Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer?
Tried SRWare Iron twice and it froze XP requiring reboot. Gerry From: Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net Read a few reviews, and it appears that most of the alternative browsers have weak spots. SRWare Iron doesn't report to Mother Google, instead it reports back to SR, who then sells your data (so Google is simply cut out of the money stream, no reduction in spyware). I'll stick with FF and IE for now, they are free and work, and I can't really see any advantage to another browser. -Max -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of OK Don Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 1:43 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer? No - try SRWare Iron (Chrome without the spyware). On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.netwrote: No, should I -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu wrote: Agreed, Firefox is a bit of a pig these days. Tried Chrome? ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com -- OK Don 2001 ML320 2012 Passat TDI DSG 1957 C182A ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2238 / Virus Database: 2639/5617 - Release Date: 02/19/13 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer?
Try Chromium. It is the foundation of Google Chrome. I think Google ripped off, uh I mean licensed their browser. http://www.chromium.org/ Rick Sent from my iPhone On Feb 20, 2013, at 7:30 AM, Gerry Archer arche...@embarqmail.com wrote: Tried SRWare Iron twice and it froze XP requiring reboot. Gerry From: Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net Read a few reviews, and it appears that most of the alternative browsers have weak spots. SRWare Iron doesn't report to Mother Google, instead it reports back to SR, who then sells your data (so Google is simply cut out of the money stream, no reduction in spyware). I'll stick with FF and IE for now, they are free and work, and I can't really see any advantage to another browser. -Max -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of OK Don Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 1:43 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer? No - try SRWare Iron (Chrome without the spyware). On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.netwrote: No, should I -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu wrote: Agreed, Firefox is a bit of a pig these days. Tried Chrome? ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com -- OK Don 2001 ML320 2012 Passat TDI DSG 1957 C182A ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2238 / Virus Database: 2639/5617 - Release Date: 02/19/13 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer?
Thanks, Rick, I'll try it tonight. Gerry From: Rick Knoble rickkno...@hotmail.com Try Chromium. It is the foundation of Google Chrome. I think Google ripped off, uh I mean licensed their browser. http://www.chromium.org/ Rick Sent from my iPhone On Feb 20, 2013, at 7:30 AM, Gerry Archer arche...@embarqmail.com wrote: Tried SRWare Iron twice and it froze XP requiring reboot. Gerry From: Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net Read a few reviews, and it appears that most of the alternative browsers have weak spots. SRWare Iron doesn't report to Mother Google, instead it reports back to SR, who then sells your data (so Google is simply cut out of the money stream, no reduction in spyware). I'll stick with FF and IE for now, they are free and work, and I can't really see any advantage to another browser. -Max -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of OK Don Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 1:43 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer? No - try SRWare Iron (Chrome without the spyware). On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.netwrote: No, should I -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu wrote: Agreed, Firefox is a bit of a pig these days. Tried Chrome? ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com -- OK Don 2001 ML320 2012 Passat TDI DSG 1957 C182A ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2238 / Virus Database: 2639/5617 - Release Date: 02/19/13 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2238 / Virus Database: 2639/5618 - Release Date: 02/20/13 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer?
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Rick Knoble rickkno...@hotmail.com wrote: Try Chromium. It is the foundation of Google Chrome. I think Google ripped off, uh I mean licensed their browser. http://www.chromium.org/ Chrome is the version for people, you may recall at the time that it was impractical to think another closed-source browser would achieve wide adoption so Google set it up with an open-source foundation. You will notice that still most of the Chromium developers work for Google, and developing and maintaining Chromium is part of their job. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#History If you don't use gmail/etc. then Chromium is fine, and should work the same as Chrome without the calls to Google. Best, -Tim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer? Give it a polish.
I've been using chromium for a couple of weeks and am quite happy with it, bit of a pain to set up but that's the same with any new browser. Been using FF for a long time but noticed it was starting to eat up a lot of resources, especially if you got a lot of tabs, as I tend to sometimes. Hendrik who is trying to diagnose a rough running Briggs and Straton On 21/02/13 00:25, Gerry Archer wrote: Thanks, Rick, I'll try it tonight. Gerry From: Rick Knoble rickkno...@hotmail.com Try Chromium. It is the foundation of Google Chrome. I think Google ripped off, uh I mean licensed their browser. http://www.chromium.org/ Rick ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer?
Agreed, Firefox is a bit of a pig these days. Tried Chrome? Allan Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net writes: Firefox (and any add-ins) might be the problem. I watch FF system usage on my Mac, when I first start it the memory usage is like 400MB, after restarting a coupla hours ago it is now up to 784.5MB, in a while it will be over 1GB with not a lot going on. Sometimes it starts using over 100% of one or more CPUs (there are 4 cores). I don't think it is wrting a lot to disk so that is not an issue, but FF seems to be a huge resource hog these days, and badly behaved. Some script in Facebook regularly crashes in FF too, which locks up FF for a few seconds. Other things seem to randomly lock up FF too for a few to several seconds. I killed a coupla add-ins and it is a little better but still does not play well. All that says you might want to look at FF and your add-ins, something might be acting badly. Then on top of Winders... it might start junking up your drive with something? --R -- Allan Streib ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer?
