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not sure why as all i recall i did differently was to run a malware program.
anyway, when i logged in, the tray at the bottom is of different color, the start menu is different looking, & 2 hot keys from my keyboard, are dead; i could click on mail & outlook express would open & clicked on home, & the ie home page would pop - now neither work ! any ideas ? when i manually open outlook express, i get this error message: The host 'pop.att.yahoo.com' could not be found. Please verify that you have entered the server name correctly. Account: 'NatureMuzic', Server: 'pop.att.yahoo.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 995, Secure(SSL): Yes, Socket Error: 11004, Error Number: 0x800CCC0D and not sure if this even gets posted as i get this error message from the msnews folder: Configuration: Account: msnews.microsoft.com (1) Server: msnews.microsoft.com Protocol: NNTP Port: 119 aaarrrgghhhhh ! thanks -- Dallas..... Dell P 4, 3GHz, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 160 GB, Win XP Home 16X DVD-ROM & ,6X DVD+/RW, IE7, OE6, DSL, via AT&T |
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okay, now after doing some research via the control panel, checking network
connections, setup, firewall settings, etc. I was able to see where all these "services were not running, so i went to msconfigservices & all were disabled ! not sure how as i had only been to start up to again disable a few that never stay disabled, so again, not sure how that happened. now, i don't know which of the services need to be enabled & which need to be disabled. i enabled all to get the system up & running. whew :-( -- Dallas..... Dell P 4, 3GHz, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 160 GB, Win XP Home 16X DVD-ROM & ,6X DVD+/RW, IE7, OE6, DSL, via AT&T "Dallas" Jagged Edge@StillIStruggle wrote in message ... not sure why as all i recall i did differently was to run a malware program. anyway, when i logged in, the tray at the bottom is of different color, the start menu is different looking, & 2 hot keys from my keyboard, are dead; i could click on mail & outlook express would open & clicked on home, & the ie home page would pop - now neither work ! any ideas ? when i manually open outlook express, i get this error message: The host 'pop.att.yahoo.com' could not be found. Please verify that you have entered the server name correctly. Account: 'NatureMuzic', Server: 'pop.att.yahoo.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 995, Secure(SSL): Yes, Socket Error: 11004, Error Number: 0x800CCC0D and not sure if this even gets posted as i get this error message from the msnews folder: Configuration: Account: msnews.microsoft.com (1) Server: msnews.microsoft.com Protocol: NNTP Port: 119 aaarrrgghhhhh ! thanks -- Dallas..... Dell P 4, 3GHz, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 160 GB, Win XP Home 16X DVD-ROM & ,6X DVD+/RW, IE7, OE6, DSL, via AT&T |
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okay, now after doing some research via the control panel, checking network
connections, setup, firewall settings, etc. I was able to see where all these "services were not running, so i went to msconfigservices & all were disabled ! not sure how as i had only been to start up to again disable a few that never stay disabled, so again, not sure how that happened. now, i don't know which of the services need to be enabled & which need to be disabled. i enabled all to get the system up & running. whew :-( -- Dallas..... Dell P 4, 3GHz, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 160 GB, Win XP Home 16X DVD-ROM & ,6X DVD+/RW, IE7, OE6, DSL, via AT&T "Dallas" Jagged Edge@StillIStruggle wrote in message ... not sure why as all i recall i did differently was to run a malware program. anyway, when i logged in, the tray at the bottom is of different color, the start menu is different looking, & 2 hot keys from my keyboard, are dead; i could click on mail & outlook express would open & clicked on home, & the ie home page would pop - now neither work ! any ideas ? when i manually open outlook express, i get this error message: The host 'pop.att.yahoo.com' could not be found. Please verify that you have entered the server name correctly. Account: 'NatureMuzic', Server: 'pop.att.yahoo.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 995, Secure(SSL): Yes, Socket Error: 11004, Error Number: 0x800CCC0D and not sure if this even gets posted as i get this error message from the msnews folder: Configuration: Account: msnews.microsoft.com (1) Server: msnews.microsoft.com Protocol: NNTP Port: 119 aaarrrgghhhhh ! thanks -- Dallas..... Dell P 4, 3GHz, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 160 GB, Win XP Home 16X DVD-ROM & ,6X DVD+/RW, IE7, OE6, DSL, via AT&T |
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"Dallas" Jagged Edge@StillIStruggle wrote in message
