John_B Posted September 4, 2003 Share Posted September 4, 2003 Hello, for the last couple of days 5 of our 20 computers at work have been behaving very weird. They crash often when opening certain programs, and they often do not find the mouse when you start up the computer. Also some computers experience "port in use" error message when trying to print. I realise this sounds like a virus, but ive dnoe everything online scan I can think of and it has found nothing! Win 98 is running on the client machines and win 2000 on the server. Any ideas? Thanks JohnB :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sphere Posted September 4, 2003 Share Posted September 4, 2003 How about formatting one of the machines and see if that fixes that machine up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groovedude Posted September 4, 2003 Share Posted September 4, 2003 You say online scan ? why not purchase some antivirus software ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted September 4, 2003 MVC Share Posted September 4, 2003 So you do not have installed desktop scanners? You only use online scans?? Install desktop scanners on ALL of your machines - What does the server have on it?? Nothing?? So billy brings in a worm/virus on a floppy - next thing you know your whole network is infected, and every file on your server is infected/destroyed, etc..!! You NEED to be running a scanner on your Desktops - and your File Servers!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_B Posted September 4, 2003 Author Share Posted September 4, 2003 At the moment we are purcharing the full version of norton AV, so the main prog will be on the server and thin version on the client machines. Things have been somewhat delayed in getting it but i'm hoping we will have it soon.In the mean time yes we have had to rely on free scanners. I know its not ideal but thats just the way it was. And we dont allow our workers to use flopps disks as there is no need. I dont think formatting a pc will work!!! more work for me, with i bet not good results! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_B Posted September 4, 2003 Author Share Posted September 4, 2003 any ideas on what this might be then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[xan] Posted September 4, 2003 Share Posted September 4, 2003 Did you try this onlien scanner : http://www.bitdefender.com/ ? If several online scanners tell you that there is no virus then you have to use sphere's idea... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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