if you don't know if they're normal or not, you can always post a
> perfectly fine log at the forum I gave you a link to earlier. If your PC is
> coming back clean then it might be that just some system files have either
> been deleted in the process of cleaning or by the malware itself and it can
> be fixed with a repair installation of the OS. This is simple and usually
> goes quite well but it's still best to back up any important data before
> testing it. I'd go ahead and submit your HijackThis log to the forum first
> and wait a day or so to see if anyone will spot anything that could be your
> problem. You could also try a free version of Kaspersky Anti-Virus (KAV) in
> it's trial period or use one of their beta products for free. (I'm not too
> sure how well this one works but:
> http://www.kaspersky.com/beta?product=161744315 is there if you want to give
> it a shot.)
>
> The alternative is a repair installation which, again, means that you'd
> repair the current installation of the OS and afterwards you'd need to
> download your Windows updates all over again. These are the directions for
> doing so:
>
> How to perform an inplace upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341
>
> You might also want to take a look at this:
>
> XP Surviving the first day
> http://www.sans.org/rr/whitepapers/windows/1298.php
>
> And this too... <g>:
>
> What to Know Before You Download and Install Windows XP Service Pack 2:
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/sp2_whattoknow.mspx
>
> As you will probably want to get SP2 installed rather quickly it's a good
> idea to make sure that you've read those first.
>
> Galen
> --
>
> "And that recommendation, with the exaggerated estimate of my ability
> with which he prefaced it, was, if you will believe me, Watson, the
> very first thing which ever made me feel that a profession might be
> made out of what had up to that time been the merest hobby."
>
> Sherlock Holmes
>
>
>
.

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