So, I’m running ad aware on a machine I’m cleaning up for a friend, and notice it hangs. That is to say I checked it before I went to bed, and when I woke up, the exact number of files had been checked.
I then ran spybot and it froze too, but displayed a message w/ a file path. To make a long story short, as I manually traversed down the file path that gave the error… and windows explorer erred.
That was odd thought I. I tried it again in DOS. It’s in a path that’s down deep beyond c:\documents and settings\user name\local settings emp emporary internet files\content.ie5\012z4127
then when I executed the “dir” cmd the cmd window shut down
I went to control panel > internet options and tried to delete old files, temp files, etc. and received an error.
I tried deleting that particular user name… received an error.
Mind you, all of these errors are off the type where my only option is whether or not to send a report to ms. On one of the few instances where there was an internet conx i received feedback that says to run windows update.
I tried that, but to no avail. that errs out too, and says it can’t run windows update.
~sigh~