[tcmahoney]

OK. I'm running Windows Millennium at home. About the only thing I'm doing out of the ordinary is running the SETI@home program. Well, tonight, I finally get home and try to log on to my e-mail. Do that, log out, decide to go back in after surfing BigSoccer for a while. Usually I tab around between the username and password, but when I tried to do that just now, all I did was surf between the IE window and the SETI@home window.

So I closed out of IE, and tried to log in using the toolbar icon. I got the "Launch Internet Explorer Browser Properties" pop-up box instead of an IE window. I clicked on my desktop IE icon, and the window opened normally.

So. What's going on? Thanks for your answers.

[Foosinho]

It sounds like a "stuck" mouse button or [Alt] key. And I don't mean in a hardware sense - it's some software bug. I've seen it too from time to time on my W2K rig.

The only solution I know of that doesn't involve reboot is to try a) closing applications, and b) executing one of these unintended commands (like, for example, selecting a menu command via keyboard shortcuts - press [F] and you'll see what I mean.) Sometimes it works, and sometimes not.

Oh, just found a suggested solution on Google - hold down the right alt key for a second or two, and it "often" clears the problem. It might be "accessability" related.

[tcmahoney]

Originally posted by Foosinho
It sounds like a "stuck" mouse button or [Alt] key. And I don't mean in a hardware sense - it's some software bug. I've seen it too from time to time on my W2K rig.

The only solution I know of that doesn't involve reboot is to try a) closing applications, and b) executing one of these unintended commands (like, for example, selecting a menu command via keyboard shortcuts - press [F] and you'll see what I mean.) Sometimes it works, and sometimes not.

Oh, just found a suggested solution on Google - hold down the right alt key for a second or two, and it "often" clears the problem. It might be "accessability" related.

Thanks. I rebooted last night right afte I posted this and it solved the problem, but it's just that my computer does some odd things sometimes. One favorite is Internet Explorer showing up in the drop-down menu under Start>Documents. That's a program, folks, not a document.

Also, when I had the Yaha virus, my calculator would suddenly switch on by itself. I'm still paranoid about that and will use a physical calculator instead of the computer's calculator.

[tcmahoney]

Great. My AVG anti-virus program just gave me a notification in the form of a dramatic blue screen that I'm running some virus called "Tiny." But when I ran AVG -- nothing. Got an update from AVG, even though it said I didn't need one. Still nothing.

Consider three very bad words said.

Any help out there?

[TheWakeUpBomb]

Originally posted by tcmahoney
Great. My AVG anti-virus program just gave me a notification in the form of a dramatic blue screen that I'm running some virus called "Tiny." But when I ran AVG -- nothing. Got an update from AVG, even though it said I didn't need one. Still nothing.

Consider three very bad words said.

Any help out there?

I once got a virus notification, but it was caused by some website, and wasn't actually on my computer. Do a google search on the virus, maybe?

[tcmahoney]

Originally posted by TheWakeUpBomb
I once got a virus notification, but it was caused by some website, and wasn't actually on my computer. Do a google search on the virus, maybe?

I did do that. Nothing that really would've applied in my case. I had a suspicious e-mail in my Yahoo! e-mail, but I deleted it without opening it, and immediately emptied the trash.

So we'll see.

[kerpow]

Yeah, its a trojan....

http://www.sophos.co.uk/virusinfo/an.../trojtiny.html

...and old too. Your AV software should pick it up. If not, get another one

[otterulz]

Ok, I got a little problem. When I start up my computer, I can only be on for so long before a window pops up saying "RPC (Remote Procedure Call) terminated unexpectedly", then it counts down from 60 secs and automatically restarts. Other times, a window will pop up saying there's an error with my Win32 service. Then after I close that, THEN the RPC window comes on. Major problem and it's pissing me off. HELP!

[cosmosRIP]

I had exactly the same problem, this patch fixed it.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tre...n/MS03-026.asp

[Eggy]

Guess what guys. I've been doing this problem all day at work.

You definately need the patch. If you can't stay on long enough to get the patch you can enable the XP firewall (assuming you are running XP)
and that will block the explot long enough to get the patch.


Ya gotta do the windows updates.

more info

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-19.html