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The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition
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27. February 2010 @ 07:56 |
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The free Combofix seems to work.
It can mess up other things sometimes so as it's strictly a last resort.
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27. February 2010 @ 13:43 |
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Originally posted by FredBun:
Originally posted by FredBun:
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Russ do you have the free or paid version of malewarebytes?
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Fred,
The free one. The pay one would not have helped. By the time I tried to use it, it was already too late. It was a well choreographed attack! Besides, MalwareBytes is not an active running program. It doesn't prevent anything from happening!
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Russ I think you partially answered my question, and rick did add some and I hope he is right, anyway I know malwarebytes would not have helped even if you tried to download the paid version after the fact, but if you had the paid version from the start, could it have prevented this infection?
Fred,
I'm not wishing to start something but Free MalwareBytes is a scanner, it's not an active program like your Anti virus. It does not run in the background! Secure Systems 1 Click Fixer is the same way. It will stay open in the taskbar, but does absolutely nothing! both are manually run programs only!
The pay version does run in the background according to this!
Whether it would have prevented this attack, I don't know, but I doubt it. It managed to knacker my Anti-Virus while it was running, so I doubt it. It also prevented me from doing a system Restore as well. I hope that clarifies things! I will be looking into the pay version though.
Russ
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27. February 2010 @ 13:45 |
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All I'll say is, I find with Vista/Win7 64-bit, all the stupid viruses tend to go away. If you find a really epic virus, it would defeat an anti-virus program anyway, and in which case, unlucky. I haven't used an AV on my gaming machine since Vista first went on it at the beginning of 2009. So far so good.
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27. February 2010 @ 16:25 |
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last time i had a virus was with XP.
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27. February 2010 @ 16:26 |
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Indeed, funny that :P
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27. February 2010 @ 16:42 |
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Indeed. I haven't seen one on windows 7 either. My mothers XP has one in her restore...
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27. February 2010 @ 17:24 |
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Check this nightmare out. I don't wanna install a dvd drive in it, so I have it sitting outside it for the time being. Eventually, a BD-rom will go in it. But it can't be one of the lengthy ones, or it will butt up into the CPU heat sink. NOT cool...
Please don't mention the dust, I'm rather touchy about that :p
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27. February 2010 @ 17:38 |
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Ouch at how close the end of the PCI brackets are to the outside of the case. That's a thin case!
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27. February 2010 @ 17:41 |
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LOL! I suppose.
This board just surprised me once again. Quickest install of windows 7 yet. 14 minutes from disc to desktop!!! That has to be some kind of record. Which makes me assume that the gigabyte boards have something about them, which causes a hangup, which does not occur on the MSI Nforce board.
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27. February 2010 @ 17:56 |
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Indeed, all Gigabyte boards have the Vista/7 hang. Not all boards do. Asus boards do it too.
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27. February 2010 @ 18:01 |
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What really bothers me is the design of the 210 GPU. Hopefully not others. When installed in this HEC case, via Low profile bracket, there isn't enough room for probably ANY HDMI cable. I had to shave away some of the protective layer, so it would slip into the slot.
Sorry about the crudity of the pics. My camera is really picky about up close shots. I swear, I will buy a friggin canon this year :D
I suppose the case could be more to blame.
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27. February 2010 @ 18:01 |
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I can testify to that; win7 takes over 30 min. to install on my Asus MB.
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27. February 2010 @ 18:15 |
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The case wasn't designed for proper cards, just use the DVI with a DVI to HDMI dongle.
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27. February 2010 @ 18:23 |
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Oh you're a dongle! LOL! Joking...
I believe I have one of those eh. The one on the right should serve that purpose, though there's no need now LOL! Unless the HDMI port causes an issue. The one in the center I have 2 of. Forget why I have the left one...
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27. February 2010 @ 18:36 |
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On another note, there may have been nothing wrong with 5000AAKB drive. I just restarted the freshly installed Windows 7 drive 5000AAKS, and it gave the same error. Operating system missing. It's possible, that when I was attempting to install Linux on a flash drive, that I screwed up the boot sequence in the bios, causing the issue on both drives LOL! Whoops. But I guess that doesn't explain why the AAKB tried to boot, and then blue screened. Aw well. All is well now, and time will tell whether the AAKB drive is still in good health. The only way to get its smart statistics that I'm aware of, is to connect it properly. That is, NOT Via usb. When I did that before, Speedfan would not acknowledge it. Though there are probably other programs that could.
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27. February 2010 @ 18:53 |
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SMART over USB is iffy anyway...
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27. February 2010 @ 19:54 |
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Originally posted by shaffaaf:
last time i had a virus was with XP.
Shaff,
You're such a "Suck Up" to Vista and Win7, you would say that anyway! ROFLMSOAO!! J/K :)
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27. February 2010 @ 20:14 |
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Well we say it because it's the truth, for both of us...
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27. February 2010 @ 20:41 |
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I can third that, although I've only had 2 viruses in my entire life and that was back when I was using 2000 lol.
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27. February 2010 @ 20:58 |
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Originally posted by theonejrs:
Originally posted by shaffaaf:
last time i had a virus was with XP.
Shaff,
You're such a "Suck Up" to Vista and Win7, you would say that anyway! ROFLMSOAO!! J/K :)
Hey! I'm a suck up too LOL! I truthfully have had less bugs and 0 viruses with 7 than XP...
I can't wait to get a touch screen monitor, and REALLY play. Gotta get Dragon Naturally Speaking reinstalled too. VERY awesome program. Windows 7 has an integrated speech program, but In my opinion, Dragon is at least slightly better. It seemed to be much more adaptive :)
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27. February 2010 @ 21:57 |
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omeg, oh you dusty piggie you lol.
I got maybe the same virus Russ got, I don't know about 7 only what you guys say and will take your words for it, but don't go knocking XP yet, my last virus was about 7 years ago, and thats when I knew absolutly nothing, and that's a pretty good track record for XP.
It took me about 6 hrs. to get rid of this one, it was a real bastard, sounded very simular to Russes, I can't believe I beat it without wiping my HD.
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27. February 2010 @ 22:27 |
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lol russ, i do have bias haha.
PS my dfi does it aswell
intel chipsets?
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27. February 2010 @ 22:30 |
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No, the nforce 650i has it too (even though the board I had with that chipset couldn't even install Vista due to being incompatible). The only system I've seen to not do it is an ancient Sony Vaio laptop.
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27. February 2010 @ 22:36 |
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Kinda funny. I don't even think that the MSI board is "Vista Ready". Go figure LOL!
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27. February 2010 @ 22:37 |
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You know what the funny thing is? I'm pretty sure the board in question (P5N-E SLI) was!
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