Norton Antivirus is prompting me with a system halt error that it has detected a malicious suspect on the file system object agent.exe. I'm current with virus definitions, run SpyBot and Adaware. Everything is clean. Have not upgraded to SP2. How can I determine if this is an unknown virus, etc, on my machine.or if something on the internet is attempting to use agent.exe
View 9 RepliesI bought the drive came home and installed in on a PC with XP SP_2.Stated the machine and it took forever to load up windows ( not normally like this )Went to start to transfer files over , and no disc to be found anywhere (?)Start/MyPc/properties/hardwareTab/device manager/ and there is nothing to indicate there is a USB hd connected to my machine .right click mypc/manage/discManagement and still no disc shows up in the menu .(?)restart the PC .NOW for the first time ever my pc takes forever to shut down and restart .when the pc restarts repeat the above and still no disc to be found anywhere .while plugged in and connected to the machine i unplug the power to the drive and plug it back in , now outta nowhere XP says it has found a new Seagate drive . YAY right , wrong. i restart my machine and the slow shutDown and restart is still happening (thumbs down )when the pc restarts ( finally ) i check the shortCut i made for the HD on my desktop , no hd icon just a grey box with a Question mark . so i unplug and plug the power cable as i did before and bang there it is again ( the hd).
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI ran LiveUpdate on Norton Systemworks 2003. It updated LI only, and asked me to reboot. I did. I also, following some advice I found on TSG during a Google search, switched the Speed Disk service to "manual", as it was causing my HD to work overtime. As it was nearly 1am by then, I went off to bed. My system is protected by ZoneAlarm, Spybot resident, Norton Systemworks with auto updates. I do, however, have a broadband connection and leave the system on at night. I'm running Windows 2000 Pro. Monitor hadn't powersaved. Rightclick had stopped working, clicking on anything in my startbar had no effect, except "start", but that would only bring up the 4 items that would be above 'programs', and I couldn't click on them either. So, I rebooted, and everything worked fine. I was on the system for around 1/2 hour,I went downstairs for breakfast, and when I returned I found it in the same state.
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View 3 Replies View Relatedthis log i have been told has some odd entries.. can find malicious content??
View 10 Replies View RelatedThere's an e-mail doing the rounds inviting recipients to download SP3 for XP and on the face of it, giving a web address of windows.com etc. On close examination, the second "w" in Windows is actuall two "v"s and anyone visiting this site is likely to get a nasty surprise. That's why I'm not posting any links and also why I'm forwarding thios posting to a Mod who may care to make it Sticky
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Where does the monthly release of the microsoft auto update Malicious Software removal tool go and does it need to be run manually
View 5 Replies View Relatedcomputer is infected from a malicious program which always prompt to download a antimalware program. it happened when my friend tried to browse a porno site, nfortunately, my pc doesn't have antivirus or any internet protection... what should i do? when i open my internet explorer, it gives me a new defualt home page which informs me that my computer is infected and i have to buy their software to eliminate the problem. i believe my internet explorer is infected with a malware virus
View 5 Replies View RelatedHas anyone received a duplicate automatic update notification on Microsoft Malicious Software Tool I had KB890830 installed automatically on 02/14 and then KB890830 (the same number) again on 02/15. I really don't know how good this tool is anyway - now it makes me wonder if Microsoft has a problem with it
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View 6 Replies View RelatedPC got infected with the virus Bloodhound.w.32.ep. The Virus is causing my PC to freeze and slowed down my computer incredibly
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View 8 Replies View RelatedIf i don't have access to internet and to http://www.microsoft.com/security/ [...] fault.mspx how can i start MS removal tool
View 1 Replies View RelatedI use the microsoft malicious software removal tool what a mouthful manually when I download the update should I delete the old one first or will the new version install over the top.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI ran the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool v3.11, "Engine internal result code = 80508015" means and is it serious This is my desktop with WinXPsp3 which I've had for quite a while but hope nothing serious is wrong with it
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am getting this Security Alter message saying that " Your computer is infected with last version of PSW.x-Vir trojan. I recently downloaded this program called Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool. Hopefully this program will help me remove this trojan, but if anyone can let me know about what programs i could use to remove or if anyone could help me remove this trojan that would be greatful. Also i am getting this message on my toolbar with an x and a question mark on top of it saying that your system detected virus activities and when i click on it, it sends me to this weblink http://www.virusburst.com/?aff=321.
