Hey, anyone out there! I am a first-timer here, so bear with me. Here's the story. I have a Dell Dimension 8100 with Win2000 Server installed; 256 RAM, 60gb drive, no partitions, Office 2000 Developer, Visual Studio 6, IE 5.5, and some other extemparaneous stuff. I just recently had cable internet installed, and no sooner did I connect up with it than my machine was viciously attacked by both the Blaster and Nachi worms. My McAffee Online Virus Scan proved inadequate to the task of eliminating the worm; Nachi kept popping up in svchost and dllhost files, as I have read it does, and causing the actual svchost to crash, disabling several IE functions. A techie friend introduced me to the AVG virus scanner, which was able to remove both Blaster and Nachi, and to SpyBot, which was able to remove almost 200 spyware programs (I made sure they were adware/spyware first). However, I seem to have quite a few significant problems, most likely registry-related, remaining. They are as follows:
I.E:
Certain hyperlinks won't work, esp. those without www prefixes. This has kept me from being able to download the Blaster patches.
My Discover Card site told me that Javascript and Cookies aren't enabled; I checked, and they are.
I cannot print any web pages.
I cannot save any web pages.
some command buttons won't work.
in Help/About Internet Explorer, the Version, Cipher Strenth and Product ID are all blank.
I cannot access any of the Microsoft pages where patches are available.
OFFICE:
Word gives me the error "this document could not be registered" when opened.
I can't do copy and paste in Word.
Printer takes a long time to process a word document job.
Excel gives me "can't use object linking and embedding", "An error occured while initializing the VBA Libraries", then it crashes.
In Access, the error "A problem occured while Microsoft Access was communicating with the OLE Server or Active X control" pops up every time I mouse over the Objects section of the database window.
Front Page simply crashes.
Powerpoint and Project are OK.
VS6:
Visual Basic 6 simply says "unexpected error" and fails to open.
Visual InterDev tells me "The vcm Package Package failed to load" if I open it empty. If I open an existing project, it crashes.
WINDOWS IN GENERAL:
Windows Explorer doesn't display correctly in folders customized for Image Preview.
Windows Imaging won't open files; it says that they are "already in use by another application".
Windows Update will not function (neither will the hyperlink to it on any site). This has also kept me from obtaining the needed patch for Blaster.
Add/Remove Programs will not display anything; only a blank window with one line of text at the top.
That's the whole exhaustive story. I probably have to reinstall Office 2000; I hope I don't have to reinstall Win2000 Server, and that there are maybe some simple registry tweaks that can be done. This is really obnoxious. Please Help!
I.E:
Certain hyperlinks won't work, esp. those without www prefixes. This has kept me from being able to download the Blaster patches.
My Discover Card site told me that Javascript and Cookies aren't enabled; I checked, and they are.
I cannot print any web pages.
I cannot save any web pages.
some command buttons won't work.
in Help/About Internet Explorer, the Version, Cipher Strenth and Product ID are all blank.
I cannot access any of the Microsoft pages where patches are available.
OFFICE:
Word gives me the error "this document could not be registered" when opened.
I can't do copy and paste in Word.
Printer takes a long time to process a word document job.
Excel gives me "can't use object linking and embedding", "An error occured while initializing the VBA Libraries", then it crashes.
In Access, the error "A problem occured while Microsoft Access was communicating with the OLE Server or Active X control" pops up every time I mouse over the Objects section of the database window.
Front Page simply crashes.
Powerpoint and Project are OK.
VS6:
Visual Basic 6 simply says "unexpected error" and fails to open.
Visual InterDev tells me "The vcm Package Package failed to load" if I open it empty. If I open an existing project, it crashes.
WINDOWS IN GENERAL:
Windows Explorer doesn't display correctly in folders customized for Image Preview.
Windows Imaging won't open files; it says that they are "already in use by another application".
Windows Update will not function (neither will the hyperlink to it on any site). This has also kept me from obtaining the needed patch for Blaster.
Add/Remove Programs will not display anything; only a blank window with one line of text at the top.
That's the whole exhaustive story. I probably have to reinstall Office 2000; I hope I don't have to reinstall Win2000 Server, and that there are maybe some simple registry tweaks that can be done. This is really obnoxious. Please Help!