Posts by alc6379

I had the same problem, but got rid of it. You have to download a virus program at www.kaspersky.com. You should not have any other virus program when you run it.It takes VERY long time to scan your pc, and after that you use hijack and remove any referanse to about:blank.
Good luck to you all

Can anyone else confirm this fix? Does kaspersky's antivirus take care of this?

okay... here's what I've found... maybe others will find more, or disagree with me, but here goes...

Lose these:
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,SearchAssistant = about:blank
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {000020DD-C72E-4113-AF77-DD56626C6C42} - (no file)
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {2E9CAFF6-30C7-4208-8807-E79D4EC6F806} - C:\Program Files\Submit\submithook.dll
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {D1BFEC24-B586-E127-595E-0E71235E38BB} - C:\WINDOWS\system32\winng.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [P2P Networking] C:\WINDOWS\System32\P2P Networking\P2P Networking.exe /AUTOSTART
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [updmgr] C:\Program Files\Common files\updmgr\updmgr.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AltnetPointsManager] c:\program files\altnet\points manager\points manager.exe -s
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [KAZAA] C:\Documents and Settings\Matt\My Documents\My Music\kazaa.exe /SYSTRAY
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SAHAgent] C:\WINDOWS\System32\SahAgent.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [System Service] C:\WINDOWS\System32\msrexe.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Regsvc] C:\WINDOWS\system\regsv.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [ClrSchLoader] C:\PROGRA~1\Lycos\IEagent\Loader.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [timons] C:\WINDOWS\System32\timons.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [apiim32.exe] C:\WINDOWS\system32\apiim32.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [hododendronR] C:\WINDOWS\System32\hododendronR.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [CzUVdrO5X.exe] c:\documents and settings\matt\local settings\temp\CzUVdrO5X.exe

You definitely want to lose Kazaa. Filesharing's bad... mmmkay? ;) Besides that, it's well known to bring in a lot of crap (to be blunt) with it. Additionally, I'm not sure exactly what good Panicware's popup stopper is. I've used it, never been too impressed. YMMV, though.

If you've got a firewire or a USB 2.0 port, then you'll be in good shape, transfer rate- wise. From there, you can get whatever kind of hard drive you want, and you can really look into a fast hard drive to do your video capture on.

Since most external cases have a plain-old desktop hard drive in them, you could even go so far as to buy an empty external case, and then put whatever hard drive you'd like in there. As a matter of fact, there are even Serial ATA external cases, so you could even connect an SATA drive to your laptop via USB 2.0 or firewire.

You also need to have your system set to have CDROM set as '1st boot device' in BIOS setup.

Consult your motherboard manual for details, or report back here if you need help with making the change.

Nope.

On this model Dell, pressing F12 at boot invokes a Boot Device menu, allowing you to boot from the CD, floppy, or network at your will, without having to modify the CMOS configuration.

It's just a little more convenient than fooling with the BIOS, as you don't have to reset that option when you're done. :)

Try these prorat backdoor removal instructions:
http://www.pestpatrol.com/pestinfo/b/backdoor_prorat.asp

I'm just curious Alc6379, what was it about my post that made you think I had not already done my homework?

My apologies. I must have overlooked the statement preceding your log(s). I'm so used to members whose first post is, "Here's my HJT log-- FIX IT... FIX IT NOW! kthxbye!" Obviously, you're not one of those members, and I hope you'll accept my apologies.

