Well I have the DVD drive at the top in case I ever need to use my Ubuntu live CD, but it has been that way for at least a year, and I could have CDs in the drive without a problem. I was just...

I have been having trouble upon bootup of my XP running desktop. Lately (past month), if there is any removable storage device plugged in (ie memory card plugged into the port on the printer, cd in...

You have 9 billiard balls. They are all the same weight, save one. You want to find out which one is heavier. All you have is a scale that determines the heavier side. You can weigh any number of...

How do I manipulate the bytes if they are stored as chars?

What I am planning on doing is bitwise operation on the 8 bytes read in from the file. I was thinking of converting the 8 bytes to an integer value, then I remembered ints in windows are 4 bytes. Is...

Thank you. I do have one question though. What does the ios::binary do, does that translate the hex digits into binary when read into the buffer?

I am writing an implementation of a DES encryption with a 64 bit plaintext, taken from the pixel information in a BMP file. So I want to skip the header which is 54 bytes, but I am not sure how to do...

Well I fixed it. Apparently it was the NVidia Driver I was using, it was a beta that conflicted with VS2008, so I reverted to a more stable version. Haven't had the problem yet so I'm going to mark...

I'm here. But I am at class right now so I don't have access to my computer until about 3pm EST.

Just ran scandisk and it finished with no errors.

I am getting a Blue screen of death when I use steam to install games. It started yesterday when I tried to play a game while I was installing Visual Studio 2008, it flashed a blue screen for a split...

Running Ubuntu Intrepid. Installed Dansguardian recently. When I try to start or restart dansguardian, I get the following error:

micah@micah-ubulaptop:~$ dansguardian
Unable to getgrnam():...

NP

OK it seems like everything is working great now. After I ran combofix and SDFix the taskmanager was enabled and explorer stopped committing suicide repeatedly.

I ran MBAM twice. First time I ran...

Great news. I renamed combofix and its working. So currently I am running combofix. Should I run any of the other files too when it finishes?

I have attatched the log file.

I will try that when I get out of work this evening. Thanks for the help guys.

One other thing I didnt mention, is that the next to the clock on the start bar, it says VIRUS ALERT. I will try the zip file and if that doesnt work ill tell my neighbor he may have to just shell...

Dont have any of those files.

Same issue with SDFix as with other exe files.

Ok. I killed explorer.exe then tried to run the files, still didnt work.

Then I ran the regfix file, which was successful. Then I moved the files I wanted to run to the desktop and tried to run...

Ill try and do that tomorrow morning before classes. Thanks gerbil.

Download signed ActiveX controls is set to prompt, still wont show up.
And I tried running combofix and also spybot search and destroy from the desktop as well as from the flash drive. Nothing has...

I was able to delete privacy danger with unlocker

Combofix still doesnt work.
I have been running the file from the thumbdrive and I tried draggng to the desktop

TM still does not work in...

In case the last post didn't attach it here;s the showkey file.

When I tried to delete privacy_danger under administrator it said Access is Denied

I have attatched the showkey file

I ran cleaner on both accounts with no problem.

However (yes another...

I ran hijack again but I couldnt find the privacy_danger\index.htm. There is a folder called privacy_danger but it doesnt include the index.htm file. However I am still having no luck with executing...

Does it matter whether I am in safe mode to do these things? Because thats the only way I can get to the task manager through the administrator username. Its blocked in normal mode under the only...

Here's the hijack this log for after I removed the dll files.
Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2

Scan saved at 17:29: VIRUS ALERT!, on 9/26/2008

Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT...

This virus is a pain in the butt. I deleted all the files, in the 15 seconds that I could open explorer to get to the folder to delete them, one by one, it took about 10 minutes.

Then anytime I...

I downloaded both exe files 2 seperate times and tried executing each of them, however the computer will not execute them. When I double click or if I do the run command on them it gives me the...

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When I get home from class today I will run the antivirus and HT and post the logs. Thanks for your help.

My neighbor asked me to fix his computer because "its not working"

What I have discovered is that explorer.exe continually restarts itself every 10 seconds or so.
There is a main user name which...

I am writing a program for a class (group project) that is a math quiz game for students. Each form is a new question so I have forms named Question1.cs, Question2.cs, etc.
There are three choices...

That did not work, it came up with the same error.

My computer keeps trying to download the automatic update for SP2 even though the computer thinks it is already installed. If you go to My Computer / Properties it says that SP2 is already installed,...

I can get to that file when I boot up linux, so I can move and edit any files I want, just not in windows.

i guess i will have to wait 2 weeks to get home to get the cd

The thing is, I think it would be easy if I could just find out which files to put in the windows folder. I am currently running linux on the same machine as we speak and I have full access to the HD...

no i cant start in any mode

On boot up. When I select to boot up Windows it comes up with the error "Windows cannot boot because a file is missing or corrupted in
WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/CONFIG/SYSTEM
It does not boot up at all. If...

So yeah, it happened.
Here's my issue, I don't have the CD of windows. I may be able to get a copy later this week but I was wondering if, since I DO have Ubuntu installed and can run that and...