View 7 Replies View RelatedMy name is CJ I have a Windows XP Home Edition Laptop Notebook and for the past few days its been automatically shutting down on me with no Error messages or Warning I installed Avast Anti Virus ran that and that didn't find anything I went to Microsoft Malicious Software ran that and that Didn't find anything
View 14 Replies View RelatedI received advice that the following Updated Version is now available:-Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool <http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=3565848> I tried over the last three days to download it to my Desktop, but every time I get the following Notice: Cannot download this file.Invalid http server reply. Details MZ followed by a square
View 1 Replies View RelatedI received an update message icon from microsoft. The updates included security for Windows 2000, which is my OS system, and Malicious Removal Tools. Before the installation of these updates, the wired Internet connection in my computer was OK. However, after I installed these updates, my wired Internet connection failed. I tried to restart my computer, updated driver for my network card 3 COM 3C920B-EMB, but I could not re-establish the Internet connection. the wireless Internet connection at my sister's computer was OK, the wired Internet connection at my friend's computer was also OK
View 2 Replies View RelatedIt all started when last night the graphics on my computer went haywire and Also I cannot acess the help and support center I get a message that there is a Malicious Script Error: Windows Script Host Shell Object Reg Write helpctr.exe It reconmends to stop script so I say ok and then I still cannot access the help center, so I do it again and the message continues to come up, we started up the computer the other night and my husband had a computer game in the disk drive and we had an error message come up ntldr is missing, we ended fixing that by taking out the game and rebooting and now we have those other 2 above problems not sure if they are related or not. I'm really hoping our graphics card isn't shot.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIve been told that the monthly tool doesn report if it finds OR removes anything is this true
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have attempted to run this software, but each time i do so, it cause my entire system to freeze. I have tried running it from the website as well as downloading it and then running it. Both cause my system to freeze, requiring a hard boot. i have a Dell Dimension XPS Gen 4
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am running Win XP-SP2. I wiped my hard drive due to irresolvable software conflicts. I reinstalled XP-SP2, Office, Norton, the printer and scanner and my digital camera software package. All were updated and working perfectly until Sunday. I booted up the machine only to get a warning that says One of your disks may have errors let the computer reboot itself (which it will do repeatedly, stuck in a reboot loop) or you can hit any key to ignore this warning. You have only ten seconds to read all this and make a decision.
Once the computer boots up, everything seems to work as normal except for system restore. I tried to restore to the day after I reformatted and installed everything and all I get is an error saying Cannot restore to that point, please choose another point to restore tooor something to that effect.
a message keeps popping up saying the following: Cannot load dialog. Error 623: The system could not find the phone book entry for this connection. All I can do is click the close button and it goes away and nothing else seems to happen, but it pops up again in a few minutes.
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy nephew's company has a server with Small Business Server 2003 SP1 and they run Windows Backup for their daily backups. The event log errors with Event ID 6013 and says:
SQLlib error: OLEDB Error encountered calling IDBInitialize::Initialize. hr=0x80004005 SQLSTATE: 08001, Native Error: 17 Error state: 1, Severity: 16
Source: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server
Error Message: [DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen[Connect[]].]SQL Server does not exist or access denied.
When I try to install updates from Microsoft's site I get an error saying "Updates were not successfully installed." This happens during both manual and automatic updating. I search google.com high and low and cannot find a fix that works. This is the specific error from the WindowsUpdate.log
FATAL: Error: 0x80070005. wuauclt handler: failed to spawn COM server
FATAL: 0x80070005: ERROR: Remote update handler container process created (PID: 1656), but exited before signaling event
I have a Dell Inspirion laptop and have formated the HD and removed the partions. Have tried booting from a USB HD and have also tried another burned disk. No change will not install.
View 1 Replies View Relatedi had was my motherboard cpu fan not working in its cpu fan pin, so instead i have it hooked up to a case fan pin. I am not sure if this means i have a faulty mobo or not.
I installed my brand new Creative sound card, I installed its software and drivers all fine and the PC restarted fine. Next creative wanted to update the drivers and I let it. After it was done installling the new drivers it needed a restart. On restart I could not even get to the post screen and was displayed with an error saying USB over current, PC shutdown in 20 seconds. At first i could not get past this error at all, so i tried taking out the sound card and putting inserting it again. I did not get the USB error now and was happy.
I played Battlefield 2142 for a few hours then shut it down. Now today when i get home from work and turn it on i saw that USB over current error again and got frusterated. After taking the sound card out and putting it back in I had some new problems. I only saw my Asus Splash screen saying "press delete to enter setup" although pressing delete did nothing, it just hung on that screen.
window loads, sits, finally other half will load, mouse just doesn't seem to do anything so you click again and 3 minutes later 2 of whatever will finally open... just annoying crap really A few days ago comcast went off and I had to unplug modem, wait, then plug back up and restart system. I got a "Disk read error press control, alt, delete, to restart"
error, tried that same thing so I shut down and when I turned back on it booted fine. I have since moved... just set up the system and am getting the same error except this time shutdown/restart isn't working ( The OTHER problem I realize is this... this is a tempory move! Most everything I own is in a storage unit, boxes to the back, furniture to the front and guess where my disks are? Right! I put printer, shredder, disks, everything I didn't just HAVE to have in the storage unit.
Man, my computer for the last two weeks have been crashing like an emo. I mean, when I play GTA: San Adreas, in 20 minutes, I get a BSOD with a stop error. When I put hardware acceleration to full, in a half an hour, I get a BSOD with a similar error. Believe me, I got three kinds of errors, and some were from different time. I believe the problem either came from the either the PSU, new 512 mb of ram, old 512, CPU, system board, or the graphic card. I'll try to post the error as best as I can. So, is there a solution to this?
Error Message: STOP 0x000000EA THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER (Q293078) This is one of them, but there another one with KMODE that I can't seem to remember. Also, sometimes, after it tries to recover from a serious error, the computer shuts down during the bootup before I can choose which XP version I can choose.
Also, I hate to say this, but I'm not using a legit windows copy sp1, but I have updated to sp2.