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My Mother taught me many of the skills that I have in Life today, your's probably did as well. For instance: 1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE. "If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning." 2. My mother taught me RELIGION. "You better pray that will come out of the carpet." 3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL. "If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!" 4.My mother taught me LOGIC. "Because I said so, that's why." 5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC. "If you fall out of that swing and break your neck,

Oh yah, shanenin If you want to see some of the stuff this junk does and the calls it makes to other processes N-stuff. Get Install Watch Pro to catch every file added, modified, deleted, and every registry entry made or modified during installation. This helps to see what areas of the system the malware will affect and what other things it will call using the registry entries. Other tools to use: FileMon for Windows ActivePorts Monitors all port activity. NOTE - Symantec incorrectly flags this program as a High security risk, because the API is publicly available and some malicious programs i

I think the "r" sets the random filename on reboot for these, does it not?

Hmmm After a frexh install and obviously a fresh reinstall of the burner drivers (which is all you needed BTW), I would start thinking of firmware issues or actual faulty hardware. Since you can't seem to find any firmware updates... Try installing the burner into a friends computer, fresh driver install, and see if it'll work in there. I don't believe it's DRM related, that would only affect protected discs I believe. Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling Alcohol and Nero yet?

The Malicious Malware removal tools are "Run once and Uninstall" tools, so they don't stay on your system after they've done their scan. They're always good to run those little tools ladies, so remember to use them when you see them in your updates. They work completely in the background unless they find something, and once they're done, they uninstall till next time. I don't really worry about such things, I've never gotten myself infected by any of these things but I still allow those tools to do a check just in case.

Ahhh, locked the IP. I've seen some PC's do that with new ethernet's sometimes, I have no idea why it would do such a thing, but I'm adding the LAN repair option into my list of "Known Fixes". Thanks very much for reporting back on this issue, and Welcome to Besttechie.net! Hope you have a great time here and stick around to meet our great membership!

I would also try following the instructions Here before doing a full reinstall. It's possible the g-kids installed some malicious toolbar or something, then decided to try and remove it but it may have injected a line into your TCP/IP stack that's causing some issues still. Posting a HijackThis log into the Malware Removal Forum is important to make sure this is not malware related.

I Like Minimalistic myself, keeps the clutter down that some sites feel they need. I hate going to sites that just have a million + 1 things going on in the Home page, wayyy too much junk and makes it impossible to navigate. Keep it up, you're doin great so far!

Pulverize the Male Species

A few minutes before the church services started, the congregation was sitting in their pews and talking. Suddenly, Satan appeared at the front of the church. Everyone started screaming and running for the front entrance, trampling each other in a frantic effort to get away from evil incarnate. Soon the church was empty except for one elderly gentleman who sat calmly in his pew without moving, seemingly oblivious to the fact that God's ultimate enemy was in his presence. So Satan walked up to the man and said, "Do you know who I am?" The man replied, "Yep, sure do." "Aren't you afraid of me?"

Hi Liz Good choice, I should've mentioned you should try pinging a site you're having trouble connecting to...but you're smart enough to know that!! You can't copy/paste a command prompt window either, too bad as useful info is there, but you can take a screenshot. I use ScreenPrint32, free, tons of features, and can copy any select area you wish to and save anywhere you want in any format you want...very handy. If you want you can attach a screenshot of the cmd window area with the results and we can look at them, but if you looked and they all went thru with no losses and nothing was real sl

I Was TOTALLY expecting that Marty....I know you too well! This isn't the First time you've tried to pull one of those ones, so I wasn't gonna fall for your ploy...nope, not me. My cat on the other hand tho....I haven't seen him for over 10 minutes now...and my thighs are bleeding quite heavily.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! Had to be my Canadian boys too eh.. I'm surprised most of them didn't cut the forests down and try to ship them home to friends! I'll bet a few of them sneak off at night to "indulge" a bit, but you'd really have to be careful not to get Buzzed...by a Bullet..

