Computer Questions

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » 6/10/2004, 12:32 pm

Right now I'm completely unprotected...watch me get screwed over.

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 6/10/2004, 3:16 pm

God damn it, this is just fucking stupid.

I've deleted everything from the computer, but I still can't install McAfee again (I exchanged it for a new copy, for no apparent reason). It says the VirusScan is still installed.

I think it's an issue with the registry keys, but I can't find anywhere online that can tell me how to delete the VirusScan 8 reg keys...

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 6/10/2004, 4:41 pm

...aaaaand I'M THE KING.

Completely obliterated any trace of McAfee!

...

and then re-installed it.

heh

Hey, I'm not about to go pay over $150 for Norton's stuff (Virus + Firewall).

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 6/10/2004, 5:11 pm

70x7 wrote:Right now I'm completely unprotected...watch me get screwed over.

*sends viruses to Cass*

:evil:

xoNoDoubt69 · Post by **xoNoDoubt69** » 6/10/2004, 5:21 pm

how did u get rid of everything mcafee related?

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 6/10/2004, 6:25 pm

It took me a few frigging hours, but I found a bunch of different guides for manually uninstalling VirusScan 7 (even though I have 8), and I was able to delete whatever was stopping it from working.

It took an exessive amount of frustrating searching and deleted and agonizing. But it worked.

xoNoDoubt69 · Post by **xoNoDoubt69** » 6/10/2004, 6:55 pm

hmm. interesting.

outlook is officially fixed! it's sad that this makes me so happy

Penguin Josh · Post by **Penguin Josh** » 6/11/2004, 5:25 pm

i have had major problems with norton, it takes some 3 hours to do a virus scan on my computer and always comes up with nothing, well actually that is all the problems i had with that. McAfee I had when i first got my computer then my comp died and i lost my disc, and this was all befor i got the internet so i couldn't tell you my thoughts on that. And with NOD32 the scan took like 20 minutes and found more than norton ever did.

and for a firewall I use zone alarm and it works verry well

Random Name · Post by **Random Name** » 6/11/2004, 6:24 pm

My Nortons doens't take three hours...and it literally just finished. Though the one I have is 2002. Slightly outdated. I assume a new one would work faster.

xoNoDoubt69 · Post by **xoNoDoubt69** » 6/11/2004, 6:25 pm

mine usually takes an hour

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » 6/14/2004, 1:03 am

So, my newly acquired NOD32 (which btw Josh, I can't get the damn patch to work!) grrr, says I have the Trojan downloader, but that it can't fix it. WTF is that and WTF does that mean!?

Penguin Josh · Post by **Penguin Josh** » 6/14/2004, 3:04 pm

you have to uninstal it and instal it again, didn't you read the instructions?

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » 6/14/2004, 3:07 pm

Josh, I read the instructions!

It said to install it, and then to move the patch to the installation directory (I'm geussing that means the NOD32 file in my "program files", since it never told me precisely where it was going). Which I did, then I tried to run and it said it couldn't do it. Then I asked you and you said to to do it after too. Now you're changing your mind on me!?

I am gonna lose it, this is too much for me.

Penguin Josh · Post by **Penguin Josh** » 6/14/2004, 3:13 pm

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » 6/15/2004, 12:27 am

I am a scary woman when under stress.

Johnny · Post by **Johnny** » 6/15/2004, 12:33 pm

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 6/15/2004, 3:27 pm

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » 6/15/2004, 3:28 pm

What's to drool about?

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » 6/15/2004, 11:00 pm

I think NOD is the devil, it's finding all this Trojan stuff that Norton never found. And then when I try to delete these mysterious Trojan files it says access denied. Smells fishy.

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 6/16/2004, 6:47 am

If it's just finding single files, write down their location, go in, and re-name the file(s) some variation of "DELETE ME". Then, reboot. The files won't be usable by the trojan, because it doesn't recognize "DELETEME", so you can go ahead and delete it.

I assume that's what the problem is.