Re: Malicious Software Removal Tool

Jerry, David:

Jerry is correct. After going through the repair install fiasco (mostly
through my own issues), I wanted to make sure that nothing had crept into my
system. I did a virus scan, a Spybot scan, a Adaware scan, a Defender scan,
land a MRT (this is apparently the acronym used) quick scan.

Though those passed, with the usual many minor (cookie and MRU) issues and a
couple of firewall issues detected by Spybot, which I attribute to my attempt
to do a SP2 install after my first repair install of XP. So, I ran full scans
using a command line execution once; however, I also used a 'double-click
execution' once.

Note that I omitted a perhaps important point the background information I
provided in my opening post: After the second, slipstreamp-based repair
install, the computer shut down a couple of times. It seemed to stabilize
after doing some work on "Thinkvatage" software - reinstalls.

But these random shutdowns made me concerned that malicious code had been
introduced during the episode.

BTW: I received an email notification that my opening post had been replied
to; however, the link provided did not open a page. Is there something I need
to do to get such links to work? No instructions were included in the email.

This is the first time I have ever done a post in this (or any) community .
.. .

Regards,
Tim


"Jerry" wrote:

If he's running it Full Scan he probably downloaded it and is running it
from his machine directly.

"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
news:%238uFt6FlIHA.5396@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: "Tim" <Tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

| Please let me know if there is a more appropriate discussion forum for
this
| question.
|
| Is there a maximum number of files that MSRT will check?
|
| I ask this because on two occasions now, my display has gone
'unretrievably
| black' (HD still being accessed) afer about 2.5 hours of MSRT execution
(Full
| Scan). I noticed on the second scan that there were almost a million
files
| processed. After 'doing something else for a bit', I found the situation
| described above (for the second time).
|
| Background:
| I have just done a repair install of XP SP2 on a T60. Actually, this was
| after doing an XP repair install, and messing up an SP2 upgrade. I then
did
| the XP SP2 repair install using a slipstream CD. Nice. Next time, I
will try
| to add drivers; e.g., for the XP SATA 'issue'.
|
| Regards,
| Tim

Tim:

Are your running the MRT from command line or are you just obtaining it
through Auto Updates
?

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp





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