With HUGE help from David H Lipman, I've just cleared a friends PC of
"NewsDotNet adware that was, I think carried by the Trojan.Zlob.D variant
virus that was mangled up with SpyAxe - that ended up in the thing (PC),
after the PC owners children downloaded and installed iTunes !!! ...phew

regards, Richard


"Paul Smith" <Paul@nospam.windowsresource.net> wrote in message
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> It's not the first I've heard of this, or the other problems they've had
> like incompatible iTunes and firmware on the iPod itself too.
>
> But considering the amount of applications it loads up in the background,
> if you want or need them or not, it's not surprising it runs into problems
> on some systems.
>
> Apple have always had this problem, even with small applications like
> Quicktime which constantly wants to start qttask for no reason every time
> Windows boots.
>
> It's generally a good idea to download the latest version of any software
> from the net if you've got access, versions on CDs can be very old in some
> cases.
>
> --
> Paul Smith,
> Yeovil, UK.
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> http://www.windowsresource.net/
>
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>
> "Alan" <alan111@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:OapDVvYEGHA.1736@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>> My friends machine took a turn for the worse after loading the program on
>> CD that comes with an Apple iPod. It became extremely slow and kept
>> shutting down, when restarted a Windows message appeared saying it had
>> recovered from a fatal error.
>> Both of us thought it was malware of some kind, but by chance when
>> speaking to PC World Helpline in the UK he mentioned that he had recently
>> loaded the iPod discs and was told that there was a known problem with
>> this software, apparently especially with Packard Bell machines (I fail
>> to see why that should be, but that's what he was told).
>> They gave him a fix over the phone which he followed and the problem
>> seems to have gone. What the fix was I don't know as he did it on
>> instruction and cant remember for sure what it was. He was advised not to
>> use the discs but to download the necessary from Apples web site.
>> Anyone know anything about this?
>> I know a bit, but not much more than my friend about this stuff, that's
>> why I got involved. He told me that he'd used the iPod discs, but from a
>> company like Apple it never occurred to me to question their software.
>> Regards,
>> Alan.
>>
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