C
Charles Glasgow
OK, I'm at wit's end here.
My Internet Explorer and Outlook Express have just started a lovely
pattern of misbehavior -- refusing to open until a minute or two after
their icons have been double-clicked.
This happens only the very first time you attempt to start either
after booting the machine. After that, they work normally... until
the next boot.
If you get one of them 'over the hump' first, then the other will
start normally.
Now, here's what I know, or at lesat am 99% sure, that it isn't:
* It's not the Sasser worm. Neither a fully-updated AVG, Symantec's
Sasser removal tool, or Norton's Sasser removal tool has found a
thing.
* It's not spyware -- or at least, it's not any spyware known to
Ad-Aware 6.0 build 181, Spybot v1.3, or SpyWareBlaster -- as I've had
fully updated versions of all three running, and they've found
nothing.
My Sygate Personal Firewall says that these four applications want to
use the Internet, or have wanted to do so at some time in the past
NT Kernel & System
LSA Shell (Export Version)
Generic Host Processes for Win32 Systems
NDIS User Mode I/O Driver
All of these were running on 'Permit' for a couple days before this
happened.
This problem occurred immediately after I turned off my XP firewall.
My system is an Athlon 750 on an ASUS K7V motherboard, using Windows
XP as an operating system.
XP SP1 and IE 6 SP1 are installed.
God, I hope somebody can tell me WTF is going on here, because I've
tried everything. Even restoring from a drive image that I took the
day after I got this thing originally up and running isn't working --
the problem inevitably recurs within a day or two after I reimage.
My Internet Explorer and Outlook Express have just started a lovely
pattern of misbehavior -- refusing to open until a minute or two after
their icons have been double-clicked.
This happens only the very first time you attempt to start either
after booting the machine. After that, they work normally... until
the next boot.
If you get one of them 'over the hump' first, then the other will
start normally.
Now, here's what I know, or at lesat am 99% sure, that it isn't:
* It's not the Sasser worm. Neither a fully-updated AVG, Symantec's
Sasser removal tool, or Norton's Sasser removal tool has found a
thing.
* It's not spyware -- or at least, it's not any spyware known to
Ad-Aware 6.0 build 181, Spybot v1.3, or SpyWareBlaster -- as I've had
fully updated versions of all three running, and they've found
nothing.
My Sygate Personal Firewall says that these four applications want to
use the Internet, or have wanted to do so at some time in the past
NT Kernel & System
LSA Shell (Export Version)
Generic Host Processes for Win32 Systems
NDIS User Mode I/O Driver
All of these were running on 'Permit' for a couple days before this
happened.
This problem occurred immediately after I turned off my XP firewall.
My system is an Athlon 750 on an ASUS K7V motherboard, using Windows
XP as an operating system.
XP SP1 and IE 6 SP1 are installed.
God, I hope somebody can tell me WTF is going on here, because I've
tried everything. Even restoring from a drive image that I took the
day after I got this thing originally up and running isn't working --
the problem inevitably recurs within a day or two after I reimage.