[GeoStL] Re: I need some geek help please
- From: Jon Mertz <jemertz@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 05:17:15 -0500
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
>>
>>
>>
>> 'Whatever You Give To Life, Life Gives You Back'
>>
>> Life is way to short to take serious.
>>
>
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