So, on to my problem, or rather the solution to my problem. I will post here so others may benefit. Non of the automatic removal tools permantly got rid of CWS about blank. CWShredder found it cleaned it and it would come back. Norton Anti Virus found nothing. Ad-Aware would find and clean it, but it would come back, same with Spybot S&D. I tried the online checkup from TrendMicro, but it wouldn't run. In Caperjacks post to JohnCT with a similar problem he advised him to get beta-fix and post the log. Unfortunately, he hadn't said what to do with it until today. So, I did the same and it found a different file. Mine was ctlfo.dll . Apparantly a new variant. After removal, Trendmicro could run and did detect the file, "I put a copy in a harmless place just to see" So, as vicious as these things have become, I'm not sure if the high level tools are going to be much help in the future. I know I can't afford to spend this much time every time a customer get …

Like many other's, my IE6 has been hijacked by

<snip>

All the solutions to the res: problem that I've seen involve downloading a program to that computer. But I can't even access the internet from my laptop to download anything. I had to use my friend's computer just to be able to post. Does anyone know exactly what registry keys and files to look for so I can remove the problems "manually" in safe mode? I'm really new at this and I didn't even know what registry keys were until I started having this problem.

thanks in advance for help and input

"Like many others", eh?

If you cannot boot your system into normal mode, but you have access to another system, can you just burn the needed programs to CD, or copy them to a floppy? You should be able to run them in safe mode once you've got them downloaded.

Additionally, MSCONFIG works really well for disabling items in 98. Boot to Safe mode in 98, click on start, then Run, then punch in msconfig, and click OK. Click on the startup tab, and then click "Disable All". Click OK, then restart, and you should be able to at least get into Windows in Normal mode to do what you need to do. After running some type of spyware scanner or something, be sure to go back into MSCONFIG and enable what's left in there.

While waiting, please check out the link in my sig, about what you should do before posting a HiJackThis log.

In your case, you've posted two of them in the past few weeks. According to your last post, they keep in popping back up. While there's no rule about posting more than one HJT log, it does prove that HJT is not a tool to actually "fix" anything-- it can stop things, but it doesn't prevent anything, and it doesn't help with good computing practice in keeping this crap off of your system.

Like I said... check out the links in my sig about security-- after reading them, you may not even need any help from us!

i tried to remove them and they were still there when i immediately ran hjt again.

Even the second two I suggested?

If those are still showing up, you may want to consider backing up your data, reformatting your hard drive, and reinstalling Windows. There are occasions where you will run into pesky spyware like this that is just that difficult to fix...

Oh, this is not a virus scan. It's just checking if there's anything wrong with my hard drive. In any case, Disk Doctor won't run properly even in safe mode.

Fully realized from the outset that you're referencing a disk drive integrity check. What errors do you get from Safe Mode? Additionally, did you try my above suggestion?

Have you checked for spyware? Does it happen in other apps?

There are a number of things it could be. Let us know the answers to those two questions, and I'm sure we could help.

You have to pay REAL close attention to the CD.

As soon as you pick the option to boot from CD, it will say, "Press any key to boot from CD...". If you don't do that, it won't boot.

hrm... good question... I don't know offhand, but I did a quick Google search. Maybe it will help you:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22Math+forum%22

These need to be deleted:
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Bar = file://C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\sp.html
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page = file://C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\sp.html
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search,SearchAssistant = file://C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\sp.html
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Bar = file://C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\sp.html
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page = file://C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\sp.html
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search,SearchAssistant = file://C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\sp.html

and, I'd remove these, to see if it makes a difference:
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {549B5CA7-4A86-11D7-A4DF-000874180BB3} - (no file)
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {FDD3B846-8D59-4ffb-8758-209B6AD74ACC} - (no file)

I couldn't figure out what these do, but you can try removing them. If it doesn't work, run System restore or something, so you get these reg keys back.

I don't normally give direct help with HJT logs, but I am in this case because I've specifically run into this one, and it is a nasty to remove. First off, I know these entries are bad:

R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Bar = file://C:\DOCUME~1\Salih\LOCALS~1\Temp\sp.html
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page = file://C:\DOCUME~1\Salih\LOCALS~1\Temp\sp.html
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = about:blank
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search,SearchAssistant = file://C:\DOCUME~1\Salih\LOCALS~1\Temp\sp.html
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = about:blank
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Bar = file://C:\DOCUME~1\Salih\LOCALS~1\Temp\sp.html
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page = file://C:\DOCUME~1\Salih\LOCALS~1\Temp\sp.html
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search,SearchAssistant = file://C:\DOCUME~1\Salih\LOCALS~1\Temp\sp.html
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page_bak = http://www.socom2battles.com/
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,HomeOldSP = about:blank
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar,LinksFolderName =

