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| | A little discussed feature of the upcoming Windows Vista is called 'Freeze Dry', and it's sure to be a blessing for all of us who leave our PCs running rather than shutting everything down when we move away from the keyboard. Have you ever come back only to find that …  |
 | A group of high school students from Kutztown, PA who were charged earlier this month with felony computer trespassing and computer theft have been offered a deal to drop charges. They have agreed to do 15 hours of community service, write letters of apology, and attend a class on personal … |
 | Creative Technology, the makers of the Soundblaster cards, and more recently, the Zen Neon portable music players, confirmed this week that 4,000 of it's shipped Neon music players shipped with the Wullik.b worm that affects Windows computers. Wullik.b came to the world in 2003 and it attacks all flavors of … |
 | My friend Darren from Google just informed me a couple of minutes ago that Google Notifier is out in beta ... for the mac! You can check it out at: [url]http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/index?promo=gdl-en[/url] Now comes the time when I thank Darren for considering the fact that I'm a mac girl and messaging … |
| | Toshiba announced last week that they are producing a 1.8" hard drive using perpendicular recording to allow hard drive storage capabilities to 40 GB on a single platter. These types of drives are found in small hand-held devices such as Apple's iPod MP3 player. Computers typically use 2.5" hard drives. … |
| | On August 17, CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) released information about Apple Mac products facing several security Vulnerabilities. Systems affected: Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.2 (both workstation and server) Apps affected: Apple Safari Web browser. Apple has addressed these issues in "Apple Security Update 2005-007" According to CERT's writeup, … |
| | Ladies and Gentlemen, stop the presses! Well, in today's world, I should change that... Stop uploading the websites! This is BIG News. Ever since Apple came out with the Macintosh (1984), they have only shipped with one-button mice. Even mice prepared for the Apple IIe / IIc / IIgs had … |
| | “I have seen the future, and the future is……… |
| | Redmond, Washington based [url=http://ww.vista.com]Vista, Inc[/url] – a custom software developer and e-commerce solutions provider, said in a recent news article it is considering all options against Windows creator Microsoft Incorporated. [url=http://www.microsoft.com]Microsoft[/url], which is also based in Redmond, said it does not feel it has violated any copyrights. “The name Vista … |
| | John C. Dvorak has a vision and I suspect it may be myopic. Over at Ziff-Davis’s PCMag, the renowned John C. Dvorak has witnessed Windows Vista’s arrival as an almighty dull thud, and sees recent events as a potential portent of the demise of the mighty Microsoft. [url]http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1840480,00.asp[/url] Windows Vista …  |
| | I came across this article at Appleinsider.com. [url]http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1143[/url] Lawsuits like that really make me unhappy. Honestly people! Every music store in the world organizes music by genre, artist, title, etc! And have done it for DECADES! How greedy and self-absorbed can people get? Suits like that make me ask myself … |
 | This simple Python code uses the Tkinter GUI toolkit and the Python Image Library (PIL) to create a program that allows you to grab an image of the display screen (or portion of it) and save it to an image file. Unfortunately, the ImageGrab.grab() method only works on a Windows … |
 | I followed Lardmeister's smart hints about creating templates with VC# 2003 and using SnippetCompiler.exe to write and test the rest of the program. It also allows you to build the executable (only 7k in size). The algorithm is from one of my Python snippets I wrote a long time ago. … |
| | I am writing a small Java program and need help using a simple search code. It is not compiling. [CODE]public int indexOf(EltType e) { int i=0; for (i = currsize; i < currsize; i++){ things[i] = e; e.equalts(get(i)); } return -1; }[/CODE] Basically I want to get the position number …  |
| | My browser is being redirected to random sites when I click on search engine results. I can type the URL manually and get what I am looking for (if the entire URL is shown). I have tried to find and remove it but it keeps coming back and depending on …  |
| | anyone please explain me what is productive application and immersive application.. Thanks and regrards dhanya |
 | Have you downloaded snow leopard yet? I was planning to stop by the Apple Store and get it today instead of ordering online but I was not looking forward to the long line. So what do you think of Snow Leopard? What sup with Apple naming system? I do like … |
