Could it be suffering from a leftover policy or something from the office setting? I've seen corporate policies be a problem of that nature. I've always preferred to wipe/reload a used PC in your situation.
David On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:55 PM, John Aldrich <[email protected]>wrote: > A user brought a used laptop they had gotten that was used in an office > setting. To be on the safe side, I thought I’d install MalwareBytes and run > a scan. Unfortunately, when I tried to do that, XP (the laptop is running XP > Pro) barfed on a MalwareBytes DLL file. Any idea what could be the problem? > It’s got Avast! antivirus on it, but even disabling the “real-time” > protection, it won’t let me install MalwareBytes. L > > > > I am in the middle of downloading Vipre Rescue to be on the safe side, but > I thought I’d ask in here and see if anyone has seen this behavior before. > > > > The laptop is an IBM Thinkpad T20m originally licensed for Win98. Sometime > before I saw it, it was upgraded to XP Pro. > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] > > > > > > > > -- David _____________________ Bitterly clinging to guns and religion ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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