No, should I -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu wrote: Agreed, Firefox is a bit of a pig these days. Tried Chrome? ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer?
No - try SRWare Iron (Chrome without the spyware). On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.netwrote: No, should I -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu wrote: Agreed, Firefox is a bit of a pig these days. Tried Chrome? ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com -- OK Don 2001 ML320 2012 Passat TDI DSG 1957 C182A ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer?
WOW, I'm sold on WinPatrol. The success of WinPatrol has always been dependant on our reputation. Upgrades to PLUS remain the only source of income and makes the support and development of WinPatrol possible. WinPatrol will never install crapware or toolbars even though well known legitimate companies feel it's acceptable. WinPatrol doesn't pay download sites for placement so we depend on users spreading the word and on industry experts telling their followers to download WinPatrol safely from WinPatrol.com. Thanks for the suggestion! Luther KB5QHUForest Park, IL '98 ML320 Max (161,xxx mi) On 2/18/2013 2:51 PM, Fmiser wrote: Max Dillon wrote: Using windows explorer, it appears that I can only account for about 60 GB on the HD; 35 GB for users and a little over 20 for the windows system. I have often used a little utility called DirSize that shows a simple tree with the folders sorted by size. It makes it easy to identify where the disk-hog is. I think this is the one I have. :) http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/BF-DirSize.shtml For keeping a system clean, I like to include WinPatrol as it alerts me when there is a change to system files and directories. http://www.winpatrol.com/ I haven't even had to clean an infected MSWin system, so I have no advise for you there... --Philip ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer?
I found 7 to be much faster on the same hardware, and in general has been compatible with pretty much all my XP drivers in 32 bit mode. BTW you can install 32 or 64 with either license. Best, Tim On Feb 18, 2013 7:15 PM, Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net wrote: Thought about that, not sure if SWMBO would survive the upgrade. Going from XP to Vista was tough, would have to approach that one carefully. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote: It might be worth checking to see if you can get a copy of Win7 cheap on eBay. I made images of identical machines at work, Vista made a 28GB image (using clonezilla), Win7 took 8GB... -Curt Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:33:05 -0600 From: Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer? Message-ID: a06240833cd484de4b807@[192.168.1.51] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ; format=flowed Not to be a smart*** but one well known winders author and tech said it best. Wissta IS a virus. Only he pronounced it the way BillG does. I figgered that should be good for a laugh although its not very funny to you right now. Sorry, OS is Vista Home Premium. -Max ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer?
I agree whole heartedly which is why I suggested it. Also you NEED to get on Chrome or one of the variants. I gave up Firefox a few years ago when it was updating every couple days. Thats a sign of lousy SQA... -Curt Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:18:49 -0500 From: Tim Crone t...@crone.us To: Mercedes List mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer? Message-ID: cahehqj1h8oonsye8o_p7pkg2qtoou8c7pneunwqwsumhzi7...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I found 7 to be much faster on the same hardware, and in general has been compatible with pretty much all my XP drivers in 32 bit mode. BTW you can install 32 or 64 with either license. Best, Tim On Feb 18, 2013 7:15 PM, Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net wrote: Thought about that, not sure if SWMBO would survive the upgrade. Going from XP to Vista was tough, would have to approach that one carefully. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote: It might be worth checking to see if you can get a copy of Win7 cheap on eBay. I made images of identical machines at work, Vista made a 28GB image (using clonezilla), Win7 took 8GB... -Curt ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer?
Read a few reviews, and it appears that most of the alternative browsers have weak spots. SRWare Iron doesn't report to Mother Google, instead it reports back to SR, who then sells your data (so Google is simply cut out of the money stream, no reduction in spyware). I'll stick with FF and IE for now, they are free and work, and I can't really see any advantage to another browser. -Max -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of OK Don Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 1:43 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer? No - try SRWare Iron (Chrome without the spyware). On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.netwrote: No, should I -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu wrote: Agreed, Firefox is a bit of a pig these days. Tried Chrome? ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com -- OK Don 2001 ML320 2012 Passat TDI DSG 1957 C182A ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer?
Chrome is voluntary assimilation into the Borg (Google) if you believe the reviews. Feeds all your browser activity to Google minimum of once per 24 hrs, if your computer is on line. TANSTAFL continues to apply... -Max -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Curt Raymond Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 7:36 PM To: Diesel List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer? I agree whole heartedly which is why I suggested it. Also you NEED to get on Chrome or one of the variants. I gave up Firefox a few years ago when it was updating every couple days. Thats a sign of lousy SQA... -Curt Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:18:49 -0500 From: Tim Crone t...@crone.us To: Mercedes List mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer? Message-ID: cahehqj1h8oonsye8o_p7pkg2qtoou8c7pneunwqwsumhzi7...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I found 7 to be much faster on the same hardware, and in general has been compatible with pretty much all my XP drivers in 32 bit mode. BTW you can install 32 or 64 with either license. Best, Tim On Feb 18, 2013 7:15 PM, Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net wrote: Thought about that, not sure if SWMBO would survive the upgrade. Going from XP to Vista was tough, would have to approach that one carefully. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote: It might be worth checking to see if you can get a copy of Win7 cheap on eBay. I made images of identical machines at work, Vista made a 28GB image (using clonezilla), Win7 took 8GB... -Curt ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer?
