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~Dan~ · 11-10-2004, 21:38

I'm using win98se, and last night I got the Antinny G virus
http://securityresponse.symantec.com...antinny.g.html
and after successfully removing it Outlook Express seems to be broken - it takes around 2 minutes to load.

Firstly I can rule out the virus being still present - when I loaded Outlook I looked at my firewall and Dumeter and there was no dodgy communications of any sort.

I thought Outlook might have been broken somehow, so I uninstalled it (version 6), which left me with my previous version 5. I then deleted the entire outlook folder then ran reg-clean to clear out any of its registry entries, then reinstalled it and it does the same thing

It still takes 2 minutes to load. Once it's loaded it works (almost) fine. I say almost because when I go into options and click around the various tabs looking for stuff it sometimes freezes for a minute.

I did some more googling and then thought maybe it was MSN, so I went here - http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/989/ and made the amendment to the registry and removed MSN's claws from Outlook, but it's still the same.

I reinstalled Outlook so it can't be outlook that's at fault. It must be some other windows component which Outlook seems to want to use, but which obviously isn't inportant to it's functioning as after the 2 min wait it works relatively normal.

Does anyone have any clue what's gping on and how can I fix it.

I found this page http://www.tweakxp.com/display.aspx?id=108 which although is for xp may be relevant. It mentions something about registering with "DCOM". Just as I discovered I had the virus my firewall reported that DCOM had been changed so maybe that's it.

And just as I was about to post this I went into help and looked up DCOM. In one of the help pages it said "Click here to open the Distributed COM Configuration Properties dialog box."
When I click it does nothing!
Could my DCOM be broken, and that's what's causing it. if so how do I get a new DCOM (I don't even know what DCOM is).

EDIT: I downloaded and installed DCOM from here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en hoping it would work but it hasn't fixed it. ARGH!

11-10-2004, 21:38	#1
~Dan~ Inactive Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 80	I removed a virus and now outlook takes 2 min to open I'm using win98se, and last night I got the Antinny G virus http://securityresponse.symantec.com...antinny.g.html and after successfully removing it Outlook Express seems to be broken - it takes around 2 minutes to load. Firstly I can rule out the virus being still present - when I loaded Outlook I looked at my firewall and Dumeter and there was no dodgy communications of any sort. I thought Outlook might have been broken somehow, so I uninstalled it (version 6), which left me with my previous version 5. I then deleted the entire outlook folder then ran reg-clean to clear out any of its registry entries, then reinstalled it and it does the same thing It still takes 2 minutes to load. Once it's loaded it works (almost) fine. I say almost because when I go into options and click around the various tabs looking for stuff it sometimes freezes for a minute. I did some more googling and then thought maybe it was MSN, so I went here - http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/989/ and made the amendment to the registry and removed MSN's claws from Outlook, but it's still the same. I reinstalled Outlook so it can't be outlook that's at fault. It must be some other windows component which Outlook seems to want to use, but which obviously isn't inportant to it's functioning as after the 2 min wait it works relatively normal. Does anyone have any clue what's gping on and how can I fix it. I found this page http://www.tweakxp.com/display.aspx?id=108 which although is for xp may be relevant. It mentions something about registering with "DCOM". Just as I discovered I had the virus my firewall reported that DCOM had been changed so maybe that's it. And just as I was about to post this I went into help and looked up DCOM. In one of the help pages it said "Click here to open the Distributed COM Configuration Properties dialog box." When I click it does nothing! Could my DCOM be broken, and that's what's causing it. if so how do I get a new DCOM (I don't even know what DCOM is). EDIT: I downloaded and installed DCOM from here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en hoping it would work but it hasn't fixed it. ARGH!