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Rococo · 10-25-2003, 02:04 PM

I've had nothing but problems lately and I'm not sure if it's hardware, software or both. My computer has been crashing a lot lately, I went to the Housecall website and ran the program to find there was a worm. The program looked like it cleaned up the problem but I found another one again during a search today. I've done several searches and it looks like my system is clean, but how can I make sure? I was running norton antivirus which I have now uninstalled since the program obviously never detected these and therefore sucks shit.

When looking in event viewer I found many errors have been popping up lately including these ones:

"the parallel port driver service failed to start due to the following error: the service cannot be started....."

"the OMSCAN service failed to start due to the following error: the system cannot find the file"

"the WINS client service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1 time"

Any ideas on how to clean up these problems would be appreciated.

10-25-2003, 02:04 PM	#1 (permalink)
Rococo Insane	Major win xp problems, please help! I've had nothing but problems lately and I'm not sure if it's hardware, software or both. My computer has been crashing a lot lately, I went to the Housecall website and ran the program to find there was a worm. The program looked like it cleaned up the problem but I found another one again during a search today. I've done several searches and it looks like my system is clean, but how can I make sure? I was running norton antivirus which I have now uninstalled since the program obviously never detected these and therefore sucks shit. When looking in event viewer I found many errors have been popping up lately including these ones: "the parallel port driver service failed to start due to the following error: the service cannot be started....." "the OMSCAN service failed to start due to the following error: the system cannot find the file" "the WINS client service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1 time" Any ideas on how to clean up these problems would be appreciated.