And they say that's progress!

I guess it is due to Bloated programming, i the old days people had to program in machine language and had to understand each component in the device, but these days using compilers and the excess of computer power and memory the programmers have become lazy in removing the unnecessary fat from a program, also some OS start a lot of unnecessary processes that use a lot of resources

Hello Epke,

Hope you are fine?..................................

You have hit the nail on the head! There is just too much going on we know nothing about unless we look when we are scewed like I am now......................

I am gradually losing the will to live!!!

Take care................................

Hello Ducky,

GA to you sir

Take care

My money is on your comments.

Hello Andy, how you doing?

My money is on your comments.

I'm not making any comments so there!

No, I have checked and I was running with no 'allowed' add-ons. But a whole lot of add-ons which do not need permission!

I am going to make a written note what add-ons I have under the various classes, then stop all and add each back. So I need to keep a note of exactly where I am otherwise I am lost............a bit like now!

With talk to you soon Andy, thanks for the post.

Take care..................................

I'd stop them all from running. You can always selectively switch them back on.

I'd also suggest that in the event you installed Service Pack 3 that you uninstall it.

It's just so much crap anyway.

Hello Ducky,

Just to say that I am taking what you say into account in regard to what I change etc. I wasn't aware there was so many add-ons. Particularly one that run anyway without asking for permission.

Can I ask you..........If I disable them. Will the list still be there for me to enable one by one?

And the only reason I am working in safe mode is because I cannot get on-line in normal mode. Have you or anyone got any ideas as to how I can get the HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP running again?

Take care.........................

I am not thinking to straight so having a nose round seeing what the latest news is from the CR4 crowd. When my mind gets back in gear I will continue with wire's and your advice.

Yes.....you can selectively re-engage the add-ons later. I find they slow my internet connection and cause the system to hang.

Windows Explorer has a step by step easy way to do it. I just open up the browser(s) and go to tools.......click manage add ons........click off.

Do you have a boot disc?

Hello Ducky,

As I say the ones I can turn off I have done so for the last two years.

And if anything needs something from the disabled list it will tell me anyway?

Those are just browser add-ons and in no way have anything directly to do with your bios or os.

I find many of them allow for pop-ups to appear. Some of the pop-up graphics are virus/malware programs that are engaged when clicking on their 'close' features. If you get them press 'ctrl/alt/delete' to get rid of them. This is something differrent than what you're experiencing but might have been the result of a boot sector virus.

Hello Ducky,

are you OK?............................

I will have to do that tomorrow. I want to make a list and can actually save the info of the add-ons to one of my many usb sticks. I can then take it to the local Library and print it.

Thank you for your help and support sort of more than paid me back for any help I may have been. I know when you were stuck there was overwhelming help, and just to know someone is there is all the help you need right? Thank you my friend. Thank you very much.

Take care.....................

Yeah, thanks for asking....my system is running better than it ever did. The help was well appreciated though very confusing at first. Much of the solution to my problem was in fact courtesy your info. I only wish I could reciprocate likewise.

I know how frustrated you must feel.

Have you tried adjusting your graphics? eg 'run in 256 colours'.......sometimes it tweaks the system to get out of safe mode.

Hello Ducky,

Pleased to hear your system is A1!. And believe me you have more than been a watcher. You have definitely helped. Thanks.

You mentioned: Have you tried adjusting your graphics? eg 'run in 256 colours'.......sometimes it tweaks the system to get out of safe mode.

What a luxury! I am often barely in mono colour let alone 256 colours! How can I adjust the graphics when I only have an onboard graphics card now? I could do it when I had ATI. Bit I don't anymore. I have a driver of ATI but, that was on the off chance I may find some software for the graphics card I have. Last time I went to ATI for drivers my board was so old I don't think it was mentioned.............

Can you adjust the graphics colours via the Desktop properties?

Take care....................

Can you adjust the graphics colours via the Desktop properties?

yes...!!

Also...if old computer don't install any new drivers. I take it you're running 98? or XP?

Bear....you can get those add-ons anytime from the browser...whether it be Yahoo, or Google or whatever.

