Re: [H] Spyware Woes

2005-05-10 Thread Hayes Elkins
From: joeuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Spyware Woes Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 00:48:22 -0500 Trying to clean a compromised system from within the compromised system is fraught with

Re: [H] Spyware Woes

2005-05-10 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 01:33 AM 10/05/2005, Carroll Kong wrote: My friend is infected with a particularly nasty Spyware of sorts. It appears to have modified his control panel's display settings so he cannot change his background anymore. He claims his login has been modified as well from the standard select a

Re: [H] Spyware Woes

2005-05-10 Thread chuck
- Original Message - From: Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: [H] Spyware Woes Trying to clean a compromised system from within the compromised system is fraught with peril and failure. Furthermore, it sounds

Re: [H] Spyware Woes

2005-05-10 Thread joeuser
A lot of professionals agree on this point - it can help answer a lot of questions also - when you format nothing is left to chance... I agree with you also though and I have not let the terrorists win often but sometimes it is the best solution and one that makes me certain the terrorists

Re: [H] Spyware Woes

2005-05-10 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 06:44 AM 5/10/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: If you can't run in Safe Mode, you will have to run the Spyware scans repeatedly to see if you are actually getting rid of the spyware. There is always XpPe or BartPe which is only great for this kind of stuff if I do say so myself.

[H] Confused with Ram

2005-05-10 Thread Chris Klein
I have an Asus A8N-SLI deluxe board, and an Athlon XP 3000+ Barton. I purchased Corsair Value Select ram, 2 512 meg sticks. IT was supposed to be DDR400/PC3200. I ran some benchmarks on it lately because it didn't seem as fast as it should be. I went into the BIOS and it is only being

Re: [H] Spyware Woes

2005-05-10 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 07:11 AM 5/10/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: My vote goes for the formatters. I did Windows tune-ups and cleanups for years. They took about as long as a format and reinstall job. The format and reinstall worked every time unless there was hardware problems. The tune-up is pot luck. When you

Re: [H] Spyware Woes

2005-05-10 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 09:28 AM 10/05/2005, Wayne Johnson wrote: At 06:44 AM 5/10/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: If you can't run in Safe Mode, you will have to run the Spyware scans repeatedly to see if you are actually getting rid of the spyware. There is always XpPe or BartPe which is only great for this kind of

Re: [H] Spyware Woes

2005-05-10 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 08:50 AM 5/10/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: BartPE is the only way to go. Do you use an Explorer shell or the default Nu2menu ? --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com

RE: [H] Nero and MPEG--DVD

2005-05-10 Thread Bobby Heid
Thanks Jim, this looks like what I need. I'll let you know how it turns out. Bobby -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 4:13 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: RE: [H] Nero and MPEG--DVD

Re: [H] Spyware Woes

2005-05-10 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 10:32 AM 10/05/2005, Carroll Kong wrote: I actually destroyed/eliminated all the other spywares already. Yes, I am aware of regenerative ones, I can eliminate those as well and it has been done already. I suppose too much experience with killing windows spyware and linux trojans. :) The

Re: [H] Spyware Woes

2005-05-10 Thread Carroll Kong
Thane Sherrington wrote: At 10:32 AM 10/05/2005, Carroll Kong wrote: I actually destroyed/eliminated all the other spywares already. Yes, I am aware of regenerative ones, I can eliminate those as well and it has been done already. I suppose too much experience with killing windows spyware and

RE: [H] RE: Confused with Ram

2005-05-10 Thread Bobby Heid
Could it be that you need to set the bus speed to 400 in the BIOS? In my motherboard, to do dual channel, you had to put the RAM in certain locations. Could that be your issue? That RAM should be ok. A lower latency RAM would give you a small boost, but the average user would not notice it,

RE: [H] RE: Confused with Ram

2005-05-10 Thread Chris Klein
It shows up as dual channel when it is posting, but it comes up as DDR 266 instead of 400. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 11:14 AM To: 'The Hardware List' Subject: RE: [H] RE: Confused with Ram

RE: [H] RE: Confused with Ram

2005-05-10 Thread Chris Klein
Yes, flashed it to the newest version. I'm wondering if maybe I was sent the wrong ram. I'll have to wait until tonight to power it down. I am correct though, DDR266 is much slower than what I should have...right? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [H] Confused with Ram

2005-05-10 Thread FORC5
xp 3000 barton on a A8N-SLI fp :-} At 05:29 AM 5/10/2005, Chris Klein Poked the stick with: I have an Asus A8N-SLI deluxe board, and an Athlon XP 3000+ Barton. I purchased Corsair Value Select ram, 2 512 meg sticks. IT was supposed to be DDR400/PC3200. I ran some benchmarks on it