Thanks to all who offered advice. Tonight I checked my HD properties, and now it is down to 71 GB used, about 29 GB free. Only thing different is a reboot or two, and threatening it with Malwarebytes (both in normal OS mode and safe mode). In review, I started on this odyssey when my HD was thrashing and free space was down to as little as 7 GB on a 100GB drive at one point. Yesterday Malwarebytes found 36 objects in the quick scan, normal OS mode vice safe mode, most were remnants of some malware from a few months ago that took over my default search tool and forced all my searches through something called funmoods. There were a couple other odd balls, not sure what they were, mild threats according to MWB. Cleaned them all. No real change immediately after that, which was yesterday, but today all seems well. Full scans, both in normal mode and safe mode, found zero, but took hours. I suspect that pagefile size may have been the culprit, haven't played with any settings, but the size tonight is less than 1 GB. Spybot SD didn't seem to help much, it found some registry changes it didn't like. I allowed it to fix those, didn't notice any difference. Pop-up ads seem to be vanquished from Firefox for now, MWB seems to be the hero. I'd say the thing that made the biggest difference was deleting a bunch of crapware and using the utilities (Disk Clean and Defrag). I also took the liberty of deleting a ton of spam from SWMBO's email, but that was maybe a hundred MB or so, not a significant amount of HD space. I really need to get some external storage and move all home pix/movies and SWMBO's music files off the HD. I'm also strongly considering a fresh installation of Win7. -Max ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer?
Should read TANSTAAFL...there ain't no such thing as a free lunch, Robert Heinlein. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net wrote: Chrome is voluntary assimilation into the Borg (Google) if you believe the reviews. Feeds all your browser activity to Google minimum of once per 24 hrs, if your computer is on line. TANSTAFL continues to apply... -Max -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Curt Raymond Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 7:36 PM To: Diesel List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer? I agree whole heartedly which is why I suggested it. Also you NEED to get on Chrome or one of the variants. I gave up Firefox a few years ago when it was updating every couple days. Thats a sign of lousy SQA... -Curt Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:18:49 -0500 From: Tim Crone t...@crone.us To: Mercedes List mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer? Message-ID: cahehqj1h8oonsye8o_p7pkg2qtoou8c7pneunwqwsumhzi7...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I found 7 to be much faster on the same hardware, and in general has been compatible with pretty much all my XP drivers in 32 bit mode. BTW you can install 32 or 64 with either license. Best, Tim On Feb 18, 2013 7:15 PM, Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net wrote: Thought about that, not sure if SWMBO would survive the upgrade. Going from XP to Vista was tough, would have to approach that one carefully. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote: It might be worth checking to see if you can get a copy of Win7 cheap on eBay. I made images of identical machines at work, Vista made a 28GB image (using clonezilla), Win7 took 8GB... -Curt ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer?
On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:42:55 -0600 OK Don okd...@gmail.com wrote: No - try SRWare Iron (Chrome without the spyware). There is a version of SRWare Iron for Linux, but it won't install on my CentOS 5.9. It will have to wait until I update to CentOS 6.x. Read a few reviews, and it appears that most of the alternative browsers have weak spots. SRWare Iron doesn't report to Mother Google, instead it reports back to SR, who then sells your data (so Google is simply cut out of the money stream, no reduction in spyware). According to their website at http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_faq.php, Can i really check that Iron doesn't submit any private data, how you say? Yes, you can. There are tools like Wireshark, which scan the whole network-traffic. We could not recognize any obvious activity. But you can proof this by yourself. PS: We also disabled the DNS-Precaching by default, because this could perhaps used by spammers (see this Link: http://blog.chromium.org/2008/09/dns-prefetching-or-pre-resolving.html ) Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer?
Max Dillon wrote: Yesterday Malwarebytes found 36 objects in the quick scan, normal OS mode vice safe mode... Full scans, both in normal mode and safe mode, found zero, but took hours. Good to know that the quick scan was as effective as the full scan for you. I've got it (paid version) scheduled to do a quick scan every afternoon after updating, and a full scan on Saturdays. Can't remember the last time anything came of it. I do occasionally get blocked web pages from MWB, usually when I try to download a file from a file sharing site. Mitch. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
[MBZ] OT infected computer?
I'm suspicious that something has infected my home computer. What AV tools do you guys recommend for cleaning up? I really don't want to reload the OS. Hard disc has recently become nearly full, 90+ GB used out of 100 available. Hard drive light was on almost continuously, but computer performance didn't seem too bad, for a five year old laptop. Using windows explorer, it appears that I can only account for about 60 GB on the HD; 35 GB for users and a little over 20 for the windows system. Yesterday I made a concerted effort to clean up the HD. Deleted a bunch of software I didn't need, used the disk clean up utility and also defrag. Had the disk size down to 82 GB or less, HD light back to normal behavior. This a.m., disk size is back to 92 GB! -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer?
