newspro is not starting

telex · Post by **telex** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 2:16 pm

Please help. After a windows restart I can not see newspro anymore.
I enter newspro.exe and newspro is only starting in the taskbar but not on the desktop.
I have re-installed but it was the same.

alex · Post by **alex** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 2:37 pm

i don't understand exactly what you mean so i give several solutions:

press the taskbar icon and uncheck edit menu->start minimized

there should be either icon on the task bar or icon in the system tray.

the 'worst case': if newspro doesn't appear and you see it only in the system tray (newspro window is somewhere beyond the screen) - uncheck 'system tray' in the context menu so it will be in the task bar, then choose 'maximize from the context menu. you shuld see newspro then, then invoke view menu->normalize.

telex · Post by **telex** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 3:19 pm

everything is ok again.

I used "'maximize from the context menu."

but there was a short time where "maximized" nothing changed.

After some Windows restarts it was ok.

Alex I discovered again a virus in data directory... (Norton Antivirus 2002)

jaapf · Post by **jaapf** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 4:13 pm

Stop downloading stuff from that user then

And be happy your scanner works.....

MikeStammer · Post by **MikeStammer** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 12:25 am

again, the virus is in what you downloaded, not newspro. The article you downloaded (from a picture group most likely) was contained in one npr file. Norton scanned it and saw the fingerprint in it, thats all.

telex · Post by **telex** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 9:27 am

again, the virus is in what you downloaded, not newspro

I have never said that the virus is in the newspro. It is obviously that the virus came from the newsgroups.

But why only in pictures and not in movie rar files? And why not in the downloaded files but in npr files?

MikeStammer · Post by **MikeStammer** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 1:46 pm

it is most likely an scr file, which is a screen saver. It is an executable file so if you run it it would infect the machine (assuming no AV software is installed). I highly doubt it was a picture that was infected. What was the exact post? My guess is the attachment was something like this:

someCelebrity.jpg.scr

You would get it in the downloaded file if NAV didnt clean the npr file as well.

this crap happens all the time in picture groups. Search for .scr and see how many they are. Download a few and I bet they are ALL infected.

telex · Post by **telex** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 3:59 pm

I never download advisedly *.scr files . Perhaps *.jpg and *.rar files.