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trying to help a friend Harvey Waxman 12-27-2006
Posted by Harvey Waxman on December 27, 2006, 6:11 pm
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I don't use a PC but I told a friend I would try to find out what's going on
with her computer (OS is ",,,Millenium something)

While surfing she gets one of these after a few minutes:

URL mhtml:mid/00000012/
error
code 0 char 1 line 182 error object expanded
-------------------------------------------------------------- or
DirectDB.DLL.
msimn shut down

Does this look like a virus? Suggested action to take?

Thanks

--
Harvey Waxman
remove spam to email
http://righttax.org/

Posted by David H. Lipman on December 27, 2006, 6:36 pm
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| I don't use a PC but I told a friend I would try to find out what's going on
| with her computer (OS is ",,,Millenium something)

| While surfing she gets one of these after a few minutes:

| URL mhtml:mid/00000012/
| error
| code 0 char 1 line 182 error object expanded
| -------------------------------------------------------------- or
| DirectDB.DLL.
| msimn shut down

| Does this look like a virus? Suggested action to take?

| Thanks



Sounds more like a corruption in the DLLs used by Outlook Express used in WinME
than
malware.

Is she using IE6 SP1 ?

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm



Posted by Tom Willett on December 28, 2006, 9:03 pm
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Curious: If you don't use a PC, how did you post to this newsgroup?
If you don't use a PC, and your friend does, why doesn't your friend post?
If you don't use a PC, how are you familiar with PCs and your friend isn't?

;-)

>I don't use a PC but I told a friend I would try to find out what's going
>on
> with her computer (OS is ",,,Millenium something)
>
> While surfing she gets one of these after a few minutes:
>
> URL mhtml:mid/00000012/
> error
> code 0 char 1 line 182 error object expanded
> -------------------------------------------------------------- or
> DirectDB.DLL.
> msimn shut down
>
> Does this look like a virus? Suggested action to take?
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Harvey Waxman
> remove spam to email
> http://righttax.org/



Posted by William on December 28, 2006, 10:29 pm
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on 28 Dec 2006, something possessed Tom Willett to write:

> Curious: If you don't use a PC, how did you post to this newsgroup?
Well, my superb powers of deduction allow me to deduce that this person
uses a Macintosh.
> If you don't use a PC, and your friend does, why doesn't your friend
> post?
Probably because he/she can't access Internet and isn't as computer
literate as the OP (again, just powers of deduction, but I can be wrong).
> If you don't use a PC, how are you familiar with PCs and your
> friend isn't?
He/she may have used a PC in the past, or just knows more about Computers
in general (the techie one in the group) compared to the OP's friend. Of
course, all this is just logical guessing, so I may be wrong here ;-)
>
> ;-)
>

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