[GeoStL] Re: I need some geek help please
- From: Elkie <elkcooker44@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:04:19 -0700 (PDT)
I reran my Antivi at start up and it came up clean. I ran the cleanreg till I
was blue and it came up with 300ish errors that I asked the program to fix. Now
I just come up with the same 19 errors that are assorted empty files. I keep
hitting the fix error button and it says they are fixed but when I rerun the
program they come back again. I reloaded JAVA and that seems to have solved the
problem, (knock on wood).
I'm not sure I understand what you are talking about proxy settings and
deleting stuff. I looked under the tools in IE and did not find any proxy
settings. My internet comes from a Tmobile rocket stick if that makes any
difference.
Thank you both for helping me out. I really appreciate it.
'Whatever You Give To Life, Life Gives You Back'
Life is way to short to take serious.
--- On Wed, 4/13/11, Jon Mertz <jemertz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Jon Mertz <jemertz@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: I need some geek help please
To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: "Charles Leverett" <charlieleverett@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 5:17 AM
Charles is right. Viruses often like to change settings, especially for things
like IE, which can stay around after the virus is taken care of. If you were
getting the errors in Firefox, try reinstalling that first. If you were only
getting the errors in GSAK, you might try a Windows repair. You might also
check your IE settings, as Charles suggested. Things like the Proxy and
security settings are good starts. Also check your hosts (or lmhosts) file. You
can open it in Notepad but make sure it does not save with a .txt extension if
you have to change it. You should see a lot of lines starting with # (comments)
and a line saying
127.0.0.1 localhost
You may also have one with your computer name in it and that same IP. Other
than that, you probably shouldn't have any entries, especially not a whole lot
with the same IP. If you do, remove them all except the one above and the one
with your hostname if it exists. Re-save the file, but make sure there's no
extension (the part of the filename after the '.')
...good luck. Those viruses can be nasty!
-Jonathan Mertz
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Charles Leverett <charlieleverett@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Could be you still have the virus, could be it just messed with your settings.
Did you check out your IE settings, even if you aren't using IE, wrong settings
can still cause other programs to act wierd.
Also I'd to a virus scan on boot. If your AV program doesn't allow for that,
Avast is free and is a very good AV program.
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Elkie <elkcooker44@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Here is my problem....yesterday I loaded Streets and Trips 2011 on my desktop.
This morning my antivirus had intercepted a JAVA/Agent.JS JAVA virus. It was
quarantined. When I was in geocaching.com this morning I tried to send a gpx
file from there to my GSAK. OMG I got about a dozen different Internet Explorer
(I run Firefox) script errors. The common thing with them was google maps. I
couldn't even open GSAK because of the script errors. I reloaded GSAK and can
now open it but I still can not send gpx files. What should I do?
Thanks ahead of time. elkie
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short to take serious.
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