Ghost in the machine

[ribs55]

Hello everyone

Well, I believe I have a VIRUS or something going on here. I can be
online and the cursor moves by itself. Also I can't run DEFRAG say's
something like
can't find engine ( I tried the fixes found on this forum, NG) At
SAFE MODE,
I can defrag but it takes something in the order of 2 hours to
complete!

I have McCafee, Zone Alarm, and I also run AVG. NOTHING shows up
Anything else I can look at??
Till now this combo has been pretty effective. I run with AOL, and
recently downloaded Their Anti-Virus stuff, But I must say it behaved a
little strange.
I am not sure it is suspect, I just wondered Why they would have
their own Anti-Virus stuff, when they offer McCafee free? Anyway,
Any ideas would be welcome. I am fairly good w/ computers, but if you
can state it plain it would help.

Thanks everyone
BOB R
PS thanks to PC banter

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Nothing happens when clicking on Defragment or Analyze.

With XP SP2 the DCOM Server Process Launcher service needs to be running for
Defrag to work.

Open Services...
Start | Run | Type: services.msc | Click OK |
Scroll down to and double click DCOM Server Process Launcher |
Set Startup type to Automatic | Click OK | Close Services |
Reboot

From a tip from Ramesh - Microsoft MVP

<quote>
Note the following things will fail if this service is not running:

The builtin defrag will fail to work, and if running defrag from the command
line one gets this error:

Windows cannot connect to the Disk Defragmenter engine
<quote>

And from...
DCOM Server Process Launcher
http://smallvoid.com/tweak/winnt/service/def.html

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[ribs55]

Nothing happens when clicking on Defragment or Analyze.

With XP SP2 the DCOM Server Process Launcher service needs to be
running for
Defrag to work.

Open Services...
Start | Run | Type: services.msc | Click OK |
Scroll down to and double click DCOM Server Process Launcher |
Set Startup type to Automatic | Click OK | Close Services |
Reboot

From a tip from Ramesh - Microsoft MVP

quote
Note the following things will fail if this service is not running:

The builtin defrag will fail to work, and if running defrag from the
command
line one gets this error:

Windows cannot connect to the Disk Defragmenter engine
quote

And from...
DCOM Server Process Launcher
http://smallvoid.com/tweak/winnt/service/def.html

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

Wes

I tried the method above (run svcs msc etc) I got to services,
found DCOM
and it was on automatic. The section about the worm. Would that
apply?

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Try this.

How To Fix Windows Built in Defragmenter
http://www.andreasroom.com/blog/archive/2004/01/18/defrag.aspx

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MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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