Re: Error after installing new hard drive
- From: Jay Freedman <jay.freedman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:03:38 -0500
Not that I'm any kind of expert on Windows policies or that this is
on-topic for the Word newsgroups, but you can start the group policy
editor by going to Start > Run and entering gpedit.msc. Be careful --
you can do a lot of damage with that tool!
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On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:22:03 -0800, Carstonio
<Carstonio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I think I have everything fixed now. I used the Subinacl utility to set
>registry permissions so I could install XP's SP2. Then I used the Windows
>Installer Cleanup Utility to fix the registry so I could reinstall MS Word.
>
>And yes, I did have two Trojan horses, and one of them was a browser helper
>object. I used HijackThis to track them down, since the AVG scanner only
>deleted the prgrams created by the Trojan horses and not the original files.
>
>The only minor issue I have now is that XP's Group Policy setting has
>Windows Firewall turned off. I can't seem to find the snap-in for changing
>the group settings.
>
>"Jay Freedman" wrote:
>
>> Some of the symptoms you mentioned, especially the repeated power cycling,
>> sound like you may have been infected with the Blaster worm. See
>> http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.mspx and
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/890830/ for instructions.
>>
>> Also, search Google with the terms
>> blaster worm removal
>> to find other antivirus vendors' information.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Jay Freedman
>> Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
>> Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
>> all may benefit.
>>
>> Carstonio wrote:
>> > What a trying weekend! My XP disk is for SP1, so did the repair
>> > install as you recommended. That required me to reinstall my AVG
>> > antivirus software, which took a couple of tries before it took. In
>> > the meantime, my computer got hit with a couple of Trojan horses (let
>> > loose from the antivirus vault?) and I'm still not sure that they're
>> > gone.
>> >
>> > I tried 12 times to update to SP2 using the disk I ordered from MS
>> > last year. I kept getting "Access is denied" errors. I found a
>> > Knowledge Base article that tells how to reset permissions on some
>> > registry keys, so I followed its instructions. But different registry
>> > keys kept popping up in the install log, some of them making repeat
>> > appearances after I changed them already. It was like stepping on
>> > ants.
>> >
>> > The last time I tried the SP2 update, the computer wouldn't boot up
>> > from the hard drive at all, but just kept powering down and
>> > repowering up in a cycle. So I did another SP1 repair install and
>> > reinstalled AVG once more. The system still seems a little buggy. Is
>> > there a good program for gauging the health of the Windows system and
>> > registry? I used to use System Mechanic and I sometimes use CC
>> > Cleaner.
>> >
>> > After all this, my MS Works reinstall worked fine, but MS Word 2000
>> > is still having setup issues. I can't even uninstall the program. The
>> > program works, so I'm wondering if I should futz with it at all.
>>
>>
>>
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