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Author:  Smalls1652 [ Thu May 31, 2007 5:40 pm ]
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Ok, I logged onto Windows XP and every program, application, etc. won't load
Neither will Task Manager, is there a good virus scanner on Ubuntu that's not the two on their Add/Remove... thing?
Author:  Mewy [ Fri Jun 01, 2007 7:34 am ]
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Wrong start-up??? :shock:
Author:  Smalls1652 [ Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:17 am ]
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No Windows Start, it just won't open any program.
Author:  Mewy [ Fri Jun 01, 2007 12:32 pm ]
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Fix your computer...
I think this will help...

For old computers, make a back-up, dump it and get a new one...
Author:  bosko [ Fri Jun 01, 2007 5:41 pm ]
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for your windows:
dumping your PC is shit,i would never dump
it sounds like you have spyware download adawareSE at lavasoft.com

avg antispyware is good too and it's free, Iu sed toe against them but they are pretty good now.

i would recommend you clean your C drive and defrag, sounds like you need to maintance your pc. deleting temp files and cookies help clear up used space.

but If you dont know what you're doing have someone help you that does!
Author:  Smalls1652 [ Fri Jun 01, 2007 5:51 pm ]
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lol I know what I'm doing... can Adaware be put on Ubuntu or any other Linux operating systems?
Author:  bosko [ Fri Jun 01, 2007 5:54 pm ]
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heck if I know.

you'll have to wait for Qman. sage, para or someone to help you there, I dont know if you could download a windows base anti spyware to linux.

dont you have a usb flash drive?
Author:  Smalls1652 [ Fri Jun 01, 2007 5:59 pm ]
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I got it installed through Wine, but where are the files at?
>.<

Edit: I got Spybot working in Ubuntu through Wine.
Author:  Parasyte [ Sat Jun 02, 2007 3:10 am ]
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It's not spyware, it's a virus (very malicious payload). Probably one that hijacks the .exe extension in the registry. Try renaming regedit.exe to regedit.com or regedit.scr and running it that way. First thing, backup your registry with the export option. Then you can scroll down to the EXE extension and delete the offending key. While you're there, visit the HKCM\Software\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\ key and delete anything suspicious. Reboot and it should all be fixed, rename regedit back to regedit.exe

This is why I hate Windows. It's too easy for user mode programs to fuck up the system beyond usability. -_-

If all else fails, at least you will never have to worry about such idiotic software problems thanks to ubuntu!! :D
Author:  Smalls1652 [ Sat Jun 02, 2007 9:34 am ]
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I'm gonna do that, thanks.
I might need to check out my Temp folder, i never get to shutdown correctly, so Temp files are never deleted
Author:  +++NdsH4ck3r [ Sat Jun 02, 2007 1:19 pm ]
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Quick question about Temp Files: I shut down correctly every time, yet when I run disk cleanup, it says i have like 10,044,34- in Temp Files. Is it ok to delete them, and how do i set it to automatically delete them at shutdown?
Author:  bosko [ Sat Jun 02, 2007 3:37 pm ]
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yes it's okay to delete the temp files.
having that many temp files is insane, haha. You would also have to schedule maintance. Now i'm a bit rusty but i do I know you can set options in your browser under tools and then internet options then settings.... to have the browser delete things when you close your browser or depending on how you set it by chosing automatically, never blah blah b etc. you can also set the disk space limit here as well so when you're surfing the net your computer doesnt save a bunch of shit. *shrugs it's all to your liking.
I go as low as I can which I believe is 50MB, but i never liked this method in windows it never really did the job,
I did everything manual. You can also view the temp files from that location or you can go to start ...C drive ... windows....temp and cookies and select all files in those folders and delete them.

now Im sure there are other ways but 1. Im tired and 2. more than likely ppl are going to tell you to get rid of a windows browser and use FF :D
in any case I have given you the basic way.
Author:  Smalls1652 [ Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:43 pm ]
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Ok, one problem was McAffee, POS program. I can load up programs at start-up, so that means it's a start-up program, so I'll be going through msconfig later after CyberDefender searches for Spyware/Viruses/Other harmful things.

Edit: Taskmanager shows that most SYSTEM, *User*, Network are doubled.
How'd that happen?
Author:  Smalls1652 [ Sat Jun 02, 2007 7:03 pm ]
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*Sorry for double post*
I deleted my partiton and re-installed Windows XP
Author:  +++NdsH4ck3r [ Sat Jun 02, 2007 9:16 pm ]
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bosko wrote:
yes it's okay to delete the temp files.
having that many temp files is insane, haha. You would also have to schedule maintance. Now i'm a bit rusty but i do I know you can set options in your browser under tools and then internet options then settings.... to have the browser delete things when you close your browser or depending on how you set it by chosing automatically, never blah blah b etc. you can also set the disk space limit here as well so when you're surfing the net your computer doesnt save a bunch of shit. *shrugs it's all to your liking.
I go as low as I can which I believe is 50MB, but i never liked this method in windows it never really did the job,
I did everything manual. You can also view the temp files from that location or you can go to start ...C drive ... windows....temp and cookies and select all files in those folders and delete them.

now Im sure there are other ways but 1. Im tired and 2. more than likely ppl are going to tell you to get rid of a windows browser and use FF :D
in any case I have given you the basic way.


