RE: Weird machine issue (home user)

2011-07-06 Thread John Aldrich
Yeah... well, it'll be up to the user... :D -Original Message- From: kz2...@googlemail.com [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 2:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Weird machine issue (home user) There may be things that no one has discovere

Re: Weird machine issue (home user)

2011-07-06 Thread kz20fl
To: NT System Admin Issues Reply-To: "NT System Admin Issues" Subject: RE: Weird machine issue (home user) That was my thought, but I ran TDSSKiller and it didn't find anything... *shrug* I'm sure there are other rootkits, but Vipre Home Premium is loaded on there as is M

RE: Weird machine issue (home user)

2011-07-06 Thread Kennedy, Jim
msn.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 1:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Weird machine issue (home user) There are a ton of rootkits out there - the purpose of each is to avoid detection - just because you can't find it does not mean it is not present. Shauna Hensala > F

RE: Weird machine issue (home user)

2011-07-06 Thread John Aldrich
PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Weird machine issue (home user) There are a ton of rootkits out there - the purpose of each is to avoid detection - just because you can't find it does not mean it is not present. Shauna Hensala > From: jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.co

RE: Weird machine issue (home user)

2011-07-06 Thread Shauna Hensala
There are a ton of rootkits out there - the purpose of each is to avoid detection - just because you can't find it does not mean it is not present. Shauna Hensala > From: jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com > To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com > Subject: RE: Weird machine is

RE: Weird machine issue (home user)

2011-07-06 Thread Shauna Hensala
'standard' troubleshooting measures to complete but you make no mention of having run through any of them so it is hard to know where to start. Shauna Hensala > From: jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com > To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com > Subject: RE: Weird machine issue

RE: Weird machine issue (home user)

2011-07-06 Thread John Aldrich
PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Weird machine issue (home user) This is sounding more and more like a root kit of some sort! -- richard "John Aldrich" wrote on 07/06/2011 12:38:41 PM: > Another thing is that when you go to add/remove programs, it never shows any > pro

RE: Weird machine issue (home user)

2011-07-06 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 1:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Weird machine issue (home user) Another thing is that when you go to add/remove programs, it never shows any programs in there... not sure if it's "hidden"

RE: Weird machine issue (home user)

2011-07-06 Thread RichardMcClary
This is sounding more and more like a root kit of some sort! -- richard "John Aldrich" wrote on 07/06/2011 12:38:41 PM: > Another thing is that when you go to add/remove programs, it never shows any > programs in there... not sure if it's "hidden" or if it's just so slow it's > taking too lon

Re: Weird machine issue (home user)

2011-07-06 Thread kz20fl
Sounds well dodgy. Nuke it from orbit. Sent from my POS BlackBerry wireless device, which may wipe itself at any moment -Original Message- From: "John Aldrich" Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 13:38:41 To: NT System Admin Issues Reply-To: "NT System Admin Issues" Subjec

RE: Weird machine issue (home user)

2011-07-06 Thread John Aldrich
Another thing is that when you go to add/remove programs, it never shows any programs in there... not sure if it's "hidden" or if it's just so slow it's taking too long to show. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 10:

Re: Weird machine issue (home user)

2011-07-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue July 5 2011, you wrote: > Back the profile up to a external drive scan it from a clean machine. > fdisk /mbr and format the drive, do a clean install and updates and > antivirus updated then restore the data. Only then can you be sure that > you didn't miss something and ask for repeat work.

re: Weird machine issue (home user)

2011-07-05 Thread techconnect
Back the profile up to a external drive scan it from a clean machine. fdisk /mbr and format the drive, do a clean install and updates and antivirus updated then restore the data. Only then can you be sure that you didn't miss something and ask for repeat work. jason One of my former co-workers

Re: Weird machine issue (home user)

2011-07-05 Thread Jon Harris
Have you cleared his Internet cache, have you checked the hard drive for space and fragmentation, and have you checked that they did not just delete an installed file instead of removing it? I always try looking at the simple things and go from there where possible. It does sound like an infectio