Zesty.
Just use Combofix and be over with it. While the rkill method is effective if you know what you're doing as that how I formally fixed things, tools like combofix and malwarebytes just make life easier in solving these kinds of problems.
Download:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/anti-virus/combofix
Copy to flash disk.
Boot into Safe mode (Mash F8 key before scrolling green windows launch screen appears. Select Safe Mode.)
Copy combofix.exe to C:\ and launch from there.
Answer prompt. Let combofix do its magic before it boots back to normal user mode.
Download and update malwarebytes if it hasn't already and run a full scan.
pistolpete2940 said:
Just got an alert for a "trojan-bnk.win32.keylogger.gen" but mcafee doesn't actually find anything. None of the browsers are letting me online
Do the above. Also, don't use Mcafee as it doesn't find anything. A lot of people who release malware/viruses tests that their bugger doesn't work on common removal software (i.e. Symantec, Mcafee) first.
Use Microsoft Security Essentials or Avira as a free solution. ESET NOD32 if you want a paid solution.
Emerson said:
Hey GAF,
Whenever I try to stream "HD" video, it looks like this:
http://i51.tinypic.com/ru5m6b.jpg
It's also often mostly green, but not for this video here.
This includes 360p on Youtube. If I bump the stream down to 240p, or just SD as on GameTrailers, it plays fine. However if I download the 720p video it plays totally fine. I've tried it with Firefox and IE and they both have the problem.
Help?
Looks like Adobe and beta-like releases for Flash again.
If you want, you can disable the hardware acceleration to the video to alleviate the problem. Right click on a flash video and select Settings.
Click the lower left hand icon and uncheck the box "Enable hardware acceleration." Refresh the page or restart your computer.
FINALFANTASYDOG said:
I've googled this and couldn't find anything:
I'm In japan, my windows xp is cd is in America, can't find a cd of English xp here.
My registrary on windows xp has become non-working(unable to properly boot). I'm Able to boot to linux and see all my files/ the file structure is fine(reg snapshots are there) just window's can't boot.
Is there anyway using my windows 7 pc or the linux installation on this pc to restore the snapshot of the old reg so I can get windows working again?
Thanks!
Mmm, not likely. Your best bet is to upgrade to Vista then to 7.
If you have a Windows XP CD lying around, then you could run some commands like fixmbr and fixboot to see if those work.
silentcapybara said:
My 3rd (?) Gen 30G iPod Video will no longer sync/turn on. When I power it up, the apple icon shows up but then powers down shortly after. Also, when I try to plug it in and sync it to my computer, it does the same thing and I can't get it to stop syncing. It never makes it to the "home" screen, it always shuts off and then turns back on to the "syncing" screen, then turns back off and etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Either the battery is dead or the logic board that powers the battery is dead.
You could try a new battery if you want to go through the trouble that is.
I would, but I probably would not advise a commoner to do that as if the logic board is dead, then you just wasted money.
Go save money to buy a new iPod, Zune HD, or Zune Next.
Seda said:
An update on my juice drenched laptop. Drying out the components didn't work, but a cheap new keyboard fixed that issue and a use wifi adapter allows me to find internet signals again. It's a band-aid, but much better than buying a whole new computer.
Ah that sucks.
Did you actually end up replacing the keyboard or are you using USB?
Lkr said:
how can I check if there is anything wrong with my hard drive? I ran disk check within Windows and it said no problems were found. is that good enough?
As people said already, chkdsk is fine although if you want to check the actually physical hardware, use a tool like SpeedFan that analyzes your hard disk core values and checks if everything works out OK.
PhoenixDark said:
Today my computer crashed while playing SC2; the screen froze, then I got weird colored bars on the screen that suggest a videocard problem. I turned the computer off and restarted; it came on fine with no problems, didn't notice weird noises, temps fine etc. But I notice when I look at embedded youtube videos, the title and time fonts are weirdly distorted
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/PhoenixDark1/videocard-1.jpg
I have an older card, a Radeon HD 3870. I'm currently updating the drivers, so I'll be restarting the computer soon.
EDIT: After the restart I had the same problem. I searched around a bit online and read it looks like that in 16bit mode. So I went to Display and changed it back to 32bit. Anyone know why it would automatically change itself to 16bit?
No idea. Old hardware and drivers would be my guess.
I notice video manufacturers aren't really doing a good job of QA'ing drivers that existed in the Vista era. They are updating those cards, but I'm not so sure if they're testing them properly.
Just some suspicion from me.
Banzaiaap said:
Hey y'all.
My uncle got me a second-hand Marantz PM4001 Audio Receiver for my birthday. Works like a charm, except for one flaw. When I crank up the volume up 33% of it's max turning radius the audio cuts out and the mute starts blinking. This continues until I turn it off and on again. Is this some kind of speaker protection kicking in or is the receiver broken?
Sounds like it's broken.
iNvidious01 said:
i have a few random problems i cant fix myself
1. devices and printers in windows 7 never shows up, it never loads. nothing seems to work
on a genuine version of win7 64bit with all updates etc. it doesn't affect me much but i want it to work, anyone fixed this problem?
2. the A button on my 360 pad suddenly feels hard to push down on, its at the same height as the other buttons so i dont think its dug down but it's as if something is underneath it which can't be. the hell is wrong with it
also please get a
dropbox. im 1gb away from hitting the max free space, help me gaf
1. I wonder if creating a new user profile works. Are you in single user (admin, one profile) mode?
2. Did a crumb fall in there or something? Also it could just be that it worn out. If you want you can take it apart and check as there are guides online to do so.
3. Use Amazon Cloud if you need some more space and Sky Drive from Microsoft.
2Crisis said:
Hoping someone can help me out or verify what I think is a videocard related problem.
Just to get it out of the way, 64 bit win7 (phenomII x4 955) machine with a 512mb Radeon 4870 and 4gb of ddr3.
This is the exact card I have.
Just recently, when playing games my machine has begun to hard crash and self-restart. This only happens when either playing a game full screen, or watching full screen video.
If I turn off hardware-acceleration in flash however, I'm able to watch stuff in full screen no problem. When just using windows, my machine is 100% stable. Temperatures on my card and machine are well within good ranges. The fan on it works fine.
I've tried different drivers, same thing. If I play a game full screen, it WILL eventually crash, but it's seemingly random as to when. This never used to happen with the exact same hardware, and I really can't afford a new video card right now. any ideas?
Check your RAM first.
Windows Memory Diagnostic is included in every copy of Windows 7 (and Vista I think). Type it in the Windows Icon (Start) menu and let the computer reboot to perform that task.
Zoe said:
It's all right although if you're buying a USB 2.0 drive which a lot of retail stores are clearing out for USB 3.0, the price should equal the price of an internal 2TB drive.
