Re: [H] Vista Permissions
That did the trick! Thanks! At 06:38 PM 3/21/2009, you wrote: Sounds like a security policy of windows got set that's unrelated to UAC: Check: http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/156/1/Error-Registry-editing-has-been- disabled-by-your-administrator-when-you-open-the-Registry-Editor-in-Windows- Vista.html Eli -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 7:10 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Vista Permissions > >You can right-click on the shortcut and select Run as Administrator (or set >the setting in the properties for the shortcut and run as admin). I think >that either way, it will make you enter the credentials of an administrator >if the current user is not one. That does not work on some things, like for example, opening regedit. When I go to run, and enter regedit I see but when I execute I see a pop up that reads Registry editing has been disable by your administrator which I don't get because I AM an administrator! But if I log out and log back in as THE Administrator then I can use regedit.
Re: [H] Vista Permissions
Sounds like a security policy of windows got set that's unrelated to UAC: Check: http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/156/1/Error-Registry-editing-has-been- disabled-by-your-administrator-when-you-open-the-Registry-Editor-in-Windows- Vista.html Eli -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 7:10 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Vista Permissions > >You can right-click on the shortcut and select Run as Administrator (or set >the setting in the properties for the shortcut and run as admin). I think >that either way, it will make you enter the credentials of an administrator >if the current user is not one. That does not work on some things, like for example, opening regedit. When I go to run, and enter regedit I see but when I execute I see a pop up that reads Registry editing has been disable by your administrator which I don't get because I AM an administrator! But if I log out and log back in as THE Administrator then I can use regedit.
Re: [H] Vista Permissions
admin account log in vista is NOT the same as in XP. fp At 07:09 PM 3/21/2009, Winterlight Poked the stick with: >>You can right-click on the shortcut and select Run as Administrator (or set >>the setting in the properties for the shortcut and run as admin). I think >>that either way, it will make you enter the credentials of an administrator >>if the current user is not one. > >That does not work on some things, like for example, opening regedit. When I >go to run, and enter regedit I see administrative privileges> but when I execute I see a pop up that reads >Registry editing has been disable by your administrator which I don't get >because I AM an administrator! But if I log out and log back in as THE >Administrator then I can use regedit. > > >>>And if I want to start loging in exclusively as the Administrator, is >>>there a easy way to move all of windows settings from my current user >>>to the Administrator account so I don't have to redo everything? >> >>The easiest way would be to just change your user logon to an admin account. > > >I am already an ADMIN account! > > >__ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature >database 3953 (20090321) __ > >The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > >http://www.eset.com > >
Re: [H] Vista Permissions
I am running Vista 64 Ultimate. I am using an admin account also. I do use UAC though. I wonder if turning UAC off is what is causing you issues? When I run regedit (from the search thing on the start menu), I do get a UAC pop-up. I click on continue and all is well. I misread your earlier post and thought you were not running as admin. My understanding is that when you run as admin, you are really running at a lower level than admin and the system uses UAC to elevate you to admin level. Bobby -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 7:10 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Vista Permissions > >You can right-click on the shortcut and select Run as Administrator (or set >the setting in the properties for the shortcut and run as admin). I think >that either way, it will make you enter the credentials of an administrator >if the current user is not one. That does not work on some things, like for example, opening regedit. When I go to run, and enter regedit I see but when I execute I see a pop up that reads Registry editing has been disable by your administrator which I don't get because I AM an administrator! But if I log out and log back in as THE Administrator then I can use regedit. > >And if I want to start loging in exclusively as the Administrator, is > >there a easy way to move all of windows settings from my current user > >to the Administrator account so I don't have to redo everything? > >The easiest way would be to just change your user logon to an admin account. I am already an ADMIN account!
Re: [H] Vista Permissions
You can right-click on the shortcut and select Run as Administrator (or set the setting in the properties for the shortcut and run as admin). I think that either way, it will make you enter the credentials of an administrator if the current user is not one. That does not work on some things, like for example, opening regedit. When I go to run, and enter regedit I see with administrative privileges> but when I execute I see a pop up that reads Registry editing has been disable by your administrator which I don't get because I AM an administrator! But if I log out and log back in as THE Administrator then I can use regedit. >And if I want to start loging in exclusively as the Administrator, is >there a easy way to move all of windows settings from my current user >to the Administrator account so I don't have to redo everything? The easiest way would be to just change your user logon to an admin account. I am already an ADMIN account!