I had two switchable browsers full of junk that used up a lot of memory and slowed my internet connection to a crawl.

Soon's I disabled them I am amazed at the speed this thing gets on the net.

Hello Ducky,

I will do that tomorrow. I want to get some kind of list of the things I have so I can tell whether someone is offering me a genuine add-on or trying a scam sometime in the future.

Take care........................

Hello Ducky,

I have gotten rid of all but a couple which are being asked for by yahoo. Thank you.

My next move is to try and re-lease the DHCP licence which has fallen by the wayside. Are you having more problems with your HDD? Or am I getting things totally wrong?

Take care..............

I have a Palm Tungsten E2 that responds instantly, like to old days. Unfortunately, Palm just announced that they are no longer going to support that operating system. I have found that MS Word and MS Excel 2000 run FASTER on my old, slower Win 98 machine than the exact same programs loaded into my Vista machine. I think there may be a conspiracy out there to restrict our productivity...

Hello wire,

how are you? You have been busy, and it must have taken a while! Thank you. I am just reading it first and then with run through it after I copy it. Copy by hand as I do not have a printer, Though I may treat myself to one as it will be useful on the reinstall. I will go through what you have written. I can see some stuff I have gone though before but, I will run it all again because things change and it is not the same computer as before it crashed!

I have been using the safe mode for various diagnostic things. I found some thing, apps and Microsoft stuff which has 'damaged' along side it. One of those is the DHCP. I know it was corrupted by a Trojan just before the crash but was still working. I think it is too damaged to work now as I can no longer get on-line in normal mode. I am not sure or can't recall which services work on the different socket layers but it seems reasonable to figure the DHCP could be the connection in normal mode problem?

I am going to start writing this down. Thanks for doing this for me!

Take care............................

Hello wire,

I have written all the post you sent giving detail instructions.

I actually sped a good deal of time in and around what you was explaining, but, was reluctant to >>> disable all <<< because I could not see a way of starting them again!!!!!!!!!!

My main problem is not being able to work on the web in normal mode, because the DNS or DHCP, and I do not know what works on which socket layer.

I get this error when I run a connection check in normal mode:

[Check firewall settings for:

1) HTTP port 80.

2) HTTPS port 443.

3) FTP port 21] .............................................

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

I put these ports in the 'Exceptions' section of the firewall, to try to let everything see each other. I can't recall how to check if these are still on the exceptions list or not. I have tried but, am not certain that these were removed when it made no different to the connection. And I want them removed. As they effectively give cart blanch to anyone wanting to get to the computer.

It is going to have to be short today wire…………..(wire goes, thank god for that!!!!) as it has crashed three times as I was typing this and I lost each post.

Thank mate!........................

Try turning your firewall off as a test. If you have a router you may not need it

Hello rlindey:

Thank you for your support! Will do. I got no instructions with my router/modem, but am pretty sure it said something about a firewall. There is definately something stopping window doing its thing with regard to the firwall. Unfortunately I have not been able to find the firewall 'billoin' site with the problems I have been having.

Tale care........................

• Click Start
• Click Run
• Type or copy and paste, into the text box:

%windir%\ie7\spuninst\spuninst.exe

• Then Press Enter **

• Restart your computer.
• Install the fresh version of Internet Explore.

Hi wire,

Thanks for the link/instruction. If I do this I get a warning that some programs will not work without Explorer.

Does this copy paste thing take the old one of and replace it with the new one? Sorry mate. I was about to order the explorer CD when I saw your post.

Cheers.

Hi wire,

are you OK?...............

I have started some of the checks you list. But really want to get the HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP running first.

I am chilling and waiting until my mind gets back in gear, then I will continue. But if there was an easy way to get on-line in normal mode it would make things easier. Any ideas? I do not understand why I can get updates and go on-line in safe mode but not in normal?

Microsoft could not tell me, and my ISP can't help either.

I need to unload the damaged items and replace them with stuff from the microsoft CD.

I have just done a Networks Diagnostics scan.

There is no DHCP servers listed,!

OE failed, because the outbound mail server failed.

