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"" wrote:
> damn thats a new one on me...the only option i could recommend
> would be to
> find your system restore from dos. hundred dollars says that
> yourwelcome
> screen is most likely another folder in your system and has
> been renamed...if
> u have been offline for that long it is unlikely that you have
> this virus
> problem but then again, all your ports are probably pinging
> like submarine
> sonars, which would draw it like a magnet if you have been
> online at all in
> the last few days, esp visiting any of the old haunts such as
> ya msn
> messengers. with no protection its a sitting duck, still
> could be something
> totally different. If you know your way around dos try that
> and also look
> around for your sys.ini file. if you know your way around dos
> you will be
> able to tell immediately if this is your prob cus the files
> will be in odd
> places.
>
> "Dennis McMurtry" wrote:
>
> > Help !! welcome screen comes on Win xp home, no users shown,
> system was
> > stable for past year, not on internet, nothing added or
> deleted.
> > do ctrl alt del get box with log in name etc, tried admin,
> administrator,
> > etc, no passwords ever used. still cannot get in. tried safe
> mode, tried
> > boot from cd rom. nothing...
> > help !!!!!
> > Dennis
> >
> >
> >
"find your system restore from dos."
good luck, you canot access NTFS partions using DOS
"hundred dollars says that yourwelcome screen is most likely another
folder in your system and has been renamed"
I’ll have that $100 then, it’s not a folder.
"u have been offline for that long it is unlikely that you have this
virus problem but then again, all your ports are probably pinging like
submarine sonars"
How can you ping a computer that dosnt have anetwork connection of any
sort? and further more you can only ping on one port, that been port
7.
"which would draw it like a magnet if you have been online at all in
the last few days, esp visiting any of the old haunts such as ya msn
messengers."
How ever you percive this "pinging" concept, it’s wrong. Ping works
by a computer sending another computer some data on port 7, that
computer will then send the exact same data back also on port 7 (be
that UDP or TCP) Also, if you didnt notice, this person dose not have
an internet connection.
"with no protection its a sitting duck, still could be something
totally different."
This person dosnt need protection, no internet connection! The only
way a virus could get on to the computer is via a storage device or
media, which is uncommon these days, in the times of yesturyear when
MS-DOS and PC-DOS where the most commonly used OS’s around it was
the most common method of virus infection.
"If you know your way around dos try that and also look around for
your sys.ini file."
Windows XP dosnt have or run on DOS, and why would missing users on
welcome screen indicate to you some thing is wrong with the sys.ini
file?
"if you know your way around dos you will be able to tell immediately
if this is your prob cus the files will be in odd places."
Again, windows XP is not equiped or based on DOS, and why would files
in odd places indicate "this" (what ever you are refering to) was the
problem?
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