Alrite so I guess I'll just delete them after I've closed every running program. Thanks.
Author:  bosko [ Sun Jun 03, 2007 10:31 am ]
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well that is your choice, I like to just because I'm anal like that, I don't feel like there are allot of programs out there that really do the job, or they are resource hogs themselfs and I cannot stand shit that takes a ton of space.


Smalls? you re partitioned the drive that was bad ?

while paras point seems valid, I truly believe it is spyware that you have, if you cannot open any programs on your desktop that to me sounds like you got malware/spyware, I've had it happend to me before. (para Im interested in learning more with your suggestion, yeah regedit.exe could be hijacked but what if it's not?)

but I agree with para in checking for things within your registry, but really if you do not know what you're doing and Im just throwing this out there, and you go messing with the reg. you could do more damage than good.

also I don't know how you maintain your PC, because you also could have corrupted files and if that was the case, and depending on how bad it was reformatting was the best thing, and if you did this then really that was the best thing for you to do.
going off topic for a min:
In my opinion I think a computer that isnt kept up makes the HD work more, causing the read/write heads to work harder on files that shouldn't be there, causing a shortter life span on some HD. Im not saying that my opionon is right, but to me it would make sense.

Windows will require maintance and maintance that isnt delt with can cause some fuck ups.

Also I love pcpitstop.com check it out, the test is free and it gives you some pretty cool detail on your PC, it will also report to you on if your registry is fucked or you have spyware/malware running and what type it is.


As for my two cents on Mc Afee or Norton... FAIL.
I used to love Mc. afee since it seemed so much better than norton and it wasnt as much as a resource nazi controlled POS software such as norton was, but over the years i said screw them both. they're both shit. I tried bit defender for awhile and liked it, and then I used avg, and like that one too. avg sure has made a come around.
but now that im on vista I use avast. somewhat ok.
Author:  Smalls1652 [ Sun Jun 03, 2007 10:37 am ]
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I like my computer now, fresh clean desktop.
Author:  +++NdsH4ck3r [ Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:43 pm ]
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bosko wrote:

Also I love pcpitstop.com check it out, the test is free and it gives you some pretty cool detail on your PC, it will also report to you on if your registry is fucked or you have spyware/malware running and what type it is.


Only problem is it puts an ActiveX control on your computer, which I havent figured how to take off yet... I scored 988, my only problem being that i dont have my computer warn me when I send unencrypted data in forms (like Google search) over the internet. I don't care about that crap, I never send anything important over the internet unless it's a trusted site anyway, so I basically have no problems.
Author:  bosko [ Mon Jun 04, 2007 2:59 pm ]
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You can take off the active X to programs that run on your system go to tools on your browser then internet options and then programs then manage add ons and delete what you don't want from there. another way to do this would be START cMPUTER WINDOWS DOWNLOADED PROGRAMS and delete from there.
Author:  +++NdsH4ck3r [ Mon Jun 04, 2007 3:44 pm ]
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Wow thanks. I sure learned something.
Author:  bosko [ Mon Jun 04, 2007 6:40 pm ]
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anytime. I enjoy learning and talking about this stuff.
Author:  Parasyte [ Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:05 pm ]
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If you deleted the Windows XP partition, you should have formatted it with ext3 or something and gone hardcore *NIX. Well, I guess you still have that option. Stop being a vendor-locked whore and do the right thing.

Bosko: RegEdit doesn't get hijacked. File extensions in the registry do. If the EXE extension is hijacked, how are you going to run regedit.exe?! It only makes sense that I made such a suggestion to rename the program. Spyware does not do this. Spyware is for running ads on a machine and collecting information without the user's consent. Malware is a generalized term for viruses, worms, trojan horses, and other such programs with an intentionally destructive payload. Two completely different things.

Enough about Windows' issues. *NIX is the fix!
Author:  bosko [ Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:44 pm ]
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Uhm you stated for him to rename the regedit.exe... and what would that have sloved? It would not of opened up the folders he was trying to get into on his desktop.
Author:  Smalls1652 [ Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:59 pm ]
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Like I said it was a start-up program... I was "unhappy" with my old XP desktop anyways.
Now my computer runs better, without the old crap. :)
I deleted the old partitions.
Author:  Parasyte [ Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:54 am ]
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Parasyte wrote:
If the EXE extension is hijacked, how are you going to run regedit.exe?! It only makes sense that I made such a suggestion to rename the program.

Maybe that, Bosko?
Author:  bosko [ Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:26 am ]
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re naming the file back to what it was may not work though. also if there are other reg. files that are corrupted then they all need to be fixed.
Author:  Parasyte [ Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:36 pm ]
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-_- Never mind. I'm apparently incapable of explaining a theoretical situation and the solution to it, or getting a point across.
Author:  Smalls1652 [ Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:11 pm ]
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Can somebody just lock this thread, I fixed the problem a long time ago
Author:  bosko [ Wed Jun 06, 2007 7:00 pm ]
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Smalls we were just going on with our own convo.
Author:  Smalls1652 [ Wed Jun 06, 2007 7:55 pm ]
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