Re: [H] WinXP Question(?)
Jim, No, I never saw this.I will re-read several times more. At first read, nothing in this share links up with what I saw/see. At first blush, I think/see some sneaky baddie. Just can not yet prove 1 way or t'other! I was re-acting from many past List commentary regarding this WGA and XP over the past several years. I tend to trust List commentary a bit more than other sources. As I have never had a problem in the past, I expected no future "noise." Perhaps a bad expectation :( I needed a "new" project. The grass is not quite yet shaggy enough to unpack the mower from its' winter-over :) I will pull the machine offline and have a deeper look. Perhaps 1 or more of the "required" WGA files somehow got dorked up. I accept that "stuff happens." I have seen it too many times before. If I can get to a state where I can create/share a "screen capture", I will. Best, Duncan At 13:39 03/21/2009 -0800, you wrote: Duncan, Have you looked here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Genuine_Advantage Anything look familiar? There's also a possibility WGA hit you with a false positive. Does M$ reimburse you for your troubleshooting time? Didn't think so. Jim DHSinclair wrote: I have now had one of my new (6mo+) WinXP machines do something very strange and scary (well to me anyway). Yes, I am freaked out ATM! Late last night I went to this machine to flush and shutdown the Dnetc application "rc5-72." I did this, no problem. Then I chose to update both my MalwareBytes and SpybotS&D signature files. This machine has ESET a/v installed and is on my lan behind a NAT router. Post the updates, the default screen background (Bliss-the meadow scene) kind of like un-scrolled, erased, leaving me with a plain black background! This was followed by the appearance of a very official looking MS "Genuine Advantage" window in the lower right corner telling me that my WinXP installed OS now appears to be suspect! It wanted me to go get some file and run it. I did not! Is this real? Is this a worm/virus/trojan I now need to go find? I rebooted to SafeMode and hard scanned the machine with ESET. I found nothing. No, I did NOT try to run MWBytes or SpybotS&D in SafeMode..dumb me I may try this later this afternoon off the lan! I believe that I fully backed up this machine this past December; so if I have to kill/rebuild it I should loose very little. The system is ~6mo old. The machine is now OFF (psu=0) and disconnected from the lan. Thanks, Duncan __ NOD32 3953 (20090321) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
Re: [H] Vista Permissions
Comments in-line. Bobby -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 3:36 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Vista Permissions >I am running Vista 64 Home Premium. I have UAC disabled and I have >given myself Administrative privileges. Unfortunately, that isn't >enough for everything, such as loading regedit which must be done by > Administrator. I there a way for me to become >Administrator within my user session so I don't have to log out and >back in as Administrator. You can right-click on the shortcut and select Run as Administrator (or set the setting in the properties for the shortcut and run as admin). I think that either way, it will make you enter the credentials of an administrator if the current user is not one. >And if I want to start loging in exclusively as the Administrator, is >there a easy way to move all of windows settings from my current user >to the Administrator account so I don't have to redo everything? The easiest way would be to just change your user logon to an admin account. >Yeah I know, I should of popped for Ultimate, and would of if I had >known the limitations but now they want way too much to upgrade from >Home Premium to Ultimate, particularly so with Windows 7 just around >the corner. thanks
Re: [H] WinXP Question(?)
