I've been told I don't play well in the sandbox

:hee:

You in the sandbox is designed to protect the other kids, or in this case, your computer. :devil2::buds:

yea I am starting to think seriously about building another box. Just dreading taking all the stuff off here and transferring though.

ugh.

Before you build, list what you want and need it to do, and what you are looking for and what level of redundancy. Reason I say this is that a few us intervening (in a good way) early might stop you from going Frankenstein on it. Probably no different results that you'll notice but sure as #&@^# safer for the rest of us :tooth:

Seriously, I'm sure we could come up with a straight forward way of doing (say Dell or HP with Intel RAID1), Acronis or Storagecraft backup, yada, etc, yada

DOOD you could have just said I like wearing pink tutu's and frilly boots and it would mean the same to me in nerd speak :rotf2:

First i would try to restore to an ealier date. If that doesn't work , Kaspersky or Dr Web rescue disc will get it. Both have free downloads of the continuously updated .ISO file and then you use it to burn the drive image and create the bootable rescue disc. All free. I have had my search corrupted before and a restore fixed it. I have also had some where I needed to run the boot drive anti virus.

Absolutely no where is safe anymore. I once got a virus from a site that showed the names , numbers etc for Lawyers in NJ. I also got one once when looking up old Irish sayings on sites on St Patricks Day.

Its a jungle out there!! :)

Oh , BTW , after I set up my system , I clone the C drive. I then unplug the original and run my system off the cloned drive. Anything that gets me so bad the rescue discs won't fix , I simply F disc , reformat and clone the drive again from the original. To make this successful I also backup my email and other important files etc on a second hard drive which is a removeable USB drive.

In a disater , reclone from ground zero, unplug the original drive ahain, copy the files I backed up from the removeable USB and I'm back in action..

Oh, BTW , the Kaspersky also has an isolated environment to use while surfing similar to the "Sandbox" JD described. I don't like it as it seems to really slow things down.

ok it just did it again.

I was on google's home page, searched "waterman pen"

top link was waterman.com

it took me to:

Waterman Pens | Lowest US Prices | Buy Waterman Pens at DealParty.com

If I go back on the google page and right click the link I get this url:

Waterman : fine writing and luxury pen collections

I have the script blocker on...didn't do anything..

now any time I click the link again even if I reload it I get the real waterman site....

I'm not the only one...

MalWare Removal • View topic - Search Engine Browser Hijack/Redirect

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic336314.html

I wish something would fix your Caps Lock

heh? what's wroNG wiTh mY caPs LOcK

kaspersky TDSSKiller...

found this: Google-Something Strange

I downloaded and ran, found nothing.

Deja vu

download LSP fix and see what is says. also if you down load HiJack this email me the log file or post it here,

I dumped avira last night and went back to avg this time.

78 redirect infections found. Still does dealparty though.

AVIRA ANTIVIRUS PAID EDITION IS GARBAGE. I think that's what started this whole thing.

oh there's that caps lock again :rotf2:

lsp says no problems found.

what .dll's where listed for a XP machine there should be 3 maybe 4?

78 infections... your only real hope of a clean machine is to blow it up and start over. Back up your important files to a removable hard disk, write down a list of all your programs and do a complete reinstall.

After you have a fresh machine, quit going to midget porn websites.

i beleive there called little people not midgets you insensitive ....... lol :rotf2: jk no matter how u slice it midget = funny,

Munchkins.

ComboFix has lunched my machine!! Will not boot in the docking station now, FRACK!!!!

It's Skippy's Fault!!!

munchkin porn :devil2:

I should add the 78 that were caught were infected files in my eudora attachments download directory....which I never run stuff off of unless I know it's clean or are very comfortable with who sent it to me.

I'm doing the shop machine right now and that one has 182 threats right now and it's only part done. Like I said previously Avira AV is CRAP.

like this. this is all crap from the 1000 spams (literally) I get a day.

Have you considered removing your email address from your website and putting a "Contact Form" instead? This will filter out some of the less sophisticated email spam scrapers. Basically, these spammers uses automated bots to look at the source code of your webpage and they add anything that has "mailto: " or looks like an email address onto their spam list.

If you remove your email address and use a contact form, it takes a more sophisticated automated bot to fill out the form. When a human clicks submit on the form, it'll send you an email. You'll still get spam, but probably much less.

Also, your web hosting/mail provider should have some spam filters as well that will prevent those messages from even getting to your email box. If you wanted, you should be able to set up preferences to auto-delete emails that contain attachments unless the sender is on your "Trusted" list.

My email address has been posted on our website for 7 or 8 years. I see maybe 2 spam messages/day.

johnny go look at how it's done now... How to contact Salty's Wooden Lures

Problem is it's going to the original scott@ email. While I've taken it off the site it still means there are tons of sites I order from with this email addy and also it's on my cards etc too. So it's got to continue til I at least change my cards to remove it.

I have a vpn so i'm on my own. Their spam stuff was extra $10 a month and useless. I dumped it after one month. waste of money.

out sick 2 days plus today and there's 3028 junkmails in my junk folder right now.

I even setup dnsrbl using list one and two, problem is that it was rejecting valid emails from dealers etc. so I had to take it off.

what i'd like to do is clamp the whole thing down so you can't send email with anything else but an approved header/subject line, problem is too many people can't/don't read the first line on that page...and just send an email with any old subject title they want. Many times I have to go dig stuff out of the junk folder. I've stopped doing that in the last few months and I'm sure some people don't get replies as a result.

NVR! combo-brick as we use to call it has fail safes built in to prevent that now unless you or something interrupted it.

will it boot out of the docking station ? look at the log file and see if there was a corrupted driver. you may need to reinstall the serial driver. or Comm driver