drakier, Yes, it comes up with the usual memloc's not current etc... do you wish to updat enow..yadda yadda.

OK, now I have completely uninstalled AC and Decal and Tank and reinstalled everything, updating everything. The decal update happens but the old memlocs remain. I am completely baffled as I have tried everything everyone else has done and still it doesnt work. If there is anything at all that I am forgetting to do could somebody please tell me...


Thanks

go to Start->Run and type CMD and press OK.


then run 'ping update.decaldev.com' without quotes and post the results.

Ok I did the command prompt thing first as ping update.decaldev.com (with a space between ping and update) and I got this:


Command Prompt - ping update.decaldev.com

The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction

CS: 06d4 IP:e7db OP:63 00 00 00 00

Choose close to terminate the application

(there was an option to ignore)


Then there was nothing.


The second time I did it, I did not put a space between ping and update and this is what I got:


pingupdate.decaldev.com is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file


I truly do not understand all this LOL I just want my decal back

Sassy, that may be an unrelated problem, but see if this fixes it:

Go to c:\windows\system32, and drag the file "ntvdm.exe" to the recycle bin. It will be recreated automatically within a few seconds (it'll be at the bottom of the list of files). If it doesn't reappear, then restore it from the recycle bin.

 

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Ummm.. that's not good.

sweet ty guys

 

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I would suggest running a Virus scan on your system..


also I would suggest doing a search for the following files on your system.. and if any are found, go to http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.picrate.a@mm.html and follow the removal instructions.


bx.exe

netstat.com

ping.com

tracert.com

tasklist.com

taskkill.com

regedit.com

cmd.com

xtc.tmp

Attachement.zip

OK I ran a virus check and nothing was found. I cleaned my registry and ran ad-aware. After all that I tried updating decal again and nothing I tried the command prompt thing again and got the same message. I am at my wits end with this LOL. Oh and I did put that NVDM.EXE file in the recycle bin and it did not reappear by itself so I restored it. I did a search for all of those files and found none of them. After all of this if you have anymore ideas I would appreciate it. Now I'm going to bed LOL.


Thanks so much for all the help.

YAY! Got decal back! Had to do a format and completely redo it all but I got it back, needless to say there was obviously a hidden virus somewhere but now all is well.


Thanks again for all the help!