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Software => Internet browsers => Topic started by: helpless1 on July 30, 2005, 06:17:54 PM

Title: file extentions
Post by: helpless1 on July 30, 2005, 06:17:54 PM

My daughters internet connections is working fine, but when she tries to use internet explorer or her other programs it keeps saying, "this file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action.  Create an association in the folder control panel. Which extention would that be and how do it do it? Any ideas?

Title: Re: file extentions
Post by: Fed on July 30, 2005, 11:49:42 PM

I know this is the most common response in here but it is also the most common problem.
Scan, start here first.
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/

Title: Re: file extentions
Post by: Raptor on July 31, 2005, 08:19:20 AM

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My daughters internet connections is working fine, but when she tries to use internet explorer or her other programs it keeps saying, "this file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action.  Create an association in the folder control panel. Which extention would that be and how do it do it? Any ideas?

What has your daughter done to make it so?

Virus scanners
AVG Free (http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1)
-- Anti virus scanner
Trend Micro Housecall (http://housecall.trendmicro.com/)
-- Online anti virus scanner.

Anti spy/malware
Microsoft Antispyware (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&displaylang=en)
-- Anti spyware scanner. Windows XP Home and Professional only.
Spybot Search & Destroy (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html)
-- Anti spyware scanner
Adaware SE Personal (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/)
-- Anti spyware scanner

Firewalls
Using only one firewall is advised. Dual firewalls may cause problems.
Using a hardware firewall and a software firewall is even more adviced.
ZoneAlarm Free (http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp)
-- Free firewall - more user friendly
Sygate Personal (http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm)
-- Free firewall - more configuration options

Removal tools
The following files are not substitutes for the ones described above.
They are either diagnostic tools or removal tools for malware of a certain kind

HijackThis (http://www.merijn.org/files/hijackthis.zip)
-- Manual malware remover. Post the HijackThis log generated only if requested!
McAfee Stinger (http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/)
-- Virus removal tool. No substitute for a fully functional virus scanner!
CWshredder (http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshredder_download.html)
-- CoolWebSearch removal tool. Widely known and persistant Hijacker.