okay, now after doing some research via the control panel, checking network connections, setup, firewall settings, etc. I was able to see where all these "services were not running, so i went to msconfigservices & all were disabled ! not sure how as i had only been to start up to again disable a few that never stay disabled, so again, not sure how that happened. now, i don't know which of the services need to be enabled & which need to be disabled. i enabled all to get the system up & running. whew :-( Since you're "starting over" now is a good time to realize that msconfig is ONLY a trouble-shooter, NOT a place to make permanent changes to anything. Once you've used msconfig to ID which program or service is giving you trouble, then go to that service or program and take care of the situation there. Msconfig is only a tool. Twayne "Dallas" Jagged Edge@StillIStruggle wrote in message ... not sure why as all i recall i did differently was to run a malware program. anyway, when i logged in, the tray at the bottom is of different color, the start menu is different looking, & 2 hot keys from my keyboard, are dead; i could click on mail & outlook express would open & clicked on home, & the ie home page would pop - now neither work ! any ideas ? when i manually open outlook express, i get this error message: The host 'pop.att.yahoo.com' could not be found. Please verify that you have entered the server name correctly. Account: 'NatureMuzic', Server: 'pop.att.yahoo.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 995, Secure(SSL): Yes, Socket Error: 11004, Error Number: 0x800CCC0D and not sure if this even gets posted as i get this error message from the msnews folder: Configuration: Account: msnews.microsoft.com (1) Server: msnews.microsoft.com Protocol: NNTP Port: 119 aaarrrgghhhhh ! thanks -- Dallas..... Dell P 4, 3GHz, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 160 GB, Win XP Home 16X DVD-ROM & ,6X DVD+/RW, IE7, OE6, DSL, via AT&T |
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"Dallas" Jagged Edge@StillIStruggle wrote in message
okay, now after doing some research via the control panel, checking network connections, setup, firewall settings, etc. I was able to see where all these "services were not running, so i went to msconfigservices & all were disabled ! not sure how as i had only been to start up to again disable a few that never stay disabled, so again, not sure how that happened. now, i don't know which of the services need to be enabled & which need to be disabled. i enabled all to get the system up & running. whew :-( Since you're "starting over" now is a good time to realize that msconfig is ONLY a trouble-shooter, NOT a place to make permanent changes to anything. Once you've used msconfig to ID which program or service is giving you trouble, then go to that service or program and take care of the situation there. Msconfig is only a tool. Twayne "Dallas" Jagged Edge@StillIStruggle wrote in message ... not sure why as all i recall i did differently was to run a malware program. anyway, when i logged in, the tray at the bottom is of different color, the start menu is different looking, & 2 hot keys from my keyboard, are dead; i could click on mail & outlook express would open & clicked on home, & the ie home page would pop - now neither work ! any ideas ? when i manually open outlook express, i get this error message: The host 'pop.att.yahoo.com' could not be found. Please verify that you have entered the server name correctly. Account: 'NatureMuzic', Server: 'pop.att.yahoo.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 995, Secure(SSL): Yes, Socket Error: 11004, Error Number: 0x800CCC0D and not sure if this even gets posted as i get this error message from the msnews folder: Configuration: Account: msnews.microsoft.com (1) Server: msnews.microsoft.com Protocol: NNTP Port: 119 aaarrrgghhhhh ! thanks -- Dallas..... Dell P 4, 3GHz, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 160 GB, Win XP Home 16X DVD-ROM & ,6X DVD+/RW, IE7, OE6, DSL, via AT&T |
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"Twayne" wrote in message
... Since you're "starting over" now is a good time to realize that msconfig is ONLY a trouble-shooter, NOT a place to make permanent changes to anything. Once you've used msconfig to ID which program or service is giving you trouble, then go to that service or program and take care of the situation there. Msconfig is only a tool. Twayne An excellent startup manager is available in a utility with the weirdest name - HiJackFree. HiJackFree opens with a listing of [killable] processes - similar to that in Task Manager but in alphabetized form. And it has many other handy features as well. See it at HiJackFree.com. Of course MajorGeek and others have it. -- JimL WHAT??? is this "Gotta be online" obsession? |
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"Twayne" wrote in message
... Since you're "starting over" now is a good time to realize that msconfig is ONLY a trouble-shooter, NOT a place to make permanent changes to anything. Once you've used msconfig to ID which program or service is giving you trouble, then go to that service or program and take care of the situation there. Msconfig is only a tool. Twayne An excellent startup manager is available in a utility with the weirdest name - HiJackFree. HiJackFree opens with a listing of [killable] processes - similar to that in Task Manager but in alphabetized form. And it has many other handy features as well. See it at HiJackFree.com. Of course MajorGeek and others have it. -- JimL WHAT??? is this "Gotta be online" obsession? |
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"JimL" wrote in message