Network addapter failed because WINS Server failed

Take care.........................

Hello bb,

Got to Internet Option under the Advanced tab enable the protocols etc..

You will find this very interesting:

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/monitoring-publicservices.html

Hello wire,

GA to you sir!

Take care.

Great advice here, to all, but the first procedure that bwire wrote completely solved my issues!!!

My 'puter slowed to a crawl over the weekend. The page would almost completely load, but I would have to wait, sometimes a full minute before I could do anything. It seemed to be taking forever to load something called "doubleclick.net". I went online and to remove this adware, I tried many malware programs, and it never showed up. I found a procedure that required delving into the registry.

Well, I tried bwire's XP procedure, and it seems to be back to normal. I'm sure I still might have that doubleclick thingy, but it doesn't seem to be a problem now.

"...something called "doubleclick.net". I went online and to remove this adware, I tried many malware programs, and it never showed up..." - That's because it's initialised by a cookie.

And it's a spyware not an adware, by the way. It takes up a lot of CPU-cycles and modem bandwidth, sending out a lot of your info - without your permission.

One would think that by wiping the cookie they got rid of the sucker, and it's true - once the cookie is deleted the responsiveness wakes up - but the problem is that every time you visit a website harboring "doubleclick", you get this cookie once more.

Blocking all third-party cookies^* might block the sucker, but deny you of other useful site-preference cookies.

Blocking this specific cookie might just be presenting a possible remedy to this PC-slowing spyware.

Any ideas ?

^* - Start > Control-Panel > Internet Options > Privacy Tab > Setting - Medium High

Blocking all third-party cookies^* might block the sucker, but deny you of other useful site-preference cookies.

I do this thru the following dialogue box, and CR4 works fine ;

Sorry, crap picture. Snapshot is Internet options>Privacy Tab> Advanced. You may not be able to see it, but settings are as you say (block 3rd party). Seems to be keeping doubleclick out.

A cookie is not the execution code, but a kind of a 'short-cut' calling for one to be executed, once you enter their hosting-site. The cookie calls for the code to be loaded directly into your RAM from the site, so the code never leaves a sort of a "paper-trail" on your hard-disk - which is what makes this system seem so benign.

They were originally designed to maintain your personal preferences on websites you re-visited, but soon (around 1999 ~ 2000) they started to call for data-mining codes, which significantly slows your PC.

What made cookies so benign-looking and widely accepted as such, is that they seem harmless, and are written in *.txt format for every one to open and read, but in fact they call for Java and ActiveX codes, today more malicious than ever before - forcing your computer from the outside - to perform all kinds of tasks - without your knowledge or approval.

Their being TSR programs, residing only in RAM, is why they are so hard to uproot from your PC - they are being loaded directly to your RAM (thus also reducing your available RAM space required for routine work), do their job, an then simply wipe themselves out - leaving not trail behind except for an innocent-looking cookie - hardly ever associated by the user, to the execution-code.

In cases like DoubleClick, the cookie is re-written in your cookie-jar, every time you visit a site, which harbor them. So there, it's a kind of a package-deal - You want the site ? Accept the cookie and it's code too

- - - -

Path of cookie-jar:
C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Cookies
Cookie:
UserName@doubleclick.txt

"...There's no such thing as privacy online..." - Alas, that's so true.

As for the picture size displayed here:

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The CR4 editor will allow a maximal size in both horizontal and vertical dimensions.

Try to cut your object alone - without the surrounding field.

A square picture will get the most out of these limited dimensions

Ta, I've sense the re-sizing arrows in CR4's editor screen, but seem to be messing up when I screen capture to paint. Odd thing is, I used to do this OK. That's probably a whole different chat, so I shall experiment a little. The editor doesn't always like being pasted into direct, though it usually works. As I recall, Mark (mgaulin) said it was a security issue. Maybe this diversion is not so OT after all !

Too many pictures seem to be problematic for some peoples computer speed, and I've seen some horrendous threads full of pictures spread across the screen. Left-right scrolling drives me nuts, and it forces text posts below to do the same. Chris L did mention once that he'd deal with theses occasions as/when people let him know. Iv'e done a fair number of 'White box with a red x's. Thing is, it's not immediately apparent that this has occured - Im sure their have been occasions when I've seen the picture OK when viewed in thread, but after the 15 minute time-out it's all gone.

