now my virus program is acting funny

[izzy]

cleaned the worm, finally got SP1 and the security patch.

now, when i boot up, i get the message to the effect that
Tmntsrv.dll encountered an error and will be shutting
down. sorry for the inconvenience."

and then my real time scan on my PC-cillin doens't work
and i can't turn it on. In researching, i discovered
that tmntsrv.dll is associated with real time scan on PC-
cillin.

and on top of that, when i logged on to microsoft.com my
puter just started grinding. so i checked my task
manager and there were two tasks sucking up all my usage:

PNTTOMON.exe and PNTMAIN.exe

looked those up and they are also associated with PC-
cillin. so i stopped them from running, puter went back
to normal CPU usage. but i would assume stopping these
tasks just stopped my virus protection.

BUT whenever i go to a new webpage now, a little pc-
cillin thing pops (like a graphic ad) up telling me that
it is protecting me. it never used to pop up when i
surfed to a new page.

do you think i should uninstall pc-cillin and get a whole
new virus program? could the worm have done something
to it?

I do have my firewalls up, could this be causing some
kind of conflict with my pc-cillin?

[John]

Try re-installing PC-Cillin and if it still acts up, get a new AV.

"izzy" > wrote in message
...
> cleaned the worm, finally got SP1 and the security patch.
>
> now, when i boot up, i get the message to the effect that
> Tmntsrv.dll encountered an error and will be shutting
> down. sorry for the inconvenience."
>
> and then my real time scan on my PC-cillin doens't work
> and i can't turn it on. In researching, i discovered
> that tmntsrv.dll is associated with real time scan on PC-
> cillin.
>
> and on top of that, when i logged on to microsoft.com my
> puter just started grinding. so i checked my task
> manager and there were two tasks sucking up all my usage:
>
> PNTTOMON.exe and PNTMAIN.exe
>
> looked those up and they are also associated with PC-
> cillin. so i stopped them from running, puter went back
> to normal CPU usage. but i would assume stopping these
> tasks just stopped my virus protection.
>
> BUT whenever i go to a new webpage now, a little pc-
> cillin thing pops (like a graphic ad) up telling me that
> it is protecting me. it never used to pop up when i
> surfed to a new page.
>
> do you think i should uninstall pc-cillin and get a whole
> new virus program? could the worm have done something
> to it?
>
> I do have my firewalls up, could this be causing some
> kind of conflict with my pc-cillin?
>
>
>
>

[izzy]

thanks.

pc-cillin was included in my software when i bought it
and i never got a disk or anything for it, just all the
XP CDS.

so don't know how to reload it.

if i uninstall could anything bad happen?


>-----Original Message-----
>Try re-installing PC-Cillin and if it still acts up, get
a new AV.
>
>"izzy" > wrote in message
...
>> cleaned the worm, finally got SP1 and the security
patch.
>>
>> now, when i boot up, i get the message to the effect
that
>> Tmntsrv.dll encountered an error and will be shutting
>> down. sorry for the inconvenience."
>>
>> and then my real time scan on my PC-cillin doens't work
>> and i can't turn it on. In researching, i discovered
>> that tmntsrv.dll is associated with real time scan on
PC-
>> cillin.
>>
>> and on top of that, when i logged on to microsoft.com
my
>> puter just started grinding. so i checked my task
>> manager and there were two tasks sucking up all my
usage:
>>
>> PNTTOMON.exe and PNTMAIN.exe
>>
>> looked those up and they are also associated with PC-
>> cillin. so i stopped them from running, puter went
back
>> to normal CPU usage. but i would assume stopping these
>> tasks just stopped my virus protection.
>>
>> BUT whenever i go to a new webpage now, a little pc-
>> cillin thing pops (like a graphic ad) up telling me
that
>> it is protecting me. it never used to pop up when i
>> surfed to a new page.
>>
>> do you think i should uninstall pc-cillin and get a
whole
>> new virus program? could the worm have done something
>> to it?
>>
>> I do have my firewalls up, could this be causing some
>> kind of conflict with my pc-cillin?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>.
>

[John]

You could try AVG, its free. www.grisoft.com Nothing could be worse than
thinking you are protected when your AV isnt working properly. The PC-Cillin
should be on one of your discs, if not I would use AVG free. Also if you
wanted to purchase, get Norton.

"izzy" > wrote in message
...
> thanks.
>
> pc-cillin was included in my software when i bought it
> and i never got a disk or anything for it, just all the
> XP CDS.
>
> so don't know how to reload it.
>
> if i uninstall could anything bad happen?
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Try re-installing PC-Cillin and if it still acts up, get
> a new AV.
> >
> >"izzy" > wrote in message
> ...
> >> cleaned the worm, finally got SP1 and the security
> patch.
> >>
> >> now, when i boot up, i get the message to the effect
> that
> >> Tmntsrv.dll encountered an error and will be shutting
> >> down. sorry for the inconvenience."
> >>
> >> and then my real time scan on my PC-cillin doens't work
> >> and i can't turn it on. In researching, i discovered
> >> that tmntsrv.dll is associated with real time scan on
> PC-
> >> cillin.
> >>
> >> and on top of that, when i logged on to microsoft.com
> my
> >> puter just started grinding. so i checked my task
> >> manager and there were two tasks sucking up all my
> usage:
> >>
> >> PNTTOMON.exe and PNTMAIN.exe
> >>
> >> looked those up and they are also associated with PC-
> >> cillin. so i stopped them from running, puter went
> back
> >> to normal CPU usage. but i would assume stopping these
> >> tasks just stopped my virus protection.
> >>
> >> BUT whenever i go to a new webpage now, a little pc-
> >> cillin thing pops (like a graphic ad) up telling me
> that
> >> it is protecting me. it never used to pop up when i
> >> surfed to a new page.
> >>
> >> do you think i should uninstall pc-cillin and get a
> whole
> >> new virus program? could the worm have done something
> >> to it?
> >>
> >> I do have my firewalls up, could this be causing some
> >> kind of conflict with my pc-cillin?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >.
> >