Posts by Janna

Hey!

Has anyone here actually downloaded and scanned that zip file? You HAVE got Virus scanners, haven't you?

Janna, don't be put off by this. we're happy to have new members onboard who are eager to help out others. But at the same time, don't be surprised if people get a tad suspicious when someone new shows up and links directly to a file, without indicating the source. That's not good practice, and it would be better to link to the discussion or the download page instead.

Those interested in knowing more about symids.sys (and the Norton IS slowdown in general) could have a look at this discussion for starters:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10380496

and also this page from Symantec:

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/sharedtech.nsf/docid/2002020506493713?Open&src=&docid=2001082413371406&nsf=nav.nsf&view=docid&dtype=&prod=&ver=&osv=&osv_lvl=

(By the way, no, I have neither downloaded nor checked it myself. I neither have Norton IS, nor an Internet slowdown. And I wasn't one of those doing the complaining! ;) )

Thanks Catweazle

I was starting to think I was the only one with a virus checker on here. I thought I would just upload the file here and save people the time of having to "click here and then there", but I learned my lesson.

Didn't make any sense to me but, he is right I did find it on dslreports on a fourm that someone else posted. The file symids.sys is everywhere people talking about it. So no I doubt it is a virus but, you could of renamed it now saying you did but, man this file smells like fish. Something smells really fishyyy

Just trying to help people out, won't be doing that again. I would never give anyone a virus, and the "he" that you keep talking about is a she, since when is a guy named Janna?

Sorry, that was my first post.

I found it at dslreports.com, it's buried in that forum and took me awhile to find it.

Could you please give more information about your system. What operating system are you using for instance? What browser?

I don't know if it is important to anyone or not, I just noticed that my reply above is a bit old... :sad: sorry. But, I did find a fix for my slow ie problem and I posted it on a new thread, if anyone is interested.

I found a solution to my slow browsing problem.

This solution is only for you if your browser has slowed and you are running Norton Internet Security, my version is 2002, not sure if this file will work with other versions. Download this file and put the "symids.sys" file in your windows/system32/drivers folder. It should not copy over any files, if it does then cancel the action. Then reboot your computer. If you can surf as normal then this is your fix. If not, then I would consider deleting "symids.sys" file and trying something else. Remember, you have to reboot your system.

I have been having slow internet browsing problems and just figured out my nightmare. I had done an update on my Norton Internet Security and every since then my browsing had gone to a snails pace. I could still download files at the normal rate, but to just surf was just downright slow. I am running Norton 2002, this could be the problem for other versions, I don't know. If you run msconfig at the run line and see SNDMon on the startup tab then this is probably your problem. I read somewhere else that to uncheck this and restart and it would clear up the problem. Unfortunately, this isn't the case with me, I have to actually disable the internet security function on the task bar, and then my internet runs like a charm. I have no idea what the fix is for this, but that is the problem if you have SNDMon running. Hope this helps someone and possibly somebody can tell me how to fix this so I don't have to turn off my internet security as I don't like doing that. I also tried restoring my system to the point before I autoupdated, but the update remained on there regardless.