And some of these look random, which would make me a little suspicious:

R3 - URLSearchHook: (no name) - {707E6F76-9FFB-4920-A976-EA101271BC25} - C:\Program Files\TV Media\TvmBho.dll
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {00A0A40C-F432-4C59-BA11-B25D142C7AB7} - C:\WINDOWS\System32\mskceo.dll
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {0982868C-47F0-4EFB-A664-C7B0B1015808} - C:\WINDOWS\System32\mskhhe.dll
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {0B9B83D5-AF96-46A3-9224-A96944F99FF4} - C:\WINDOWS\System32\fgkohba.dll
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {0BA1C6EB-D062-4E37-9DB5-B07743276324} - C:\WINDOWS\System32\msglji.gif
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {25F7FA20-3FC3-11D7-B487-00D05990014C} - C:\WINDOWS\System32\mseggo.gif
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {94927A13-4AAA-476A-989D-392456427688} - C:\WINDOWS\System32\msjfbl.dll
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {CC916B4B-BE44-4026-A19D-8C74BBD23361} - C:\WINDOWS\System32\msfaol.dll
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {FCADDC14-BD46-408A-9842-CDBE1C6D37EB} - C:\WINDOWS\System32\msnkmi.dll
O3 - Toolbar: &Search Toolbar - {339BB23F-A864-48C0-A59F-29EA915965EC} - C:\PROGRA~1\Toolbar\toolbar.dll
O3 - Toolbar: zSearch Bar - {5886A6DC-AAF4-45E9-979A-8E5E6DEE30E7} - C:\Program …

There's any number of programming languages you could use for that.

From the sounds of it, you're querying a database. Depending on the server platform, you could use several languages. If you're running MS SQL server, Visual Basic might be your best choice. For Linux, running pretty much any database backend, you might be better off learning Perl, Python, or maybe even PHP. All three of those languages have superb text processing capabilities. I'm not too sure about VB, but I'd be surprised if its capabilities in that realm were limited. Of course, all of these languages would probably require a knowledge of SQL queries, too.

I'm not a big programmer, but I'd like to think I can conceptualize pretty well. If you're wanting to do something quickly, and you need it to be pointy-clicky, you might want to look at VB, or even VBA (visual basic for applications) if you want to integrate it into Excel. When you're working with Microsoft products, one strenght that they have is that they make EVERYTHING of their talk to everything else they have-- I wouldn't be surprised if you could export your Microsoft flight simulator itinerary into Excel, or plan out your Age of Empires attack plan using PowerPoint! ;)

But again, it really depends on what your setup is like. That should determine how to proceed. From there, if you need to evaluate your options, pick the language you're most familiar with. If your familiarity level with the …

Also, swap the RAM out with known good RAM. I've had systems exhibit the exact same behaviour with el-cheapo, or failed, or both(!) RAM.

Spend the extra and get a good brand! Avoid CodeGen or similar like the plague!

For a decent system, you want a Power Supply Unit which will deliver consistent and accurate voltages. That's far more important than the Wattage rating of the thing.

Whoa buddy-- I second that! I bought a Codegen case, complete with Codegen 350w PSU. I ended up cannibalizing the case, and all of the components got spread across about 5 different systems.

The PSU ended up in an Athlon 1.4ghz T-Bird system with 512MB of RAM, ASUS K7v-133c mobo, a CD-RW drive, and an 80GB hard drive (3 years ago, that was blindingly FAST!). All was well, but then my system started freezing up. I thought it was the memory, so I swapped that, and I reseated it, over and over again. That *seemed* to fix the problem, but it still kept freezing.

