airbornflght
16 Jul 2006, 1:31am
Ok, where to begin, this is driving me nuts.
I am working on my buddies computer, which was infested with spyware/virus's; and god knows what else, anyway, I feel that I have cleared >98% of the stuff, and am running a few checks to make sure I have it all, and also, a lot of thanks is due to the SVT team, because they caught about 10 things I didn't.
This all arose out of him using IE, letting everyone use the computer and going everywhere, and him going to different sites, and being conned into downloading 'free' software. When I got the computer, he had attempted to run Windows update, and install Norton '06. He had '04 on there, and had been out of date for more than a year with no AV or firewall. He gave it to me, and it would barely run without crashing, or freezing, now I have it running as it should, and all cleaned up. I have also tried to get it current on M$ updates, which he didnt bother to do either. I have everything installed, except for SP2, which will not install for some reason.
He said that he tried to install it (with all the crap present) and it ran for like 5 minutes and crashed. So here is the deal, it was listed in the Add/Remove programs list, but under the system info, it said it was just SP1, fine, I booted into safemode and removed it as it would bluescreen if I tried to remove it booted normally.
So now I was left with a computer with supposedly no SP2 remnants, I go to windows update site, try and run SP2, and within 1 minute, it says that the install has failed, ok, I try to two or three times. Still no luck, then I just download the service pack. I am running it now, but it has no GUI, it appears to be just running, which I believed at first, when the hdd activity light was going like a madman, and the process was actually active, but now both processes are sitting idle, and so is the hdd activity light, this is turning into a living hell just to get SP2 installed. I have tried to get this installed over and over.
Are there any solutions or anything, this is driving me nuts:banghead:
I am working on my buddies computer, which was infested with spyware/virus's; and god knows what else, anyway, I feel that I have cleared >98% of the stuff, and am running a few checks to make sure I have it all, and also, a lot of thanks is due to the SVT team, because they caught about 10 things I didn't.
This all arose out of him using IE, letting everyone use the computer and going everywhere, and him going to different sites, and being conned into downloading 'free' software. When I got the computer, he had attempted to run Windows update, and install Norton '06. He had '04 on there, and had been out of date for more than a year with no AV or firewall. He gave it to me, and it would barely run without crashing, or freezing, now I have it running as it should, and all cleaned up. I have also tried to get it current on M$ updates, which he didnt bother to do either. I have everything installed, except for SP2, which will not install for some reason.
He said that he tried to install it (with all the crap present) and it ran for like 5 minutes and crashed. So here is the deal, it was listed in the Add/Remove programs list, but under the system info, it said it was just SP1, fine, I booted into safemode and removed it as it would bluescreen if I tried to remove it booted normally.
So now I was left with a computer with supposedly no SP2 remnants, I go to windows update site, try and run SP2, and within 1 minute, it says that the install has failed, ok, I try to two or three times. Still no luck, then I just download the service pack. I am running it now, but it has no GUI, it appears to be just running, which I believed at first, when the hdd activity light was going like a madman, and the process was actually active, but now both processes are sitting idle, and so is the hdd activity light, this is turning into a living hell just to get SP2 installed. I have tried to get this installed over and over.
Are there any solutions or anything, this is driving me nuts:banghead: