My son's computer acted like this about a month ago. It turns out that he
was infected by Spyware that stopped Microsoft Security Essentials, Super
Anti-Spyware and Malware Bytes from completely launching. My son could see
them start, then disappear. It also blocked many sites in IE from going to
the most popular anti-virus sites, especially sites that scan from the
browser.
However, Microsoft already has another fairly good virus / Spyware scanner
already installed. It is updated each month. It is called the Microsoft
Malicious Software Tool (MRT). To start this scan, press the Windows key in
combination with the r key, then type "mrt" without the quotes and hit
Enter. Follow the directions, but make sure you select the "thorough" scan.
Normally when I discover a virus on my computer, I just restore an disk
image backup. However, I got lazy with his computer which has no real data
to lose, just reinstall a bunch of games.
Don Marang
There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real
substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working
on things that matter.
Dean Kamen
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From: "Mich" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 6:04 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [JAWS-Users] update on trying to install and run mse on windows
xphome with sp 3 and jaws 7.
Hello Lisa. The problem is this. I am not hearing anything when I click on
the program. also when I go to the system tray it says computer at risk.
but this icon only shows up for a minute and then when you go back to the
system tray it is gone. I tried even going so far as to download a copy
demo of jaws 11 to see if another blind friend of mine could use the
tandum feature to see what was going on. also when I did click on the icon
that says computer at risk it brings me in to the context menu of active
sink witch it shouldn't do and I get choices like tyal windows vertically
etc. I have even tried clicking on Microsoft security esentchels in the
programs menu and nothing happens it just says enter and start button. so
in short this is really weird and quite frustrating. I am running windows
xp home sp 3 and jaws 7.0. I hope that this info helps out to see where or
what options I have left to solve this. from Mich.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisa belville" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] help with getting mse to work.
Mich, the dialog of MSE is a bit of a combination between a Windows seven
menu structure and a old school layout.
Are you asking MSE to scan your PC or what? when you first open the
program, you should be sitting on a scan now button. If you press enter
here, I believe the default is to do a quick scan, which really doesn't
take all that long if I remember correctly.
It's not very obvious while it's scanning; you won't get anything on a
status line, there's no progress beeps or anything like that, and because
it doesn't use resources, you won't know until you actually open the main
window. I use my JAWS cursor to read around in here, but you can also
tab to the different options for the scanning preferences.
When you go to the system tray, is there an icon in the list saying
computer status protected or computer status unprotected?
If you haven't gotten this far, let us know so we can suggest other
things. Are you getting an error message, or do you just not know for
sure if you're in the MSE window. I'd assume that an earlier version of
JAWS would work with this because the buttons and other options are
clearly labeled, but this could also be an issue.
IF THE HOUSEWORK IS DONE - THEN THE COMPUTER IS Broken!
Lisa Belville
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mich" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] help with getting mse to work.
Hi all. I still am having alot of problums trying to get mse to work on
my windows xp pc. i am running sp 3. and i am also running a 32 bit
system. I have installd it but when I go to it it doesn't start or
anything it doesn't do any thing. if someone can help me with this that
would be grait. from Mich.
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