On Tue July 5 2011, you wrote:
Back the profile up to a external drive scan it from a clean machine.
fdisk /mbr and format the drive, do a clean install and updates and
antivirus updated then restore the data. Only then can you be sure that
you didn't miss something and ask for repeat work.
:09 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Weird machine issue (home user)
One of my former co-workers asked me to look at his computer awhile back. I
cleaned a piece of malware off it and he was happy. A few weeks back he
called me and said it was acting strange again, so i took a look
Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: RE: Weird machine issue (home user)
Another thing is that when you go to add/remove programs, it never shows any
programs in there... not sure if it's hidden or if it's just so slow it's
taking too long to show
it's
taking too long to show.
-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 10:09 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Weird machine issue (home user)
One of my former co-workers asked me to look at his computer
Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 1:39 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Weird machine issue (home user)
Another thing is that when you go to add/remove programs, it never shows any
programs in there... not sure if it's hidden or if it's just so
System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Weird machine issue (home user)
This is sounding more and more like a root kit of some sort!
--
richard
John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote on 07/06/2011 12:38:41
PM:
Another thing is that when you go to add/remove programs, it never shows
any
of 'standard' troubleshooting measures to complete but you make
no mention of having run through any of them so it is hard to know where to
start.
Shauna Hensala
From: jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: RE: Weird machine issue (home user)
Date: Wed
There are a ton of rootkits out there - the purpose of each is to avoid
detection - just because you can't find it does not mean it is not present.
Shauna Hensala
From: jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: RE: Weird machine issue (home user
System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Weird machine issue (home user)
There are a ton of rootkits out there - the purpose of each is to avoid
detection - just because you can't find it does not mean it is not present.
Shauna Hensala
From: jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt
06, 2011 1:51 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Weird machine issue (home user)
There are a ton of rootkits out there - the purpose of each is to avoid
detection - just because you can't find it does not mean it is not present.
Shauna Hensala
From: jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com
2011 13:43:25
To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: RE: Weird machine issue (home user)
That was my thought, but I ran TDSSKiller and it didn't find anything...
*shrug* I'm sure there are other
Yeah... well, it'll be up to the user... :D
-Original Message-
From: kz2...@googlemail.com [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 2:19 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Weird machine issue (home user)
There may be things that no one has discovered yet
One of my former co-workers asked me to look at his computer awhile back. I
cleaned a piece of malware off it and he was happy. A few weeks back he
called me and said it was acting strange again, so i took a look at it and
ran the usual tests (malware bytes, Vipre Rescue) and nothing was found.
Have you cleared his Internet cache, have you checked the hard drive for
space and fragmentation, and have you checked that they did not just delete
an installed file instead of removing it? I always try looking at the
simple things and go from there where possible. It does sound like an
Back the profile up to a external drive scan it from a clean machine. fdisk
/mbr and format the drive, do a clean install and updates and antivirus updated
then restore the data. Only then can you be sure that you didn't miss something
and ask for repeat work.
jason
One of my former co-workers
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