Lol pronz.
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Topic: Lol pronz.
Posted By: Hysteria
Subject: Lol pronz.
Date Posted: 24 November 2008 at 10:23pm
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Not really. Last night I was looking for free TV shows online when I got bumrushed with Trojans and crap. After quite some time, I was finally able to run Ad-aware, Spybot and Avast. All of which found some stuff. Now my computer seems to be running fine, except for Firefox. At first, it would crash right after bringing it up, but now it only crashes every now and then. And for some reason, it crashes immediately everytime I go to ctrlaltdel-online.com. Are there more/better programs out there that I need to run? Edit* Well after a little more trial, it crashes on damn near every site I go to. I guess I got lucky and it will keep this one up. |
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Posted By: Tical3.0
Date Posted: 24 November 2008 at 10:25pm
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I was expecting boobies. ------------- I ♣ hippies. |
Posted By: sinisterNorth
Date Posted: 24 November 2008 at 10:48pm
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"Free TV shows"
Right... |
Posted By: pb125
Date Posted: 24 November 2008 at 10:48pm
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LOLWINDOWS
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Posted By: Hysteria
Date Posted: 24 November 2008 at 10:54pm
I know. I came |---| close to upgrading Ubuntu and sticking with it for good, but I couldn't bring myself to do it because I remembered the compatibility issues I constantly ran into. nb4winen00b I may have fixed the problem myself anyway. Avast spoiled me into thinking every program like that constantly updates their definitions and what not. Apparently Spybot does not. I updated them and ran it again and so far it has picked up much, much more. Edit* Well, while it did find an extra 25 entries, my browser still crashes upon visiting select sites. |
pb125 wrote:Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 24 November 2008 at 11:00pm
i upgraded to debian a couple years ago and i'm very happy i did. just curious, define compatibility issues. |
Posted By: Hysteria
Date Posted: 24 November 2008 at 11:01pm
Printer, photoshop, itunes, ect ect. I know the latter two can sometimes be handled through wine, I never had any luck with it. |
Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 24 November 2008 at 11:02pm
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depending on what your using it for - have you tried gimp/gimpshop?
and seriously, amarok > itunes :) |
Posted By: Hysteria
Date Posted: 24 November 2008 at 11:05pm
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Oh, it broke my heart when I decided to switch back to Windows and had to switch back to iTunes. Yeah, I tried gimp for a little while, but it didn't have my brushes or fonts. I realize I could have gotten some specifically for gimp, but I am lazy. That and I am resistant to change. I know my way around photoshop fairly well and I really don't care to re-learn a similar program. |
Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 24 November 2008 at 11:06pm
yeah, i can understand that... |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 24 November 2008 at 11:19pm
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Hysteria, Since you're running Spybot, did you use the "immunize" feature? If not, try using it, then running another sweep. If you still have problems, you may have to reload/update Firefox. (My guess is you still have some sort of malware; I run Spybot with Firefox with no problems what-so-ever.) You might also try downloading/running the free version of AVG. ------------- 
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Posted By: Hysteria
Date Posted: 25 November 2008 at 12:10am
| Nope. Immunized and reinstalled, but still nothing. Is AVG better than Avast? I've heard they are about the same. |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 25 November 2008 at 1:35am
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Photoshop CS2 runs flawlessly in wine. When I say flawlessly, I mean it too.
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Posted By: Cedric
Date Posted: 25 November 2008 at 1:38am
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Posted By: You Wont See Me
Date Posted: 25 November 2008 at 2:32am
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If anything I'd say Avast! is better than AVG. Try MalwareBytes Anti Malware or use one of the many online virus scanners. I'd try kaspersky. Does this happen when you try using IE or any other browser? ------------- A-5 E-Grip JCS Dual Trigger DOP X-CORE 8 stage x-chamber Lapco Bigshot 14" Beadblasted Optional setup: R/T Dead on Blade trigger |
Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 25 November 2008 at 4:38am
i'm kinda suprised cause i heard a while back google was paying codeweavers to increase photoshop support. |
Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 25 November 2008 at 7:02am
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Theres alot of tricky crap adaware and spybot S&D cant deal with. If it cant, youll probly have to reformat and reinstall windows.
