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Technical Help & Discussion => Windows PCs & Software: Help, News & Discussion => Topic started by: whathaveidone on January 03, 2005, 12:03

Title: msdos window popped up
Post by: whathaveidone on January 03, 2005, 12:03

I just connected to the Internet and my pc was unusually slow.Then a msdos window popped up and the only thing i could read before it closed again was 'deleting windows ServeID'
What happened and why did it happened?

Title: Re:msdos window popped up
Post by: Clive on January 03, 2005, 12:51

Hopefully you will have an up to date antivirus program installed so it would be a good idea to run that to see if you have picked up a virus.

Secondly, download (also check for updates) and run Ad-Aware SE from
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

Let us know how you get on with that.  Good luck!

Title: Re:msdos window popped up
Post by: Simon on January 03, 2005, 18:47

You could also download and run Spybot S&D (http://www.safer-networking.org/), which can find different things to Ad Aware.  It's often a good idea to run both.  As Clive said, let us know how you get on.