Chappy
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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:
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 incorporate it for their bad purposes. Having the actual program is not any risk to your system in fact it's a well known security tool.
These are just some of the tools you can use to see exactly what any Malware is doing in a system. This is how we find areas to fix these buggers, I used to do this to unknown new found files and report back what was found so developers could write fixes.
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I think the "r" sets the random filename on reboot for these, does it not?
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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?
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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!
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Pulverize the Male Species
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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?" Satan asked.
"Nope, sure ain't." said the man.
"Don't you realize I can kill you with one word?" asked Satan.
"Don't doubt it for a minute," returned the old man, in an even tone
"Did you know that I can cause you profound, horrifying AGONY for all eternity?" persisted Satan.
"Yep," was the calm reply.
"And you are still not afraid?" asked Satan.
"Nope," said the old man.
More than a little perturbed, Satan asked, " Why aren't you afraid of me?"
The man calmly replied, "Been married to your sister for 48 years.
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Ok, I did that, and everything looked ok, how do I copy what is in the cmd box to here? It won't let me copy and paste, it just clears the highlight. (I pinged You tube, cause when I try to watch any video from any source, it just stops, never did that before.)
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 slow at one hop, then it should be OK.
So obviously you're getting thru to the sites ok, but something is cutting you off or your router is dropping the connection or something.
Mike - Thx bud! Wasn't sure if Belkin has a connection attempt log or not, or possibly even an error log of some sorts somewhere.
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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.
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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..
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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 would hang up on her and that made her even more angry, but she would call and try to pretend it was someone else this time...funny but weird at the same time. Finally we had the police go to her house and they ended up arresting her after she punched a cop in the face, and threw her now empty whiskey bottle at the other.
I use the tape when training new Comm Center operators, the firefighters who circulate thru doing their 1 year in Communications just howl at this tape as most of us know this lady well.
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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?
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First off, eww.
And second, men would still be as deaf as I am
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!!
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There may be an IP Address conflict with your modem and router. Most belkins are 192.168.2.1 to get to the web interface. You can google your modem brand to find the IP for it's web interface.
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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.
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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 Ed class to pay attention (remember "Blood on the Highway anyone..?) but we're all responsible Adults and Young Adults here, so we can discuss this without images or films.
If the image wouldn't have been a half-naked girl on a toilet, it probably would have stayed up (depending on how graphic it is). A picture from the front page of the paper showing a horrific accident scene caused by a drunk driver would send much more of a message that the aftermath of a "College BeerFest Party" would...do you see our point here?
We felt it just wasn't appropriate, given the (very) valid message you were making.
Now, if she were in that "position" while behind the wheel of her car, THAT would be a different story altogether now..
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your isp sells your email address to spammers
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.
They do this by Renting some bandwidth from large Cable or Dialup providers and offering the bandwidth to others for a Low price. Once they get shut down or Blacklisted they simply change the company name and do it again, maybe in another region.
Most providers are well known companies tho and would not sell your info, so stick with the better known provider names and you're safe.
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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 ever get infected from using it.
Now, if you're having to use Sys Restore as many times as it sounds like you have (in the past) you're obviously doing something inherently unsafe or you're not using proper security tools.
Please explain in detail what is causing you trouble this time, what security s'ware you use, and any changes recently made and we'll see if we can't fix this.
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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 Master drive and the boot record for Vista would also be there, so changing HDD order would not change things.
Having a dual boot OS change the drive lettering is also common and no issue as that's only for it's own recognition and will not affect the XP install's device lettering conventions or flip them around in there.
Which install were you primarily trying to boot into when all this was happening?
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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.
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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??
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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.
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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.
Mothers And Wisdom
in The Comedy Club
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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, you're not going
to the store with me."
6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.
"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."
7. My mother taught me IRONY.
"Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about."
8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS.
"Shut your mouth and eat your supper."
9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM.
"Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!"
10. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
"You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone."
11. My mother taught me about WEATHER.
"This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it."
12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY.
If I've told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!"
13. My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE.
"I brought you into this world, and I can take you out."
14. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION.
"Stop acting like your father!"
15. My mother taught me about ENVY.
"There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who
don't have wonderful parents like you do."
16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION.
"Just wait until we get home."
17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING.
"You are going to get it when you get home!"
18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE.
"If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to freeze that way."
19. My mother taught me ESP.
"Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you are cold?"
20. My mother taught me HUMOR.
"When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me."
21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT.
"If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."
22. My mother taught me GENETICS.
"You're just like your father."
23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS.
"Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?"
24. My mother taught me WISDOM.
"When you get to be my age, you'll understand."
25. And my favorite: My mother taught me about JUSTICE.
"One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you!