Richard, Oh...OK! Yes, this machine was built as sp2, but then it was upgraded to sp3 via the very large sp3 file fed to me via the WinUpdate (via the web) logic. So, before I put the machine online on my lan it was sp3 per my log files of 6 the past monthly WinUpdate cycles (I do mine each 2d Wednesday monthly). I do not allow "automatic updates." Prefer to do my WinUpdates manually in real-time. Have I missed something here? Best, Duncan At 17:24 03/21/2009 -0400, you wrote: They changed it's "genuine" between sp2 & sp3. Richard E. Quilhot C.N.A. quilh...@gmail.com Phyllis Diller - "Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight." On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 5:17 PM, DHSinclair wrote: > Richard, > OK. I will accept this at its' face value. But, as this XP install is > 6+months old and no hardware changes have been made..WTF? When the > system was built, I did dl all the MS required check/certify stuff to > establish/prove my OS was "genuine." Now, MS just decides my OS in now "not > genuine." This is very odd; and, I fear way above my pay grade... > :) > But, OK; I'll deal with this somehow.like reload > W2Kpro :) > Thank you, > Duncan > > At 16:18 03/21/2009 -0400, you wrote: > >> Sounds like windows update got you. >> >> Richard E. Quilhot C.N.A. >> quilh...@gmail.com >> >> >> Samuel Beckett - "Birth was the death of him." >> >> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 3:21 PM, DHSinclair >> wrote: >> >> > Chris, >> > The "dnetc" business is not the problemYes, it stopped/deleted as >> > expected. >> > I even used 'eraser' to clean the "recycle bin." Dnetc is gone. >> > There is something else problematic here. >> > Thanks, >> > Duncan >> > >> > >> > At 18:53 03/21/2009 +, you wrote: >> > >> >> Dnetc goes back... Way back. Its just a background task that crunches >> >> numbers for distributed computing. You should be able to find and >> delete. >> >> Sent via BlackBerry >> >> >> >> -Original Message- >> >> From: DHSinclair >> >> >> >> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:44:41 >> >> To: Hardware Group >> >> Subject: [H] WinXP Question(?) >> >> >> >> >> >> I have now had one of my new (6mo+) WinXP machines do something very >> >> strange and scary (well to me anyway). Yes, I am freaked out ATM! >> >> >> >> Late last night I went to this machine to flush and shutdown the Dnetc >> >> application "rc5-72." >> >> I did this, no problem. Then I chose to update both my MalwareBytes >> and >> >> SpybotS&D signature files. This machine has ESET a/v installed and is >> on >> >> my >> >> lan behind a NAT router. >> >> >> >> Post the updates, the default screen background (Bliss-the meadow >> scene) >> >> kind of like un-scrolled, erased, leaving me with a plain black >> >> background! This was followed by the appearance of a very official >> >> looking >> >> MS "Genuine Advantage" window in the lower right corner telling me that >> my >> >> WinXP installed OS now appears to be suspect! It wanted me to go get >> some >> >> file and run it. I did not! >> >> >> >> Is this real? Is this a worm/virus/trojan I now need to go find? >> >> >> >> I rebooted to SafeMode and hard scanned the machine with ESET. I found >> >> nothing. >> >> No, I did NOT try to run MWBytes or SpybotS&D in SafeMode..dumb >> me >> >> I may try this later this afternoon off the lan! >> >> I believe that I fully backed up this machine this past December; so if >> I >> >> have to kill/rebuild it I should loose very little. The system is ~6mo >> >> old. >> >> >> >> The machine is now OFF (psu=0) and disconnected from the lan. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Duncan >> >> >> > >> > >> >> __ NOD32 3953 (20090321) Information __ >> >> This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. >> http://www.eset.com >> > > __ NOD32 3953 (20090321) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
Re: [H] WinXP Question(?)
Duncan, Have you looked here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Genuine_Advantage Anything look familiar? There's also a possibility WGA hit you with a false positive. Does M$ reimburse you for your troubleshooting time? Didn't think so. Jim DHSinclair wrote: I have now had one of my new (6mo+) WinXP machines do something very strange and scary (well to me anyway). Yes, I am freaked out ATM! Late last night I went to this machine to flush and shutdown the Dnetc application "rc5-72." I did this, no problem. Then I chose to update both my MalwareBytes and SpybotS&D signature files. This machine has ESET a/v installed and is on my lan behind a NAT router. Post the updates, the default screen background (Bliss-the meadow scene) kind of like un-scrolled, erased, leaving me with a plain black background! This was followed by the appearance of a very official looking MS "Genuine Advantage" window in the lower right corner telling me that my WinXP installed OS now appears to be suspect! It wanted me to go get some file and run it. I did not! Is this real? Is this a worm/virus/trojan I now need to go find? I rebooted to SafeMode and hard scanned the machine with ESET. I found nothing. No, I did NOT try to run MWBytes or SpybotS&D in SafeMode..dumb me I may try this later this afternoon off the lan! I believe that I fully backed up this machine this past December; so if I have to kill/rebuild it I should loose very little. The system is ~6mo old. The machine is now OFF (psu=0) and disconnected from the lan. Thanks, Duncan
Re: [H] WinXP Question(?)
