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well, the culprit was not a virus
it was not Norton (Norton antivirus, to its credit) has stopped cold an
average of 35 each day, of the current versions of various viri beginning
tuesday of this week.
the CPU was an overheated (then fried) AMD 1700 CPU which did not have a
very good fan on it... fan was spinning very slowly & the temp of the cpu
was very high... which ruined the cpu. got a new cpu with an aftermarket
strong fan with a couple of box fans to boot, & it's running cool as a
cucumber. Unfortunately i had Rennaisance Computer in Dallas make the
computer, & they locked their doors as spontaneously as my computer was
rebooting (actually their office was vacant & the sign on he door said the
landlord locked them out... looked like they skipped!... it was a franchise
store & i'm sure the mother company would claim no warranty liability.
their websiste forwards to Computer Resource, a used equipment outfit in
Carrollton, TX
thanx to everyone for the clues of things to watch for... since it was
rebooting spontaneously there at the end, it really seemed like the virus,
but none was found
thanx, preston
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Blucar" <blucar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Preston Morrow" <prestonm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: Beware of Norton Updates . . .
> Preston:
>
> The spontaneous REBOOT you had is EXACTLY what I was suffering on
> my DSL box ---- did not even have TS on the box that was rebooting.
>
> It screwed my communications / ports I think.
>
> Now that I have deleted Norton from both boxes ---- on my box with TS2000i
> my dialer will shut down now and not destroy my data in GS and my charts in
> charting. I lost a lot of charts I had to rebuild.
>
> On my other box (my DSL box) I have lost the ability to have my Linksys
> router split my DSL connection --- everything else working OK now but that.
> Norton is a very dangerous product because it places "hooks" in parts of
> your core OS in Win2000.
>
> For instance, now when I click on start > run> type command and hit enter
> a menu appears that this function no longer works and it points to a missing
> .dll in a deleted symantec directory. That is DIRECT evidence Symantec has
> coded features in their software to take over core features of the OS. I'm
> surprised Microsoft has not banned them from being a certified vendor.
>
> I will no longer use ANY of their products.
>
>
>
>
> "Preston Morrow" <prestonm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >due to corrupted data, Juan (omega... always helpful & competent) assisted
> >me in a complete reinstall of 2000i... but the new install would not read my
> >old data... so,... history bank seems to be working today... so guess i'll
> >be spending some download time... haven't been able to use HBank for about a
> >year, as somewhere along the interned route (11th stop), it always
> >(presviously) stopped cold. today it works thank goodness. no known
> >viruses. had not heard that live update could be a problem... i use it for
> >norton virus checker.
> >
> >only problem left is now my computer decides to spontaneously reboot when a
> >2000i command or a windows (2000 PRO) command is called. may have to take
> >it to the shop for an oper. sys. reinstall also... when does it end?!
> >
> >preston morrow
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "John Blucar" <blucar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 11:20 AM
> >Subject: Beware of Norton Updates . . .
> >
> >
> > I'm using Norton systemworks 2002. Just performed a liveupdate last week
> >that updated the software on both my boxes (not just the virus def's).
> >
> > Now on my DSL box the LinkSys router will no longer function --- had to go
> >back to direct connection.
> >
> > On my TS2000i box whenever I connect to the internet , but then try to
> >close it down the Windows 2000 connection to internet hangs ---- TS2000i
> >charting corrupts half of my charts, and today data from GS was corrupted.
> >
> > I suspect it's that nasty little bugger called Live Update.
> >
> > Beware.
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