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February 04, 2004, 12:22:20 PM
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That Annoying Kid

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attempting to make computers in special ed department happy again [making it so they can word process, print, and go online without crashing or sucking... which is actually a hard task]

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MAC DRE: Cold Crest Creeper, a rapper that would dip-n-yoke quicker than he could pimp-n-smoke, flows  that hit your ears harder than Ike hit Tina. Forced to serve a Nickle but would never drop a Dime.
K.C watch out cause the Bay's down like four flats on a Cadilac.

February 04, 2004, 12:38:32 PM
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good god...
"I don't have to know an answer, I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell. It doesn't frighten me."
-Richard Feynman

February 04, 2004, 12:41:13 PM
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Dontcha love that....

my school is convinced that WeatherBug is good....asdf?


spyware is the bane of my existance
Virus removed.
Your sig pic contained naughty language. Removed. -lolfighter
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February 04, 2004, 01:39:03 PM
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We keep a running tally here at the PC store I work at. I've still got you beat, my AAW high was 1,546. Nowhere near my virus scan high, however. 9,410 infected files on one PC. And it still booted, if you can believe it!

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February 04, 2004, 01:53:36 PM
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That's nothing.

My mom let me know that her computer was bogged down and doing ads all over.

250,000+ items scanned.

3621 objects...

Took AAW6 about 15 scans, 10 reboots and 4 hours to find and clean them all.


 :help:
To the stars!

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February 04, 2004, 01:57:19 PM
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Now try a fully updated Spyware Search and Destroy.

That'll find some things that AAW may not pick up.

FIX THIS!

February 04, 2004, 02:06:03 PM
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I did that later on, and it found a few things. Using both is best!
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February 04, 2004, 02:34:00 PM
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Whole-E-Crap LB, that's insane

I heard that S&D ha spyware itself...

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February 04, 2004, 02:49:08 PM
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S&D Doesnt - It doesnt even attempt to contact the internet unless you tell it to update.

You can screw up your comp with it though..

Which reminds me, I gotta get the hosts file ad blocker, ad-aware, s&d, and avast on a cd to un-bork all the comps at my school.. everyone there is like "Woo! Free game in some advertisement that popped up".. Yea, those arent fun comps

February 07, 2004, 12:59:36 AM
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... :angry:

Sucks for TAK...and Bob...and LB.

I scanned my mother's computer for her...about 600 objects.

February 07, 2004, 10:37:34 AM
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i scan mine weekly ... its a shared comp and i have a little brother. that's why i scan weekly

February 16, 2004, 06:44:46 PM
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Wow Bob, that's alot of virus infected files. I got ya beat though! My brother's friend brought his computer over, he said it had started to behave increasingly odd. So, we started Norton and did a scan. 7 hours later, it had found somewhere around 11,700 files infected. Appearantly everyone in his family loves Kazaa... The virus infected music files and picture files, mostly, and his parents did alot of work with pictures (lots of music files too). Needless to say, the harddrive was nearly wiped clean after the deletion of all those files, as they couldn't be repaired.  :lol:

Still a running joke with him, along with the time he called me on the phone saying "Hey! My monitor isn't working!" Knowing that most problems are the simple ones, the first thing I say to him before embarking on a 3 hour help call is "Is it plugged in?" "Yup!" It took a long time of failed trials in attempts to make it work... Three days later, he gets it to work. He calls me and tells me, "Yeah, the monitor was unplugged!"  :help:
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February 17, 2004, 08:57:48 AM
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this goes to show that CISCO is right, and as they say: "When trouble shooting something, start from the physical layer and move up [is it plugged in, etc]"
MAC DRE: Cold Crest Creeper, a rapper that would dip-n-yoke quicker than he could pimp-n-smoke, flows  that hit your ears harder than Ike hit Tina. Forced to serve a Nickle but would never drop a Dime.
K.C watch out cause the Bay's down like four flats on a Cadilac.

February 18, 2004, 09:48:51 PM
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I scan my computer all the time, and defrag too (when I have enough mem). As for school computers... it's surprising how many computer-illiterate people there are these days, especially knowing that everyone in high school has been using computers from at least middle school on. You would think that they would know by now that you shouldn't download trash. Don't DL things unless you know where they're from.

My dad's computer is a great example. My sister will go online (using aim, chat rooms, or whatever else "popular people" do on the internet) and, without thinking, download every spy ware and POS toolbar that she can find. It's as easy as pressing OK every time. Than she asks me to figure out how to keep the computer running. I've given it up!!

Thanks to you, the techy, for putting up with all the stupid people of the world and fixing their problems, because "heaven forbid" they should have to figure anything out for themselves!!!


*whew* :p

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February 19, 2004, 02:07:31 AM
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So TAK, Bob, LB, what kind of performance increases did you see?

I always wonder about spyware when I go to the library.  The computers are pretty old but they still seem REEEEALLY slow.  Always wanted to check and see :D

February 19, 2004, 07:02:23 AM
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With more than 2 - 300 pieces of spyware on a system, cleaning it will give you a pretty impressive improvement in speed. Some of them, I honestly can't figure out how people manage to work on them. You boot it up and there are 5 or 6 search bars tacked on to IE, and popups that start popping before your desktop is even done loading. Then about 50 things load in the task tray. Just makes you wonder how MUCH porn this person looks at in one day, and if they think they have to click yes on EVERY box that comes up.

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February 19, 2004, 09:33:01 AM
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So TAK, Bob, LB, what kind of performance increases did you see?
The three computers I have fixed in the learning resource center aka LRC [special ed room, keep in mind that it is *not* full inclusion which is a different branch of special ed] boot up decently fast now and after windows is loaded they have 3 tasks running [foolproof security which I have the password to, microsoft office taskbar so people can *find* word, and one other one I can't remember of the top of my head] They can go online and word process without crashing and dying terribly which is something they couldn't do before, the main tech guy at my school wanted to format them and start over, but has been very impressed with my work [thought they were a lost cause, now sees the light]


On all three I ran ad-aware, kicked the crap out of anything I didn't like in msconfig and startup, removed some folders, cleaned all the temp folders, uninstalled anything that wasn't deserving, cleaned the registry, compacted it, defraged and monkeyed around in the bios a bit.   :)

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not to mention did windows update and selectively updated them
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long post short: massive improvment
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MAC DRE: Cold Crest Creeper, a rapper that would dip-n-yoke quicker than he could pimp-n-smoke, flows  that hit your ears harder than Ike hit Tina. Forced to serve a Nickle but would never drop a Dime.
K.C watch out cause the Bay's down like four flats on a Cadilac.

February 19, 2004, 12:01:41 PM
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An interesting note, because of the way some net-nanny software works, (nabbing the URL req's you send, and redirecting you) Ad-aware will sometimes delete the functioning parts.

At my school, we ran Ad-aware on the server, adn it un-registered the net-shield or whatever its called, and then deleted some of its .dll's  now it starts, but doesnt function... makes me think its a shoddy batch prog.
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February 20, 2004, 02:26:58 AM
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Bah RM Networks are advanced or something.

Its at the router so hardware bypassing is kinda out of the question.

That and its damn clever.

FIX THIS!