[LasTins]

I have been shunning Symantec software for the past two years. My crusade against Symantec all started when three different installs and or upgrades of their Systemworks products forced me into several days of recovery because of faulty installs or upgrades (all of which were well documented online after they trashed thousands of systems).

Anyway, the last vistage of Symantec software I had was PCAnywhere. In it's prime it was a pretty good remote access program. Well, I had finally upgraded my office machine and now I had access to WinXP's remote desktop and PCAnywhere wasn't needed anymore, so I uninstalled it from my home machine.

Well a few days went by and I had to re-boot my machine because of some updates. Well, my video display got locked down to 640x480 and though windows detected my video card and its drivers, it refused to use anything but the old standby VGASAVE which runs when all else fails. I couldn't figure out what had happened because the machine "seemed fine" after I uninstalled PCAnywhere.

So after a week of googling and reading hundreds of pages on "CODE 41" come to find out the problem was PCAnywhere writes a single junk key in the registry entry for the video card that prevents it from using the accellerated modes (to benefit the non-broadband tranmission of screen info) and the uninstall didn't remove it. Try working on any video intensive program with only the low of the low VGA driver (it's the one MS uses in SafeMode).

Thanks Symantec, your products suck!

[Celeliamend]

By hundreds of pages, I suppose you read not just 100 or 200 but maybe 500, 700, 900 pages!!!

If it took a week for Engr. Ospurt IQ 150 to solve it, I don't think us nincomputes can solve it even for a year or more. We'll just say goodbye to the internet!!!

BTW, why do these hackers put these viruses, etc into our computers??? Do these hackers do these so these anti virus companies will have a market????

[Twendypreency]

I'll stick with my Mac.

[Henldyhl]

When I recently had all that trouble and had to wipe out my hard drive and reinstall everything from the OS up.....it was because of problems with SystemWorks. I had ran the "clean sweep" program and it went downhill from that till it messed up my whole computer.

[googlopharm]

BTW, why do these hackers put these viruses, etc into our computers??? Do these hackers do these so these anti virus companies will have a market????

I think these hackers care about no ones bottom line but their own! They put these viruses out "usually" to steal our private info, passwords, etc...

[vTLWqa1l]

Most viruses thease days are used to spread spam and spambots.

I use AVG Anti-virus and AVG Anti-spyware(formally known as Ewido).

No problems here.

[Hamucevasiop]

I got a thing in the mail today from some moving website that said that they determined that the worms they were getting in email were coming from my computer and that I needed to download some update they had attached in the email in order to make it stop. I, of course, did not download the update but I wonder why I got that. Then yesterday someone told me that I had a "clicky" virus because everytime that I clicked something it started to send something that said clicky. When actually, I was highlighting and copying something in yahoo messenger and I kept clicking this stupid link..dunno what it was.

[TpDoctorOneTp]

Most viruses thease days are used to spread spam and spambots.

I use AVG Anti-virus and AVG Anti-spyware(formally known as Ewido).

No problems here.

AVG is the bomb. When I ditched symantec I got our office a site license for AVG Pro and it is great. Not near the resource hog as Symantec and catches tons of bad stuff.

[johnteriz]

I got a thing in the mail today from some moving website that said that they determined that the worms they were getting in email were coming from my computer and that I needed to download some update they had attached in the email in order to make it stop. I, of course, did not download the update but I wonder why I got that. Then yesterday someone told me that I had a "clicky" virus because everytime that I clicked something it started to send something that said clicky. When actually, I was highlighting and copying something in yahoo messenger and I kept clicking this stupid link..dunno what it was.

It used to be vogue for the IT departments of large companies to email people back who were being duped (or zombied) into sending out spam. However, I have NEVER heard of one attaching the "update" they wanted you to install. Typically they just included a link to a major Anti-Virus site's virus database so you could see what you had and follow the removal instrucitons.

However, now-a-days IT departments have better things to do than send out messages, unless they are automated and those are more and more rare these days.

So, it sounds like you are getting a socially engineered spam/virus attack in your email.