i have had sp2 for some time now. in the past week it seems to have vanished
from my pc. i am on 2M broadband and noticed my speed had reduced
considerably. so i ran spybot which told me i was infected by sumom.a,i run
norton anti virus but it has failed to pick this up. live update doesn't work
on norton and when i try to use windows updates it is telling me i dont need
any updates. system restore soesn't work on my machine now. can't get into
windows security settings. spybot deleted sumom.a but i think it may still be
present somewhere in my system. any help would be appreciated.
--
some you win some you win

You need to run a virus cleaner. Try Housecall and Panda here: Online
Virus/Trojan Scans and Vulnerability Checks
http://virusall.com/downscan.shtml
Spybot isn't equipped to deal with viruses.

If you have anti-vir installed try running it in safe mode (tapping F8 while
booting up).

If you Google sumom.a you'll see lots of info about it on the web.

--
Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Home SP2 Fully Updated
P4 HT @ 3.0ghz, 360gb HDD, 2.0gb DDR
"sherbetdab" <sherbetdab@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C9568282-8B63-41D6-83A0-C42A24B62A07@microsoft.com...
>i have had sp2 for some time now. in the past week it seems to have
>vanished
> from my pc. i am on 2M broadband and noticed my speed had reduced
> considerably. so i ran spybot which told me i was infected by sumom.a,i
> run
> norton anti virus but it has failed to pick this up. live update doesn't
> work
> on norton and when i try to use windows updates it is telling me i dont
> need
> any updates. system restore soesn't work on my machine now. can't get into
> windows security settings. spybot deleted sumom.a but i think it may still
> be
> present somewhere in my system. any help would be appreciated.
> --
> some you win some you win

thanks. tried all this but to no avail. windows update tells me i need
KB898461 but the download keeps failing so i downloaded manually from windows
site. now update tells me i need sp2 but when i try to download it keeps
failing and tells me i need the following as well. and Security Update for
Microsoft .NET Framework, Version 1.1 Service Pack 1 (KB886903)
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (KB896727)
is there any way of downloading sp2 manually?
--
some you win some you win


"Peter" wrote:

> You need to run a virus cleaner. Try Housecall and Panda here: Online
> Virus/Trojan Scans and Vulnerability Checks
> http://virusall.com/downscan.shtml
> Spybot isn't equipped to deal with viruses.
>
> If you have anti-vir installed try running it in safe mode (tapping F8 while
> booting up).
>
> If you Google sumom.a you'll see lots of info about it on the web.
>
> --
> Peter
> Toronto, Canada
> XP Home SP2 Fully Updated
> P4 HT @ 3.0ghz, 360gb HDD, 2.0gb DDR
> "sherbetdab" <sherbetdab@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C9568282-8B63-41D6-83A0-C42A24B62A07@microsoft.com...
> >i have had sp2 for some time now. in the past week it seems to have
> >vanished
> > from my pc. i am on 2M broadband and noticed my speed had reduced
> > considerably. so i ran spybot which told me i was infected by sumom.a,i
> > run
> > norton anti virus but it has failed to pick this up. live update doesn't
> > work
> > on norton and when i try to use windows updates it is telling me i dont
> > need
> > any updates. system restore soesn't work on my machine now. can't get into
> > windows security settings. spybot deleted sumom.a but i think it may still
> > be
> > present somewhere in my system. any help would be appreciated.
> > --
> > some you win some you win
>
>
>