They changed it's "genuine" between sp2 & sp3. Richard E. Quilhot C.N.A. quilh...@gmail.com Phyllis Diller - "Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight." On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 5:17 PM, DHSinclair wrote: > Richard, > OK. I will accept this at its' face value. But, as this XP install is > 6+months old and no hardware changes have been made..WTF? When the > system was built, I did dl all the MS required check/certify stuff to > establish/prove my OS was "genuine." Now, MS just decides my OS in now "not > genuine." This is very odd; and, I fear way above my pay grade... > :) > But, OK; I'll deal with this somehow.like reload > W2Kpro :) > Thank you, > Duncan > > At 16:18 03/21/2009 -0400, you wrote: > >> Sounds like windows update got you. >> >> Richard E. Quilhot C.N.A. >> quilh...@gmail.com >> >> >> Samuel Beckett - "Birth was the death of him." >> >> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 3:21 PM, DHSinclair >> wrote: >> >> > Chris, >> > The "dnetc" business is not the problemYes, it stopped/deleted as >> > expected. >> > I even used 'eraser' to clean the "recycle bin." Dnetc is gone. >> > There is something else problematic here. >> > Thanks, >> > Duncan >> > >> > >> > At 18:53 03/21/2009 +, you wrote: >> > >> >> Dnetc goes back... Way back. Its just a background task that crunches >> >> numbers for distributed computing. You should be able to find and >> delete. >> >> Sent via BlackBerry >> >> >> >> -Original Message- >> >> From: DHSinclair >> >> >> >> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:44:41 >> >> To: Hardware Group >> >> Subject: [H] WinXP Question(?) >> >> >> >> >> >> I have now had one of my new (6mo+) WinXP machines do something very >> >> strange and scary (well to me anyway). Yes, I am freaked out ATM! >> >> >> >> Late last night I went to this machine to flush and shutdown the Dnetc >> >> application "rc5-72." >> >> I did this, no problem. Then I chose to update both my MalwareBytes >> and >> >> SpybotS&D signature files. This machine has ESET a/v installed and is >> on >> >> my >> >> lan behind a NAT router. >> >> >> >> Post the updates, the default screen background (Bliss-the meadow >> scene) >> >> kind of like un-scrolled, erased, leaving me with a plain black >> >> background! This was followed by the appearance of a very official >> >> looking >> >> MS "Genuine Advantage" window in the lower right corner telling me that >> my >> >> WinXP installed OS now appears to be suspect! It wanted me to go get >> some >> >> file and run it. I did not! >> >> >> >> Is this real? Is this a worm/virus/trojan I now need to go find? >> >> >> >> I rebooted to SafeMode and hard scanned the machine with ESET. I found >> >> nothing. >> >> No, I did NOT try to run MWBytes or SpybotS&D in SafeMode..dumb >> me >> >> I may try this later this afternoon off the lan! >> >> I believe that I fully backed up this machine this past December; so if >> I >> >> have to kill/rebuild it I should loose very little. The system is ~6mo >> >> old. >> >> >> >> The machine is now OFF (psu=0) and disconnected from the lan. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Duncan >> >> >> > >> > >> >> __ NOD32 3953 (20090321) Information __ >> >> This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. >> http://www.eset.com >> > >
Re: [H] WinXP Question(?)