"Twayne" wrote in message ... Since you're "starting over" now is a good time to realize that msconfig is ONLY a trouble-shooter, NOT a place to make permanent changes to anything. Once you've used msconfig to ID which program or service is giving you trouble, then go to that service or program and take care of the situation there. Msconfig is only a tool. Twayne An excellent startup manager is available in a utility with the weirdest name - HiJackFree. HiJackFree opens with a listing of [killable] processes - similar to that in Task Manager but in alphabetized form. And it has many other handy features as well. See it at HiJackFree.com. Of course MajorGeek and others have it. Have you, or anyone else here, used hijackfree? I am interested, thus I'm curious. I do NOT ask the question to injure hijackfree: I ask because some basic research revealed some "interesting" things about them that may or may not be relevent as I've learned over the years: It sounds pretty good but the tech support link is basically nothing and most search engine hits on it are pretty old. If it's on MajorGeek I couldn't find it. Since it's actually located in Germany I'm wondering if the US (en) arm has been set aside or something. Everyplace I looked listed it as OK but then there are little details like no user ratings and things like that. It's ... "different" somehow. I clicked the PC Mag link where the excerpt calls it "near-perfect protection" but it's not showing anywhere on that page I got sent to. I don't bother looking in archives; it's there where I'm sent of it's not. The Malware evaluation link worked, but ... no date except for SP3 reference, and it didn't test for false positives, etc.. And, according to whois and Robtex they have no US presence but hijackfree redirects to http://www.emsisoft.com/en/ . There seems to be no such address as hijackfree.com or www.hijackfree.com. Twayne` |
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"JimL" wrote in message
"Twayne" wrote in message ... Since you're "starting over" now is a good time to realize that msconfig is ONLY a trouble-shooter, NOT a place to make permanent changes to anything. Once you've used msconfig to ID which program or service is giving you trouble, then go to that service or program and take care of the situation there. Msconfig is only a tool. Twayne An excellent startup manager is available in a utility with the weirdest name - HiJackFree. HiJackFree opens with a listing of [killable] processes - similar to that in Task Manager but in alphabetized form. And it has many other handy features as well. See it at HiJackFree.com. Of course MajorGeek and others have it. Have you, or anyone else here, used hijackfree? I am interested, thus I'm curious. I do NOT ask the question to injure hijackfree: I ask because some basic research revealed some "interesting" things about them that may or may not be relevent as I've learned over the years: It sounds pretty good but the tech support link is basically nothing and most search engine hits on it are pretty old. If it's on MajorGeek I couldn't find it. Since it's actually located in Germany I'm wondering if the US (en) arm has been set aside or something. Everyplace I looked listed it as OK but then there are little details like no user ratings and things like that. It's ... "different" somehow. I clicked the PC Mag link where the excerpt calls it "near-perfect protection" but it's not showing anywhere on that page I got sent to. I don't bother looking in archives; it's there where I'm sent of it's not. The Malware evaluation link worked, but ... no date except for SP3 reference, and it didn't test for false positives, etc.. And, according to whois and Robtex they have no US presence but hijackfree redirects to http://www.emsisoft.com/en/ . There seems to be no such address as hijackfree.com or www.hijackfree.com. Twayne` |
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Twayne
I use it all the time. It is from Emisoft and is an excellent tool to use or keep tabs on changes. Also very good at removing malware http://www.emsisoft.com/en/kb/articles/tec061010/ Here is the free version. There is also a paid version. The free will just about do the same. Scroll down to the free version of Hijack free http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/download/ Paid version http://www.hijackfree.com/en/ -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "Twayne" wrote in message ... "JimL" wrote in message "Twayne" wrote in message ... Since you're "starting over" now is a good time to realize that msconfig is ONLY a trouble-shooter, NOT a place to make permanent changes to anything. Once you've used msconfig to ID which program or service is giving you trouble, then go to that service or program and take care of the situation there. Msconfig is only a tool. Twayne An excellent startup manager is available in a utility with the weirdest name - HiJackFree. HiJackFree opens with a listing of [killable] processes - similar to that in Task Manager but in alphabetized form. And it has many other handy features as well. See it at HiJackFree.com. Of course MajorGeek and others have it. Have you, or anyone else here, used hijackfree? I am interested, thus I'm curious. I do NOT ask the question to injure hijackfree: I ask because some basic research revealed some "interesting" things about them that may or may not be relevent as I've learned over the years: It sounds pretty good but the tech