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That's a good one. I've also had success with SpyBot and Avast. All are free or have free versions. Sometimes you need more than one tool to clean everything up. If you don't need Java, uninstall it. Or at least disable the Java plugin in your browsers. It has been a security nightmare recently. Also be sure all your Adobe software (Flash, Acrobat) is up to date, that's another common attack vector. If you have another computer, use that to download MalwareBytes and put it on a flash drive. I've seem some malware that will prevent common cleanup programs from being downloaded, or prevent them from running. If you have this problem, try renaming the .exe before you run it. Allan On Mon, Feb 18, 2013, at 08:43 AM, Mitch Haley wrote: Malwarebytes. ___ [1]http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives [2]http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: [3]http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com References 1. http://www.okiebenz.com/ 2. http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ 3. http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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Browser caches can also be surprisingly large. Did you dump those? I find the best malware preventative to be Mac OSX. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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Microsoft security essentials Free (as a preventative) not sure how it works after the fact, but should be ok. I agree with Jim Cathey's comment also. I'm suspicious that something has infected my home computer. What AV tools do you guys recommend for cleaning up? I really don't want to reload the OS. Hard disc has recently become nearly full, 90+ GB used out of 100 available. Hard drive light was on almost continuously, but computer performance didn't seem too bad, for a five year old laptop. Using windows explorer, it appears that I can only account for about 60 GB on the HD; 35 GB for users and a little over 20 for the windows system. Yesterday I made a concerted effort to clean up the HD. Deleted a bunch of software I didn't need, used the disk clean up utility and also defrag. Had the disk size down to 82 GB or less, HD light back to normal behavior. This a.m., disk size is back to 92 GB! -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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Will give that a try. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote: Malwarebytes. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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Spybot scanning right now. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu wrote: That's a good one. I've also had success with SpyBot and Avast. All are free or have free versions. Sometimes you need more than one tool to clean everything up. If you don't need Java, uninstall it. Or at least disable the Java plugin in your browsers. It has been a security nightmare recently. Also be sure all your Adobe software (Flash, Acrobat) is up to date, that's another common attack vector. If you have another computer, use that to download MalwareBytes and put it on a flash drive. I've seem some malware that will prevent common cleanup programs from being downloaded, or prevent them from running. If you have this problem, try renaming the .exe before you run it. Allan On Mon, Feb 18, 2013, at 08:43 AM, Mitch Haley wrote: Malwarebytes. ___ [1]http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives [2]http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: [3]http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com References 1. http://www.okiebenz.com/ 2. http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ 3. http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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Did dump those using disk clean utility. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 Jim Cathey j...@windwireless.net wrote: Browser caches can also be surprisingly large. Did you dump those? I find the best malware preventative to be Mac OSX. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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Using MSE for about a year, problem occurred in last few months. Switching OS is not an option. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote: Microsoft security essentials Free (as a preventative) not sure how it works after the fact, but should be ok. I agree with Jim Cathey's comment also. I'm suspicious that something has infected my home computer. What AV tools do you guys recommend for cleaning up? I really don't want to reload the OS. Hard disc has recently become nearly full, 90+ GB used out of 100 available. Hard drive light was on almost continuously, but computer performance didn't seem too bad, for a five year old laptop. Using windows explorer, it appears that I can only account for about 60 GB on the HD; 35 GB for users and a little over 20 for the windows system. Yesterday I made a concerted effort to clean up the HD. Deleted a bunch of software I didn't need, used the disk clean up utility and also defrag. Had the disk size down to 82 GB or less, HD light back to normal behavior. This a.m., disk size is back to 92 GB! -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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Max. Malwarebytes anti-rootkit is free in beta from their site. Gets rid of hard to remove infections. Fred Moir Lynn MA Diesel preferred. From: Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 11:28 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer? Will give that a try. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote: Malwarebytes. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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On Feb 18, 2013, at 7:36 AM, Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net wrote: I'm suspicious that something has infected my home computer. What AV tools do you guys recommend for cleaning up? Malwarebytes, Avira, Super Antispyware. I really don't want to reload the OS. And folks with cancer don't want surgery or chemo. Had the disk size down to 82 GB or less, HD light back to normal behavior. This a.m., disk size is back to 92 GB! Swap file? Extraneous crapware someone installed? One effective method of limiting the chances of infection, and also limiting the damages from an infection, is different user accounts. On my pc's there is an Owner account, who is empowered as the administrator. I have individual user accounts set up for users of the computer. Those accounts are limited, so they cannot install software. No toolbars, no games, nothing. I use a limited account, except when doing computer maintenance. It has made life much simpler. Of course the best solution I have found is Linux... Rick Sent from my iPhone ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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You didn't say what OS. I've been using Microsoft Security Essentials which seems to work pretty well. Boot into safemode, update and run. Same advice with Malwarebytes. For extra stuff look for temp directories in the Windows directory. -Curt Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 08:36:58 -0500 From: Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: [MBZ] OT infected computer? Message-ID: 3c0f9f4d-fe65-4faa-9141-af27ab541...@email.android.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I'm suspicious that something has infected my home computer. What AV tools do you guys recommend for cleaning up? I really don't want to reload the OS. Hard disc has recently become nearly full, 90+ GB used out of 100 available. Hard drive light was on almost continuously, but computer performance didn't seem too bad, for a five year old laptop. Using windows explorer, it appears that I can only account for about 60 GB on the HD; 35 GB for users and a little over 20 for the windows system. Yesterday I made a concerted effort to clean up the HD. Deleted a bunch of software I didn't need, used the disk clean up utility and also defrag. Had the disk size down to 82 GB or less, HD light back to normal behavior. This a.m., disk size is back to 92 GB! -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer?