Maybe instead of MS Paint, you could use "ImagePals". It's an old Windows 3 program, but very, very good for one-layer bitmaps. It handles all kinds of photo formats and bitmap types, and as old as it is, it's not limited to any file-size.

You can edit giant photos, way beyond 100 Mega Byte each.

One of the most intuitive photo programs I have ever used

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I still use it today, and yes, it has that Gamma tone-correction, besides a lot of other stuff.

Cheers, I'll check it out.

I use Photo Plus from Serif Software. I click on Edit > Paste as new image to bring in the item. Then when I'm through editing, I export it as a jpg file.

It is no longer available or supported - for more than ten years by now.

You can download it at:

http://rapidshare.com/files/202575627/IMAGEPAL.rar

1. unpack the RAR file into "IMAGEPAL" directory

2. the serial number (installation-key) is inside "IMAGEPAL" and written in "SERIAL.txt"

3. do not change the "IMAGEPAL" directory name, and hit "INSTALL.exe" (changing the directory name will fail installation)

A few initial tips:

And yes, clicking the left-hand buttons are about the current brush (mouse) mode, while double-clicking those would adjust the sensitivity (or other parameters) of each. The top right corner circle is the type and width of the brush.

The Zoom button:

Right-clicking on a picture in the zoom mode will set the pic at 1:1, while left-clicking will enlarge. Shift+left-click will reduce. If your picture is spread to fill and enlarged beyond Imagepals space (1), a little embossed rectangle (2) will appear bottom-right called "global-viewer". Drag it to view across the picture (3).

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If you hit "Print-Screen" on the keyboard, you can save it from the clipboard to a file in any format you like, the best for web uses is of course JPG (fastest upload):

And, yes: it's a Windows 3 program: it can only give the DOS-6 filenames: 8-charcter capitals+3 character extension eg: "FILENAME.ext"

It has only one "Undo" step-back, so you better save every branching process-version, then choose the best you like.

Most top-left-hand buttons are selection tools, and the top-most is the "Magic-Wand" which is an automatic tone and texture selection tool. Double-click the button to set the tone-depth sensitivety of the tool:

Hello Kris, Hope you are OK?

It is taking me ages to go through the 40 emails I got today. It is freezing up on almost everyone as I try to reply.

I have put a shortcut on the desktop of the BBC thing so I can look at it and other stuff which looked interesting on the site. At the moment I have no sound which is why I left a shortcut to go back to later.

Thanks Kris..............

Take care..................

Hi babybear,

The link is not radically new; it's just about how devices like blackberry can be used to track people, and the potential for misuse (eg, an employer might hand out devices to employees, without them knowing they are being tracked). There are worse risks in the big bad world. For example, data-sticks and mp3 players left in public places for the unaware to pick up thinking they've found something really cool- until they plug it into their pc etc etc.

I figured you'd be really busy at present, but will detail you more when your computer is playing nicer. That lock-up/slow-response thing must be a nightmare. When I've re-read some of your stuff I'll post you a brief message over the weekend to see how it's going.

Don't let the evil computer get you down, I have faith you'll win out over it.

Best,

Kris

Hi Kris,

Nice post my friend, thank you! As long as I can somehow get on-line it rarely bothers me. ......The freezing I mead. When it does make me angry, though there is no sense in any anger as it will do no good, is when I loose a long typed letter or post. Where I can I save each letter every paragraph. Doesn't alway work but at least I have something left to continue to work with and finish and send, hoping it will arrive!

Take care Kris, look forward to any correspondence from friends ! Thank you.

A quote from:

http://forums.spybot.info/archive/index.php/t-577.html

"...el cpu

Cash 202:

2005-11-25, 22:15

I cannot help you with Firefox but I may be able to with IE and doubleclick. I suspect that the two issues you mentioned are not connected. Try this:

1) Assuming you have XP sp2, in IE go to Tools, Internet Options, Privacy, Sites. Then type doubleclick.com and hit Block, then type doubleclick.net and hit Block again, then Ok and OK again. You should not see cookies from either of those sites again as IE will block them outright. This will also delete the cookies from those sites that may be there already. Make sure that you spell the sites correctly.

