Urgent... Windows Problem. Is it me or a virus... (rundll32)

Thomas McGrath III 3mcgrath at adelphia.net
Mon Nov 29 07:59:25 EST 2004


LOL

still LOL

Your very bad.......... Frank


still LOL


.......


On Nov 29, 2004, at 7:28 AM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:

> Is Windows a Virus?
>
>  No, Windows is not a virus. Here's what viruses do:
>
> 	• 	 They replicate quickly - okay, Windows does that.
>
> 	• 	 Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system 
> as they do so - okay, Windows does that.
>
> 	• 	 Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk - okay, 
> Windows does that too.
>
> 	• 	 Viruses are usually carried, unknown to the user, along with 
> valuable programs and systems. Sigh... Windows does that, too.
>
> 	• 	 Viruses will occasionally make the user suspect their system is 
> too slow (see 2) and the user will buy new hardware. Yup, that's with 
> Windows, too.
>
>  Until now it seems Windows is a virus but there are fundamental 
> differences:Viruses are well supported by their authors, are running 
> on most systems, their program code is fast, compact and efficient and 
> they tend to become more sophisticated as they mature.
>
>  So Windows is not a virus.
>
>  It's a bug.
>
>
> On Nov 28, 2004, at 10:16 PM, Ken Ray wrote:
>
>> On 11/28/04 3:59 PM, "malte.brill at t-online.de" 
>> <malte.brill at t-online.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Ken,
>>>
>>> no calls to external dlls (As far as I know)
>>> Strangely the old version of the game now suffers from the same
>>> problem. It doesn´t respond to mouseclicks anymore and everything
>>> slowed down dramatically. When I open the Taskmanager with the old 
>>> game
>>> version it doesn´t show up that task. (Only the modified version does
>>> and when I force quit the app the tasks are gone...) So I think the 
>>> old
>>> version *should* work. I played it on the same machine and all was
>>> fine. The only thing I changed with the machine was connecting 
>>> another
>>> monitor and updateing the virus killer. (Antivir personal) I guess 
>>> this
>>> shouldn´t cause any problems.
>>>
>>> Now I´m stuck. :-(
>>
>> You might want to remove any adware/spyware that may be on your 
>> machine as
>> well, along with the virus sweep. I use SpySweeper (www.webroot.com), 
>> and
>> it's been wonderful at getting rid of the garbage that is 
>> automatically
>> downloaded from some web sites.
>>
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Ken Ray
>> Sons of Thunder Software
>> Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
>>
>>
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> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Frank D. Engel, Jr.  <fde101 at fjrhome.net>
>
> $ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual
> $ true | cat /usr/manual | grep "John 3:16"
> John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten 
> Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have 
> everlasting life.
> $
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