Avira (pay version but free one avail too) and Spybot. I also use System Mechanic for general maintenance. Avira has a feature where you can burn an image to CD (or usb stick) and boot a a Linux version of Avira from the CD (or usb) to scan the PC. This bypasses any mayware that might be on your hard drive. Syatem Mechanic deletes junk files routinely as part of the auto scan. Could your problem be hidden Windows files? Is your Explorer set to display hidden files? Scott -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Max Dillon Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 8:37 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: [MBZ] OT infected computer? I'm suspicious that something has infected my home computer. What AV tools do you guys recommend for cleaning up? I really don't want to reload the OS. Hard disc has recently become nearly full, 90+ GB used out of 100 available. Hard drive light was on almost continuously, but computer performance didn't seem too bad, for a five year old laptop. Using windows explorer, it appears that I can only account for about 60 GB on the HD; 35 GB for users and a little over 20 for the windows system. Yesterday I made a concerted effort to clean up the HD. Deleted a bunch of software I didn't need, used the disk clean up utility and also defrag. Had the disk size down to 82 GB or less, HD light back to normal behavior. This a.m., disk size is back to 92 GB! -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer?
Not hidden files, thought of that and un-hid them, they only account for a few percent of the hard drive space in use. -Max -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Scott Ritchey Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 3:12 PM To: 'Mercedes Discussion List' Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer? Avira (pay version but free one avail too) and Spybot. I also use System Mechanic for general maintenance. Avira has a feature where you can burn an image to CD (or usb stick) and boot a a Linux version of Avira from the CD (or usb) to scan the PC. This bypasses any mayware that might be on your hard drive. Syatem Mechanic deletes junk files routinely as part of the auto scan. Could your problem be hidden Windows files? Is your Explorer set to display hidden files? Scott -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Max Dillon Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 8:37 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: [MBZ] OT infected computer? I'm suspicious that something has infected my home computer. What AV tools do you guys recommend for cleaning up? I really don't want to reload the OS. Hard disc has recently become nearly full, 90+ GB used out of 100 available. Hard drive light was on almost continuously, but computer performance didn't seem too bad, for a five year old laptop. Using windows explorer, it appears that I can only account for about 60 GB on the HD; 35 GB for users and a little over 20 for the windows system. Yesterday I made a concerted effort to clean up the HD. Deleted a bunch of software I didn't need, used the disk clean up utility and also defrag. Had the disk size down to 82 GB or less, HD light back to normal behavior. This a.m., disk size is back to 92 GB! -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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Sorry, OS is Vista Home Premium. So now that Spybot SD has found a bunch of minor stuff and cleaned it, no change to the HD space and now I'm getting pop-up ads when using Firefox. May be time to save all user data, wipe and re-load the OS, but I am going to give Malwarebytes a chance first. -Max -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Curt Raymond Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 12:26 PM To: Diesel List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer? You didn't say what OS. I've been using Microsoft Security Essentials which seems to work pretty well. Boot into safemode, update and run. Same advice with Malwarebytes. For extra stuff look for temp directories in the Windows directory. -Curt Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 08:36:58 -0500 From: Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: [MBZ] OT infected computer? Message-ID: 3c0f9f4d-fe65-4faa-9141-af27ab541...@email.android.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I'm suspicious that something has infected my home computer. What AV tools do you guys recommend for cleaning up? I really don't want to reload the OS. Hard disc has recently become nearly full, 90+ GB used out of 100 available. Hard drive light was on almost continuously, but computer performance didn't seem too bad, for a five year old laptop. Using windows explorer, it appears that I can only account for about 60 GB on the HD; 35 GB for users and a little over 20 for the windows system. Yesterday I made a concerted effort to clean up the HD. Deleted a bunch of software I didn't need, used the disk clean up utility and also defrag. Had the disk size down to 82 GB or less, HD light back to normal behavior. This a.m., disk size is back to 92 GB! -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer?
Max Dillon wrote: Using windows explorer, it appears that I can only account for about 60 GB on the HD; 35 GB for users and a little over 20 for the windows system. I have often used a little utility called DirSize that shows a simple tree with the folders sorted by size. It makes it easy to identify where the disk-hog is. I think this is the one I have. :) http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/BF-DirSize.shtml For keeping a system clean, I like to include WinPatrol as it alerts me when there is a change to system files and directories. http://www.winpatrol.com/ I haven't even had to clean an infected MSWin system, so I have no advise for you there... --Philip ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer?
17 minutes into a Malware Bytes quick scan, 10 objects detected, scan still running. Incidentally, reading their FAQ I learned that running the scan from safe mode is not recommended, as some infections will not be found. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote: You didn't say what OS. I've been using Microsoft Security Essentials which seems to work pretty well. Boot into safemode, update and run. Same advice with Malwarebytes. For extra stuff look for temp directories in the Windows directory. -Curt Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 08:36:58 -0500 From: Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: [MBZ] OT infected computer? Message-ID: 3c0f9f4d-fe65-4faa-9141-af27ab541...@email.android.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I'm suspicious that something has infected my home computer. What AV tools do you guys recommend for cleaning up? I really don't want to reload the OS. Hard disc has recently become nearly full, 90+ GB used out of 100 available. Hard drive light was on almost continuously, but computer performance didn't seem too bad, for a five year old laptop. Using windows explorer, it appears that I can only account for about 60 GB on the HD; 35 GB for users and a little over 20 for the windows system. Yesterday I made a concerted effort to clean up the HD. Deleted a bunch of software I didn't need, used the disk clean up utility and also defrag. Had the disk size down to 82 GB or less, HD light back to normal behavior. This a.m., disk size is back to 92 GB! ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer?
