There ain't no justice

Posted on May 20, 2005 No Comments

So, as mentioned in the post earlier this evening, it had been suggested I tweak AVG a bit to see if that would help with my Everquest “lock ups”. Well, I made the changes and AVG told me i had to reboot. So I did.

And have yet to succesfully boot since. WTF? Just hangs at “Applying Security Settings”. Forever.

I can boot into safe-mode. I can run AVG from there even. It’s hollering that I have a bunch of “changed” system files, but won’t give me any more information. And a brief spot of searching indicates that could even be false positives. If I managed to virus myself somehow I’m gonna be awfully embarassed.

I can’t boot into the Networking version of safe mode. Which would be nice as I could then run some online scanners and/or some of the tools on my USB drive. (Neither of which are possible in safe mode). So much for planning ahead.

I just completely uninstalled AVG in case my changes somehow boogered it up. No love. Guess I’ll reboot back into safe mode and try and save off some data files and format the damn thing. Man, I’m irritated right now. Very irritated. If I lose my 4+ year old outlook and quickbooks data I’m gonna be SO pissed.

*grumble* *mutter*

Well, I’ve been thinking I should upgrade it to XP soon, but geeze. Stil poking at it. Glad this never happened with a client’s pc before.

Tags: antivirus, Everquest, microsoft