OMG! FREQUENT CRASH

[JOW]

I have a virus on my pc. i didnt know this until i started
suspecting when my pc crashed whenevr i played games or
watched windows media movie player. So i did a virus scan
and it said i have pate.b.worm or me.parite or something
(samething). It infects .exe and .scr files(explains why
my screen saver doesnt work). I had no problems till i
used the virus scanner(housecall) to clean and all it did
was corrupt .exe files on my pc. but it made backups so i
renamed the .rb0 backups as .exe and it worked. But my pc
was still crashing. i suspected overheating, this was in
the fall of 2003. Then i tried cooling it. No help. So I
removed a ram stick in the first slot. It stopped freezing
when i played games. Now its been freezing a lot lately,
and not just when i play games. so i bought a new ram
stick and tried it(512 mb ram) and it crashes a lot more
now, even sometimes on turn ons. when it crashes, it looks
like power went out..monitor goes black but then turns
back on revealing the last image i saw, but this time with
the new stick of ram, colors are everywhere but on the
last image i saw before it froze. its annoying. PLEASE
HELP! i turned off system restore. The hp company(i have
xp) didnt give me a restore disk..only thing i can use is
windows restore. but if i turn it on, it would get
infected. also, when i go to play games, i cant without
reinstalling or copying the game exe from cd rom each time
i go to play(before it gets infected...it used to get
infected a lot but still work before i used the virus
scanner). any reasons for the crash and how to remove this
worm? these tutorials on the net suck.

 

[JOW]

UM
HELP

 

[Steve Nielsen]

UM
HELP

1. Get antivirus and antispyware on that machine, update them and clean
it up.

2. Learn how to write.

3. Be patient.

Steve

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

You should know that viruses/worms are oftentimes designed to corrupt
operating system files. If the following suggestions do not work,
it's time for a "Clean Install" of Windows XP.

There is a very helpful virus removal newsgroup you may wish to post to:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.security.virus

Symantec Security Check
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp?langid=ie&venid=sym

Virus Removal Tools
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/tools.list.html

Online Virus Removal Tutorials
http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/virusremoval/virusremoval_info_tutorial.html

3 Simple Steps to Insure the Security of Your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/


Clean Install Windows XP
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens]

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| UM
| HELP
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >I have a virus on my pc. i didnt know this until i
| started
| >suspecting when my pc crashed whenevr i played games or
| >watched windows media movie player. So i did a virus scan
| >and it said i have pate.b.worm or me.parite or something
| >(samething). It infects .exe and .scr files(explains why
| >my screen saver doesnt work). I had no problems till i
| >used the virus scanner(housecall) to clean and all it did
| >was corrupt .exe files on my pc. but it made backups so i
| >renamed the .rb0 backups as .exe and it worked. But my pc
| >was still crashing. i suspected overheating, this was in
| >the fall of 2003. Then i tried cooling it. No help. So I
| >removed a ram stick in the first slot. It stopped
| freezing
| >when i played games. Now its been freezing a lot lately,
| >and not just when i play games. so i bought a new ram
| >stick and tried it(512 mb ram) and it crashes a lot more
| >now, even sometimes on turn ons. when it crashes, it
| looks
| >like power went out..monitor goes black but then turns
| >back on revealing the last image i saw, but this time
| with
| >the new stick of ram, colors are everywhere but on the
| >last image i saw before it froze. its annoying. PLEASE
| >HELP! i turned off system restore. The hp company(i have
| >xp) didnt give me a restore disk..only thing i can use is
| >windows restore. but if i turn it on, it would get
| >infected. also, when i go to play games, i cant without
| >reinstalling or copying the game exe from cd rom each
| time
| >i go to play(before it gets infected...it used to get
| >infected a lot but still work before i used the virus
| >scanner). any reasons for the crash and how to remove
| this
| >worm? these tutorials on the net suck.