| | Hello! Please help me... I cannot run AVG (8.0) antivirus which worked perfectly until some days ago. Now I click on the AVG icon in the start menu and nothing happens, no tray icon appears and the antivirus appears to be non working. I paste here my HijackThis log: Logfile … |
| | I am afraid I have that exact same virus I've seen discussed here, system32\SKYNETlog.dat (Trojan.Agent) on my computer! I looked at hijack this and combofix, and I'm wondering if someone can help me with this crazy bug ! The symptoms: basically every time i click on my google search results, …  |
 | Apple's quarterly earnings report came out the other day and in spite of the economy and Steve Jobs' health and everything else, Apple blew away their quarterly projections. How do you think they keep doing it? What makes people keep buying their products in spite of the economic climate that … |
| | Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 11:48:59 PM, on 8/25/2009 Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18702) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\Program Files\QuickBooks Online Backup\AgentSrv.EXE C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jqs.exe C:\PROGRA~1\McAfee\MSC\mcmscsvc.exe c:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\mcafee\mna\mcnasvc.exe c:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\mcafee\mcproxy\mcproxy.exe …  |
| | Hey Crunchie would you mind helping me with my similar problem? RUN DLL ERROR on startup in C:\DOCUME~1\protect.dll I have ran HijackThis and this is my log file. I would appreciate any help Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\WLTRYSVC.EXE C:\WINDOWS\System32\bcmwltry.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\Program Files\ActivIdentity\ActivClient\accoca.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\inetinfo.exe C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jqs.exe … |
| | I'm having some issues using itoa I can't seem to figure out. The principle is simple, I am using a 2dimensional char array. For dealing with quantity I use atoi to make it all happy and then I want to use itoa to convert it back into a string because … |
| | I have been attempting to get rid of this search engine redirect virus to no avail. I have tried several anti-virus programs (Ad-Aware, AVG Free etc), without success. Every time I search via Google, Yahoo etc and then click on a search result, I am redirected to various other sites, … |
| | Hi all, I'v been battling with this on and off, but cannot work out why I cannot load any pages that are [url]www.microsoft.com[/url]. I can access support.microsoft.com, amazon.co.uk, apple.com, in fact anything at all as long as it is not [url]www.microsoft.com[/url]. Has anyone seen anything like this before. It seems … |
| | Hello, I came home for Thanksgiving dinner the other night and found out my computer was infected with the Rapid antivirus malware program. It looks just like what pictures I've seen on the other sites, and does the same things. I read instructions on how to remove it, which first …  |
| | Hoping for help. Trying to get my daughters computer ready for college and can't seem to kill the three trojan.tdss files Hijackthis log: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 8:17:43 PM, on 8/22/2009 Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18702) Boot mode: Normal … |
| | I've run CC cleaner, that seemed to help but it still seems slow. Firefox is very slow to open. Here's my system info. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 7:42:57 PM, on 8/13/2009 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Boot mode: …  |
| | I need help with a trojan downloader virus I just obtained on my PC. I purchased the full version of exterminate it, and every time I deleted the files it would come back. Exterminate it eventually stopped working and will not even open now. I included my hijack this log. … |
| | to whom it may concern, Hi all! Recently, my sis told me to download various different anti-virus programs, which i did. It found lots of viruses & spyware. Now, my laptop seems to be freezing every so often during the day. i can't shut it off the usual way...i end … |
| | I'm planning to buy a Mac Mini with a minimum of 2GB RAM. Its main usage will be for internet and word-processing (certainly no games of video streaming) but I also want to be able to use MacSpeech Dictate. If I have extra cash would I be better moving up …  |
| | I have an Intel iMac G5 24”. I purchased it nearly 3 years ago. It has always been disappointingly slow, especially when working with Adobe CS but in the past few weeks, almost everything I ask it to do results in the spinning beach ball of death. Now it has …  |
| | Hi all, I got the following XML C# string: [CODE=XML] <Grocery> <Food> <Fresh Food> <fruit>BANANA</fruit> <meat>CHICKEN</meat> <desert>CAKE</desert> </Fresh Food> </Food> <Food> <Fresh Food> <fruit>APPLE</fruit> <meat>BEEF</meat> <desert>PIE</desert> </Fresh Food> </Food> </Grocery> [/CODE] I want to remove the Fresh Food tags to obtain the following: [CODE=XML] <Grocery> <Food> <fruit>BANANA</fruit> <meat>CHICKEN</meat> <desert>CAKE</desert> </Food> … |