Not thinking it was the power supply, I sold the system to some guy for $50, as-is, thinking the motherboard or the processor was no good, and I didn't feel like fooling with it. (I had paid nearly $135 US for the processor alone! ) The guy got it, and sent me an email about 2 weeks later. He put a Sparkle 300w PSU in it, and it's still humming to this day, 2 years later!

I'm still kind of irked about that... I REALLY liked that system. I liked it so much, in fact, that if I had realized …

It could be a heat issue, especially if running a window fan on the system helped the issue.

First off, check the processor fan and the Power supply fan. Are both of those working? Also, what type of processor do you have? If those fans are working, feel to see how much heat is coming out of the back of your power supply. If it's pretty warm, you may have an issue there, and a replacement may be in order.

Could you post some specs on your system? Mainly, CPU, power supply wattage, and what type of motherboard. Maybe what CPU cooler you're using would help, too.

Even though running HJT will stop the error from occurring, it does not actually remove the spyware that caused the problem. To eradicate bridge.dll, please follow the link listed in
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread7370.html

for more information.

ok, before you guys bitch at me about reading that other topic and not having other people do the work for me, i did but i'm not computer smart at all and none of it made sense to me. now, i was told you guys can help me out, so hopefully you'll be able too. i ran hijack this log, and this is what i've got:

<HJT log snipped out>

what the problem is, is that it keeps changing my homepage to about:blank, except it's not blank, it's some site that says "search the web" or something. i run cw shredder and it gets rid of it, but if i leave my computer on for more than 10 minutes, that "about:blank" thing becomes the homepage again. if you guys could help me out, i'd really appreciate it. thanks...

I'm not trying to be rude, and I'm sure we're all happy to help you out here, but the threads listed at the top of this forum don't really require "computer smarts"-- they really only require the ability to follow directions.

The great thing about spyware removal tools these days are that they're made so that the average computer user can utilize them with little effort, especially when accompanied with good documentation and pretty straightforward interfaces.

In the time that it took to compose this post, you could have checked out some of the tools we've listed, and perhaps fixed your own problem. Again, I reiterate: HiJackThis is *NOT* a …

This just started happening overnight?

It's possible to run System Restore from a command line. If you can boot into DOS, you may find these instructions useful:

http://support.dell.com/us/en/kb/document.asp?dn=1041988

It mentions a Dell system, but if you have some kind of Windows startup disk (Your Windows ME installation disc would suffice), the instructions work all the same.

Additionally, have you run chkdsk /f on that drive? You could be getting permission/read-only errors due to filesystem corruption that Windows hasn't detected. Normally, Windows won't run CHKDSK on a drive unless it has a really good reason to. But, sometimes you might have a better reason, like this perhaps, to run it your self.

Click on Start -> Run, then type in cmd, and click OK. In that black box, just type chkdsk X: /f, where X: is the letter of the drive in question. Normally, it will ask to check it after a reboot. If it asks that, type in "Y", and then restart your system. The disk check will then proceed to fix any problems, if they exist.

Or, another thing you can do is to disable all of your startup items using MSCONFIG temporarily. Click on Start -> Run, then type msconfig in the box, and hit OK. When that opens, there are some options there under the General tab. Click on Selective Startup, then uncheck "Load System Services" and "Load Startup Group Items". Click OK, and reboot when prompted to. When the system restarts, there will be next to nothing running in the background, and that should allow you to run the scan. Once you've finished scanning, open msconfig back up, and then change the Startup Type from Selective Startup to Normal Startup, click OK, and reboot again.

You may have a hard drive going bad.

Your system has built-in hard drive diags on it. When you boot the system, press <ctrl>+<alt>+D . It should run some diagnostics on your hard drive. If they fail on the Primary Drive 0, then your hard drive is b0rked, and you need to get a new one.

