317 Posts

November 19th, 2003 22:00

john,

     The last part of your post bothered me.  If you can't get Repair Reinstall to run, your only option may be for a reinstall of XP.  Is your virus program running with the latest update.  Scan for viruses, all drives.

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November 19th, 2003 22:00

Thanks for the response, John. My son says he has tried to run his virus program, but can't get that to work either. He's away at college, so I have to try to help him over the phone.

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4.4K Posts

November 20th, 2003 00:00

Some viruses attack the AV. Tell him to try an on line virus scan

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/

Click on check for security, then virus scan.

If that finds nothing, I suggest you he download the free Spybot S&D

http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=en&page=download

After install, open, click check for updates, download those (they self install); close/open Spybot (for the updates to take effect) and click check for problems.

You could also look at ChrisRLG's site:

http://www.cjwd.demon.co.uk/compsafetyonline.html

 

 

6 Posts

November 20th, 2003 11:00

Thanks. We will try these this weekend and will post our results.
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