Hi Tracy, the only thing that hangs is the task bar. The clock sticks and I cannot click on any of the icons on it. Once I was unable to click on any of the icons on the desktop too. Otherwise I can continue to work, but I am just concerned about infecting other PCs on my network and when I send files to clients.
There is no real reproducible scenario to make it hang that I can discern. I ran chkdsk and it found no problems. Does scandisk do something different? In terms of cost-effective time, in my panic I had not thought of just buying a new hard drive, but had been looking at new laptops. As this one is four years old I had been thinking it was time for an upgrade. But maybe a new hard drive is really all I need for now, thanks. But then again, I will have to then reinstall all my programs and backups and I may end up with the same problem on the new drive, so I would really like to 1. find out exactly what I am dealing with and 2. know that I have got rid of it once and for all. Frank. Frank Cazabon Samaan Systems Ltd. - Developing Solutions www.SamaanSystems.com Referrals are important to us. If you know of anyone who would benefit from our services, please contact me. We would appreciate the opportunity to work with them. On 11/08/2010 11:09 AM, Tracy Pearson wrote: > Frank Cazabon wrote on 2010-08-11: >> Thanks for clarifying Tracy, but none of these seem to be picking up >> any problem, yet my problem still exists. Actually I have not run >> Combofix again, should I? >> >> Frank. >> > Frank, > > If it's just the explorer window that hangs, the system has corrupt DLL > files, or a process is causing it to stop responding. Does it hang when you > accessing local data, or just network data? Is it just a particular folder > that causes it to hang? You might have cleaned out the malicious code and > you are left with fragmented garbage. Have you checked the disk for > inconsistencies (i.e. run scandisk)? > > If the entire system freezes and you need to restart the system you may have > a problem with the graphics card drivers. > > Are you sure taking your time to recover this machine is cost effective over > buying a new hard drive and starting over? > > Tracy Pearson > PowerChurch Software > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
