Hi, I have windows xp proffesional and visual basic 6. When I write a program in visual basic (even a very simple one), I get a window that says; "Visual Basic has encountered an error and needs to close Click here to send an error report". Why is this happening? Am I on the wrong forum? Cheers

Hudson

Hi there Hudson7 , Welcome to PCHF.


Nope your not on the wrong forum, thats what PC Help Forum is here for, have you Tried scanning for spyware and viruses?


To start with I would like you to do this:


First disable system restore to prevent re-infection.
(you can turn it back on when youre pc is clean).


How to disable system restore:

WinXP.

Click the Start button.
Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
On the System Restore tab, check Turn off System Restore or Turn off System Restore on all drives.

WinME.

Click Start > Settings > Control Panel.
Double-click the System icon.
If the System icon is not visible, click View all Control Panel options to display it.
On the Performance tab, click File System.
On the Troubleshooting tab check Disable System Restore.
Click OK. Click Yes, when you are prompted to restart Windows.


Then please delete your temporary files by deleting all files and folders that are in those folders:
(do not delete the temp folder itself)
(if there are "files in use" then empty these folders in safemode(hit f8 when booting up)

empty the C:\windows\prefetch folder ,
empty the C:\windows\temp folder ,
empty the C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp folder ,
empty the C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files folder EXCEPT the content.ie5 folder (may be hidden).
(replace administrator with youre user name)

And close all instances of IE and OE ,then go to: Control Panel / Internet Options / General tab.
Click the "Delete Files" button.
When prompted place a check in: "Delete all offline content", click OK. This removes the junk files such as downloaded files, zero byte files created by Outlook Express and many other hidden files that reside in your cache.


Do a virus scan here. Or select one here.
Also run Stinger - Trojan Remover.
If you get report of files that can?t be cleaned/deleted please write down the filenames and locations and post that in your reply.

Then please do this since it?s better to use automated tools to get rid of the bad stuff use these programs first before doing the final cleaning with HJT.


Spybot: Search And Destroy:


1.Download the new version (1.4) of 'Spybot: Search And Destroy'.

2. Install it according to the instructions in 'How To Setup Spybot SD'.

3. Next, 'Search for Updates' as the definitions are not likely to be up-to-date.

4. Close ALL windows except Spybot SD.

5. Click the "Check for Problems" button.

6. Click 'Fix Selected Problems' and fix only the RED items.

7. REBOOT to finish removing what Spybot SD found and clear memory.


Ad-Aware SE by Lavasoft:

1. Download 'Ad-Aware SE'.

2. Install according to the instructions in "How To Setup Ad-Aware SE"

3. Next, 'Check for Updates' by clicking on the 'world globe' second from the right at the top of your Ad-Aware SE window.

4. Install the updates.

5. Close ALL windows except Ad-Aware SE.

6. Click on 'Start' and choose 'full scan' for a full scan.

7. Quarantine anything that it finds and SAVE the log file.

8.REBOOT to finish removing what Ad-Aware SE found and clear memory.

Then please post a HJT log as a reply to this topic.

Hi Might be worth also diabling your startup items to see if some thing is interfering with it. I have use XP and VB6 for a while now and never had that type of problem. Might be somthing to do with you anti virus to they don't like exe files and that sound like when you have the problem try disable AV aswell