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| Thread ID: 46129 | 2004-06-14 09:30:00 | AVG and game playing up | lovelee (1294) | Press F1 |
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| 244410 | 2004-06-14 09:30:00 | I have today downloaded the AVG free edition and have found I have a problem that I cannot fix. I have been a user of AVG for years .. its the best thing online!! Oddly though this appears to be part of another problem .. I have a game on my computer that has recently been playing up in that when I click on it to play it it comes up and then disappears. Today I discovered that my AVG wasnt operating and attempted to get it to work but it just comes up and immediately goes away again .. so I tried to uninstall it using the uninstall and also the add remove program .. in neither case would it work. Then I thought OK .. download it again .. and put it over the top of the other one .. same problem .. : ( In fact as I have been typing this 3 icons for AVG came up in the systems tray and as I moved the cursor over each of them they disappeared. ?????????????????????????? :D |
lovelee (1294) | ||
| 244411 | 2004-06-14 10:19:00 | Sounds fishy to me . Can you get to Trendmicro House Call (http://housecall . trendmicro . com/) for an online virus scan? If that will not load or will not scan then you have probably got a trojan that disables all your defensive virus/spyware, etc programs . Let us know how you get on . |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 244412 | 2004-06-14 23:30:00 | Thanks Susan . . I tried to use Trend last night after reading your reply however it was getting late and I had to go to my warm bed . This morning I attempted it again only to find *error code 7* coming up . I turned off comp and on again and attempted it again . . . same error code . . Ive looked at the FAQ in trend . . tried to manually download the lastest pattern files but I get http not found . . Ive tried again to uninstall AVG . . but thats still not working :( |
lovelee (1294) | ||
| 244413 | 2004-06-14 23:34:00 | Perhaps you should be working in safe mode? | metla (154) | ||
| 244414 | 2004-06-15 00:58:00 | ohh bugger me .. I havent used safe mode for eons .. do u suggest I go to safe mode to delete AVG ? |
lovelee (1294) | ||
| 244415 | 2004-06-15 01:15:00 | I can't see what version of Windows you have . . . . Anyway, do a search for Hosts ensuring that "Look in" is set to "Local Hard Drives" or to (C: ) . You may need to also do the following, depending on what version of Windows you have: Click "More advanced options . " Check "Search system folders . " Check "Search subfolders . " Click Search . Click Find Now or Search Now . For each Hosts file that you find, right-click the file, and then click "Open With . " Deselect the "Always use this program to open this program" check box . Scroll through the list of programs and double-click Notepad . When the file opens, delete all the entries in the Hosts file except for the following line: 127 . 0 . 0 . 1 localhost After you have done this try the Trend anti-virus scan again . Also, download HijackThis ( . spychecker . com/download/download_hijackthis . html" target="_blank">www . spychecker . com), make a new folder within Program Files called HijackThis, put your downloaded file in that folder, double-click on it and click Scan . When it has done the scan click on Save Log and post the results of that log here . |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 244416 | 2004-06-15 01:16:00 | > ohh bugger me .. I havent used safe mode for eons .. > > do u suggest I go to safe mode to delete AVG ? No. I suggest you do as I have recommended for now and let us know the results. |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 244417 | 2004-06-15 01:57:00 | Gawd . . Im following what you are saying Susan . I have searched for hosts files and found some . . the first one I opened in notepad and it had the 127 . 0 . 0 . 1 localhost stuff in it . . it said it was a sample . The second one called LMHOSTS . SA_ when i opened it in notepad has a whole lot of heiroglyphics here is a part of it ***õ´â»ºæ¸´µ„»á¶¿*–V,üÏ6ÓäzQðJ*ÉfV Q4"AÿXòŸXôŒRŒ˜7—få>LGz¬^ûÍU y–B!) B¡e“gc ü²cÖ Mªx·Îû—%Mfi“¦,ãMá c2ÈÏÌüÁiŽ@Š¥¡éå&Šg8®lÚàlxñyEøŠÊƒqbôÏFÀ˳Œ5Ò™<¤} I am running XP . . do I delete all that guff ?? It would leave a blank file . . it is all guff !!!! |
lovelee (1294) | ||
| 244418 | 2004-06-15 02:02:00 | Further to that .. the next file is a CAB file .. and doesnt give an option to open .. simply extract and open the file .. the next has that 127.0.0.1 .. then a range of files under that .. containing symantec mcafee sophos etc .. do I delete all those leaving the 127.0.0.1 local host ????? |
lovelee (1294) | ||
| 244419 | 2004-06-15 02:11:00 | > ohh bugger me .. I havent used safe mode for eons .. > > do u suggest I go to safe mode to delete AVG ? As Susan suggested its better to follow one persons lead to get the desired result, She won't lead you astray. Personally I would have approached the entire problem from a different angle. |
metla (154) | ||
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