Warning, A tip 'r Two, And it warn't no big deal.

Yvsa

Yvsa

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The warning:

Be very careful at clicking on a popup that appears on your webpage.
That's what happened to me and it eventually come to wiping my "C" drive to fix it.
I never heard of a virus or trojan doing such things but what happened was this:
I was asleeep at my computer, woke up and had a popup and being still half asleep I clicked on it.
Then WinPatrol had several popups for some odd reason, never experienced that before, and I got tired of clicking Yes on them so I just closed 'em all out.
And That's when my trouble's began. I could only get online for short periods of time. The other simple functions on the computer wouldn't work either.
And although I could access My Pictures I couldn't download 'em to disc so I lost all of my beautiful Old Khukuris, Khukuris, and Custom Knife pix!!!!
Bummer, But it was my own fault for not backin 'em up.:(

The tip 'r two:

Go here and download the AVG Virus Scan Program. It catches viruses that Norton doesn't! And is compatable with Norton, don't know about McAfee.
Wish I would've known about it beforehand as I would've had it!:grumpy:
Also if you don't have Ad Aware to check for spybots it's a good idea to get it as well.
We've talked about Zone Alarms Firewall before and it's the only one I will have now.

And it's no big deal? :

I was scared to death to wipe my "C' drive as I thought it was outta my depth, Nothing to it. The System Recovery Discs walks you through it with two options, at least on my Compaq, one option is a partial wipe that lets you keep the data you've made since you bought your computer. The other is a Full Systems Restore and wipes your hard drive making it back to like it was the day you started.
So if it happens to you just go for it.:D ;) :p
Actually I was under the impression that it would take a few days to get back online but being on DSL helped a great deal! From the time I started wiping until I was able to get back online and safe to surf with all of my download's completed was only about five hours!:D
 
Thank you, Yuh nSuh.

I will download the thingie.

You will probably do your Catina review of Dersu Usala any day now, right? :p


Be well.


Kis
 
sorry for your troubles, Yvsa. You remember my two sunk computers last summer.




virus makers are a special breed....one bragged to a friend he could get inside the computer at his house easily. The tone of voice was self satisfied and creepy- like a peeper. My friend felt slimed just listening to this computer fiend.

what they need's a damn good whacking...



munk
 
I mean no offence to any who this has happened to, but I must ask why you put up with popups. They are the devil and can only lead to pain, and less khuk money.
Get any kind of popup blocker that you can.
Or better yet get a browser that is not internet explorer.
Now that I am done repeating myself...
I am glad to hear that you are back online. Tis true that formating isn't really the big deal that it is made out to be. There are often step by step guides or simple instructions in the program.
 
Spectre said:
Aigh!

Uncle, reading your message hurts!

John
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Sorry about that, really sorry! :( I meant to change the font size back before I posted and forgot, but I won't do it again.
For some odd reason I lost the "Press Alt button and scroll the wheel on the mouse to make my font larger" over this ordeal.
It will work on other websites but not bladeforums, don't have any idea why, but I will entertain all suggestions that might fix it.:)
I'll have to reset all of my former settings and see if that works, that is if I can remember how.:(
 
Kismet said:
You will probably do your Catina review of Dersu Usala any day now, right? :p


Kis
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One of these days, just as soon as I get all settled back in comfortably.
 
Since we are on this subject. I have read tutorials but am missing something?
Based on recommendations on this forum and others, I downloaded the Spybot and the Adware programs. Picked up alot of programs and deleted them, EXCEPT for one DSO Exploit, which they don't seem to have a fix for.

MY QUESTION. These programs are not designed to BLOCK, but only delete when found during the scans. ????

Seems like if you are surfing over the forums and newsites, which are my main websites, lately, you continually pick up these gremlins and they track you until you run the scan programs again.

Is my assumption correct? Seems like they can be deleted once a day or more, but who wants to be scanning every hour.
Just asking...........
 
Spybot has an immunize function. There are also other programs (retail) that will block both popups and spyware.
 
Ad-aware has a 'pro' version that has a resident 'ad-watch' program to guard your pc full-time, costs but does what it's designed for. they also do frequent updates to the definitions files (i've sometimes seen two updates the same day!) to keep on top of the situation.

if you do not have a third party software firewall program (or even better, a hardware one, or both h/w & s/w) at least turn on the inbuilt one in winxp - if you don't have xp - get one of the s/w firewalls! sygate, zonealarm, outpost all have free versions.
 
Yvsa said:
I was scared to death to wipe my "C' drive as I thought it was outta my depth, Nothing to it. The System Recovery Discs walks you through it with two options, at least on my Compaq, one option is a partial wipe that lets you keep the data you've made since you bought your computer. The other is a Full Systems Restore and wipes your hard drive making it back to like it was the day you started.:D
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Yvsa:

Hey, that is one great Emergency Recovery program isn't it? Wouldn't you say that whoever designed and tested that was one brilliant SOB? Didn't it make Recovering your OEM image a snap? And a NICE UI to boot, isn't it? I mean, wouldn't you want to thank whoever created that and saved your system with a big handshake and say a THANK YOU khukuri?! :D :D

Just kidding you a bit. I'm pleased to say that I was the Software Production Manager and later QA Director of the team that developed that technology and the exact BIOS-locked solution you used for your system, and sold it to Compaq to bundle with their systems. We also sold Recovery media to HP, a monster 31 language one to DELL for all the MS supported languages for Win9X (try Recovering in Arabic or Finnish if you want a nightmare UI), and almost 200 other PC-OEM's worldwide. We saved Compaq millions in hard drive replacement costs the first couple of years, but they were insufferably arrogant bastards to work with. I must of flown about a dozen times to their campus in Houston. The Dell folks in Austin were tough business people, but a hell of a lot nicer to work with.

