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oh, don't forget to apply the change after you turn off system restore. system restore needs to be off before the symantec thing can run.
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Well...why the duck doesn't it say to disable system restore? And why didn't you. Why are computer helpers so damn imprecise.....FGRRRRRRRR!!!!! ARRGGGG
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how the **** do I "turn off system restore"? Jeezus!!Comment
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Start > Control Panel > System > [tab]System Restore > tick "Turn off System Restore on all drives" > click OKComment
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By the way, if you had turned on the firewall, you could have just gone to the windows update site. I'd turn it off again as soon as you're done, though, because windows built-in firewall sucks."In the beginning was the Word. Then came the ******* word processor." -Dan Simmons, HyperionComment
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Ok..
1. I turned on the firewall a while ago.
2. I tried running C: saved Symantec in safe mode (F8 mashing and all that) and it SHUTS DOWN the SAME way! DAmn you!
3. When I try to download the windows update, it takes forever and never loads. Plus it tells me to close other programs. Should I close the explorer window then?
4. I got system restore turned off.Comment
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Windows Update uses ActiveX, Mozilla and Opera choose not to implement it, so they choose not to support Windows Update.Originally posted by Hueij
Needs to use IE to update Windows? What kind of bull**** is that?"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "Comment
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Ditch the politics man...I need heeeelp. Only reason I am back here at Ply is for you Ashie, baby!Comment
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Asher, I did all what the dl requires and I'm stuck on:
"running processes after install" and "finishing installation"Comment
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I have not gotten a bootoff in a while. But I think I'm not clean yet.Comment
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TCO: Like I said, for me, the main things were:
1. Turning system restore off. I understand your frustration; the first advice I got from someone when I had the virus was to try and use system restore to back to an earlier date. That was a bad, bad idea.
2. Making sure you are disconnected from the net while you're doing all this (installing updates, patches; running fixblast.exe).
3. Making sure msblast.exe is ended in the Windows Task Manager (clt alt del) screen.
All that should buy you time and allow you to install updates and run fixblast. Many times.
Also, it doesn't hurt to just plain search for 'msblast.exe' and delete any files that come up.
Don't take my word as gospel, though... I basically just got lucky after taking every single piece of advice I was given; downloading the latest patch and update, and running fixblast, over and over again until now... I think everything is under control."I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?" -Frank Zappa
"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice."- Thomas Paine
"I'll let you be in my dream if I can be in yours." -Bob DylanComment
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Cinch:Originally posted by cinch
TCO: Like I said, for me, the main things were:
1. Turning system restore off. I understand your frustration; the first advice I got from someone when I had the virus was to try and use system restore to back to an earlier date. That was a bad, bad idea.
2. Making sure you are disconnected from the net while you're doing all this (installing updates, patches; running fixblast.exe).
3. Making sure msblast.exe is ended in the Windows Task Manager (clt alt del) screen.
All that should buy you time and allow you to install updates and run fixblast. Many times.
Also, it doesn't hurt to just plain search for 'msblast.exe' and delete any files that come up.
Don't take my word as gospel, though... I basically just got lucky after taking every single piece of advice I was given; downloading the latest patch and update, and running fixblast, over and over again until now... I think everything is under control.
1. thanks for the understanding.
2. How can I be disconnected from the web while I install patches?
3. I did the ctrl alt del, serarch destroy, and the system resotr uncheckComment
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TCO:
Well, you have to download them while connected, obviously, but you can install them without being connected, once you have them downloaded onto your computer.2. How can I be disconnected from the web while I install patches?
Of course, being disconnected may not be that important... All I know is that msblast kept coming back every time I deleted it, until I ran fixblast.exe while disconnected from the net. Since then, everything has been better."I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?" -Frank Zappa
"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice."- Thomas Paine
"I'll let you be in my dream if I can be in yours." -Bob DylanComment
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To help anyone I'd actually need to look into how exactly this Blast thing works and how the fixes work, and I'm a bit busy for that right now.
"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "Comment
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nevermind, installation is complete, thx asher. But that was quite an ordeal - 5 hours to dl and another 1 1/2 to install, etc.Comment
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