nhlou

Not sure if I have a virus problem, or ActiveSync problem. I am new to this, only a few days experience. I am using an InstallShield 12 install that prompts for a license and then pushes that license and cab file, using Activesync 4.2, to a Windows CE device, (Windows mobile 5).

Two days ago, at the end of the day, somehow things got hung, and the device had to be whiped\refreshed\whaterver the word is. The next day, (yesterday) when I came in, on my desktop, half of my Clearcase views were gone, and most of the exe's for Rational ClearCase were missing. I was able to un-install and re-install ClearCase and re-create my views, and only lost a little code that I was able to re-create.

Today, (using a different handheld device), problems have occurred again during my multiple tests of downloading, un-installing on the new device, and downloading again. For some reason, the process on the desktop started again, (I really do not remember starting it again). Before I had noticed this, a message box appeared advising me that system files, (Win XP pro), had been overwritten and it was asking for the XP install disk. I then noticed that some of my desktop shortcuts were missing. A quick look at the C drive again showed that things were again missing\deleted. I closed all open applications, and shut down the system hopping that I would be able to save something.

I could not re-boot, (NTLDT missing). I had noticed that for at least a day, I was getting the no virus protection found at startup. Yesterday, at the end of the day, I had done a virus detection file update, and scanned the entire hard drive, and found no errors. Yesterday, because I did not have the other device, I had no device connected, and thus was not doing any downloads through ActiveSync, and thus there were no problems.

A consistent thing that I remember on both days of problems is that the ADD\Remove\Programs, of the device, appeared, and, I deleted items on the device, (at least I thought that I was working\deleting only on the device).

Was it also somehow deleting those same programs, (if they existed on my desktop), and did this somehow lead to the desktop disk problems that I encountered on both days?

Or...is it possible that I just have either a virus and\or hardware problems on my desktop.

Any information would be appreciated. Is there another place that I should be posing this? Thanks.

imported_Radimus

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sugar_cube

Sounds very much like a virus - get a good virus scanner & give your PC a good going over. Do as little as possible with it in the meantime, in case you spread the virus to other devices/PCs.