I am the admin on my home PC (Vista IE8). One of the other users started getting virus detections calling for to install something that looked like a Windows product. I ran a full McPhee scan and nothing was detected. This panel was listing 22 different trojans and viruses - in fact the number was rising steadily. I hit the "remove all" button which initially opened up some website that had 3 payment options on it - but after the full McPhee scan that page won't even open I get some message about the page resetting and IE explorer closing and then wanting to reopen the last page and then closing saying that it is in a loop. This happens no matter what page I try to open in IE.
So I switched users back to myself and I have no problems getting on with IE and that has what led me here. Going through everything on the Microsoft site I decided that I would try Onecare as an alternative to McPhee assuming that maybe there is something this would catch if the other missed. So I have installed Onecare and then pressed the button to do a full scan for Vista. The new screen pops up and I click OK for the full scan and then it freezes at 67% download of the scanning tools. There is no refresh button so I cancel out and then click full scan again and the same thing happens. It stays on 67% for up to 25 minutes without changing so I am assuming that is a "freeze".
I have hunted around the forums and cannot see anything that specifically addresses this issue. Also I am very illiterate when it somes to these things. If it is of any use I am also on a satellite connection.
Changed typeJimR1ModeratorTuesday, January 12, 2010 1:51 PM
Moved byJimR1ModeratorTuesday, January 12, 2010 1:51 PMOff topic. (From:Windows Live OneCare Install and Activate)
Your off topic for the subscription version of OneCare since you appear to be using the free Safety Scanner. Please copy and paste the above post into a new post here, and include the Rogue Antivirus scanner's name if you know it: