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Antrax
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 Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 3:57 am Post subject: 1 |
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For some reason, I can't copy and paste. "Copy" and "Cut" on all their forms work, but "Paste" always remains grayed out and the keyboard shortcuts don't do anything. Also, I can't drag files from anywhere to anywhere. Is there some sort of "I am retarded please protect me from moving my precious files" mechanism in Win 2k? Ideas?
Antrax
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Samadhi
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 4:09 am Post subject: 2 |
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| I have 2K at work and I have not the problems you describe. So it's not 2K. |
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Lepton
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 4:10 am Post subject: 3 |
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| I get that sort of problem at work, when I use XWin and at home when I use the applet for GLOC, and occasionally at other times. Shutting down the offending programs usually works. |
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Digglu
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 7:31 pm Post subject: 4 |
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did this occur recently? i'm having the same problem and i think it may be due to this virus that's running around campus...msblast i think...the copy/paste problem turned up the same time as the others did  |
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Planky
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 8:31 pm Post subject: 5 |
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Sounds like the Blaster worm, which can reek havoc on RPC. Or the RPC Dll's are corrupted.
Originally posted by slashdot:
RPC isn't just for over-the-network calls; it's also what some Win32 apps use for interprocess communication. Thus, if RPC is borked, your whole system is in trouble (I had a system where the RPC DLLs were corrupted; I couldn't even use simple things like copy and paste, since programs couldn't communmicate with the clipboard buffer).
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Antrax
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 10:10 pm Post subject: 6 |
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I've tracked the problem down to svchost crashing. Basically the system works fine, then svchost crashes and is restarted, most likely something crucial doesn't get turned on, resulting in a bunch of weird behaviour (also: can't open the add/remove programs menu; can't disconnect from the internet; Hebrew gets messy)
Trying to figure out what crashes the service host now.
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Antrax
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 11:31 pm Post subject: 7 |
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Nope. It's definitely the blaster worm. Removing it as we speak. Contact me for removal instructions if your computer behaves similarily.
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Chuck
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 11:40 pm Post subject: 8 |
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| When is the blaster worm supposed to blast Microsoft? Those of us who don't have it might want to join in anyway. |
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Antrax
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Planky
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 12:56 am Post subject: 10 |
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| umm, not tomorrow, on the 16th (Saturday). They will start to see the effects from it on the 15th because of the few countries that are ahead by a day, then bam! |
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jesternl
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 3:39 pm Post subject: 11 |
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| It's only going to blast windowsupdate.com, and my guess is that they are used to getting lots and lots of request there to begin with. |
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Vinny
Promiscuous enough
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