[dba-Tech] W2K won't explore/run things normally

Jon

I've had issues with McAfee not finding things in the past, but Sophos has
always been watertight, IME (and found the odd thing that McAfee missed!).

Trying to do a Panda ActiveScan to be doubly sure.  It seems to have
downloaded but then got no further - nothing's happening...

John


> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com 
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda
> Sent: 02 February 2005 21:39
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] W2K won't explore/run things normally
> 
> 
> Have you tried more than one virus scanner? Some seem to pick 
> things up differently... for instance we've got McAfee on all 
> the desktops and servers at work, but they sometimes won't 
> clean things up, so we run their Stinger program, which looks 
> for specific viruses, rathen than all 30 million of them, and 
> uses a different set of detection rules (according to their 
> website). Maybe Panda scan might be different again? I have 
> McAfee 9 at home, but occasionally use Panda, sometimes Stinger.
> 
> Similarly, I use 3 different anti-spyware programs, and they 
> all find and treat different things, and it's saved my from 
> having to reinstall my pc every 6 months like I used to have 
> to. I use Spybot, Ad-Aware Pro and Giant.
> 
> 
> Jon
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of 
> DJK(John) Robinson
> Sent: 02 February 2005 20:41
> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> Subject: [dba-Tech] W2K won't explore/run things normally
> 
> 
> I have an old PC running Win2000 (fully up-to-date) and 
> looking after my ADSL connection, running firewall, 
> centralised anti-virus updates, etc. Occasionally something 
> else, but mostly just these essentials.  PC is on all the 
> time, typically two weeks between reboots.
> 
> It's suddenly become unhelpful -
> 1.	trying to run programs via Start gives "Windows 
> Explorer   Unable to
> run this command"
> 2.	Winkey+E (shortcut to run Explorer):  "Access to the specified
> device, path, or file is denied."  (I'm running as Administrator.)
> 3.	Double-clicking on a file to invoke the associated program:  no
> effect at all.  (eg .txt to run notepad)
> 4.	Very few system things in the Control Panel work: most 
> give symptom
> 2 or 3 above.
> 
> It's not just shortcuts, either.  Locate notepad.exe itself and double
> click:  nothing.
> 
> BUT Winkey+R (to Run something) works fine!  Explorer and all 
> the rest - IF
> you know what to type in the Run window, eg  compmgmt.msc /s  
>  Everything
> works OK in itself: I just can't run anything the normal way.
> 
> Same after rebooting.  And the services are all running fine: 
> ADSL, ZA,
> Sophos, ...   And nothing interesting in the Event Viewer.  
> Did a full virus
> and spyware scan, to be on the safe side - nothing.
> 
> Can't find anything useful on MSKB (and it's not Q172223).  
> Just had a quick Google, but nothing useful so far.  And no, 
> I don't have a folder call "Program" on my C drive, nor am I 
> trying to play an audio CD, ...
> 
> Has anyone come across a problem like this?  Or have any 
> bright ideas?  I strongly prefer to tackle and solve problems 
> than give up and reformat, reinstall, etc.
> 
> John
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