yeah, but danniboy said he didnt want to spend too much, so i found one thats cheap as chips :P

i personally have an audigy 2 zs platinum pro, and its fantastic (need new speakers... the boost the...

havent done either yet caper, i'll give them a go in a bit. its getting late (early?) now, so im gonna get some sleep.

but just to keep you all posted, the firewall message hasnt came up since,...

mostly just to keep you all updated on my progress (gosh, im proud of myself for not just letting someone else do it for me :D ) i seem to have got rid of the adsnp.dll thing all together now, well,...

i've done some research, after many more scans with many more programs, and found i have a problem


its called adsnp.dll

google yields very few results on this (less than 1 pages worth), but i...

from what i can see, its not compatible with 5.1, i think you'd have more audio jacks than places to put them.

and... .... not too much apparently.. :D

check this one out.....

i guess thats a collective 'no' :(

i have but one message for any gamers who may frequent this forum- NEVER buy an audigy 2 zs platinum pro! (stick with your live 1024's ... )

im gonna kill my housemates.

dunno what they were lookin at, but occasionally, and only occasionally, i get a linked to a casino website telling me i can 'play with nude girls' (much to my fiancés...

i've already tried that Danniboy, to no avail. also, its definately not the software, as i've tried preventing that from starting, so its just the drivers that initialise, and it still changes to...

ok, here's my trouble.
i've tried using my (less and less extensive, apparently) knowledge to fix this problem.

whenever i run pretty much anything that uses a microphone, an online game, a...

hi guys, im fixing a PC, and it wont let me gain access to any .exe file, the only thing i can notice that could cause this problem is a reg key called 'restrictanonymous' the type is 'reg_dword' and...

after that post, i tried on normal mode to remove the stuff in HJT again, then do an immediate restart, here's the new log which looks clean to my n00bian eyes...

Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7...

Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 17:11:08, on 11/07/2004
Platform: Windows 2000 SP4 (WinNT 5.00.2195)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)

Running processes:...

ok, here's what I've done to try and get rid of it:

ran adaware (custom settings to suggested on here), CWShredder, Spybot S&D, the free internet virus search thingemy (cant remember the name),...

its definately gone, but i dont think i'll ever know how i got infected in the first place, since my brother was the one on the PC at the time of infection, he realised what he'd done and cleared the...

Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 23:29:38, on 02/06/2004
Platform: Windows 2000 SP4 (WinNT 5.00.2195)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)

Running processes:...

hmm.. odd.

i just got the Casino pop up again, and the 'sexdial' shortcut on my desktop, however, that usually prompted a change in the homepage too, but this time, it hasnt for whatever reason.
...

Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 11:34:27, on 02/06/2004
Platform: Windows 2000 SP4 (WinNT 5.00.2195)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)

Running processes:...

Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 10:15:46, on 02/06/2004
Platform: Windows 2000 SP4 (WinNT 5.00.2195)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)

Running processes:...

I'm on windows 2k Pro, SP4, Explorer 6, SP1.

the problem im having is unknown as to how it started, my older brother was looking at some... 'sites' and now i have a casino popup, my homepage wont...