[CTS] Re: Question

On Sunday, November 30, 2003 at 14:12, Tee wrote:

> Thanks, Hal!  You are still the "Link Man" in my book!  But, alas, as you
> thought, this one doesn't pertain to me...
> 
> The only thing I can think of, that is odd.. is that I do an update on my
> virus protections daily... (no dear, that's *not* the odd part! LOL)  this
> morning (before all of this started) I got a pop up from my NAV software
> that told me my defs were out of date.. so I clicked "okay" to download the
> new ones... pretty normal so far.. right?  Then the odd thing was that once
> it did the scan for updates, I got another popup from my NAV saying that
> everything was up to date... and nothing needed to be updated.
> 
> I just this minute, out of curiosity, did a live update again.. and it
> downloaded new defs!

Hmm...I just ran live update and there were no updates for me. My virus 
defs are dated 11-28-2003.


> 
> This is all to strange.
> 
> I'll run a virus scan and see if that comes up with anything.
> 
> Thanks again, Hal!
> 
> Tee
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dennis Cummins" <sqd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 1:47 PM
> Subject: [CTS] Re: Question
> 
> 
> On Sunday, November 30, 2003 at 13:33, Tee wrote:
> 
> > There's more...
> > 
> > My computer continues to act up... it'll boot up, get to the desk top
> > (showing desktop picture and icons) and then it takes *forever* to even
> > play the sign on wav, then another 2 minutes for all of my stuff to
> > become available for me to even use.  Including my modem and virus
> > software.
> > 
> > I went to help and was going to create a restore point and that is when I
> > found even more  problems... 
> > 
> > 1.  No restore points available.. 
> > 2.  Year in the restore screen said 2099 
> > 3.  Looked at my system tray clock and it said 7089 (!!! WOW !!!)
> > 
> > So I *finally* got the date to change back to 2003 on my system tray
> > clock and rebooted, went into the Bios and the date and time are correct
> > in there.  When the computer came back up, (still very slow) I went to
> > the restore point screen again and it says: "There are currently no
> > restore points available" and it won't let me click on any other date nor
> > will it allow me to back up to the previous month.. it's just like it
> > never existed.  My system restore is set to create restore points.
> > 
> > One other thing.. after my computer has been up and running for a few
> > minutes, I get a script error.  It has to do with my Starband Modem (I
> > don't have the exact script error in front of me, so I can't quote it
> > verbatim.. I'll relay it if it happens again).  But basically, it says
> > the standard "an error has occurred with the script on this page, do you
> > want to continue running this script.." (or close to that), the area
> > where the script error is happening, then gives me a yes or no choice. 
> > I've chosen "yes".. but I'm not sure what it really means.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> 
> Are you sure you do not have a virus?
> 
> See this about missing restore points,
> 
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.co
> m:80/support/kb/articles/q301/2/24.asp&NoWebContent=1
> 
> Not sure it applies to you however.
> 
> Have you got a recent backup you can use to restore system?

-- 
Dennis

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