PLEASE HELP: 3 Problems

[Guest]

My Learned Friends,

I have just carried out a clean install of windows XP because of a problem
that, to make a long story short, could not be solved any other way.

Now I have some problems / questions

Question 1.
I am now in the process of reinstalling all of my software. I reinstalled
and ran my AOL software. I am now getting numerous error messages that, while
different, say essentally the same thing which is:

Messenger Services
Message from SYSTEM to ALERT on 10/12/2006 3:02: 11PM
Registery clearner reccommended
To fix system errors please do the following...
1 Download and install Registry clearner from www.msreg.com
....run it and restart.

the above is the basic body of these messages. Are they valid? If not how
can I get rid of them.

Question 2

As I mentioned, I am now reinstalling after a clean install of XP Home. I
have reinstalled Windows Media Player. When viewing video Media, previously,
double clicking the screen would increase the screen size to full screen. Now
nothing happens when I double click. How can I resolve this?

Question 3

Windows Media Player is quite sluggish when playing, for example, a DVD.
This was not the case before the clean install (plase note that the clean
install was done yesterday). I was thinking this might have something to do
with the graphics card. My question is, do i need to reinstall the drivers
for the graphics card?

Please advise on the three questions.

Thanking you in advance

Yours,

Joe

 

[Pennywise]

My Learned Friends,

I have just carried out a clean install of windows XP because of a problem
that, to make a long story short, could not be solved any other way.

Now I have some problems / questions

Question 1.
I am now in the process of reinstalling all of my software. I reinstalled
and ran my AOL software. I am now getting numerous error messages that, while
different, say essentally the same thing which is:

Messenger Services
Message from SYSTEM to ALERT on 10/12/2006 3:02: 11PM
Registery clearner reccommended
To fix system errors please do the following...
1 Download and install Registry clearner from www.msreg.com
...run it and restart.

the above is the basic body of these messages. Are they valid? If not how
can I get rid of them.

This is malware, next time you install your OS don't have it connected
to the internet before you have a firewall installed.

Start | Run <type in> services.msc <enter>
Double click on Messenger, stop the process, disable, apply.
This will stop the messages but the program will still be installed.

Read this page, run hijackthis and paste the results in the space
provided http://hijackthis.de/en

 

[Dave B.]

A firewall is not definite protection against mal/spyware.

 

[Pennywise]

A firewall is not definite protection against mal/spyware.

For what they got it is.
http://www.honeynet.org/papers/bots/