Not to be a smart*** but one well known winders author and tech said it best. Wissta IS a virus. Only he pronounced it the way BillG does. I figgered that should be good for a laugh although its not very funny to you right now. Sorry, OS is Vista Home Premium. -Max ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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Good one Philip. I have not seen that one before. Max Dillon wrote: Using windows explorer, it appears that I can only account for about 60 GB on the HD; 35 GB for users and a little over 20 for the windows system. I have often used a little utility called DirSize that shows a simple tree with the folders sorted by size. It makes it easy to identify where the disk-hog is. I think this is the one I have. :) http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/BF-DirSize.shtml For keeping a system clean, I like to include WinPatrol as it alerts me when there is a change to system files and directories. http://www.winpatrol.com/ I haven't even had to clean an infected MSWin system, so I have no advise for you there... --Philip ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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Firefox (and any add-ins) might be the problem. I watch FF system usage on my Mac, when I first start it the memory usage is like 400MB, after restarting a coupla hours ago it is now up to 784.5MB, in a while it will be over 1GB with not a lot going on. Sometimes it starts using over 100% of one or more CPUs (there are 4 cores). I don't think it is wrting a lot to disk so that is not an issue, but FF seems to be a huge resource hog these days, and badly behaved. Some script in Facebook regularly crashes in FF too, which locks up FF for a few seconds. Other things seem to randomly lock up FF too for a few to several seconds. I killed a coupla add-ins and it is a little better but still does not play well. All that says you might want to look at FF and your add-ins, something might be acting badly. Then on top of Winders... it might start junking up your drive with something? --R On 2/18/13 3:42 PM, Max Dillon wrote: So now that Spybot SD has found a bunch of minor stuff and cleaned it, no change to the HD space and now I'm getting pop-up ads when using Firefox. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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Max for best results with Malwarebytes run it in the Safe Mode and do a Full Scan On 2/18/2013 14:42, Max Dillon wrote: Sorry, OS is Vista Home Premium. So now that Spybot SD has found a bunch of minor stuff and cleaned it, no change to the HD space and now I'm getting pop-up ads when using Firefox. May be time to save all user data, wipe and re-load the OS, but I am going to give Malwarebytes a chance first. -Max ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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Max Dillon wrote: 17 minutes into a Malware Bytes quick scan, 10 objects detected, scan still running. Malwarebytes finds everything, including relatively innocuous tracking cookies. Try a full scan which looks at every file on the hard drive. How cluttered is your system? I'm used to spending 3 minutes on a quick scan or an hour on a full scan. Mitch. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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Yes, may look for a copy of XP pro, or Vista Pro, if I need to reload the OS. This mid-price HP laptop has performed faithful service for almost five years, one of those while I was deployed to Iraq. If I finally need to reload the OS now, really can't complain. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote: Not to be a smart*** but one well known winders author and tech said it best. Wissta IS a virus. Only he pronounced it the way BillG does. I figgered that should be good for a laugh although its not very funny to you right now. Sorry, OS is Vista Home Premium. -Max ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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What do you recommend in place of FF? -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net wrote: Firefox (and any add-ins) might be the problem. I watch FF system usage on my Mac, when I first start it the memory usage is like 400MB, after restarting a coupla hours ago it is now up to 784.5MB, in a while it will be over 1GB with not a lot going on. Sometimes it starts using over 100% of one or more CPUs (there are 4 cores). I don't think it is wrting a lot to disk so that is not an issue, but FF seems to be a huge resource hog these days, and badly behaved. Some script in Facebook regularly crashes in FF too, which locks up FF for a few seconds. Other things seem to randomly lock up FF too for a few to several seconds. I killed a coupla add-ins and it is a little better but still does not play well. All that says you might want to look at FF and your add-ins, something might be acting badly. Then on top of Winders... it might start junking up your drive with something? --R On 2/18/13 3:42 PM, Max Dillon wrote: So now that Spybot SD has found a bunch of minor stuff and cleaned it, no change to the HD space and now I'm getting pop-up ads when using Firefox. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer?
May try that after normal mode, but their FAQ says normal mode scan will find more than safe mode. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 Russ Williams rawil...@eatel.net wrote: Max for best results with Malwarebytes run it in the Safe Mode and do a Full Scan On 2/18/2013 14:42, Max Dillon wrote: Sorry, OS is Vista Home Premium. So now that Spybot SD has found a bunch of minor stuff and cleaned it, no change to the HD space and now I'm getting pop-up ads when using Firefox. May be time to save all user data, wipe and re-load the OS, but I am going to give Malwarebytes a chance first. -Max ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer?