support link is basically nothing and most search engine hits on it are pretty old. If it's on MajorGeek I couldn't find it. Since it's actually located in Germany I'm wondering if the US (en) arm has been set aside or something. Everyplace I looked listed it as OK but then there are little details like no user ratings and things like that. It's ... "different" somehow. I clicked the PC Mag link where the excerpt calls it "near-perfect protection" but it's not showing anywhere on that page I got sent to. I don't bother looking in archives; it's there where I'm sent of it's not. The Malware evaluation link worked, but ... no date except for SP3 reference, and it didn't test for false positives, etc.. And, according to whois and Robtex they have no US presence but hijackfree redirects to http://www.emsisoft.com/en/ . There seems to be no such address as hijackfree.com or www.hijackfree.com. Twayne` |
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Twayne
I use it all the time. It is from Emisoft and is an excellent tool to use or keep tabs on changes. Also very good at removing malware http://www.emsisoft.com/en/kb/articles/tec061010/ Here is the free version. There is also a paid version. The free will just about do the same. Scroll down to the free version of Hijack free http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/download/ Paid version http://www.hijackfree.com/en/ -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "Twayne" wrote in message ... "JimL" wrote in message "Twayne" wrote in message ... Since you're "starting over" now is a good time to realize that msconfig is ONLY a trouble-shooter, NOT a place to make permanent changes to anything. Once you've used msconfig to ID which program or service is giving you trouble, then go to that service or program and take care of the situation there. Msconfig is only a tool. Twayne An excellent startup manager is available in a utility with the weirdest name - HiJackFree. HiJackFree opens with a listing of [killable] processes - similar to that in Task Manager but in alphabetized form. And it has many other handy features as well. See it at HiJackFree.com. Of course MajorGeek and others have it. Have you, or anyone else here, used hijackfree? I am interested, thus I'm curious. I do NOT ask the question to injure hijackfree: I ask because some basic research revealed some "interesting" things about them that may or may not be relevent as I've learned over the years: It sounds pretty good but the tech support link is basically nothing and most search engine hits on it are pretty old. If it's on MajorGeek I couldn't find it. Since it's actually located in Germany I'm wondering if the US (en) arm has been set aside or something. Everyplace I looked listed it as OK but then there are little details like no user ratings and things like that. It's ... "different" somehow. I clicked the PC Mag link where the excerpt calls it "near-perfect protection" but it's not showing anywhere on that page I got sent to. I don't bother looking in archives; it's there where I'm sent of it's not. The Malware evaluation link worked, but ... no date except for SP3 reference, and it didn't test for false positives, etc.. And, according to whois and Robtex they have no US presence but hijackfree redirects to http://www.emsisoft.com/en/ . There seems to be no such address as hijackfree.com or www.hijackfree.com. Twayne` |
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Thanks, Peter; I didn't notice the freebie. Think I'll try it out & see
what it's about. If I like it I'll go back for the Pro version. Twayne` "Peter Foldes" wrote in message Twayne I use it all the time. It is from Emisoft and is an excellent tool to use or keep tabs on changes. Also very good at removing malware http://www.emsisoft.com/en/kb/articles/tec061010/ Here is the free version. There is also a paid version. The free will just about do the same. Scroll down to the free version of Hijack free http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/download/ Paid version http://www.hijackfree.com/en/ "Twayne" wrote in message ... "JimL" wrote in message "Twayne" wrote in message ... Since you're "starting over" now is a good time to realize that msconfig is ONLY a trouble-shooter, NOT a place to make permanent changes to anything. Once you've used msconfig to ID which program or service is giving you trouble, then go to that service or program and take care of the situation there. Msconfig is only a tool. Twayne An excellent startup manager is available in a utility with the weirdest name - HiJackFree. HiJackFree opens with a listing of [killable] processes - similar to that in Task Manager but in alphabetized form. And it has many other handy features as well. See it at HiJackFree.com. Of course MajorGeek and others have it. Have you, or anyone else here, used hijackfree? I am interested, thus I'm curious. I do NOT ask the question to injure hijackfree: I ask because some basic research revealed some "interesting" things about them that may or may not be relevent as I've learned over the years: It sounds pretty good but the tech support link is basically nothing and most search engine hits on it are pretty old. If it's on MajorGeek I couldn't find it. Since it's actually located in Germany I'm wondering if the US (en) arm has been set aside or something. Everyplace I looked listed it as OK but then there are little details like no user ratings and things like that. It's ... "different" somehow. I clicked the PC Mag link where the excerpt calls it "near-perfect protection" but it's not showing anywhere on that page I got sent to. I don't bother looking in archives; it's there where I'm sent of it's not. The Malware evaluation link worked, but ... no date except for SP3 reference, and it didn't test for false positives, etc.. And, according to whois and Robtex they have no US presence but hijackfree redirects to http://www.emsisoft.com/en/ . There seems to be no such address as hijackfree.com or www.hijackfree.com. Twayne` |
