total bytes memory

[kuby]

Ihave a dell 850 p3. I cant launch resource cd or install certain different programs. Dell told me it was a virus so I bought a year of live update from symantec. Guess what. ...no virus. so... I downloaded diagnostics from dell and tried to run them from safe mode but they won't run either. no sound problems or anything that I can see. Can somebody help me out?....kuby

[kuby]

kuby here again I forgot but when I did a chkdsk it told me that I was short on total bytes memory by7,168 which just happens to be dividable by 1024 which is a sure sign of a virus(according to dell). thanks

[sea69]

hi,

You might try pcpitstop (http://www.pcpitstop.com/).They have a Live real time virus scan that once helped me.(when Norton/symantec didnt) Also you can run a full system scan to see if they have any suggestions.

*note* If u run a Full pc test, you get better results if u shut everything down except the browser doin the test. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/eek.gif

**additional note** I strongly do Not reccomend the "Panda Anti-Virus" that is advertised there, as I know of @ least 2 people (independantly) that have had a major problem with it. (I'm one)

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[This message has been edited by sea69 (edited 01-19-2001).]

[Paleo Pete]

Make that 3...I do not recommend Panda either, had major problems with it twice. Used it the second time knowing it would cause problems, but wanted to run a couple of different virus scanners just to be sure, and planned on formatting and reinstalling later anyway. Needed to be sure the original problem was not virus related, so I took a chance on Panda. It trashed the machine same as it did the first time, but then I knew to uninstall it and run scanreg...so it was no real problem.

In case you're wondering, the format/reinstall went perfect.

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