Everyone has their favorite protective programs. Here's mine: Crapcleaner: Run it daily. Solves many problems Zonealarm: Firewall catches most viruses and malware Avg Free Antivirus: Catches viruses/malware that get past Zonealarm Malwarebytes: Run it occasionally Tried Security Essentials and it let viruses through on several occasions. Microsoft occasionally turns it on when they download security patches and I turn it off when I happen to catch it although it seems compatible with above programs. Results? I never have virus/malware problems. Computer repair guy told me to always try the simplest fixes first. On Windows, the simplest fix is to go back to a previous date before the problem started. Gerry From: Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net Sorry, OS is Vista Home Premium. So now that Spybot SD has found a bunch of minor stuff and cleaned it, no change to the HD space and now I'm getting pop-up ads when using Firefox. May be time to save all user data, wipe and re-load the OS, but I am going to give Malwarebytes a chance first. -Max -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Curt Raymond Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 12:26 PM To: Diesel List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer? You didn't say what OS. I've been using Microsoft Security Essentials which seems to work pretty well. Boot into safemode, update and run. Same advice with Malwarebytes. For extra stuff look for temp directories in the Windows directory. -Curt Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 08:36:58 -0500 From: Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: [MBZ] OT infected computer? Message-ID: 3c0f9f4d-fe65-4faa-9141-af27ab541...@email.android.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I'm suspicious that something has infected my home computer. What AV tools do you guys recommend for cleaning up? I really don't want to reload the OS. Hard disc has recently become nearly full, 90+ GB used out of 100 available. Hard drive light was on almost continuously, but computer performance didn't seem too bad, for a five year old laptop. Using windows explorer, it appears that I can only account for about 60 GB on the HD; 35 GB for users and a little over 20 for the windows system. Yesterday I made a concerted effort to clean up the HD. Deleted a bunch of software I didn't need, used the disk clean up utility and also defrag. Had the disk size down to 82 GB or less, HD light back to normal behavior. This a.m., disk size is back to 92 GB! -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2238 / Virus Database: 2639/5613 - Release Date: 02/18/13 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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I've uncluttered as much as I can, shed about 7GB yesterday, problem is something keeps filling up the HD. Knocked it down from 90+ GB to about 83 GB, this morning something had filled it back up to 93 GB. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote: Max Dillon wrote: 17 minutes into a Malware Bytes quick scan, 10 objects detected, scan still running. Malwarebytes finds everything, including relatively innocuous tracking cookies. Try a full scan which looks at every file on the hard drive. How cluttered is your system? I'm used to spending 3 minutes on a quick scan or an hour on a full scan. Mitch. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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Gerry, that is a great idea, I completely forgot about system restore. Definitely worth a try. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 Gerry Archer arche...@embarqmail.com wrote: Everyone has their favorite protective programs. Here's mine: Crapcleaner: Run it daily. Solves many problems Zonealarm: Firewall catches most viruses and malware Avg Free Antivirus: Catches viruses/malware that get past Zonealarm Malwarebytes: Run it occasionally Tried Security Essentials and it let viruses through on several occasions. Microsoft occasionally turns it on when they download security patches and I turn it off when I happen to catch it although it seems compatible with above programs. Results? I never have virus/malware problems. Computer repair guy told me to always try the simplest fixes first. On Windows, the simplest fix is to go back to a previous date before the problem started. Gerry From: Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net Sorry, OS is Vista Home Premium. So now that Spybot SD has found a bunch of minor stuff and cleaned it, no change to the HD space and now I'm getting pop-up ads when using Firefox. May be time to save all user data, wipe and re-load the OS, but I am going to give Malwarebytes a chance first. -Max -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Curt Raymond Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 12:26 PM To: Diesel List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer? You didn't say what OS. I've been using Microsoft Security Essentials which seems to work pretty well. Boot into safemode, update and run. Same advice with Malwarebytes. For extra stuff look for temp directories in the Windows directory. -Curt Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 08:36:58 -0500 From: Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: [MBZ] OT infected computer? Message-ID: 3c0f9f4d-fe65-4faa-9141-af27ab541...@email.android.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I'm suspicious that something has infected my home computer. What AV tools do you guys recommend for cleaning up? I really don't want to reload the OS. Hard disc has recently become nearly full, 90+ GB used out of 100 available. Hard drive light was on almost continuously, but computer performance didn't seem too bad, for a five year old laptop. Using windows explorer, it appears that I can only account for about 60 GB on the HD; 35 GB for users and a little over 20 for the windows system. Yesterday I made a concerted effort to clean up the HD. Deleted a bunch of software I didn't need, used the disk clean up utility and also defrag. Had the disk size down to 82 GB or less, HD light back to normal behavior. This a.m., disk size is back to 92 GB! -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2238 / Virus Database: 2639/5613 - Release Date: 02/18/13 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer?
It might be worth checking to see if you can get a copy of Win7 cheap on eBay. I made images of identical machines at work, Vista made a 28GB image (using clonezilla), Win7 took 8GB... -Curt Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:33:05 -0600 From: Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer? Message-ID: a06240833cd484de4b807@[192.168.1.51] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ; format=flowed Not to be a smart*** but one well known winders author and tech said it best. Wissta IS a virus. Only he pronounced it the way BillG does. I figgered that should be good for a laugh although its not very funny to you right now. Sorry, OS is Vista Home Premium. -Max ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer?
