Win 98 Help

[j2tts]

Hi

My first on the new site

I have a friend running win 98 and they use zonealarm and Macafee Virus Center as protection. IE 6 keeps hanging the machine everytime they try to to run there virus scan. They have run and loaded all the security patches. If they try to re-install the virus center it hangs too.
They have no Spyware and registry checks out ok

Any Ideas.

[idi banashapan]

i've got an idea- get rid of Macafee and use AVG antivirus!!!!

[Xaccers]

Win98 and IE6 can make for a very bad match

[Ramrod]

Might find an answer here

[Buzzby]

VirusScan 8, what was the online subscription version needs to have "popups" allowed. Perhaps the ie6 is blocking them.
I use ie6 with no popup blocking. I leave that to the google toolbar. It blocks all popups bar the ones you need.
To allow popups, on the site you need them click the blocking popups button in the toolbar. They will now be permitted for that site.

[j2tts]

Thanks for the leads Guys

Few questions though :-

How do you check you have allowed popup's in IE6 ?

How do you go back to say IE5.5 ?

Cheers

[j2tts]

OK

Got rid of IE 6, now back to IE5. Got rid of Mcafee and got AVG.

Ran a AVG virus scan and it came back with a Disk Write Protection error, shutdown, Restarted and is now doing a surface scan.

I ran a surface scan last week with no errors, is there a better harddisk scan program which may pick a error scandisk cant find ?????

[j2tts]

Ok update ppl

Did a surface scan, nuffin found

So did another AVG Virus Scan and got the following errors

windows fatal exception OE 0028:C004EC5B in VXD Vcashe (01)+000003B
F/E @ 0167:BFF9DFF

Fatl except OE 0028: C004EC30 VXD Vcache (01)+00000390

F/E @ 0246:014747FB





Losing faith here

[abailey152]

Originally Posted by j2tts

Ok update ppl

Did a surface scan, nuffin found

So did another AVG Virus Scan and got the following errors

windows fatal exception OE 0028:C004EC5B in VXD Vcashe (01)+000003B
F/E @ 0167:BFF9DFF

Fatl except OE 0028: C004EC30 VXD Vcache (01)+00000390

F/E @ 0246:014747FB





Losing faith here

You may be in the "clean install" territory here. You could try repairing the Windows installation from the CD, but it's usually better to re-format and start from scratch.

[j2tts]

Ramrod

Quote : Might find an answer here< Mcafee forum

I put a question on this forum, no one even bothered answering or even remotely tried to help. They have Tech's and Moderators looking at your questions too.

I gave it a week and replied sarcastically, thanking everybody for there help and........... they deleted my post

I'm glad to belong to a nice helpfull site like this one.

Thanks guys

O by the way going for a complete re-install tomorrow, wish me luck