| Everyone
has
heard
about computer viruses
and they are a big problem because they are written to spread through
email or
even from some web pages. The problem comes in when your anti virus
software is not up to date so you don't even know. There is one free
for personal use piece of
software that I recommend AVG Antivirus. |
GRISOFT
AVG Technologies released AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.0 on 24th April 2008,
the latest version of the company's popular and widely-used free
security software, which now incorporates protection against spyware
through a new combined antivirus and antispyware engine. |
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Windows XP
Over
the weekend Sept. 8 2008 while working on a machine I ran spybot. It found some adware
called Zango. Spybot said it had to reboot to remove some of it and
that is where the problem starts. When it reboots you will see
"c:\windows\system32\command.com
The parameter is incorrect." Clicking it keeps reporting error message
over
and over. The system never really goes beyond that point.
Took a little research but here is how I corrected it
Log on to the system in safe mode. Start regedit. Navigate to the
following registry key and see if there is an entry with
"c:\windows\system32\command.com ..." in the data portion of the entry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\RunOnce
It
had several
entries to run Spybot and remove things so I deleted those entries and
restarted the machine. Ran Spybot again and undid the changes to that
section and it seemed to work fine.
I didn't do it because it wasn't my machine but they say you can remove
it instructions here. |
Windows XP Pro
Worked on a
machine that wouldn't boot up. The message it gave was "A problem is
preventing windows from accyrately checking the license for this
computer. Error Code:0x80040017"
My first thought was a virus or malware but since I couldn't log into
the machine I managed to log into safe mode and did a system restore to
about 10 days earlier, that didn't work so I tried a different restore
point and that didn't work either so I started searching the internet
and trying all the different things I found. None of that worked.
I had read some posts by people who ran chkdsk /r and it solved their
problem so I tried that, found problems and corrected them still had
same problem. Ran defrag and chkdsk again. Booted into windows normally
and thought I had it till it gave me the blue sceen we all hate to see,
tried booting into safe mode and it just froze and wouldn't do
anything. Turned it off and back on and it ran chkdsk on it's own and
found some more problems (some of which were in the restore folder)
after which it still gave me the original error. Went back into safe
mode and picked a different restore point again and it worked this time.
Scanned for Malware and fixed problems then did a deep scan for malware
and fixed those problems.
From this point it would be a matter of making sure there are no other
malware items, viruses or spyware but the machine seems to be fine now.
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