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  • From: Bob Kucera <bobkucera AT verizon.net>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] "Winweb Security" A Virus?
  • Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:47:40 -0500

this may be old news, but i seem to have to re-install XP a couple times
a year due to crashes, two caused by MS, one a "root kit". have just
been reminded to not use XP SP3. That comes as an update option after
XP install - and crashes my system. So my lesson is to not have
automatic installed updates and check for what i'm getting before
installing.

also i opt out of internet explorer 7. firefox works.


On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 13:45 -0500, Michael Czeiszperger wrote:
> On Dec 16, 2008, at 1:43 PM, <cmccarthy1 AT nc.rr.com> <cmccarthy1 AT nc.rr.com
> > wrote:
>
> > I'd never (never) had a virus on any of my home machines until last
> > week, now I think that I may have a few.
> >
> > winlogon.exe can be the true Windows executable, or it can be a
> > virus. Have any of you XP users downloaded SP3? If so, did you see
> > a DOS window after the installation and reboot that was up and down
> > pretty quickly that had winlongon.exe in it? I think that I might
> > have seen this because the virus/malware was replacing the real
> > winlogon.exe with the viral winlogon.exe..
>
> With Windows its not unheard of to reinstall the OS and all the apps
> once a year. If you have had this machine for a while it may be time
> to just punt and reinstall.
>
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> Michael Czeiszperger
> Chapel Hill, NC
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