2) Mouse Issue: I suspect this is not connected with the cookies. Links always open with one complete click however programs can be set to open with one or two clicks, i.e., a double click. Open My Computer, Tools, Folder Options, and under the General Tab make sure the "Double-click to open an item" is selected and hit OK.

Let us know if that helps. If not someone else may have a suggestion..."

- End of quote

Thank you Yuval. I'll do that.

Hello Bricktop,

Glad to help...

DoubleClick Removal Instructions

Before you can delete files, you must first stop all the DoubleClick processes that are running in memory.
Do this by ending all processes from the Task Manager.
Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to open the Windows Task Manager. If you see multiple
"tabs," click on the "Processes" tab. For each process that you would like
to kill, find the process name in the list, click it to select it, and click
the "End Process" button.



Delete registry values Instructions:
Open the Windows Registry Editor by clicking on the Windows "Start" button,
clicking "Run," and typing "regedit" into the box in the Window that appears. Click "OK".
Once the Registry Editor is open, navigate through the registry tree to the
location of the key that you wish to delete. When you find the key or
value to be deleted, click on it to highlight it and press the "DELETE" key.

Delete Registry Values:
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Backup\(doubleclick.com)\
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Backup\(doubleclick.net)
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\(doubleclick.net)
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\(doubleclick.net)\
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell Extensions\Approved\(doubleclick.com)
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell Extensions\Approved\(doubleclick.net)
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL\Prefixes(doubleclick.net)\
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL\Prefixes\(doubleclick.com)\
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL\Prefixes\(doubleclick.net)


Unregister DLL Instructions:
To un-register a DLL file, first locate the file on your hard drive.
Open a command prompt window by clicking on the Windows "Start" button,
clicking "Run," and typing "cmd" into the box in the Window that appears. Click "OK."
Next type "regsvr32 /u " and press the "ENTER" key.
For example, to un-register a file called "myDll.dll" which is located in
the "C:\windows\system32" folder, your would type
"regsvr32 /u C:\windows\system32\myDll.dll" and press the "ENTER" key.



Delete File Entries:
DoubleClick

PC used to be a real personal computer. You could easily write programs of your own, modify them, recompile, etc. Your program did exactly what you wanted without whistles and bells. You cannot do it anymore, you are forced to by spreadsheet programs, etc. If you could write and use your own programs that would be free of charge and our world is a marketing-driven world...

In addition, HW - processing power, memory - is cheaper then renting reeally good programmers.

I have a boot manager on my PC and sometimes I do use DOS

I guess a big part of it is having too many programs running. I tried UHPC once (near the bottom of this) but can't say it made much difference. My system behaves reasonably OK, but does seem to have a mind of it's own on occasion. On the other hand, it doesn't complain to much if I get pissed off and just turn power off at the wall socket.

Maybe we can quantify this issue. I'll time my shutdown and start speeds, and post them next visit. Not a very scientific survey, but it might be fun. For the sake of clarity, Ill check time from power in the system box to working desktop and also CR4 login box.

OK, times are between CR4 login/out and machine powered on/off;

uptime 3:30

downtime 0:40

I don't usually notice the start up time because I'm making coffee. I'm guessing the main start delay is security stuff at start up. Getting from desktop to CR4 login took only a couple of seconds. It's XP Home on a low spec machine.

You have rec'd some very good advice so far; let me add my two cents...what I have found over the years is that some basics need to be observed. One is to keep your hard drive-to-resources "used" ratio to around 4 to 1, and keep your memory allocation equal and utilize quality memory (not the cheap stuff, $19.95 1Gb memory sticks are not as good of a deal as they first appear to be.) Hard drives store data in a sequential format, thus when you ask for information, it performs this sequentially; and memory, or RAM (Random Access Memory) stores data randomly. When you "mouse-click" to open a program or perform a function, the hard drive sends this group of data to the RAM so that it can be accessed quickly and efficiently. Irregardless of which OS you are using, and I know Vista is a pain, you need to be sure that the hard drive to memory relationship is in order. By temporarily storing the files or data that you are using in RAM, your processor can access it randomly or in other words "directly" when you ask it to. This is where your quick response time shows up.