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Posted By: PaiNTbALLfReNzY
Date Posted: 25 November 2008 at 8:58am
| VIRUS DATABASE HAS BEEN UP DATED. |
Posted By: sporx
Date Posted: 25 November 2008 at 1:02pm
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 25 November 2008 at 1:10pm
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Posted By: mod98commando
Date Posted: 27 November 2008 at 7:38am
I've been running AVG free, Adaware, and Spybot for years now and have never had a crippling piece of malware on any of my computers and rarely had anything more than tracking cookies make it onto my system. AVG has pretty good real-time protection and has saved me from a few infections over the years. I keep them all updated and run scans every 2 weeks or so, never have any issues. I used to run ZoneAlarm too but it got annoying after a while so I just use the windows firewall now. Malwarebytes and Avast are supposed to be good but I personally wouldn't trade my 3 for those until I see them blocking more stuff or providing some other benefit over what I have. I fix computers for people all the time and 90% of the problems are related to malware. I've had computers with Norton/McAfee suites, Malwarebytes, Avast, and other security programs that still managed to get taken down by malware. I usually install my 3 programs to clean it up and then leave them in place. So far I haven't had anybody come back with problems. In defense of those other programs though, the infections may have just been caused by laziness/lack of maintenance from the users. I can tell they don't update anything and rarely if ever scan for stuff. Also, I absolutely despise Norton/McAfee products. In my experience, they are complete crap. I fixed a few computers this week that were having trouble getting online. They were either only able to get online through IE or not at all and the system was sluggish. The problem persisted no matter how clean I got the OS. You know what it ended up being? The very security suite that was on there to protect the system, Norton Internet Security. I tried to get rid of it using the uninstaller which partially worked but failed to remove a ton of stuff. I looked at the registry and it had keys all over the place, it was a disaster. I deleted the ones I found but there were so many I decided to just search for a quicker fix and luckily Symantec had a small application for just that. Downloaded it, ran it, and it cleaned up the registry. And just like that, all the problems were gone. In all honesty, I think it's worse than most malware I come across, especially because you don't expect it to be the source of the problems. ------------- oreomann33: Everybody invades Poland Rofl_Mao: And everyone eats turkey Me: But only if they're hungary Mack: Yeah but hungary people go russian through their food and end up with greece on everyth |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 27 November 2008 at 10:26am
QFT (I run Spybot and AVG free and have never had any problems. You wouldn't believe the amount of stuff that the two found when I started using them instead of Norton and Spysweeper.) Edited Note: Mod98, cool sig!  -------------
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Posted By: mod98commando
Date Posted: 27 November 2008 at 7:01pm
Haha, yeah, it had to be done. I had a link to my company site in there but the mods requested I take it down, I guess in an effort to fight spammers leading you off this site or something. That happened to be right after that wonderful conversation so I figured, why not.  Got cut off due to character limits though. ------------- oreomann33: Everybody invades Poland Rofl_Mao: And everyone eats turkey Me: But only if they're hungary Mack: Yeah but hungary people go russian through their food and end up with greece on everyth |
Posted By: BuffaloSolda1
Date Posted: 27 November 2008 at 9:44pm
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Viruses suck, luckily my laptop hasnt been hit recently. ------------- TK by PB4MS.COM |
Posted By: Skillet42565
Date Posted: 27 November 2008 at 9:49pm
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Posted By: Hysteria
Date Posted: 27 November 2008 at 11:13pm
| So Windows finally crapped out on me. It wouldn't load anything so I tried to schedule a bootup scan with Avast. When it restarted, nothing would come up. I left it there for like 20 minutes and nothing. I finally decided to do a massive overhaul of my computer and reinstall Windows and upgrade to 8.10 with Ubuntu. But, since I can't get Windows to pull up, I need to get some stuff off there some other way. I booted into Ubuntu and tried to access my Windows partition, but it is nowhere to be found. I used to have an icon on my desktop, but it isn't there. Is there any other way to access my Windows partition through Ubuntu? |
Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 28 November 2008 at 12:27am
| Who gets viruses anymore? Seriously... |
Posted By: mod98commando
Date Posted: 28 November 2008 at 1:48am
Newbs, that's who. ------------- oreomann33: Everybody invades Poland Rofl_Mao: And everyone eats turkey Me: But only if they're hungary Mack: Yeah but hungary people go russian through their food and end up with greece on everyth |
Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 28 November 2008 at 1:57am
try opening the partition editor, it may "find" your drive after that if that doesnt do it, open up a console and type: cd /dev dir | grep sd you should get an entry along the lines of "sda1" or "sdb1" etc. sudo mount /dev/sda1 (or sdb1, whatever you found in /dev) if it says it cant find /dev/sda1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab then type sudo nano /etc/fstab and copy this line in there /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ntfs er rors=r emount -ro 0 1 note: you can switch "/mnt/sda1" to any folder, but it does have to exist or you'll have to make it or you'll get an error. and then try to mount it again. |
Posted By: Hysteria
Date Posted: 29 November 2008 at 9:39pm
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I tried everything you suggested, to no avail. I ended up booting up from the live disk which found the partition. But when I tried to mount it, it came up with a long ass error: "$LogFile indicates unclean shutdown(0,0) Failed to mount '/dev/hda4': Operation not supported Mount is denied because NTFS is marked to be in use. Choose oen action: Choice 1: If you have windows then disconnect the external devices by clicking on the 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon in the Windows taskbar then shutdown windows cleanly. Choice 2: If you don't have Windows then you can use the 'force' option for your own responsiility. For example type on the command line: mount -t ntfs-3g/dev/hda4/media/disk -1 -o force or add the option to the relavent row in the /etc/fstab file: /dev/hda4/media/disk -1 ntfs-3g force 0 0" So, should I force it? That doesn't sound too safe. Well after googling a bit, I found that forcing it was pretty much the only option I had. It worked and now I can finally back up all my data and give my computer a massive overhaul. Thanks for the help. |
Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 30 November 2008 at 8:39am
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yeah, i've done a force mount before without any problems.
i think its one of those situations where nothing will probably happen but they have to warn you just in case. |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 30 November 2008 at 11:45am
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^^^That's not what she said.
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Posted By: Brian Fellows
Date Posted: 30 November 2008 at 12:19pm
| I use AVG. It's kind of bloated but it works. |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 30 November 2008 at 4:11pm
Edited Note: A better post would have been "How'd we get on the subject of your girlfriend?" However; since this one is already posted, I'll let it stand. -------------
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Posted By: mod98commando
Date Posted: 01 December 2008 at 10:57am
Out of context, this can have quite a different meaning ------------- oreomann33: Everybody invades Poland Rofl_Mao: And everyone eats turkey Me: But only if they're hungary Mack: Yeah but hungary people go russian through their food and end up with greece on everyth |
Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 01 December 2008 at 1:34pm
| you're sick :) |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 01 December 2008 at 3:02pm
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See sig.
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Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 01 December 2008 at 3:04pm
ubuntu? |