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"Clams Canino" wrote in message ink.net... " JimH" not telling you @ pffftt.com wrote in message I said LOOK - Don't edit. Unless you're SURE your editing out mal-ware. -W Be careful when editing the registry. Before you do make a new restore point using "System Restore". Sorry, I did not mean to infer that you were advising him to edit. |
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"Clams Canino" wrote in message news:Ya8Yg.7075 None safe from fire... but unlikely to lose more than one or two machines in any single incident. -W The oldest files in My Documents folder go back to the mid 80's and were created on a 10 meg hard disk. :)) -W |
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"Clams Canino" wrote in message ink.net... Best time to start is when you do a clean windows install. Then check it as you add your software. I only have 2 things in mine - both for my Nvidia card. When I do a ctrl/alt/delete and click "processes" I only have 24 running - including the printer stuff. How about YOU??? Heh... -W "Eisboch" wrote in message ... "Clams Canino" wrote in message ink.net... Start Run Regedit Look under: Hkey_ Local_ Machine Software MicrosoftWindowsRun Get to know what's in there (runs at startup) so you can tell if something gets added. Most new crap will hide THERE, not in the statup folder of your start-menu . -W Holy Crap! I just looked at that on this computer (not the one with the problem). How would you possibly know if something new was added? There must be a ga-zillion files there. Eisboch Clams ... at first I didn't follow your instructions correctly, but I now see that once you get down to the "run" there isn't that many items to look at. When I get home I'll check the other computer and see if there is anything funny looking in there. Eisboch |
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This site can be used purely for informational purposes (read, but touch
nothing), or for pure evil, inflicted by you, on you. :-) http://www.winguides.com/registry/ |
LOL! another Ebay "response" scam!
" JimH" not telling you @ pffftt.com wrote in message . .. Holy Crap! I just looked at that on this computer (not the one with the problem). How would you possibly know if something new was added? There must be a ga-zillion files there. Eisboch Be careful when editing the registry. Before you do make a new restore point using "System Restore". You guys are pushing my small envelope of computer knowledge. I was thinking that if I found something strange, I would edit one word in the file ... add a letter or something .... and then see if the problem went away. If not ... I could go back and remove the added letter. But ... maybe I better let someone who knows what they are doing do it. I had an old 486 computer running Windows 3.1 that I had not used for years. I started playing with it... seeing how many files in the Windows directory I could delete and still have the computer run. Kinda like playing computer roulette. I made it quite a ways before it gave up. Eisboch Eisboch |
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"Eisboch" wrote in message You guys are pushing my small envelope of computer knowledge. I was thinking that if I found something strange, I would edit one word in the file ... add a letter or something .... and then see if the problem went away. If not ... I could go back and remove the added letter. You can do that... just run system restore FIRST (before you start playing) to save your "pre-state". -W |
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Better yet..... write down EVERTHING that starts under "run" and do a
web-search on it. That bad ones ARE known and will appear. -W "Clams Canino" wrote in message ink.net... "Eisboch" wrote in message You guys are pushing my small envelope of computer knowledge. I was thinking that if I found something strange, I would edit one word in the file ... add a letter or something .... and then see if the problem went away. If not ... I could go back and remove the added letter. You can do that... just run system restore FIRST (before you start playing) to save your "pre-state". -W |
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"Eisboch" wrote in message
... " JimH" not telling you @ pffftt.com wrote in message . .. Holy Crap! I just looked at that on this computer (not the one with the problem). How would you possibly know if something new was added? There must be a ga-zillion files there. Eisboch Be careful when editing the registry. Before you do make a new restore point using "System Restore". You guys are pushing my small envelope of computer knowledge. I was thinking that if I found something strange, I would edit one word in the file ... add a letter or something .... and then see if the problem went away. If not ... I could go back and remove the added letter. You are making this SO difficult for yourself. Go he www.securitytango.com The site's run by 3 guys who have been handling problems like this since forever. Read the page, then on the left, click "Let's Dance". You could follow all the instructions completely, or just read and find the link to the free virus scan - I don't recall its name, but it's there. These guys have helped thousands of listeners via their radio show. One guy's the network admin for the University of Rochester, and another's been building, selling and servicing machines for many years. The 3rd guy - I dunno what he does. Their suggestions are all 100% dependable. |
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Eisboch wrote:
"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message ... I was wondering about keystroke loggers. I don't recall, but it might've been Eisboch who said he had no need for a firewall that monitored outbound nasties because he'd never been infected with anything nasty. Yet. Yup. That was me. And 4 days after I said it my computer at home picked up some kind of spyware thing. I keep getting pop-ups trying to sell me everything from cars to vacations to dates with beautiful, single women. It's not porn crap or anything ... just annoying junk. I went to Microsofts's Security Website and did an on-line scan and fix doober. It found and corrected a worm, but there was one file it said it could not fix. The computer ran ok for a while, then the stupid pop-ups started all over again. I adjusted the pop-up blocker to prevent *any* pop-ups, but they still come through. I'll take it to a computer shop and let them clean it up. Eisboch I had a similar worm at work, and it was a bitch, because it reinstalls itself every time you reboot. It started in the receptionist's computer and worked it's way into the Network. Spybot, Windows Defender or AdAware were not ability to delete the worm. Our contracted computer "experts", tried for a month to get rid of the worm without success. I used HiJackThis and the experts at http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/ to determine what was causing the problem and how to correct it. I found an unusual file in the start up directory. It was a legitimate Windows file name, but was really the worm. The exe file would credit a random and different exe file every time it would start up. In the receptionist's computer It had created so many new files that there was over 3000 processes running in the background. I had to start up in the safe mode manually delete the file and the start up lines in the registry. Hopefully your computer shop will spend the time to verify each and every item involved in the windows start up to make sure the file is actually a legitimate file. I used HiJackThis http://www.download.com/HijackThis/3...-10379544.html to review the registry for start up items and any other methods used by spyware to take over your computer. "HijackThis lists the contents of key areas of the Registry and hard drive--areas that are used by both legitimate programmers and hijackers. The program is continually updated to detect and remove new hijacks. It does not target specific programs and URLs, only the methods used by hijackers to force you onto their sites. As a result, false positives are imminent, and unless you're sure about what you're doing, you always should consult with knowledgable folks before deleting anything. " from Download.com .. |
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