Richard, OK. I will accept this at its' face value. But, as this XP install is 6+months old and no hardware changes have been made..WTF? When the system was built, I did dl all the MS required check/certify stuff to establish/prove my OS was "genuine." Now, MS just decides my OS in now "not genuine." This is very odd; and, I fear way above my pay grade... :) But, OK; I'll deal with this somehow.like reload W2Kpro :) Thank you, Duncan At 16:18 03/21/2009 -0400, you wrote: Sounds like windows update got you. Richard E. Quilhot C.N.A. quilh...@gmail.com Samuel Beckett - "Birth was the death of him." On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 3:21 PM, DHSinclair wrote: > Chris, > The "dnetc" business is not the problemYes, it stopped/deleted as > expected. > I even used 'eraser' to clean the "recycle bin." Dnetc is gone. > There is something else problematic here. > Thanks, > Duncan > > > At 18:53 03/21/2009 +, you wrote: > >> Dnetc goes back... Way back. Its just a background task that crunches >> numbers for distributed computing. You should be able to find and delete. >> Sent via BlackBerry >> >> -Original Message- >> From: DHSinclair >> >> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:44:41 >> To: Hardware Group >> Subject: [H] WinXP Question(?) >> >> >> I have now had one of my new (6mo+) WinXP machines do something very >> strange and scary (well to me anyway). Yes, I am freaked out ATM! >> >> Late last night I went to this machine to flush and shutdown the Dnetc >> application "rc5-72." >> I did this, no problem. Then I chose to update both my MalwareBytes and >> SpybotS&D signature files. This machine has ESET a/v installed and is on >> my >> lan behind a NAT router. >> >> Post the updates, the default screen background (Bliss-the meadow scene) >> kind of like un-scrolled, erased, leaving me with a plain black >> background! This was followed by the appearance of a very official >> looking >> MS "Genuine Advantage" window in the lower right corner telling me that my >> WinXP installed OS now appears to be suspect! It wanted me to go get some >> file and run it. I did not! >> >> Is this real? Is this a worm/virus/trojan I now need to go find? >> >> I rebooted to SafeMode and hard scanned the machine with ESET. I found >> nothing. >> No, I did NOT try to run MWBytes or SpybotS&D in SafeMode..dumb me >> I may try this later this afternoon off the lan! >> I believe that I fully backed up this machine this past December; so if I >> have to kill/rebuild it I should loose very little. The system is ~6mo >> old. >> >> The machine is now OFF (psu=0) and disconnected from the lan. >> Thanks, >> Duncan >> > > __ NOD32 3953 (20090321) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
Re: [H] WinXP Question(?)
Sounds like windows update got you. Richard E. Quilhot C.N.A. quilh...@gmail.com Samuel Beckett - "Birth was the death of him." On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 3:21 PM, DHSinclair wrote: > Chris, > The "dnetc" business is not the problemYes, it stopped/deleted as > expected. > I even used 'eraser' to clean the "recycle bin." Dnetc is gone. > There is something else problematic here. > Thanks, > Duncan > > > At 18:53 03/21/2009 +, you wrote: > >> Dnetc goes back... Way back. Its just a background task that crunches >> numbers for distributed computing. You should be able to find and delete. >> Sent via BlackBerry >> >> -Original Message- >> From: DHSinclair >> >> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:44:41 >> To: Hardware Group >> Subject: [H] WinXP Question(?) >> >> >> I have now had one of my new (6mo+) WinXP machines do something very >> strange and scary (well to me anyway). Yes, I am freaked out ATM! >> >> Late last night I went to this machine to flush and shutdown the Dnetc >> application "rc5-72." >> I did this, no problem. Then I chose to update both my MalwareBytes and >> SpybotS&D signature files. This machine has ESET a/v installed and is on >> my >> lan behind a NAT router. >> >> Post the updates, the default screen background (Bliss-the meadow scene) >> kind of like un-scrolled, erased, leaving me with a plain black >> background! This was followed by the appearance of a very official >> looking >> MS "Genuine Advantage" window in the lower right corner telling me that my >> WinXP installed OS now appears to be suspect! It wanted me to go get some >> file and run it. I did not! >> >> Is this real? Is this a worm/virus/trojan I now need to go find? >> >> I rebooted to SafeMode and hard scanned the machine with ESET. I found >> nothing. >> No, I did NOT try to run MWBytes or SpybotS&D in SafeMode..dumb me >> I may try this later this afternoon off the lan! >> I believe that I fully backed up this machine this past December; so if I >> have to kill/rebuild it I should loose very little. The system is ~6mo >> old. >> >> The machine is now OFF (psu=0) and disconnected from the lan. >> Thanks, >> Duncan >> > >
[H] Vista Permissions
I am running Vista 64 Home Premium. I have UAC disabled and I have given myself Administrative privileges. Unfortunately, that isn't enough for everything, such as loading regedit which must be done by Administrator. I there a way for me to become Administrator within my user session so I don't have to log out and back in as Administrator. And if I want to start loging in exclusively as the Administrator, is there a easy way to move all of windows settings from my current user to the Administrator account so I don't have to redo everything? Yeah I know, I should of popped for Ultimate, and would of if I had known the limitations but now they want way too much to upgrade from Home Premium to Ultimate, particularly so with Windows 7 just around the corner. thanks
Re: [H] WinXP Question(?)
