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I read alot of hjt threads, but they do not teach a lot. They mainly just tell you things to do. I have this computer I am working on, it seems to have two main adware infections. I am getting both popups from vegaspalms.com and one following virtually every link I click on from newads1.com. I have been reading over this tutorial (thanks to matt's suggestion). I am still pretty lost on where to start. Do you guys follow a plan for reading a log? What things do you check for? I would like to learn the process you HJT team members use. Below is the log. Please feel free to give me suggestions.

I am a fan of ASUS boards, they come with a three year warrenty. This one seems decent http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16813131569 edit added later// The board above is a full atx, it probably will not fit in the case you want. None the less, i would still find a similar asus.

if you reset your router using the reset button it should work. I would shutoff your computer, unplug both your router and modem. Then plugin your modem, plugin your router, then start your computer. After doing that check with ipconfig and see if your are getting an address from your router. Double check that you are using the correct ports on back of the router. modem to the "internet" port, then 1of 4 to the computer

emachine should have the drivers available for you. I would try and reinstall them(like previouly said) http://www.emachines.com/support/product_support.html

command line tools are the core of linux. That is power and presicion being able to type just one simple command to format something. That is one great part of linux.

that seems pretty darn easy. The cool thing is you can use that command in any distro. You do not even need a gui to do it.

you can type the following command to take a screenshot ksnapshotksnapshot is also in your menu under "graphics"

I use nero to convert from dvd to avi, and it seems to be quicker then most. You may be able to shave off some time with another program, but I doubt it. Since transcoding is very cpu intensive, upgrading the processor would make a huge difference.

my point was the obsene amount of compound used. I don't have an opinion on which one is better.

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=295925

run this command in the terminal gdmsetup the program gdmsetup lets you configure the file /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf using a simple gui. You also can just manually edit this file with a text editor; it is probably just easier to run gdmsetup

how about apt-get install kde when I do that on my ubuntu system, it says it is going to install 396 packages I will let it run and see what happens edit added later// maybe you alredy hsave it installed. log out then log back in, but under "session" see if kde is a choice

you still have a legallity issue of using the key on a customers computer. In theory if the key does not match the one that the computer came with microsoft could complain(fine you) about it. Does that ghosting work similar to "ghost" . I will do some googling and check it out.

My first motherboard had to manually set the FSB with jumpers.

thats a cool idea. what do you use to transfere the images back to the new computer? One other thought, you will not have the correct coa on the new computer.

So is opera, personaly I use both. I am using opera more as I've been using KDE lately (I like a more uniform look and feel). I knew I should have googled that before making that statment.

FF is cross platform. I can use that on all of my computers.

thanks guys. I happened to upgrade memery in a laptop a while back. That laptop only had one slot, so I has to remove the single 256mb stick to make room for a 512mb. Since I already have a 256mb, I will give it a try and see how it works.

I am a little unsure of the memory this laptop needs http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/documen...cname=c00248307 the service manual just says use "ddr266 sdram" That does not seem very specific. edit added later// would that be pc2100 sodimm(200 pin)?

your welcome :-) edit added later// here is my menu.lst. If you removed most of your comments, yours would look neater. That is hardly nessesary shane@mainbox ~ $ cat /boot/grub/menu.lst default 0 timeout 5 title=gentoo root (hd0,1) kernel (hd0,1)/bzImage root=/dev/hda1 title=gentoo-old root (hd0,1) kernel (hd0,1)/bzImage.gentoo_old root=/dev/hda5 title=ubuntu root (hd0,5) kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-21-386 root=/dev/hda6 initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-21-386

Since windows is the forth one down in the list, you would change the default to 3 (start counting with zero 0,1,2,3) if you just type /boot/grub/menu.lst the above command is trying to execute the file menu.lst. Since it is not an executable file it is telling you permission denied. you will need to open the file with an editor like this nano -w /boot/grub/menu.lst

I guess it would kind of depend, I could tell you exactly if I could see your current configuration of your file. The cat command it good for this cat /boot/grub/menu.lst That depends on which editor you are using. if you are using nano, <ctrl>x will save your file

I kind of gave you bad advice. I assumbed that you had /boot on a seperate partition(not all distros do that). The reason it told you /boot was not in /etc/fstab is because you do not have a seperate /boot partition. So you can ignore most of my advice and just edit the file /boot/grub/menu.lst

First off you may or may not have to mount your /boot partition. to see if it is mounted already type this command into your terminal shane@mainbox ~ $ mount /dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw) /dev/hdb4 on /mnt/media type ext3 (rw,noatime) shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) nfsd on /proc/fs/nfs type nfsd (rw) rpc_pipefs on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) /dev/hda2 on /boot type ext2 (rw,noatim