| | Hello I have a program I am trying to make which takes in a word pattern (eg; d?ll, h?l?o, go?dby? etc) & searches an 'array containing different words' to find any words in the array that match the input word pattern. So for example; if I input 'd?ll', the program … |
| | I have ran into a few issues. The first issue, is that some websites work fine (IE. Yahoo, etc.) while others (IE. Daniweb.com, Avast.com, AVG.com) will redirect me to some weird "browser" websites I've never seen before. It will send me to a different one each time. Also, even when … |
 | Hi all, I hope you are well. I am trying to remove the Trojan "win32 cutwail.j" from a friends computer, the first step I have taken was to scan with Spybot S & D which removed some malware. I believe that the payload is still prevalent in the system though. … |
| | Have "Security Warning" pop-ups "application cannot be executed...do you want to activate your antivirus software now?" - which links to a fake-looking site to purchase the software. Also have sounds playing from my computer (usually ads) even when I don't have an internet browser open. I've run multiple virus, spyware … |
| | Can anyone help with this... Google is being very strange, won't let me log into iGoogle, all links opened redirect me to yahoo.de unless i 'open in new tab', overall just not working very well. My log: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 15:19:36, on 15/08/2009 Platform: … |
| | Hi all, My PC, which was purchased brand new last year, has started to take a very long time to load up programs and tends to freeze when I click on a website link or program file. The PC has 3GB of Ram and has an Intel Core 2 Quad … |
| | Odd random sounds, like people talking. Firefox shuttering, odd slowdowns stuff like that. ------------------------------- Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 2:26:03 PM, on 8/9/2009 Platform: Windows Vista SP1 (WinNT 6.00.1905) MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18813) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Windows Feedback Panel\WFPASIEve.exe C:\Program … |
| | Right so I wasn't sure if the other posts that say please read before you ask for help pertain to me so if they do i apologize in advance.... My Windows explorer keeps closing on me....Its fine when i use IE or AOL etc but the minute i am on … |
| | I recently started having mouse problems. It does not respond to left click. I have scanned my pc with Symantec Security 2009, attempted to do an online scan with Kaspersky, TrendMicro, and McAfee. I got error messages for all of those (you are not online, system errors, etc) except Symantec … |
| | Please help I have connected my macbook to my macbook pro with a firewire cable using migrating assistant. Now my macbook has the firewire sign on the screen and nothing else. I have copy the files that I needed and ejected the volume from the desktop of my macbook pro … |
| | Hey guys, So I've had my Vista laptop for more than 2 years now. Last month, I took it to Tokyo. That was when things started to get messy. My explorer.exe crashes at every startup. I have to do ctrl + alt + del to run explorer.exe every single time. … |
| | Had a terrible virus, couldnt even boot up for a while. After hard work I got it cleaned out ( a combo meal of McAfee and Search and Destroy and ccleaner ) So thats good news. However, I am stuck on one thing: my desktop was changed to state essentially … |
| | hi, i have a dell laptop model #PP22L. i know i have a virus because i keep getting popups that tell me im infected and they want me to purchase their software. i ran a hijackthis report and the following info came up. before the scan ran these 2 boxes … |
| | As you might have heard, Apple's new IPhone 3GS has an option to IProd in its control. I wonder if Iprod is going to be a new online community, similar to me.com, to upload and share contacts and friends. Perhaps this is a new online community for mobile users. What … |
| | the virus i have won't let me browse the internet in ie. i have a red circle with a white x that keeps poping up saying my computer is infected. i ran highjackthis but i don't know what all that is. i was hoping someone on here could help me. … |
| | My computer is not acting well. Windows XP will often not start (I'm using safe mode now), my browsers are being hijacked (both IE and Firefox), IE starts by itself (sessions noted in Task Manager), and many of the things that are suggested on this site will not install, or …  |
| | I have recently been having problems on my pc in where every time I try to run .exe program I get a pop saying bad image file. Following some information from other threads, I have scanned my computer with both HJT and Malwarebytes (logs for both are below). To get … |
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