Re: a baffling issue with my windows 7 laptop

2015-04-02 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Ethin via Audiogames-reflector
Re: a baffling issue with my windows 7 laptop Hi,I remember a registry key that allows audio to run in Safe Mode. Use that instead. I forgot what to do, though. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=210786#p210786 ___ Audiogames

Re: a baffling issue with my windows 7 laptop

2015-04-02 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : enes via Audiogames-reflector
Re: a baffling issue with my windows 7 laptop hi,you said you used windows 7.  If you suspect malware, I would recommend running combofix.  It gets rid of at least 90% of all malware.  This program runs in a command prompt window.  You shouldn't do anything with your computer

Re: a baffling issue with my windows 7 laptop

2015-04-01 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : hacker via Audiogames-reflector
Re: a baffling issue with my windows 7 laptop the main place to check is in hkcu and hklm, both, software, microsoft, windows, CurrentVersion, run; I will agree that this is weird beyond belief... could it be something you installed, but check those run keys, also if you can, download

Re: a baffling issue with my windows 7 laptop

2015-04-01 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Omar Alvarado via Audiogames-reflector
Re: a baffling issue with my windows 7 laptop There is, indeed, weirdness going on in the registry.In all the years I've used and been in the registry, I have never, and I repeat, ever, seen the following.In HKEY_Local_machine, we haveBCDExpanding that

Re: a baffling issue with my windows 7 laptop

2015-03-31 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : hacker via Audiogames-reflector
Re: a baffling issue with my windows 7 laptop It will only give dangerous access to someone who does this: "oo yeah, what are all these files, syswow64, don't need that, oo look... I just freed like 5 gigs of... boom, bye bye windows install!.." URL: http://forum

Re: a baffling issue with my windows 7 laptop

2015-03-31 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : hacker via Audiogames-reflector
Re: a baffling issue with my windows 7 laptop In a way, you are correct, however, you could only do damage if you delete or edit those files. All turning off that setting does is enable display of files with the system atribute set in the gui. Alternatively, you could compair the list of

Re: a baffling issue with my windows 7 laptop

2015-03-31 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Ethin via Audiogames-reflector
Re: a baffling issue with my windows 7 laptop Hi,Turning off hide protected operating system files is a very dangerous idea. You should only do this if you explicitly need to do so; it gives someone who is unauthorized to have access to all OS files, something which I would not recommend

Re: a baffling issue with my windows 7 laptop

2015-03-31 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : hacker via Audiogames-reflector
Re: a baffling issue with my windows 7 laptop have you tried renaming the ico's back to exe; no results from the avs? is anything running that shouldn't be (wierd things in your run keys in regedit (both!) hkcu and hklm? Odd processes? No unusual services(most malware doesn

Re: a baffling issue with my windows 7 laptop

2015-03-31 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : ironcross32 via Audiogames-reflector
Re: a baffling issue with my windows 7 laptop that's screwy... All I can say is that .ICO are icon files for like the images above the text on the desktop so... for all you know all your files could be replaced with icons of a butt crack or something URL: http://forum.audiogame

a baffling issue with my windows 7 laptop

2015-03-31 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Omar Alvarado via Audiogames-reflector
a baffling issue with my windows 7 laptop Hey yall,I've been having quite the strange issue with my laptop. Let me explain.Sometimes, random .exe files will be replaced with .ico files!So, you end up with vdmnb.ico instead of dmnb.exe, and the affected file isn't in the recyc