Many thanks. Will see if that generates any response.
"TaurArian [MS-MVP]" wrote:
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> "Richard Henderson" <RichardHenderson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:23E8EE0D-6ACA-4D89-9598-6EFBD760C99D@microsoft.com...
> | Apologies if this appears twice - had a crash just as I first posted re this!
> | Running XP, have had a frustrating few weeks with repeated random crashes,
> | BSOD etc. Twice I couldn't boot at all and repaired (not quite a reinstall)
> | using the CD supplied. After some of the crashes got the error report from
> | MS that I was infected with Win32/Rustock.gen!C, and directing me to an
> | online scan that always crashed before completing, although several complete
> | and up to date McAfee scans have found nothing.
> | Possibly related to this I have had major problems with updates downloading
> | but not installing. For a week or so I kept getting the message that Update
> | installer 3.1 (I think ... from memory) could not be installed. I Googled re
> | this and found a workaround via regedit and did install the update installer,
> | after which a number of other updates could be installed, but now no longer.
> | It keeps hanging when trying to install IE7 (I currently have IE6), and I
> | need to ctrl/alt/delete out of it. Even when I try a custom install without
> | IE7 it still doesn't complete installation, and is currently frozen - I am
> | posting this on another computer provided by work.
> | I am normally a patient man, but am sorely tempted to throw a brick at the
> | computer. Some unkind colleagues have suggested I install Linux, but I feel
> | I am only moderately computer literate and not really sufficient of a nerd to
> | do this.
> | Any relatively simple solutions? Or would the simplest and easiest solution
> | be to reinstall Windows and start again? - I have backed up all essential
> | files so this wouldn't be a total disaster.
> | HELP!
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> What concerns me is "Win32/Rustock.gen!C"
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> xposted to security.virus for convenience.
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> Security - Viruses
> OE client -
> news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...security.virus
> or
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> Web client -
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/com...security.virus
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