Wow...reminds me of a phsyco woman we had call 9-1-1 Comm. Ctr. once. She actually lives beside one of our firefighters and one day they stopped at his house in a firetruck to pick up a childrens book as they were on their way to a school to do a reading to school kids. Well she thought this was an abuse of our powers & her tax money, so she called to complain.....5 times! The more she called, the drunker she was, and the more verbally abusive and louder she became until she was literally screaming at the top of her lungs at our operator! Every time she got to calling him swear words, he

I get the hand also. I kinda like the layout so far but for my 1280x1024 resolution the central box seems a bit small for the page size. Is it optomized for a lower resolution or is that just the way it is displayed?

That's why I LOVE reading comments to jokes, they're as funny as the joke! Oh, for the joke, too, thanks, Marty and Deafgirl. You two made me laugh out loud! Liz And that's also why we allow a little more "Latitude" in this forum... In any other section, a "titsiphone" would've gotten the post canned faster than a man's eyes drop to a Woman's chest!!

Yes Mike, that's the Belkin address...do you know if Belkin has Connection Attempt log files stored anywhere? Liz You can try a pathping to a site you're having trouble reaching, from a command prompt. Type cmd into the Run box, then type "pathping www.thesitname.com" without quotes into the command window and wait. It'll take some time but it might show that the logjam is at another server along the path and not your router.

I couldn't agree more Marty...to make people sit up and take notice, you have to grab their sensibilities and slap it around some...but a drunk girl on a toilet isn't accomplishing that. Now, an image of body parts strewn across a roadway after a drunk smashes into a group of kids on the corner certainly would grab attention and slam the message home, but we don't need that here either. Besttechie members are intelligent enough to have a meaningful and relevant conversation about such issues, without having overly graphic images to punch it home. That's how you get High School kids in Drivers

Thats not quite true Marty. Most ISP's are very upstanding companies and would NEVER sell, rent or otherwise abuse their customer's information like that, it would be "business suicide". These larger companies would rather kill spam if possible and do aggresively filter email for known spam sources. However, there are certain "Dodgy" ISP's that do sell their customer info if the price is right. Most of these are small online companies that entice folks with low prices in "select areas", abuse the heck outta them, get shut down, and then open again the next week under a new name and a new area.

While I'm also not a big fan of using Sys Restore very much, if you do try to do a restore and the utility scans the restore point you chose and finds it's corrupted somehow, it will NOT allow you to restore to that point. I never say to go past 1 week with Sys Restore if you do try it, so if all your restore points within 1 week are not able to be restored, then something has corrupted them and they'll be useless. As our other members correctly state, Sys Restore itself is not harboring any nasties, only if you have already had an infection that uses sys restore to reinstall itself will you e

I also would NOT recommend a Virtual Machine for Vista, it would be unbearably slow. VM's using virtual resources run a bit slower to start with, my XP VM's don't run anywhere near as quick as my main XP install and with Vista's humungous requirements (bloat) I think it would just be ugly... I'm surprised you had this issue Joe, usually dual boot Windows OS's run just fine together, same physical HDD or on a slave drive partition. I've never had any issues dual booting 2 or more MS OS's. Changing the HDD boot order would make no difference as the MBR is written to the first section of the Mast

Hi Liz IRQ = Interrupt ReQuest - basically an Input organizer. All input devices are assigned an IRQ number giving some a higher priority than others, depending on their function importance. A mouse or keyboard have IRQ's as does any network adapter, IDE controllers..etc, and the IRQ number says which has a higher priority to access the CPU. Usually keyboards have IRQ #1, COM ports #3 or 4, and so on. If you want to see your IRQ list, type msinfo32 into the Run box to bring up system info, expane Hardware resources and click IRQ's.

Have you accessed the router Control Panel with the Web Interface yet and tried a reset or do a Status check during one of these episodes??

Well it's probably fixable, we just have to find out why it's balking at certain things or certain times. Wireless? Have you tried running some pathping tests? Anything logging in Event Viewer about this? Sometimes things will also have their own personal error logs stored somewhere, many use C:\Windows directory for that or in their program files if this router setup has anything in there.

Hmm...that's odd, since everything else works fine still. I would try to reinstall it first, probably didn't like the improper shut down and maybe buggered something in the connect settings or something.