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["Colleen McCarthy" <cmccarthy1 AT nc.rr.com>]

Hi Folks,

 

Thanks for all of the information.

 

Marc-- Did you just uninstall XP SP3?

 

Thanks!

 

Colleen

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From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Marc Wiatrowski
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 3:50 PM
To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
Subject: Re: [internetworkers] "Winweb Security" A Virus?

On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 19:00 -0500, Roger Austin wrote: 
> Bob Kucera wrote:
> > 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.
>
>   I have XP SP3 and have not seen the problems yet. I also use IE7
> some as well as FF3. I have never had to reinstall XP except the
> time I stupidly unplugged the system unit during a chkdsk routine.
> I went through the repair sequence and it started up fine.
>   I've been through the same with my work laptop without incident.
> It looks like I will need to look into all this. Maybe I have been
> lucky.

XP SP3 killed my system too.   Restored, tried 
SP3 again,  killed it again.  I forget exactly
but after doing some 
googling, it turned out to be something with power management 
in the 
bios.  Disabling it fixed my issue.

-marc