[WriteLog] Re error message "can't create OLE Automation Object.....

[Frank Fallon]

This has not been a good computer week here.

For the last two weeks my machine has been going downhill. Yesterday I had my good friend here to cure the beast. It seems I picked up a trojan in the form of Win32/Alureon.H which hid itself in an Ipsec.sys file and a backup of that file. Thanks to Spybot Search and Destroy we were able to find and kill those two files.
Before the fix my machine froze up while in Writelog and when I rebooted I was unable to get the packet/telnet and bandmap features going.  Writelog sent me the dreaded "can't create packet OLE automation object" message.

I am unable to reinstall Writelog as I have not yet received my CD in the mail and my 100 hours download or five tries has expired.  I am assuming that reinstalling the program is going to work as yesterday I upgraded to the latest version, 10.87, and I had packet and bandmap working. But that was before we found the trojan.  I believe I need to again reinstall.

Three questions:

1. Am I correct in assuming that installing Writelog on a now trojan free machine will solve my OLE problem?

2. Is there a way to get around the problem without reinstalling?  (It's impossible to do that until I can get access to my registered copy.)

3. Could some kind soul enlighten us as to just what an OLE Automation Object is and or does?

Thanks for the help.

73 de Frank.....N2FF......