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Bozos of Bones · 09-24-2004, 05:57 PM

My Adventure with Service Pack 2
or
How I finally had a situation that called for my backup hard drive

Yesterday I got courageous and decided to install the SP2. I did. I offed the firewall, realising that it would do me much trouble, and then played around in the new features. It somehow managed to convince itself that my DSL modem drivers were infected with a virus. 'Off with their heads!' I said, thinking that it's antivirus program is better than AVG, Trend Micro and all the other. I had a doubt, but I decided to tes it out. Nope, no virus. Enter the modem instalation CD, and the windows message 'The files you are installing are infected with a virus and/or contain harmful code'. Off with SP 2. Uninstall successfull, reverting to old updates. Complete. I restarted my PC, and it froze on the 'Windows is Starting up' screen. For about fifteen minutes. What do I find when I get back in? No rundll, no installing features, no copy-paste(there was copy, but no paste), and generally half of the programs and exes in the system folder was missing. What in the name of all the lines of code on earth is this!? So, now I've finally reinstalled everything(not everything, but the bare neccesseties) and am writing this in hope someone else out there doesn't fall for it. I'll install it again someday, my adventrous spirit requires me to do something like that every 4d6 days, but I think I'll just let braver and smarter people resolve the issues before I try.

[ 09-25-2004, 01:56 PM: Message edited by: Bozos of Bones ]

09-24-2004, 05:57 PM	#13
Bozos of Bones Apophis Join Date: July 29, 2003 Location: The Underdark cavern of Zagreb Age: 38 Posts: 4,679	My Adventure with Service Pack 2 or How I finally had a situation that called for my backup hard drive Yesterday I got courageous and decided to install the SP2. I did. I offed the firewall, realising that it would do me much trouble, and then played around in the new features. It somehow managed to convince itself that my DSL modem drivers were infected with a virus. 'Off with their heads!' I said, thinking that it's antivirus program is better than AVG, Trend Micro and all the other. I had a doubt, but I decided to tes it out. Nope, no virus. Enter the modem instalation CD, and the windows message 'The files you are installing are infected with a virus and/or contain harmful code'. Off with SP 2. Uninstall successfull, reverting to old updates. Complete. I restarted my PC, and it froze on the 'Windows is Starting up' screen. For about fifteen minutes. What do I find when I get back in? No rundll, no installing features, no copy-paste(there was copy, but no paste), and generally half of the programs and exes in the system folder was missing. What in the name of all the lines of code on earth is this!? So, now I've finally reinstalled everything(not everything, but the bare neccesseties) and am writing this in hope someone else out there doesn't fall for it. I'll install it again someday, my adventrous spirit requires me to do something like that every 4d6 days, but I think I'll just let braver and smarter people resolve the issues before I try. [ 09-25-2004, 01:56 PM: Message edited by: Bozos of Bones ] __________________ MAKE LOVE, NOT SPAM!