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Thread ID: 104084	2009-10-16 03:58:00	Antivirus driving me daft.	Thomas01 (317)	Press F1

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821060	2009-10-17 00:10:00	1st of all check the Internet settings under 'connection'. Make sure that Dial Up is not active. You could try 'Avast' anti-virus, very good & unobtrusive. Also 'Comodo' which has a Firewall as well. The 'Defense' mode tends to be a pain, so disable it when installing software otherwise it will display dozens of messages.	mzee (3324)
821061	2009-10-17 00:12:00	Delete this entry if you havent yet It shouldnt be loading anything from any cd on startup O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [zzzHPSETUP] E:\Setup.exe Yup I meant dont delete any folder before you uninstall whatever. Its OK if you delete it after Did you disable system restore before you ticked the entries? By tick these thats what you do tick the entries I posted then tick fix checked	Speedy Gonzales (78)
821062	2009-10-17 02:38:00	Strange things always happen to me. When I tried Speedy's link it would not work - so I tried looking for it elsewhere - I thought I had found it but obviously I had got something that used the same name but was actually Search & Destroy. Anyway I have tried Speedy's link again and now its working, so downloaded the correct Trojan Remover and ran it. It found two rather insignificant looking problems and sorted them out. So I tried again to install Avira and got the same result - on what must be the last page of the installation it tells me to check I can get onto the internet. So no progress at all. Not yet anyway. I am looking at Avira because of the great write up it got in PCWorld this month. For the same reasons I am avoiding Comodo which got hammered. Speedy I haven't actually done what you suggested because I do not know where I delete the line from - is it in the Registry - if so that terrifies me and I normally avoid it. I use Registry Mechanic which I have just used to no avail. I must admit I am a bit out of my depth in following this lot. Oh for the good days of DOS Tom	Thomas01 (317)
821063	2009-10-17 02:46:00	No, its in the hijackthis log you posted. You run hijackthis again. Click on scan the system, then tick the entries I posted. Well if you want get teamviewer (www.teamviewer.com) install it then run it. Then send the ID and password in to me in a PM. And I'll check your system from here Well comodo's AV isnt that great, its known for its firewall not the AV program in its security suite (if this is what youre talking about)	Speedy Gonzales (78)
821064	2009-10-18 08:01:00	No, its in the hijackthis log you posted. You run hijackthis again. Click on scan the system, then tick the entries I posted. Well if you want get teamviewer (www.teamviewer.com) install it then run it. Then send the ID and password in to me in a PM. And I'll check your system from here Well comodo's AV isnt that great, its known for its firewall not the AV program in its security suite (if this is what youre talking about) Sounds simple - hey who am I trying to kid! But I am going to have a bash - well at least I think I am because you see I solved the problem using a method the experts will all tell me is wrong!! I went to my little lap top and repeated the exercise. Of course everything went right - no problems. Then I had my bright idea - I copied the program over to a flash drive, tried the flash drive in the desktop and ran it. Seemed to work Ok so I quickly shut it down and copied it over to the hard drive. Then ran the antivirus from the desktop. It all seems to work as its supposed to. I'm not even convinced myself that it will continue working - I had the impression that programs that sat in one folder and ran from there were finished when DOS died. But at the moment I am satisfied - its working - leave well alone (something I have never succeeded in doing for the last 76 years!) Wish me luck. Tom	Thomas01 (317)
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