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Me 21 - Bugs...ZERO!!!

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Me 21 - Bugs...ZERO!!!

What a rush.

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 So...here I are....having my first cup of coffee while waiting for my lappy to fire up. No problem.
Recently however I've noticed that the laptop is getting sluggish, very sluggish. More than was usual.
I opened Photoshop and got back into Breeze. I had just finished an update on it last night. So I have
the layer lit up, go to filter\Blur\Gaussian blur and ......BLAM!!....Photoshop freezes and a pop up
happens.It tells me Photoshop Online help cannot open because you are not connected to the net. Fine.
This is not the first time this has happened. I kill it with Task Manager and I thought, done! Nope...
Just the beginning.

     I was connected to the net, in fact I was in the forums waiting for a page to load. I restore FF
and refresh and....How'd that happen!...A new tab opened up. Huh...since when. So I close the tab and
refresh the page again. The same thing happens! A new tab. Uh oh....WTF! Time to see what's up.

     I shut down everything including the LAN. Isolated now from the net I break out my toolkit. First
I open up Advanced System Care. The first salvo. I hit full scan...1 hour and some odd minutes. Now, day
before yesterday I ran ASC and it picked up 37 pieces of malware from my system. I got rid of them real
quick and didn't pay attention where they came from.Today I did. ASC picked up 13 pieces of malware.
OK....its on now!

     I watched and took note. When the scan finished I broke out the big guy. MalwareBytes! I ran a deep
scan and it nailed 7 nasties, two which came from somewhere else. Five of these bugs, Pupagent I think,
came right out of Adobe Photoshop! On both my C drive and D drive where I have Illustrator CS 2 installed.
I deleted them and reboot. I ran ASC a second time and it came back clear. MalwareBytes said the same
thing. Then the quirkiness starts.

     I go into my D drive and start preparing backups. I'm moving my apps Folder to Muse, Drive G on my
external drive. During the move the time remaining, after calculating is finished, is 16 hours. Now...
what takes 16 hours to move. I sat there...should smile, shrug my shoulders or what. Meanwhile it takes
less than a minute to move 2.16 gigs. All the time saying 16 hours. Okay fine, I know my laptop had
slowed down. A reformat will cure that. I had been thinking about it anyway. It is fifteen months old.

     Now I'm in ASC's Uninstaller and I'm looking to bash heads. First up...Adobe. I took out the damn
reader.the PDF that never seems to work right. Next I decided to clean house. Incidently...those other
two bugs...they came from Youget downloader. Number two on my hit list. I ripped that sucker out by
its short hairs. Two down.

    I have/had programs installed that I don't use, Corel because if I pull down more than one guide it
crashes! No use to me. Next came Bryce 7.1. I have uninstalled Bryce before and never had a problem. The
other one I had in mind to get rid of was an old one apptly named Oldbar. It was fun but gawky.I find
Brycve, highlight it...I click on uninstall and BLAM again! Double WTF!!!

    Now I'm pissed!!! Threatfire pops up. "This program is trying to copy itself on multiple parts of
your computer". You're kidding right. I kill the process and ASC is taking a long time to do its job.
Too long so I cancel out. I go on about getting rid of some other programs I don't need and come back
to ASC. Re-open the uninstaller and sic it on Bryce again only this time kill and quarantine the
process. It worked as expected. Process killed, mandatory reboot. Then on to Oldbar.

    I'm on my friends laptop right now while mine sits across from me waiting to see what I'm going to
do. Its isolated from the net after a thorough cleaning out using CCleaner to sweep up the debris.
The system image completed successfully and now I'm going to shut it down. Done. Now to go to
power + Zero. Time to reformat. Be back in a little bit.

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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Ross you are most likely going have to do what Moshi said, boot to the Windows DVD and reinstall by wiping out and recreating your partition and reformatting, then continue to reinstall your OS.

I would suggest that you NOT keep a backup of anything currently on the hard drive, as it may be infected and start the whole problem over again later.

I would also suggest notifying the owner the wireless network you are accessing, as there could be something they are not doing that is allowing the malware/trojans/viruses to get through on their equipment also... you never know.

Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting LightStar, reply 26
I would also suggest notifying the owner the wireless network you are accessing, as there could be something they are not doing that is allowing the malware/trojans/viruses to get through on their equipment also... you never know.
End of LightStar's quote

Yes...like preventing people from accessing it...;)

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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Roloccolor, reply 25
Sounds like you have no email...that you check each day to me.
End of Roloccolor's quote
I have 8 emails. I scan ONLY when my machine is messed up and needs me to, which is almost never.

 

I installed an SSD in this rig several months ago and haven't run a scan yet, no need to, my PC is running fine.

If I download something I don't fully trust, I scan it when I download it, with several tools.

If you have a good system setup for virus/malware protection, and you practice good safety and use your noggin online, you'll not need scans so often.

 

Some people tend to overprotect, which can cause problems in itself.

 

Don't overkill on safety, don't over maintain the machine.

 

Just use it, and some common sense, and you'll be fine.

Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 27
Yes...like preventing people from accessing it...
End of Jafo's quote

 

ROFLMAO!!!!

 

 

If the connection owner has a good router, and probably does if the signal is good enough for Ross to tap in, then he has a nat firewall in the router. May or may not be setup correctly.

Probably uses Windows firewall too, and maybe even a third party. 

Then Ross is no doubt using a firewall and 5 malware/av apps...(lol...sorry, Ross..).

 

A firewall/anti virus is only as good as the person who sets it's rules (sets it up).

This is where common sense and experience comes in.

If you download and install something, thinking it's ok, but it isn't, you have, by installing it, allowed it certain accesses.

Some apps can't be trusted and look safe until they're in your system.

 

 

Then, there are some apps, like Spybot S and D, for instance, that mark tracking cookies and such as malware.

 

All the malware/anti virus apps require the user to know some stuff.

 

 

Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting RedneckDude, reply 28
I scan ONLY when my machine is messed up
End of RedneckDude's quote
  On those rare occasions when you weren't the one that screwed it up in the first place. :P

Who needs malware when a Redneck can do the job just as well?

Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 27

Quoting LightStar, reply 26I would also suggest notifying the owner the wireless network you are accessing, as there could be something they are not doing that is allowing the malware/trojans/viruses to get through on their equipment also... you never know.

Yes...like preventing people from accessing it...
End of Jafo's quote

 

I believe Uvah said in the past that the owner allows him the access to the router.

Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Roloccolor, reply 25
Sounds like you have no email...that you check each day to me.
End of Roloccolor's quote

I check my email all the time. I have Gmail and Hotmail and they are both based online.

Quoting RedneckDude, reply 28
Don't overkill on safety, don't over maintain the machine.



Just use it, and some common sense, and you'll be fine.
End of RedneckDude's quote

Exactly. :)

Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I don't have access to this router, wish I did. Here's where I stand. Pressing the power button while holding zero should have restored it to factory specs. It didn't work after 3 tries so I changed the boot menu to boot into the rescue disk. That didn't work either and despite not changing it back prior to coming here, I rebooted, it still boots up normally. I'm all out of ideas.