I have noticed that I have supposedly installed Windows Genuine Advantage Notification (KB905474) several times today! I think thismay be because spybot is blocking a registry change called Winlogon something or other. Can anyone confirm this? In other words if I tell spybot to allow this will that stop updates from repeatedly trying to install the same thing?
Spybot Search and Destroy's Advanced Mode includes a System Internals section that searches for registry inconsistencies and will remove them or replace them with a user-specified file. Hoping for the best, I went ahead and removed a number of entries which clearly referred to applications I know for sure I uninstalled and/or deleted. It goes without saying that I saved a pre-modification logfile, as well as allowing Spybot to create a System Retore Point before making changes.
I haven't restarted the system yet, nor do I believe there to be a problem per se; with the possible exception of what I've described here this is just intended as routine maintenance unless and until I discover otherwise Something else I did while I was in there was to put a check in the box next to "Lock Hosts File As Read-Only." That was the right thing to do...right?
I am running Windows XP (Home) on a DellP4 PC at 2.8 GHz with 1.0 GB RAM, 80 GB hard drive and DSL from Verizon. I recently downloaded and ran Spybot 1.5.1 and found that the program was trying to change my "HOSTS" file (C:windowssystem 32driversetchosts). Should I go along with this change, and if so, what is about to change? If not, how do I stop the program from continuing to try to make this change?
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I bought a used laptop with microsoft xp pro. The name of the former owner is always showing on the top when I use internet explorer or outlook express... It's a nuisance but that's OK. Yesterday I installed a program and cannot use it because I have a message :the microsoft jet database engine cannot open the file, it is already opened exclusively by another user or you need pemission. How do I get permission, or how do I change the registry to remove the former owner?
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I use mIRC and I've given it full access in my Firewall Zone Alarm free edition settings, but whenever I try to join a server, GameSurge in this case, I get this error: This never used to happen with the older version of ZoneAlarm, but I'm assuming this version has bug fixes or improved stability over the older one so I'm reluctant to go back to it.
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View 13 Replies View Relatedattempting to help a neighbor resolve a problem with his computer. Toshiba Notebook running XP SP3. He attemped to renew his Norton AntiVirus Subscription , download 2009 to update from 2008. He had Zonealarm running as a firewall on computer. Ran in to an issue with Norton install locking up. Contacted Norton via Web and opened a CHAT support session. Norton rep told him that 2009 wouldn�t work with Zone Alarm, and the rep proceeded to uninstall ZA. During uninstall encountered an error, rebooted to safe mode, went to command line and manually updated Registry , and deleted files (and didn�t backup Registry). Rebooted and AV still wouldn�t installed. Then the user lost Internet connection and lost support. I uninstalled Norton (using their Removal Tool) and internet came back. Attempted install of 2008 AV and install completed, but when attempting Live Update it failed and reported Internet Connection failure. Ran live update out side of app and it return error 1814 and failed. I�ve tried to clean up and remove any thing I can find in the Registry from Zone Alarm. All of Symantec apps and files have been removed from the computer. I attempted to download / install Uniblue Registry Booster 2009 from the web, and during the install it shows 1%, and then errors out with message, Downloading of Installation data from web has failed. Please makes you are connect to the Internet. I have confirmed that MS Firewall is turned off.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedMy e-mail programme is a fully registered version of Incredimail. I recently installed the MacAfee 8.0.0 anti virus programme. Immediately thereafter I was unable to send any e-mails, although recieving any, presents no problem. Disabling MacAfee enables me to send as normal but leaves the computer unprotected whilst doing so. I have no problems sending mail via Yahoo, Netscape, Outlook Express, Opera or any other webmail I would imagine.Does this indicate that MacAfee is finding the Incredimail outgoing e-mail to be suspect and therefore blocking it? If this be the case I would be most grateful if anyone could proffer any comment and even more grateful should a solution be forthcoming
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DSO Exploit: Data source object exploit (Registry change, nothing done)
HKEY_USERSS-1-5-18SoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInternet Settingsones�1004!=W=3
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View 5 Replies View RelatedI know nothing about computers but my boyfriend knows a lot and this has even stumped him. I keep getting notices about having the w32.spybot.worm on my computer. We've followed the instructions on symantec for removal, didn't work. We've formatted it by deleting the partitions, still came back. Then we did a low-level format, and it still came back. The website at symantec says it comes from Kazaa?! I don't have kazaa, and never have. I run Norton virus checks and it doesn't find it, or it says it already deleted it. I search my computer and delete all the little tftp zero byte files. They keep coming back, and I don't know what to do.
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