now my virus program is acting funny

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cleaned the worm, finally got SP1 and the security patch.

now, when i boot up, i get the message to the effect that
Tmntsrv.dll encountered an error and will be shutting
down. sorry for the inconvenience."

and then my real time scan on my PC-cillin doens't work
and i can't turn it on. In researching, i discovered
that tmntsrv.dll is associated with real time scan on PC-
cillin.

and on top of that, when i logged on to microsoft.com my
puter just started grinding. so i checked my task
manager and there were two tasks sucking up all my usage:

PNTTOMON.exe and PNTMAIN.exe

looked those up and they are also associated with PC-
cillin. so i stopped them from running, puter went back
to normal CPU usage. but i would assume stopping these
tasks just stopped my virus protection.

BUT whenever i go to a new webpage now, a little pc-
cillin thing pops (like a graphic ad) up telling me that
it is protecting me. it never used to pop up when i
surfed to a new page.

do you think i should uninstall pc-cillin and get a whole
new virus program? could the worm have done something
to it?

I do have my firewalls up, could this be causing some
kind of conflict with my pc-cillin?
 
thanks.

pc-cillin was included in my software when i bought it
and i never got a disk or anything for it, just all the
XP CDS.

so don't know how to reload it.

if i uninstall could anything bad happen?
 
You could try AVG, its free. www.grisoft.com Nothing could be worse than
thinking you are protected when your AV isnt working properly. The PC-Cillin
should be on one of your discs, if not I would use AVG free. Also if you
wanted to purchase, get Norton.
 
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