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by matt5968 Sep 13, 2004 last reply Sep 13, 2004

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i HAVE XP HOME and when it gets to welcome screen it stays ther for 1 1/2 minuties before getting to login screen ,, also after logining ig the ms windows install trys to run.. Please help

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by p.j.hutchison Sep 13, 2004

Make you have an application that has some components missing. Insert the install CD (e.g. Office) and run setup and do a custom install and add the missing components.

by rboyer Sep 13, 2004

You may have the GAObot and IRCbot virus. Start your machine in safe mode. Search for the files homo.exe, svchosting.exe, and winupdate.exe. If you find any of these files, then you have the virus. It executes at startup from registry entries. You can read about it at Symantec, http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.ircbot.h.html

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