Author: Slater Wold
Date: 23:00:17 06/09/03
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On June 09, 2003 at 17:01:38, Stephen Ham wrote: >Dear Computer experts, > >Over the weekend, I ran a small tournament on my computer. During the time that >it ran, I had my monitor turned off. But at times, I heard the computer emit >sounds like it does when an error has occured. > >Yesterday, when I turned my monitor on, I saw about 20-error messages. They all >read something like: "Win Socket at AP Synch Lookup." I'm going my memory here, >but I think I recall the wording generally correctly. So when I clicked the >boxes to make them go away, my computer crashed. There shouldn't be any memory >problems since I have 512 MB's of RAM. I therefore rebooted several times and >checked for viruses and spyware and cleaned out my Windows tempory file. But the >Win Socket boxes persist in appearing from time to time. > >What's wrong and how do I fix this? My computer is 2-years old, with Windows 98, >and I haven't had this trouble previously. > >Thanks in advance for your help. > >All the best, > >Stephen You have a virus. McAfee should clear it up. If you don't have McAfee you can go to www.moosoft.com and get the 'cleaner'. Follow the directions. Good luck.
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