David H. Lipman wrote:
> From: "Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries" <nimue@databasix.com>
>
>> Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries wrote:
>>> Leythos wrote:
>>>> In article <49444a4c.324552812@news.webtv.com>,
>>>> awalker@nspank.invalid says...
>>>>> It's certainly interesting that both version 5 and 6 had problems
>>>>> *AND* the only reported symptoms occurred recently. I suppose it
>>>>> might also be a Windows Update *feature* if both of you updated
>>>>> with recent OS updates.
>
>
>>>> Can't be Windows Updates as I've started testing with XP SP1 and
>>>> walked though all updates to version SP2 then all updates and then
>>>> SP3 and updates, not able to repeat any reported problem with it.
>
>>>> I'm suspecting it's something that was on the machine, malware,
>>>> that targets multi-av as well as other tools.
>
>>> I think I've already said there is no malware on this machine. And,
>>> at the time of the incident, I was downloading definitions, not
>>> doing a scan.
>
>>> I suspect what you suspect is unlikely.
>
>> I ran a full scan with NOD32, SuperAntiSpyware and MBAM. Except for
>> the "trojans" that NOD32 always picks up--i.e., tools from Bootdisk
>> and Nirsoft, as well as ComboFix, all of which I've had on this
>> machine since 2006--and some 35 tracking cookies, the scans picked
>> up nothing, and the computer is not behaving strangely otherwise. If
>> there is some other scan I can run in order to satisfy you that this
>> is not a malware-related issue, please let me know what it is.
>
>> If you think it will be useful, I can also post a link to my scan
>> logs, as well as a current Hijack This log, for your perusal.
>
> No, not needed.
>
> I don't think it malware related.

Next time remind me to just email you and leave it at that. What a
cluster****. Sorry.

--
Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries

"You know you can indict a ham sandwich if you want to."
William J. Martini, Judge, United States District Court