RE: [H] RE: Confused with Ram

2005-05-10 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 12:28 PM 10/05/2005, Chris Klein wrote: Yes, flashed it to the newest version. I'm wondering if maybe I was sent the wrong ram. I'll have to wait until tonight to power it down. I am correct though, DDR266 is much slower than what I should have...right? Yes. PC3200 is DDR400. T --- [This

Re: [H] Spyware Woes

2005-05-10 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 11:26 AM 10/05/2005, Carroll Kong wrote: activists who would prefer to use their computer in peace. As long as I kill the popups, account for every system process running, monitor changed files over time, you can be pretty sure it is OK unless they created a new Windows kernel mod like the

RE: [H] RE: Confused with Ram

2005-05-10 Thread Chris Klein
I'm retarded this morning...this is the exact ram I bought. I know it's cheap ram, but it should be posting as DDR400 as far as I can tell http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820146299 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: [H] Spyware Woes

2005-05-10 Thread Hayes Elkins
I've never met a system infected that could not be fixed. CWS slaying has been my specialty. Eliminating it has gone from over 4 hours (my own first infection) to a matter of minutes. Reformatting is always a cop out. From: joeuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List

Re: [H] Spyware Woes

2005-05-10 Thread Hayes Elkins
Check appinitdlls section of the registry - it's an legacy windows NT reference that can launch programs upon startup. It is overlooked when scanning services and windows\run sections. From: Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The

Re: [H] Spyware Woes

2005-05-10 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 12:50 PM 10/05/2005, Hayes Elkins wrote: I've never met a system infected that could not be fixed. CWS slaying has been my specialty. Eliminating it has gone from over 4 hours (my own first infection) to a matter of minutes. Care to give us a rundown of you method of attack on a CWS

RE: [H] RE: Confused with Ram

2005-05-10 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 12:43 PM 10/05/2005, Chris Klein wrote: I'm retarded this morning...this is the exact ram I bought. I know it's cheap ram, but it should be posting as DDR400 as far as I can tell http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820146299 I think it should. I'd try a single stick, and

Re: [H] Spyware Woes

2005-05-10 Thread joeuser
You've certainly opened my eyes... Hayes Elkins wrote: Reformatting is always a cop out. -- Cheers, joeuser (still looking for the 'any' key)

Re: [H] Spyware Woes

2005-05-10 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 01:04 PM 10/05/2005, joeuser wrote: It's NOT necessary - aren't you listening? LOL! T --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Anti-Virus]

Re: [H] Spyware Woes

2005-05-10 Thread Hayes Elkins
From: Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Spyware Woes Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 13:00:25 -0300 At 12:50 PM 10/05/2005, Hayes Elkins wrote: I've never met a system infected that

RE: [H] RE: Confused with Ram

2005-05-10 Thread Bobby Heid
Chris, Here are the forums for Mushkin: http://forums.mushkin.com/phpbb2/ See if any of these might help: http://forums.mushkin.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=1772highlight=a8nsli http://forums.mushkin.com/phpbb2/search.php?mode=results I looked around a bit and the only thing (not exhaustive) is

RE: [H] RE: Confused with Ram

2005-05-10 Thread Winterlight
At 08:19 AM 5/10/2005, you wrote: It shows up as dual channel when it is posting, but it comes up as DDR 266 instead of 400. Ram will default to what the motherboard / CPU requires. It is not going to run faster then that unless you tell it to in the BIOS.

RE: [H] Confused with Ram

2005-05-10 Thread FORC5
figured that, maybe the ram is running synchronous with the cpu, I for one am confused about the way they handle FSB. fp luck At 08:41 AM 5/10/2005, Chris Klein Poked the stick with: Sorry, major typo. I was looking at the wrong packing list. ItÂ’s an Athlon 64 3000+ Winchester core [EMAIL

Re: [H] Spyware Woes

2005-05-10 Thread warpmedia
If you consider malware (forget annoying spyware) may be installed not detected, an exploit is an exploit the payloads can be anything, then there is a very good reason to consider reformat. A diary of what's installed, novel idea. I've never kept one for my life, much less my PC. Would you

RE: [H] RE: Confused with Ram

2005-05-10 Thread Chris Klein
Sorry I had a brain fart earlier. This is an Athlon 64 3000+ Winchester core -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of warpmedia Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 3:00 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] RE: Confused with Ram That would be

Re: [H] SBC DSL download UNREAL SPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED

2005-05-10 Thread Winterlight
At 12:05 PM 5/10/2005, you wrote: Well I'm basking the glow of 4Mb now that my drop is replaced and my new SB-5100 ($58 ebay) is online. Now the debate as to whether or not $15 more/mo to do 6Mb is worth it. 8) When I started with COX back in October of 99 I think, there were few users on the