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leschinsky
10-09-2006, 05:06 PM
So a couple of weeks ago I all of a sudden had to start clicking on my user account when booting up and when waking it up from sleep mode. I had changed something(can't remember what though) but I did not go into user accounts. Yesterday I finally click on user accounts and see 3 accounts, owner, guest and some other one! I freaked and deleted it without writing the name down. Then clicked on changing the way you log on and McFee virus warns me that the file mshta.exe contains suspicious scripting activity and has been stopped. I click on find out more info, it says it's attempting to call the Regread method within the IWshShell3 object. WTF does that mean I don't know. Did someone gain control of my computer via my comcast internet connection? And it's still making me log on.
Patonb
10-09-2006, 07:09 PM
Do a google search for iwshshell3......... your questions will be answered. It seems to just be a windows issue.
Then clicked on changing the way you log on and McFee virus warns me that the file mshta.exe contains suspicious scripting activity and has been stopped. I click on find out more info, it says it's attempting to call the Regread method within the IWshShell3 object. WTF does that mean I don't know.
Hi, Nicole. If you followed Patonb's advice (which I'm sure you did), then you would end up McAfee (http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=45446) Help Forum and then according to their site administrator, you matriculate to the Microsoft Help & Support (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/285195) with the resolution for this problem. The only issue you may have (along with many others) is that you may need your Microsoft CDs and I'm really not sure if the recovery CDs will work. Therefore, you can try a System Restore and go back to a time before this problem occurred, if you haven't done so already.
I'm not sure what you did a couple of weeks ago, but what you're reading is written by programmers for programmers. Probably half the folks at Microsoft don't even know what it means. I would think right about now the programemrs are pulling all-nighters to make sure that Windows Vista goes to RTF (Ready to Manufacturer) by October 25th.
Let us know if this issue gets resolved.
Good luck!
leschinsky
10-09-2006, 10:00 PM
Thanks guys, as usual I was overly dramatic. will google next time! why can't they write in plain English too, would it really kill them!?!
why can't they write in plain English too, would it really kill them!?!
Nicole, then we'd lose our high-paying jobs :D
Basically, arcane language is pretty much what separates a college education from not having one. Language has been used for millenia to differentiate, to keep out people who don't go to school to learn the "language" of their profession, be it programmers, lawyers, med transcriptionists, police, etc.
If we or anyone coded in plain english, then anybody could do it (it's not very difficult), and programmers wouldn't be paid much.
I'm a database/software eng, and we tend to make things more difficult than they are ;)
Patonb
10-10-2006, 12:13 PM
why can't they write in plain English too, would it really kill them!?!
Nicole, then we'd lose our high-paying jobs :D
Basically, arcane language is pretty much what separates a college education from not having one. Language has been used for millenia to differentiate, to keep out people who don't go to school to learn the "language" of their profession, be it programmers, lawyers, med transcriptionists, police, etc.
If we or anyone coded in plain english, then anybody could do it (it's not very difficult), and programmers wouldn't be paid much.
I'm a database/software eng, and we tend to make things more difficult than they are ;)
How true you are RDF...... exactly like us engineers... If you don't understand what we say, wecan charge more...
Oh, and I just re-read my 1st post..... I mght have come off harsh :o , didn't mean too. There was just too much info to reproduce, so i just gave the google search.
leschinsky
10-10-2006, 04:17 PM
why can't they write in plain English too, would it really kill them!?!
Nicole, then we'd lose our high-paying jobs :D
Basically, arcane language is pretty much what separates a college education from not having one. Language has been used for millenia to differentiate, to keep out people who don't go to school to learn the "language" of their profession, be it programmers, lawyers, med transcriptionists, police, etc.
If we or anyone coded in plain english, then anybody could do it (it's not very difficult), and programmers wouldn't be paid much.
I'm a database/software eng, and we tend to make things more difficult than they are ;)
Bloody bastards I knew it! It's frustrating when I cannot solve a problem by looking in my manuals. I like to try to solve them myself, it's cheaper and easier, not to mention a confidence booster.
Pantonb no worries I didn't take it as harsh :)