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 | It does pay, once in a blue moon, to check AV review and test sites. Windows Defender is non-competitive, ranks lowly because it is basic protection. Try av-comparitives for objective tests and comparisons, or "commercial" sites for somewhat subjective reviews (that is just the nature of their reviews). If you …  |
 | I think, Dani, that it is around about now that you should consider introducing a lock to threads older than, say, one month, with perhaps a special request from the OP needed to enable reinstatement. Yes, I know there is that long-running whopper commenced by HappyGeek about the life, times … |
| | Run diskcheck: choose your system partition (C: ?), rclick it and select Properties > Tools > Error checking. Restart your sys and wait until it completes the checking, and continues into Windows. |
| | Neat. It locked you out so you couldn't change it back. Shouldn't it do that? |
| | ...i missed this thread in the early stages... and there is a key.. naturally.. but i guess u do not need it now...  |
| | Well, hats off to Symantec for proving that average is not beyond reach.  |
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| | heck, even cheaper than a elect contractor is a wired mouse. five bucks tops from a cheapo store? buying one to see if it eliminates your problem would be a great n obvious first step. the transmission from a wireless mouse is digital, encoded randomly, limited to about 4m range, …  |
| | Re: Dark Web Down? "a worldwide swoop on ‘dark net’ sites. Some 16 masterminds of such sites have been arrested in an exercise that also took down more than 400 ‘dark net’ websites and servers." Which is why a lot of onion sites are down...? Locating the servers... was it really as "simple" as …  |
| | XP-SP3. I use it, it does everything that I require of it. Now in that I do not see a reason for change. Security? I just don't get hit, but then, I don't trawl the darker corners of the web. Change to Vista? Not going to happen. W7? Why? |
| | When a lappie does that it is almost always a heat problem. If you must use it on your lap, keep your legs apart. On a desk - prop it at the back. Still does it, then pop off the base cover around the fan and heatsink and remove the …  |
 | The last two links in that article by Symantec's boss are the important take-away, I think, JM, and are buried in: "check out PCWorld's guides to building the ultimate free security suite and how to protect yourself against the web's most dangerous security traps." http://www.pcworld.com/article/2050339/how-to-build-the-ultimate-pc-security-suite-for-free.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/2048726/how-to-protect-your-pc-against-devious-security-traps.html |
| | Perhaps you could post a list of the files in your Malwarebytes and AV bins, in order for us to see what was corrupted but important. On another system please download Farbar Service Scanner to a UFD; run the program on your unconnected system and present the report here. http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/farbar-service-scanner/ |
| | You're being mean on Sony, rubberman. Can I be sure you're not in N Korea?  |
| | google... gerbil... close enough, so I'll bite. Yes, it is, the driver is suitable for XP 32 bit. You did load the driver? Is the printer showing in your network? Time to load the help cd into your machine.  |
| | I rather like the NSA... they're so out there in forward thinking. So turn it all off, RJ, and watch some tv. But be careful to only pass notes between yourselves.... |
 | sudo dd if=./linuxmint-17.1-cinnamon-64bit.iso of=/dev/sdd bs=1M You copied a file (image) to a device, not a partition - everything under the iso is hosed, the partition table has been rewritten. Why do they nick dd the data destroyer? beats me... Anyway.... Linux conforms to the ntfs spec, so the backup table … |
| | Yes, there is. But it is encoded, and you cannot see the contents of the Security hive from within windows. Pretty much all you could do is delete it, anyway, and there are much easier ways of doing that if you are in windows already.  |
| | These often come in on some plugin or extension, addon that you have installed, perhaps unknowingly with some other software or webpage you visited. You can check your plugins, uninstall and delete those you don't need or use, or you can run AdwCleaner by Xplode (free). Read the simple instructions … |
| | Hello, galena. Is this a computer running Vista? |
| | Simply, import it. You would wisely export your own data and clear the decks first to avoid confusion. Or, if it's not your .pst, then in a VM. Any burner will handle the copy to dvd; decent burners allow for integrity checks on the burn (read/compare). |
| | I think winlogon is trying to load, but registry reads are faulting. And that's the end of it. Mucaa, restart your system and immediately press F8 several times to get into the Windows Advanced Options screen (black, with white print). Choose Safe Mode - as it prepares to load you … |
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| | Or, if this is the password that you set in BIOS then pulling the CMOS battery in a computer of the vintage likely to be running XP for several seconds should null it. |
 | I have used Comodo's firewall for years, still do, on XP which I use 99% of the time. W7 just aggravates me... it's the other 1%. Comodo's firewall is just great, runs alongside Avast's AV only. But I got CF when it was purely that, not a firewall packaged with … |
 | Re: PASSWORD UNLOCK Everything that is legal you will find here: http://forum.xda-developers.com I don't know from your post whether you are attempting to unlock someone's PW, or to unlock from a provider. Certainly they will guide you to unlocking from a provider. But then, often too, will the provider if you pay a … |
| | Urg. Could be anything. Dry solder joints are more common than you would like to believe. A tiny trace of corrosion around low power joints, hydrated salts remaining from cheap flux, dodgy connectors, the mb monitor chip, the ps's controller chips. Tap those chips briskly with a pen - they … |
| | "One caveat is that not all of Youtube's contributors are experts." That sounds awfully sweeping.... there's a utube of a russian showing how to stop the clingfilm roll leaping out of the box when you pull the film, and well, he's basically nailed it. He demonstrates how you should push … |
 | Re: VIDEO HARDWARE Could be any of three or four things... -dust-laden heatsinks - brush and vacuum/blow clean -driver software corrupted - reload it. -faulty RAM - test it with Memtest86+ -faulty video card - stress test it with Furmark I'd probably do those things in that order. Putting the worse news toward … |
 | Ye-es... but somewhat slowly cos of not much RAM, and a slow CPU. But there are tablets designed for W8 specced like your system. |