Computer woes

[owl]

Every time I open Windows Explorer on my laptop Data Execution Protection shuts it down. I ran McAfee and it removed something called digstream.exe, and I restored the system back to last week when it was still working. It seems to be working at the minute, but I'm worried that it'll start happening again. I'm not sure whether it was removing the program, or the program itself that caused the problem. Or perhaps it was the BBC's making the unmissable unmissable thing that I used for the first time on Wednesday.

Anyone else ever have this problem?

Comments

[cynthia-black.livejournal.com]

We had one malicious .exe program that installed itself, and even after I uninstalled it and deleted it, it was causing us problems every time we started up the PC. I had to read up on how to exclude looking for that file as part of the start-up routine. Sounds slightly different to what you're experiencing though. Look at the Add/Remove Programs and remove the program yourself if it's still there and see what happens. I assume it's not something you remember installing yourself?

[owl]

Nope, don't remember installing it. The McAfee website says it's low-threat, and it didn't seem to do much on start-up. The thing is, I don't even know if it was it causing the problem with Windows Explorer, and as I don't know what was wrong, I can't know if I've fixed it or not.