If that comes out okay, it's time to examine your filesystem. Boot from your Windows XP CD, then hit R for Recovery Console. It will scan for all of your Windows installations, and ask you which one you want to log into. Choose the appropriate one, and enter in the Admin password for it. That will get you, normally, to a C:\WINDOWS prompt. From that prompt, run these two commands:

chkdsk C: /R
bootcfg rebuild

The first command scans your filesystem, and attempts to repair any errors. Depending on the size of your drive, this may take a while. The second command helps you rebuild your boot.ini file. For more information on the bootcfg command, check here:

http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWSXP/home/using/productdoc/en/bootcons_bootcfg.asp

Once all this has been completed, simply remove the XP CD from your drive, type exit, then restart the computer.

Before going any further, please read this thread.
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread5690.html

If none of these suggestions help, then ask for assistance. It's more rewarding to help yourself than have someone do all of the work for you!

Before going any further, please read this thread.
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread5690.html

If none of these suggestions help, then ask for assistance. It's more rewarding to help yourself than have someone do all of the work for you!

Before going any further, please read this thread.
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread5690.html

If none of these suggestions help, then ask for assistance. It's more rewarding to help yourself than have someone do all of the work for you!

Before going any further, please read this thread.
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread5690.html

If none of these suggestions help, then ask for assistance. It's more rewarding to help yourself than have someone do all of the work for you!

This just sometimes happens on XP machines. It's usually because some process or service is using a file on the drive.

Does it work okay once you reboot?

I couldn't find "mentally insane cow", but I did find "insane cow":

[img]http://jon.nullnode.com/odd/cow.png[/img]

Next one:

"spaghetti explosion"

Wow... 300 posts, and I never posted anything in this thread!

I'm Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379. On forums that accept that long a name, that's usually what I go by. Other places, it's alc6379, or Alex Cavnar.

Aside from modding here, I am also a moderator, along with DMR at www.justlinux.com, a site focused on helping users with Linux and other open source operating systems and applications. I'm a CPS tech at Dell, been there for a little while. I've been using computers since age 7 (started with an OLD Tandy TRS-80, moved to a blazing 4mhz PC-XT, baby!), now onto whatever else I get the 'unction for.

Currently I would say that I've got about 11 systems running, untold masses down in the basement, waiting to be fired up. In order of preference, I'm running FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux, MacOS (versions 6.0.4 to X.3), and then that other OS I hear people talking about resides on some of my systems, too. I've been a Free/Open source afficianado for about 3 years-- some have called me the most laid-back open source zealot you'd ever meet!

All in all, happy to be here, it's been nearly 7 months now, and I'll be happy to get many more months, YEARS, even, in here.

Do you have an internal DNS server?

I know of a lot of companies do something similar to this. You could set up a virtual host on the IIS server (i'm not sure how to do this, so I'm speaking vaguely), and point an IP/hostname combo to it. So, you could have an "Inventory" hostname resolve to the virtual host's IP address, make the virtual host's index.html (or whatever your index file is) actually point to the page containing your inventory.

Same here... it's worked just fine.

Did you mention that your husband's Mac could not connect as well? That could indicate a problem with the ISP, or with your router...

Before going any further, please read this thread.
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread5690.html

If none of these suggestions help, then ask for assistance. It's more rewarding to help yourself than have someone do all of the work for you! :)

Great! Now, if someone else has the problem, we'll know for future reference!

*bump*

Just in case this got missed...

Does anyone remeber lawn jarts, the ones with the metal tips? Now those were fun to play with. Throw them up as high as you could and run like hell so you wouldn't have one sticking out of your head, because your mother would get really mad at you. :cheesy:

HAHAHAHA!!!! Lawn Darts!!! :D

LOVE EM! I found a set of them at a thrift store-- actually got carded when trying to buy them!

I was born in '82, so I can't talk much, but one of my favorite games was throwing the darts as high as possible, and whomever's dart fins made the loudest *snap* sound when it hit the ground won! I remember nearly getting hit with one, too!