It seems like old hat now, but our team was the first worldwide to develop a bootable CD. Now that option is a switch in every CD burner made.

The original company, Phoenix Publishing Systems, was a spinoff of Phoenix Technologies. Then we changed our name to Softbank Intl., and that's when we built your CD. Later we were acquired by iLogistix who went out of business a few years later. I have every single original Emergency Recovery Gold Master that was sent for replication sitting in a box in my garage, all Bios-locked to old and new systems. In a few years they'll be novelties and pretty much useless and I'll probably take them to the skeet range. ;)

One note, if you ever change your motherboard, the ER CD will stop working, as it is looking for a specific string in the BIOS chip on the board. If that ever happens, let me know, and I could probably hack a bootable floppy for you that will bypass the embedded BIOS search program on the CD. (Bill Gates would probably mind, but we wouldn't have to tell him!)

Anyway, sorry for the long OT post; just like Uncle Bill's good news from Nepal, it's gratifying on my end to know that someone I know benefited positively from the work I did for over 5 years. :D ;)

Regards,

Norm
 
For years I have used a double hard drive backup system that has saved me hours of work and worry, and lets me try things without worrying about how it might affect my system.

It works like this: I have two hard drives in my machine, not just partitions, but two physical drives. One is my main drive, one is the backup drive. At 4am every morning, my maintenance software launches and runs it's routines. If anything needs fixing it does it. Then my backup software launches and makes a copy of the day's changes to the backup drive.

I do not use a backup program as such that saves data in a proprietary format. Instead, I use a synchronize program which makes a mirror image so I end up with two hard drives with identical setups and configurations.

If, during the day, I corrupt or mess something up, or download some bad software, I don't try to fix it. I just restart the machine booting from the backup drive and run the backup in reverse which puts my main drive back how it was before I messed it up. Then I restart again, booting from the main drive, and I'm back in business. The whole procedure takes about two minutes.

In an extreme case I may have to format or initialize the main drive before I run the backup back in. That may add another five minutes to the procedure.

Of course the backup is only accurate from time it was created, which is 4am, so I backup as I go along during the day to make sure I don't loose any project I am working on. I have to be careful doing this, however, as I don't want to copy any bad data to the backup drive.

To avoid this, I sometimes use a third, external, hard drive as an intermediate backup if I am working on a long or complex project such as page layout or video editing.
 
I highly recommend using Mozilla Firefox as your browser, or using Google Toolbar's pop-up blocker if you would rather use Internet Explorer.
 
Svashtar said:
Yvsa:

Hey, that is one great Emergency Recovery program isn't it? Wouldn't you say that whoever designed and tested that was one brilliant SOB? Didn't it make Recovering your OEM image a snap? And a NICE UI to boot, isn't it? I mean, wouldn't you want to thank whoever created that and saved your system with a big handshake and say a THANK YOU khukuri?! :D :D

Just kidding you a bit. I'm pleased to say that I was the Software Production Manager and later QA Director of the team that developed that technology and the exact BIOS-locked solution you used for your system, and sold it to Compaq to bundle with their systems.

Regards,

Norm
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Norm I sure would! That was so incredibly easy that I was amazed!:eek: Congratulations!!!!:D The next time I have a computer question I'm gonna contact you!;)
My Nephew and Nieceling were both saying it was gonna take at least four days to get everything downloaded and back online.:(
 
Mr.BadExample said:
I highly recommend using Mozilla Firefox as your browser, or using Google Toolbar's pop-up blocker if you would rather use Internet Explorer.
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I downloaded that system before my computer crashed and promptly uninstalled it. It wasn't nearly as fast as my IE but I did like some of its feature's.
My IE is so fast now with the DSL that I can't keep up with it no how.:D
Actually it was almost this fast before it crashed.
 
I'll second the Google tool bar for pop-up blocking. It doesn't block all of them, approx. 95%, but hey, it's free. I also run Spyware Blaster 3.2. It blocks a lot of stuff. Also, Ad-aware, Spybot, and ZoneAlarm. However, I have had 2 viruses get past the ZoneAlarm antivirus. So I disabled it, and installed Norton's AV program.
 
Bill Sanders said:
I'll second the Google tool bar for pop-up blocking. It doesn't block all of them, approx. 95%, but hey, it's free. I also run Spyware Blaster 3.2. It blocks a lot of stuff.

However, I have had 2 viruses get past the ZoneAlarm antivirus. So I disabled it, and installed Norton's AV program.
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Bill do a search on Google for Free Pop Up Stopper and then check out the one from PanicWare. It stops all of the popups and you don't have to put up with, an annoying to me, tool bar.
While you're there on Google do a search on AVG as well. It's a free virus download that is compatible with Norton and according to my nephew catches things that Norton does not. I put the link on another thread about my computer I think it was but it's no doubt on the 2nd page by now.
 
I second the Panicware product. It has worked great for me for almost a year. You have to briefly disable it every once in a while to load certain pages, but then with one click it's right back on and blocking junk for you. It can be set to either make a sound and/or flash the icon in the system tray when it nukes a pop-up for you.

Regards,

Norm
 
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