automatic updates

asinine · Post by **asinine** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 3:30 pm

Have you tried uninstalling live messenger rebooting and reinstalling it?

village idiot · Post by **village idiot** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 5:57 pm

it won't let me uninstall live messenger, i have disabled it from startup just now, it's allowed me to install AVG & comodo, AVG took 2 1/2 hrs to scan my system & found viruses in some backups i had on a spare drive, ZA never found them

TheFuzzy0ne · Post by **TheFuzzy0ne** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 7:21 pm

The fix I used was:

FORMAT C: /U

then I installed Linux.

Disclaimer: Yes, that was a joke. And for anyone who thinks this can do damage, Windows won't let you do this while Windows is running so no-one should end up with any more data loss than Windows already gives you. You can't unmount the volume while it's in use as Windows won't let you.

Sorry, just trying to be clear and avoid being accused of wanting to destroy someone's beloved filesystem. :P

Hoovie · Post by **Hoovie** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 7:59 pm

Unless you add an undocumented Switch

FORMAT C: /U /Q /REALLY

and the system will then say

"Whatever!" and format the Disk

thescruff · Post by **thescruff** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:02 pm

Could a poster try this

and find he has a blank screen.

Hoovie · Post by **Hoovie** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:10 pm

thescruff wrote:Could a poster try this and find he has a blank screen.

you could give it a try and see

If you don't post back for a while, we will know why

TheFuzzy0ne · Post by **TheFuzzy0ne** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:25 pm

lol, no it doesn't work.

asinine · Post by **asinine** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:30 pm

@village idiot

Scan for spyware and get an online scan do as well, I personally recommend panda, though mcafee and norton are ok.

Personally what I would do is go to C:\program files\ and delete all the program files to do with live messenger. Then go to the program data and delete the live messenger data there. Make sure the recycle bin is emptied then reboot. Then go to add/remove programs and try and remove it, it should remove it then.

If that works scan the registry with something like ccleaner.

TheFuzzy0ne · Post by **TheFuzzy0ne** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:35 pm

If you delete files from C:\Program Files, you'll most likely find that you will not be able to uninstall it through the Add/Remove Programs dialog. A registry cleaner should fix this for you, but there's no guarantee.

Post by **ultimatehandyman** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:41 pm

ZootCadillac wrote:Microsoft Update KB951748, which was part of the malicious software removal tools caused a few problems for those still crazy enough to run zone alarm thinking it does anything other than block access to ports in a blind manner and call itself 'security'

This is a zone alarm issue and they have issued a warning and workaround.

http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/free/ ... ue_it.html

This is in Italian

TheFuzzy0ne · Post by **TheFuzzy0ne** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 3:00 pm

Non so. Non capisco.

Hoovie · Post by **Hoovie** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 3:17 pm

Si, Italiano

Bludall · Post by **Bludall** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:50 pm

We had trouble with AVG updates, so my other half has now got another one on called Avast. It's doing its job so far finding baddies but how does that rate?

Mooncat · Post by **Mooncat** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:15 pm

I accepted an update for Media Player from Version 10 to 11. Now I'm asked to validate my copy of XP Pro. Help, Mummmmmmeeeeeee!

Mooncat · Post by **Mooncat** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:16 pm

Bludall wrote:We had trouble with AVG updates, so my other half has now got another one on called Avast. It's doing its job so far finding baddies but how does that rate?

We all use Avast here. No probs with it.