I suspect you'll actually want to run it twice, once from SafeMode (where many nasties will be disabled) and again in normal mode where some of the nasties that were invisible in safemode reappear. The problem in running it just from normal mode is the nasties that target Malwarebytes specifically... -Curt Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:13:45 -0600 From: Russ Williams rawil...@eatel.net To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer? Message-ID: 5122a799.9030...@eatel.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Max for best results with Malwarebytes run it in the Safe Mode and do a Full Scan On 2/18/2013 14:42, Max Dillon wrote: Sorry, OS is Vista Home Premium. So now that Spybot SD has found a bunch of minor stuff and cleaned it, no change to the HD space and now I'm getting pop-up ads when using Firefox. May be time to save all user data, wipe and re-load the OS, but I am going to give Malwarebytes a chance first. -Max ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer?
Thought about that, not sure if SWMBO would survive the upgrade. Going from XP to Vista was tough, would have to approach that one carefully. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote: It might be worth checking to see if you can get a copy of Win7 cheap on eBay. I made images of identical machines at work, Vista made a 28GB image (using clonezilla), Win7 took 8GB... -Curt Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:33:05 -0600 From: Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer? Message-ID: a06240833cd484de4b807@[192.168.1.51] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ; format=flowed Not to be a smart*** but one well known winders author and tech said it best. Wissta IS a virus. Only he pronounced it the way BillG does. I figgered that should be good for a laugh although its not very funny to you right now. Sorry, OS is Vista Home Premium. -Max ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer?
Good info though, thanks. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote: It might be worth checking to see if you can get a copy of Win7 cheap on eBay. I made images of identical machines at work, Vista made a 28GB image (using clonezilla), Win7 took 8GB... -Curt Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:33:05 -0600 From: Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer? Message-ID: a06240833cd484de4b807@[192.168.1.51] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ; format=flowed Not to be a smart*** but one well known winders author and tech said it best. Wissta IS a virus. Only he pronounced it the way BillG does. I figgered that should be good for a laugh although its not very funny to you right now. Sorry, OS is Vista Home Premium. -Max ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer?
The FAQ may be right BUT I've done 100's of disinfection's with it and found running it in Safe Mode first then in Normal mode gets the job done better. If you got infected with Malware don't blame your Anti Virus program they aren't programed to remove them Most do an excellent job of stopping viruses, BTW Micro$ofts rating from Excellent in Oct to Poor in Nov and hasn't been recommended since then. This comes from AV-Test.org. You can see their latest report from Dec here: http://www.av-test.org/en/tests/home-user/windows-7/novdec-2012/ Russ W. On 2/18/2013 17:34, Max Dillon wrote: May try that after normal mode, but their FAQ says normal mode scan will find more than safe mode. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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Never upgrade your OS, format and reinstall. As for SWMBO, don't tell her and she might not notice. Win7 is Vista but good... -Curt Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:15:53 -0500 From: Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer? Message-ID: 72622dc7-9b14-4921-9797-a80a89cff...@email.android.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Thought about that, not sure if SWMBO would survive the upgrade. Going from XP to Vista was tough, would have to approach that one carefully. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote: It might be worth checking to see if you can get a copy of Win7 cheap on eBay. I made images of identical machines at work, Vista made a 28GB image (using clonezilla), Win7 took 8GB... -Curt ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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Another one we use is called Windirstat. Great tool for identifying what is taking up your hard drive space. Dan Sent from my iPad On Feb 18, 2013, at 3:51 PM, Fmiser fmi...@gmail.com wrote: Max Dillon wrote: Using windows explorer, it appears that I can only account for about 60 GB on the HD; 35 GB for users and a little over 20 for the windows system. I have often used a little utility called DirSize that shows a simple tree with the folders sorted by size. It makes it easy to identify where the disk-hog is. I think this is the one I have. :) http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/BF-DirSize.shtml For keeping a system clean, I like to include WinPatrol as it alerts me when there is a change to system files and directories. http://www.winpatrol.com/ I haven't even had to clean an infected MSWin system, so I have no advise for you there... --Philip ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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Vista to W7 is a fraction of the trauma that XP to Vista was --- my SWMBO barely noticed. On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.netwrote: Thought about that, not sure if SWMBO would survive the upgrade. Going from XP to Vista was tough, would have to approach that one carefully. -- OK Don 2001 ML320 2012 Passat TDI DSG 1957 C182A ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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I think you can still set W7 to the classic(winders 2000) or bubblegum interface. I set everything to classic. Not as annoying as bubblegum or imitation Mac. Vista to W7 is a fraction of the trauma that XP to Vista was --- my SWMBO barely noticed. On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.netwrote: Thought about that, not sure if SWMBO would survive the upgrade. Going from XP to Vista was tough, would have to approach that one carefully. -- OK Don 2001 ML320 2012 Passat TDI DSG 1957 C182A ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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BTW Micro$ofts rating from Excellent in Oct to Poor in Nov and hasn't been recommended since then. This comes from AV-Test.org. You can see their latest report from Dec here: http://www.av-test.org/en/tests/home-user/windows-7/novdec-2012/ Russ W. Hmmm. Interesting. How the mighty fall. Wonder if there is a bottom for them to splatter on. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
