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MS apps not opening.

  • 15-07-2004 10:48pm
    #1
    xern
    Registered Users Posts: 452 ✭✭


    Hi,

    My cousin is having trouble opening up his internet explorer, windows media player, musicmatch apps like that. He is able to dialup and connect to the internet but IE won't open. Everything else works fine, word, excel, powerpoint are grand.
    Its probably something simpleb thats wrong. I've done no uninstalling of anything yet.

    any ideas??

    cheers in advance.


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  • #2
    Webmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 9,579 ✭✭✭Webmonkey


    I bet its spyware and it has placed itselfs app instead of internet explorer, wmp and all them, had it before myself...but then again it could be something else too, but i'm sure it either spyware or a virus


  • #3
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,681 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    at the dos command prompt

    ftp ftp.mozilla.org
    the user name is anonymous no password

    ftp> cd pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases
    ftp> dir
    ftp> cd 0.9.2 choose the highest number
    ftp> dir
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 ftp ftp 6317526 Jul 08 18:28 Firefox-win32-0.9.2.zip
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 ftp ftp 5078944 Jul 08 18:27 FirefoxSetup-0.9.2.exe
    -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 228 Jul 08 20:11 MD5SUMS
    drwxrwsr-x 2 ftp ftp 4096 Jul 15 15:27 contrib
    drwxrwsr-x 2 ftp ftp 6 Jul 09 18:41 contrib-localized
    -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 33941035 Jul 08 19:22 firefox-0.9.2-source.tar
    .bz2
    -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 572 Jul 08 20:13 shellblock.xpi
    ftp> hash so you can see the download progress
    ftp> mget *.exe
    mget FirefoxSetup-0.9.2.exe? Y for yes
    ftp> bye to exit


    now you can start downloading the anti-mal ware / spyware / anti virus products to fix IE etc.

    ps. if ftp.mozilla.org has been hijacked then try
    ftp 207.200.85.49, or one of the other numbers
    64.12.168.21,
    64.12.168.243,
    129.79.5.133
    140.211.166.134,
    155.98.64.83,
    204.152.184.113


  • #4
    s8n
    Registered Users Posts: 3,832 ✭✭✭s8n


    Just following back up on this OP, would be curious to see what the RCA was ?


  • #5
    CatInABox
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatInABox


    wisdom_of_the_ancients.png


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