Computer Problems (WME)

[ComputerMadd]

My computer will not defrag, and continues to tell me that it has to restart due to disk write. In addition, somehow my computer is imaging itself, why I don't know or how to make this stop. Thirdly, I have tried to install IE Service pack 6, and always receive error messages. I believe I now have a security hole and would like to close this. I also have a DSO Exploit that keeps making changes to my registry. How can I keep my registry off limits?

[beerman]

you need to find and run some sorta spyware remover, and some sorta program that either defrags before windows start or defrag to reboot.

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i don't complain. i just tweak until my arms
fall off.... tweakability is the code name of windows.
if it 1st down work. tweak it out until it does.

[1stsean]

My windows 98 defrags ALL partitioned drives D, E and F BUT stops after 1% on drive C and tries again indefinitely in a loop (I may have seen a msg 'windows is writing to disk' while in the process)....Serious help needed here....

[report_2]

1stSean,

See <a target="_blank" href=http://www.mesich.com/defrag.html>http://www.mesich.com/defrag.html</a> as it has what you need for Win98 including the link about Disk contents changing in a MS article.

[Dfyant]

When defragmenting, between 1% and 10% the application is checking the drive. If it restarts here, this means (usually) that you have bad sectors on your drive. Run a thorough scandisk first, I would recommend in dos-mode. Do a full disk scan. This will take some time depending on your drive size - but if scandisk finds some bad sectors it can mark them and move the data - then defrag can work properly. Until this is done, defrag will continue to 'loop'.

Regards,

Chris

..if it ain't broke, I'm determined to fix it..

[emiljast]

My guess is some virus may cause all your problems. I was wasting time trying to get rid of it (them) because I tried to avoid reinstall from scratch which I finally did. But before doing that I cleaned my HDD with killdisk to really remove any hidden viruses then repartioned and reformat.
After all this I am still not safe, my system has AV, Key logging detection, spyware detection, software firewall and router firewall and still Alexis and DSO Exploit and other types are sneaking in.
All I can dois keep scanning my system and killing it as it appears.
This is my 2cents of input.

[report_2]

Alexis and DSO are inherent from MS.

While in the antispyware program right click on the item in question to see more info on it.

I have added Alexis to the Ignore list.