-=PCTechTalk=- Re: XP Media locking up only main user
- From: "GMan" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 01:25:09 -0400
Terry,
Malware infections can go either way. Either they affect the whole
machine or just the user. In most cases, however, it's just the user (until
a different user triggers an infected file on the same machine).
I'm hoping you find something with your AV scan, but I'm not counting on
it. When only one user's log-in acts like this, it's often the result of a
corrupted username.pwd file (where username is the log-in name of the
affected user). Still, we'll wait for the results of your AV scan before
looking into anything else.
Peace,
GMan
"The only dumb questions are the ones that are never asked!"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry M" <wannalearn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "PC Tech Talk" <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 5:06 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- XP Media locking up only main user
> I'm running XP Media Center 2005 with all updates done.
> There was a thunderstorm yesterday so I turned off my machine. This
> morning when I turned it on, everything was ok until after I logged in.
> Then no matter what I clicked on, the menu, the taskbar or any folder the
> machine completely locked up, alt-ctrl-del, didn't even work, I had to
> turn the machine off manually, restarted and the same thing. Went into
> safe mode and did ckdisk
> and tried again, same thing. It's only on my user name, but that's where
> all my info is, I'm using my daughter's user account to get on here to
> ask. Anybody have any ideas or possible fixes?
> I'm running an av scan now with zone alarm, but don't viruses affect every
> user, not just one?
>
> Thanks in advance for your time,
> Terry in Montana
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