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#11 03-18-2002, 03:32 AM

You should get a firewall to prevent the DCC File transfers on the MSN-IM

#12 03-18-2002, 08:13 AM

yeah, you didn't say anything about a firewall, guess I assume that everyone has a firewall, or should have. No matter if you are on a dial-up local server, these days one is absolutely essential. Tiny is a great one and free, only uses about .5 to .8 percent resources.
If you don't already have one. But give us an update on how things are now.

Uranium-235 · #13 03-18-2002, 08:47 AM

your answer...

http://dynamic2.gamespy.com/~extreme...age=NotoME.jpg

vee_ess · #14 03-18-2002, 07:05 PM

that's funny, uranium, saving it right now.

i doubt it is a HD problem because when you format it and download it again, it is improbbable that it would keep happening to get placed on the sam clusters out of many and cause probs instead of different files causing probs.

#15 03-21-2002, 12:11 AM

uh to start(computerwindow comes up in xp {your system is low on virtual memory,some programs may be unnaccesable while we upgrade your system}...lingo? after big online game for me.Happens for weeks i guess cusz Ikeep havin the message after gaming.Sometimelater i hear the laser sorta jam inmaster of orion,bash er well repeatedly tap housing .next day or same evening restart to use 4th partition,cant get in.used boot up disc er or recovery disc hoping I could start anew but now i have 5 partitions 4 of em still full of the corrupted hardfiles.bashing your computer can damage info sorte hrd. dont use msn email theyre phasing it out use the new snaszy hotmail.

#16 03-22-2002, 09:59 AM

no i dont have a firewall, i will get one only when on broadband

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one thing is - why does this a) only happens when i open files from this 1 person b) why does it only happen to me c)why does it happen with *any* file type

i recommend re-reading that

#17 03-22-2002, 04:12 PM

Well, and I would suggest you get a firewall now, I feel sure that if you had one installed , it would have caught the culprit when you loaded it. Either it or a anti-virus program, ( a good virus program- not McAfee ) would have caught it.
With over 1500 trojans/worms out there ( not to mention virii ) now, you need a firewall at all times. If you scanned with AdAware , it will not detect all trojans/worms, neither is it inherently designed to do so, you will need a deep trojan scanner from time to time.
But as long as you keep reformatting each time, rather than identifying and isolating the problem, you may never know what the problem is.

#18 03-23-2002, 04:17 AM

if its a virii, trojan or any type of malicious file how can it piggyback on a plain old ASCII txt file

in XP it seems to corrupt msgplush.dll (for msn messenger plus! from patchou), i uninstalled that and messenger is OK now- the problem is gone

if this is a virus its a damn good 1 - because it seems to target only me!

ive been round his house sending the files as well and its nothin he is doing, his computer was using windows me as mine was - he wasn't doing it on purpose, and it was any filetype, and it was only me

vee_ess · #19 03-23-2002, 12:10 PM

yeah, dont use the Plus for XP cuz you can get all those utilities and programs, etc., from download.com

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