Author Topic: Windows Explorer crashing after newest patch installed (Read 1423 times)

wavoka · « **on:** June 24, 2006, 12:53:13 am »

I'm usiung XP Pro. Windows Explorer started crashing after I installed latest winmxgroup patch.

SamSeeSam · « **Reply #1 on:** June 24, 2006, 05:19:26 am »

Does it happen all the time or only sometimes? Do you get any error messages when windows crashes?

Ace · « **Reply #2 on:** June 24, 2006, 04:28:52 pm »

wot the version off ie you useing IE7 beta ?

SamSeeSam · « **Reply #3 on:** June 24, 2006, 05:29:09 pm »

With the latset patch, the Internet Explorer problem has been sovled. 3.0 that is...

wavoka · « **Reply #4 on:** June 27, 2006, 02:40:29 pm »

It seems to have gotten better. I think one or more of the incompletes had data in it or attached to it that caused the problem. Once the incomnplete completes, it gets better or stops.

I'm running !E 6.0. As long as it keeps working I'm not going to run a beta.

I used to get a lot of virus attacks from files on WinMx. That has pretty much stopped. I have had people trying to get through my firewall, but they havn't been able to get through. I'm running Stop Sign full service.

Tell you what, I had several nasty viruses get around Norton and Mc Affee. Nothings gotten around Stop Sign.

KM · « **Reply #5 on:** June 27, 2006, 02:45:15 pm »

erm, firewalls don't stop viruses, viruses don't just send themselves to your system (only 3 ways that can possibly happen, none of which apply to a standard system with no firewall etc)

most of them come from using IE to visit "dodgy sites" (crack sites, and erm other sites), however a handful can come from downloading them from p2p clients, but those are normally obvious... who would download a copy of windows that was 100k for example?

there shouldn't be any reason that winmx or the patch would have any effect on windows explorer, could it have just been bad timing? although i guess if it's sorted itself out then that's all anyone can hope for....

wavoika · « **Reply #6 on:** July 01, 2006, 01:46:32 am »

erm, firewalls don't stop viruses, viruses don't just send themselves to your system (only 3 ways that can possibly happen, none of which apply to a standard system with no firewall etc)
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Running a virus program as well.
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most of them come from using IE to visit "dodgy sites" (crack sites, and erm other sites), however a handful can come from downloading them from p2p clients, but those are normally obvious... who would download a copy of windows that was 100k for example?
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I picked up the worst virus I ever got off of a siute from a political search.
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there shouldn't be any reason that winmx or the patch would have any effect on windows explorer, could it have just been bad timing? although i guess if it's sorted itself out then that's all anyone can hope for....
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Evidently there's a lot of this going on. The source appears to be a flaw in Microsoft updates that screws with windows explorer. They want to sell you Vista.