[CTS] Re: Question

On Sunday, November 30, 2003 at 14:34, Dennis Cummins wrote:

> 
> 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 software that told me my defs were out of date..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.

That should have been 11-26-2003.

> 
> 
> > 
> > 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.c
> > o 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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