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Northern_Greens
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yea they can my search browser in firefox will give me a list of words/ phrases that begin with what i'm spelling and narrows w each new letter, giving a fload of options
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spacecadet
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well i fucked up big time my other screen name one here shows my real name home addy phone number the cars i drive all kinds of personal info i used that screen name since i first got into computer and never knew places like Google keep this kinds of info its bad anouth my lil brouter who don't smoke or grow calls me last week and did a google search on me and finds out i am growing so now i sit here trying my best to clean my trail but how the hell you get this crap off google as far as i know any one searching for me will all ways pull up i am a grower so far this screen name seems cool with no link to me personaly but i done a lot of damge to me personaly and the scary part was i got into it wity a local cop on a non growing fourom under that same screen name and if he did a google on that name he know whoi am where i live and all the shit icmag has on that name i thought about letting op delted every thing under that name but whats the point if google has all it in there cacth and i am wounding once leo finds out who i am whats stopping them from finding out this screen name as well. and a nouter question say leo does know who i am whats sloping them from hacking my computer to find more info. a wile back i was hit with about 30 back door virus thats i could not delete is there any ways they could do this to me or am i just a lil over parainoid
spacecadet said:
It's painful a hell to go thru since the programers at windows are such a bitch BUT completely format your hard drive every six months and re-install windows it's the only completely sure way I know of to get rid of every trojan, spyware, whatever on your computer.
Believe me, those spyware programs are way more sophisticated than the average user, they hide in so many places on your hard drive, even the fuckin hard drive eprom/bios that a complete format to NSA standards or even better just buy a new cheap hard drive will help you sleep at night every six months.
In other words, the worst a spyware program could find on your hard drive is only back 6 months since your last re-install.
Im going on 3+ years without a format and I catch crap all the time. Heres what Ive figured out.
-- Im never 'victim one' .. Ive caught stuff that was a couple days old at the earliest so its already shown up on the radars of mcafee, nortons, ad-aware, etc.
-- Once you know its name you can search for how it works and for cleaners/removers. Theres a few sites out there that provide and update cleaner/remover programs and most of them have at least one within 24-48 hours after the malware is discovered.
-- Follow the instructions on removal [ most are simple like temporarily turning off system restore or booting into safe mode, etc. ] and you should be able to remove 99.9% of them. The removal program while potentially elusive is generally a timesaver and less impacting than a reformat.
-- Im never 'victim one' .. Ive caught stuff that was a couple days old at the earliest so its already shown up on the radars of mcafee, nortons, ad-aware, etc.
-- Once you know its name you can search for how it works and for cleaners/removers. Theres a few sites out there that provide and update cleaner/remover programs and most of them have at least one within 24-48 hours after the malware is discovered.
-- Follow the instructions on removal [ most are simple like temporarily turning off system restore or booting into safe mode, etc. ] and you should be able to remove 99.9% of them. The removal program while potentially elusive is generally a timesaver and less impacting than a reformat.
I've DL'ed "official' cleaners from the actual programs that made them and they still didn't remove them.
I've seen 'em hide in the restore feature so if the cleaner says restore it just restores back to a time when the program implants itself.
I get hard drive's for less then $20 after rebate. For that price it's worth it to me to completely erase my history as well as anywhere a malware wants to hide that a cleaner misses.
IOW it's a brute force solution but it works every time.
There is no need for me to guess what's 'lurking' in the backround.
I've seen 'em hide in the restore feature so if the cleaner says restore it just restores back to a time when the program implants itself.
I get hard drive's for less then $20 after rebate. For that price it's worth it to me to completely erase my history as well as anywhere a malware wants to hide that a cleaner misses.
IOW it's a brute force solution but it works every time.
There is no need for me to guess what's 'lurking' in the backround.
well since i got rid of windows and installed linux i have had no more trouble with virus spay ware or waleware i was getting virus form un know sources and the ones i did delete all ways came back as they did hide in systems restore so i fianly shut it off and that helped but what i like to know is how does one get a virus with a fresh install of windows and no down loading of any kind not sure if some one is hacking my computer and installing it or may be my copy of windows has a virus in it
stevr59 said:
It's rare, but the virus from the previously corrupted windows installation can actually hide in the small memory chip that controls the hard drive itself. It's basically an EPROM, just like on cd/dvd drives. So even completely wiping and formatting the physical magnetic media of the hard drive itself sometimes will not get rid of the virus hiding in the eprom. You'd have to flash the eprom if possible but like I say for $15-$20 bucks it's just cheaper to get a new clean hard drive from the factory then you know it's not infected.
That's very rare though and you may be getting the virus thru other means on a fresh install if done on a previously installed hard drive. Also, sometimes windows recognizes things as viruses that aren't really viruses.
Your motherboard bios basically lives in an EPROM on the motherboad and this can get infected also. Again rare, I've never seen it happen but have read about it.
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Thats why the system restore feature has an on/off checkbox. You turn it off and reboot when you want to fully/accurately scan your system for malware. If your not doing that to begin with then your just wasting time. If you reformat your system every time your system restore area gets malware then your also wasting time.
Its never been about the price of a hard drive, if it was people would get disposable ones and toss the old ones out. The customers I deal with want their original system with their original desktop and all their programs and cookies, etc exactly like they left it/had it before the malware. They dont want to hear/understand reformat/total loss of continuity.
The reason is because of the same issue its always been. One out of every 1,000 computer users does any kind of data backup and no one I know does any kind of full system backup. Doesnt make a whole lot of sense to do full system backups if youre only going to restore the malware anyways. The avg home user isnt going to employ an expensive/complete backup system.
Its never been about the price of a hard drive, if it was people would get disposable ones and toss the old ones out. The customers I deal with want their original system with their original desktop and all their programs and cookies, etc exactly like they left it/had it before the malware. They dont want to hear/understand reformat/total loss of continuity.
The reason is because of the same issue its always been. One out of every 1,000 computer users does any kind of data backup and no one I know does any kind of full system backup. Doesnt make a whole lot of sense to do full system backups if youre only going to restore the malware anyways. The avg home user isnt going to employ an expensive/complete backup system.
Verite said:
Huh? The second you get a malware it installs itself into the system restore (if it's on) and not just for the last known good configuration date but on every point for weeks, months back. If you always keep your system restore turned off then how you gonna get those customers back to the original state?
The only way I know of is to Ghost/Image the drive after it's set up and functional and I do reccomend this because then when you format your drive to NSA standards you know the virus will be wiped over with 1's and 0's so an Image restore will bring the system back without worry.
Like I've said some cleaners I've tried have worked but these days the viruses are so sophisticated that many of the cleaners simply don't do a through enough job and the virus comes back (many viruses can be programed to come back 'online' at a certain date in the future so they sleep on your hard drive and the cleaner may not recognize them (because they are 'sleeping') then they come out of hibernation and wammo.
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?? You get the system back to original state by removing the malware. You dont use the system restore to do that. Ive never seen system restore do much of anything in regards to fixing critical errors so its non-use has never been an issue for me or my customers.
I would shop around for new 'cleaner' sources since I have got every group of cleaners to work for me. Timed malware is pretty outdated, something of a rareity now a days.
Brute force reformat is something I use as a last resort only. The people I deal with seem to like it better and the number one reason is I never learned anything new by doing a reformat.
I would shop around for new 'cleaner' sources since I have got every group of cleaners to work for me. Timed malware is pretty outdated, something of a rareity now a days.
Brute force reformat is something I use as a last resort only. The people I deal with seem to like it better and the number one reason is I never learned anything new by doing a reformat.