Chris, The "dnetc" business is not the problemYes, it stopped/deleted as expected. I even used 'eraser' to clean the "recycle bin." Dnetc is gone. There is something else problematic here. Thanks, Duncan At 18:53 03/21/2009 +, you wrote: Dnetc goes back... Way back. Its just a background task that crunches numbers for distributed computing. You should be able to find and delete. Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: DHSinclair Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:44:41 To: Hardware Group Subject: [H] WinXP Question(?) I have now had one of my new (6mo+) WinXP machines do something very strange and scary (well to me anyway). Yes, I am freaked out ATM! Late last night I went to this machine to flush and shutdown the Dnetc application "rc5-72." I did this, no problem. Then I chose to update both my MalwareBytes and SpybotS&D signature files. This machine has ESET a/v installed and is on my lan behind a NAT router. Post the updates, the default screen background (Bliss-the meadow scene) kind of like un-scrolled, erased, leaving me with a plain black background! This was followed by the appearance of a very official looking MS "Genuine Advantage" window in the lower right corner telling me that my WinXP installed OS now appears to be suspect! It wanted me to go get some file and run it. I did not! Is this real? Is this a worm/virus/trojan I now need to go find? I rebooted to SafeMode and hard scanned the machine with ESET. I found nothing. No, I did NOT try to run MWBytes or SpybotS&D in SafeMode..dumb me I may try this later this afternoon off the lan! I believe that I fully backed up this machine this past December; so if I have to kill/rebuild it I should loose very little. The system is ~6mo old. The machine is now OFF (psu=0) and disconnected from the lan. Thanks, Duncan
Re: [H] WinXP Question(?)
Dnetc goes back... Way back. Its just a background task that crunches numbers for distributed computing. You should be able to find and delete. Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: DHSinclair Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:44:41 To: Hardware Group Subject: [H] WinXP Question(?) I have now had one of my new (6mo+) WinXP machines do something very strange and scary (well to me anyway). Yes, I am freaked out ATM! Late last night I went to this machine to flush and shutdown the Dnetc application "rc5-72." I did this, no problem. Then I chose to update both my MalwareBytes and SpybotS&D signature files. This machine has ESET a/v installed and is on my lan behind a NAT router. Post the updates, the default screen background (Bliss-the meadow scene) kind of like un-scrolled, erased, leaving me with a plain black background! This was followed by the appearance of a very official looking MS "Genuine Advantage" window in the lower right corner telling me that my WinXP installed OS now appears to be suspect! It wanted me to go get some file and run it. I did not! Is this real? Is this a worm/virus/trojan I now need to go find? I rebooted to SafeMode and hard scanned the machine with ESET. I found nothing. No, I did NOT try to run MWBytes or SpybotS&D in SafeMode..dumb me I may try this later this afternoon off the lan! I believe that I fully backed up this machine this past December; so if I have to kill/rebuild it I should loose very little. The system is ~6mo old. The machine is now OFF (psu=0) and disconnected from the lan. Thanks, Duncan
[H] WinXP Question(?)
I have now had one of my new (6mo+) WinXP machines do something very strange and scary (well to me anyway). Yes, I am freaked out ATM! Late last night I went to this machine to flush and shutdown the Dnetc application "rc5-72." I did this, no problem. Then I chose to update both my MalwareBytes and SpybotS&D signature files. This machine has ESET a/v installed and is on my lan behind a NAT router. Post the updates, the default screen background (Bliss-the meadow scene) kind of like un-scrolled, erased, leaving me with a plain black background! This was followed by the appearance of a very official looking MS "Genuine Advantage" window in the lower right corner telling me that my WinXP installed OS now appears to be suspect! It wanted me to go get some file and run it. I did not! Is this real? Is this a worm/virus/trojan I now need to go find? I rebooted to SafeMode and hard scanned the machine with ESET. I found nothing. No, I did NOT try to run MWBytes or SpybotS&D in SafeMode..dumb me I may try this later this afternoon off the lan! I believe that I fully backed up this machine this past December; so if I have to kill/rebuild it I should loose very little. The system is ~6mo old. The machine is now OFF (psu=0) and disconnected from the lan. Thanks, Duncan
