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Help about Antivirus and Firewall

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tuxly Original post #1
Nov 18, 2004 at 8:35 PM
Installed Norton AV or personal firewall after a restart i get a message box that says a hacker or virus is trying to prevent the AV or firewall to run. This is on XP

But when i installed AV and firewall on Win 2000, alls fine

Plz help what may be the prob.
S
Nov 18, 2004 at 10:16 PM
most probably u do have a virus on ur win xp config

try to find it using extendia antivirus or some other antivirus.

r u facing the same prob with other firewalls ????

if yes then u do have a virus and if it does nt get cleaned up using antivirus proggiues then i am afraid u have to format the sys!!!!!
saROMan
saROMan #3
Nov 18, 2004 at 10:28 PM
simpaly run the Quickheal setup which scans the files b4 installation..it will tell u if there is any virus or not....also try to install some other filrewall app..if the prob persist then am afraid silvertwins is right u'lll hav to format it...
mariner
mariner #4
Nov 18, 2004 at 10:55 PM
try to see if u have the windows firewall enabled or not.
try running adaware and spybot snd.
try ne online virus scanning from symantec,trendmicro or panda antivirus.
W
Nov 19, 2004 at 12:14 AM
try using the latest offering of stinger.. it detects most of the popular viruses .. and its less tahn 100 kb downlaod