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Thanks, Peter; I didn't notice the freebie. Think I'll try it out & see
what it's about. If I like it I'll go back for the Pro version. Twayne` "Peter Foldes" wrote in message Twayne I use it all the time. It is from Emisoft and is an excellent tool to use or keep tabs on changes. Also very good at removing malware http://www.emsisoft.com/en/kb/articles/tec061010/ Here is the free version. There is also a paid version. The free will just about do the same. Scroll down to the free version of Hijack free http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/download/ Paid version http://www.hijackfree.com/en/ "Twayne" wrote in message ... "JimL" wrote in message "Twayne" wrote in message ... Since you're "starting over" now is a good time to realize that msconfig is ONLY a trouble-shooter, NOT a place to make permanent changes to anything. Once you've used msconfig to ID which program or service is giving you trouble, then go to that service or program and take care of the situation there. Msconfig is only a tool. Twayne An excellent startup manager is available in a utility with the weirdest name - HiJackFree. HiJackFree opens with a listing of [killable] processes - similar to that in Task Manager but in alphabetized form. And it has many other handy features as well. See it at HiJackFree.com. Of course MajorGeek and others have it. Have you, or anyone else here, used hijackfree? I am interested, thus I'm curious. I do NOT ask the question to injure hijackfree: I ask because some basic research revealed some "interesting" things about them that may or may not be relevent as I've learned over the years: It sounds pretty good but the tech support link is basically nothing and most search engine hits on it are pretty old. If it's on MajorGeek I couldn't find it. Since it's actually located in Germany I'm wondering if the US (en) arm has been set aside or something. Everyplace I looked listed it as OK but then there are little details like no user ratings and things like that. It's ... "different" somehow. I clicked the PC Mag link where the excerpt calls it "near-perfect protection" but it's not showing anywhere on that page I got sent to. I don't bother looking in archives; it's there where I'm sent of it's not. The Malware evaluation link worked, but ... no date except for SP3 reference, and it didn't test for false positives, etc.. And, according to whois and Robtex they have no US presence but hijackfree redirects to http://www.emsisoft.com/en/ . There seems to be no such address as hijackfree.com or www.hijackfree.com. Twayne` |
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"Twayne" wrote in message
... "JimL" wrote in message "Twayne" wrote in message ... Since you're "starting over" now is a good time to realize that msconfig is ONLY a trouble-shooter, NOT a place to make permanent changes to anything. Once you've used msconfig to ID which program or service is giving you trouble, then go to that service or program and take care of the situation there. Msconfig is only a tool. Twayne An excellent startup manager is available in a utility with the weirdest name - HiJackFree. HiJackFree opens with a listing of [killable] processes - similar to that in Task Manager but in alphabetized form. And it has many other handy features as well. See it at HiJackFree.com. Of course MajorGeek and others have it. Have you, or anyone else here, used hijackfree? I am interested, thus I'm curious. Twayne` I use it once or twice a month. It is part of Emsisoft's anti-malware app. -- JimL WHAT??? is this "Gotta be online" obsession? |
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"Twayne" wrote in message
... "JimL" wrote in message "Twayne" wrote in message ... Since you're "starting over" now is a good time to realize that msconfig is ONLY a trouble-shooter, NOT a place to make permanent changes to anything. Once you've used msconfig to ID which program or service is giving you trouble, then go to that service or program and take care of the situation there. Msconfig is only a tool. Twayne An excellent startup manager is available in a utility with the weirdest name - HiJackFree. HiJackFree opens with a listing of [killable] processes - similar to that in Task Manager but in alphabetized form. And it has many other handy features as well. See it at HiJackFree.com. Of course MajorGeek and others have it. Have you, or anyone else here, used hijackfree? I am interested, thus I'm curious. Twayne` I use it once or twice a month. It is part of Emsisoft's anti-malware app. -- JimL WHAT??? is this "Gotta be online" obsession? |
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