virus not found

[Guest]

in my xp2 my security virus keeps showing me a buble that contunuiously tells
me I am at risk because I open up the bubble and it shows the firewall is
there and on the other thing I forget what it is on but it says it can't find
my virus scan. How in the world do I get it back inworking order. I do have
another virus scan just incase but it bugs me what whathappened to the the
one that came with windows xp3. I would like to get it back.

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

There is no xp3. If your computer came with XP pre-installed, you probably got a compliementary trial of the antivirus software. Open it and attempt to update it manually. If your trial period has expired, it should tell you.

Other than that, you need to provide more information about what antivirus software you're using, and etc.

For tips on creating an effective newsgroup post, please see: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Liz" <[email protected]>

| in my xp2 my security virus keeps showing me a buble that contunuiously tells
| me I am at risk because I open up the bubble and it shows the firewall is
| there and on the other thing I forget what it is on but it says it can't find
| my virus scan. How in the world do I get it back inworking order. I do have
| another virus scan just incase but it bugs me what whathappened to the the
| one that came with windows xp3. I would like to get it back.
| --
| Thank you for your help
| Liz

There are anti virus News Groups specifically for this type of discussion.

microsoft.public.security.virus
alt.comp.virus
alt.comp.anti-virus

"windows xp3" ? You mean WinXP SP2 !

Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file. http://www.ik-cs.com/multi-av.htm

Additional Instructions:
http://pcdid.com/Multi_AV.htm


* * * Please report back your results * * *

 

[Jim]

in my xp2 my security virus keeps showing me a buble that contunuiously
tells
me I am at risk because I open up the bubble and it shows the firewall is
there and on the other thing I forget what it is on but it says it can't
find
my virus scan. How in the world do I get it back inworking order. I do
have
another virus scan just incase but it bugs me what whathappened to the the
one that came with windows xp3. I would like to get it back.

The security center does not know about some virus scanners. It would help
if you would tell us which virus scanner you have because the message may or
may not indicate a problem.

I would run David's program anyway.
Jim