Them were the good old days... DANGEROUS days, but the good old days... :)

If you're not getting any help, try and do some research on your own while waiting. When I'm interpreting an HJT log, I take the last bit of the entry listed, and I put it into Google. For instance, take

R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Bar = file://C:\DOCUME~1\jbb\LOCALS~1\Temp\sp.html

I did a Google search for "sp.html"+"spyware". If you sift enough through those links, you will find that sp.html isn't something you want, and should be removed. You can do the same thing with every other entry, too.

If you do that, you'll have fixed it yourself. Then, if you get familiar enough with what you're seeing, maybe you can help out others here!

Before going any further, please read this thread.
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread5690.html

If none of these suggestions help, then ask for assistance. It's more rewarding to help yourself than have someone do all of the work for you! :)

Welcome to TechTalkForums!

For information regarding spyware please check out this thread:
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread5690.html

That particular thread is the culmination of our mods' combined knowledge on spyware, with helpful links and tips on removing spyware. Before doing/asking anything else, you'd be well advised to check out the links there.

On your second question, it depends on what OS you're using. We usually recommend Application-specific questions to go in the forum for whatever OS you're running. For instance, if you're running FireFox on Windows XP, ask in the NT/2k/XP forum. If you were running it in Linux, ask in Linux/UNIX.

Again, welcome to TechTalkForums, and have fun!

The only thing I've found is that when rebooting or shutting down, CCApp.exe doesn't shut down immediately-- it takes it a second or two to come down. Other than that, I've had few problems.

But, I'm running WinXP Pro on an AMD barton XP2500+, with 512MB of RAM...

Heck, I had an old Fortron 250w PSU, and I was running a Duron 700mhz chip, 3 case fans, 6 SCSI hard drives, a CD burner, and 2 IDE drives on it. It ran just fine-- nary a reboot or flicker, nor spark!

Of course, I was running SUPER ghetto style-- I had like 5 molex plug splitters on the thing!

I think Catweazle's suggesting an XP 3000 or 3200, not the 64 3000. There's a bit of a difference... Especially price-wise... If you're on a budget, you'd probably want to go with the XP 3200.

In your case, make sure you buy brand-name components, and you should be in good shape. The only times I've ever run into any RAM compatibility problems have been when I've used no-name "el cheapo" RAM. Other than that, I've been good, and I've used Gigabyte, Intel, Asus, Soyo, and Amptron boards in this manner.

If I were you, I'd get the XP3200+ and the DDR400 RAM. From there, you should base your motherboard purchasing decision on what's available, and then out of that, which board has the most features for the least money.

Hi there,

Before asking us for help, try some of the suggestions in this thread:

http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread5690.html

There is LOADS of information there about what to do about homepage hijacking and other types of malware.

Yeah, Personally, I cut out a big hole, then covered mine up with some generic wire fan guards. Because the wire circles obscure my imprecise cutting job, it doesn't matter I was a little sloppy with my $5 US case nibbler.

Fan Grilles are cheap, too-- they still keep you from shoving your fingers in the fan, and they don't restrict airflow much, if at all.

I for one know that me and my case nibbler's next job will be cutting out the pre-drilled holes on the front of my chassis, and allowing for more free airflow through the front of the system. I'm thinking of going so far as cutting neat square holes in the front of the case, and then covering them with screenwire or something, so I have good flow coming in through the front.

In addition to posting a HiJackThis log, please include more detailed information about what you have tried on this issue. Have you tried any of the programs listed in this thread? :

http://daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread5690.html

HiJackThis is a great tool, but it's not the end-all-be-all to fixing these type of problems, and it certainly won't prevent anything. Please read the above thread for some things you can do yourself.

What version of IE are you using?

In IE 6, click on Tools, then choose Internet Options. I believe the option you want is under the Advanced tab, listed as "Enable inline autocomplete". Uncheck that, and then click OK.

I'm on a FreeBSD system right now, so excuse me if those directions are slightly off...

Before this thread goes any further, for the sake of our forum regulars, I'm going to mark this thread solved, close it, and post this link:

PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING ANYMORE BRIDGE.DLL ISSUES

Please read this thread:
http://daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread7370.html