Yes, it is true that with today's bloated systems, even with good resources, things slow down. The only option here is to delete and remove the junk.........start at the control panel "remove programs", then go to computer and click on programs to be sure that the specified program did indeed delete and then in some cases, while in program files also check "common files" to see if there is anything there.

On my personal desktop, it is almost seven years old, an entry level AMD Sempron processor, 250 Gb Seagate HDD, and 1 Gb of Kingston ValueRam memory. It is an "off the shelf" Compaq Presario, that originally came with 80 Gb HDD and 512 Kb memory. This machine is extremely fast, much faster than my new HP laptop that I use for business and engineering programs.

EVERYDAY............I run Web Tracks Eraser, CCleaner, Superantispyware, AVG Antivirus, and Auslogics Defrag. SAS and AVG run automatically at 3:00 AM and the other programs I manually run when I get off of the internet. All total they only take a couple of minutes to run, with the exception of the SAS and AVG that update and scan in the middle of the night.

All I can relate to you is what I know that works;I routinely build repair and clean systems for people now, as that is my retirement business......if you like you can visit my blog at barnyardpc.blogspot.com and ask me any questions or email at barnyardpc@gmail.com

Glad to help,

oldgolfer

Hello oldgolfer: ,

Thank you for the post. I will visit your blog thanks. There really is some very helpful people on here you know!

I do still have it but don't ask where...........That's the spec for the PC I designed and got a friend to build

I spent almost £250.00 on 1 GB of memory. 2 X 512 MB. It was ten time more expensive than the cheapest at the time, but I understood the basics and knew the physical memory is one of the most important choices?

I have an AMD Athlon and two HDD. 1 x 50GB. 1 X 150 GB which is split equally in two, 75 GB virtual drives. There is nothing on one virtual and a couple of GB on the other. I want to move anything I want from the C HDD and have it temp' on the D HDD. reformat the C drive and reinstall. It is the first time I have done it so I will not be rushing it. I have to write everything down by hand as I do not have a printer, that way I can keep control of what is going on. A lot of the C drive has had all kinds of different apps loaded and then un-installed. And you never quite catch all the bits in all the files do you? It is that as much as a couple of Trojan attacks which screwed the system up.

I am pleased you found something you like to do as you retired. I am sure you must learn an awful lot from continually building and refurbish them. I have never had the confidence, and even now I have to push myself to get into the computer cabinet. A little over simplified, but it is not much harder than building a Mecano set really? You just have to think a little more and be gentle.

I intend to get a netbook and I can use that to make the reinstall easier. I tend to do stuff on the computer and not be scared of doing must things. You can alway press the back button if you get stuck right? I can seem to stand back and give others advice, bur when it comes to myself it is not so easy! A lot of the problem is a memory thing. Mine not the computers. I can't recall how many books I have filled with notes as I have been working. But, it aint a lot of good if you can't find the book you are looking for, you know? Looks like I made another friend?

I will leave it there as it is about to freeze again

Take care.........................

I appreciate your graciousness. The things I try to accomplish on my blog are geared towards those in the computer environment that are not "tech savvy". I cannot help but believe that sometimes as engineers, explanations and answers take on too much technical and not enough basics. A friend once told me "people do not care how much you know, until they know how much you care."

I am more than glad to help, anyone, anytime; they can contact through this forum, or personal email. With the computers, it is somewhat of a passion and a challenge; what I run in to a lot is people, who have been led astray in understanding basic computers. In America, many independent repair shops are akin to the old used car dealers of years gone by............"anything they can do to separate you and your money is fair game."

Anyway, sorry for getting off topic....this is an open invitation to anyone on the forums; any way that I can be of assistance, just let me know. I am NOT a programmer, just someone who has learned computers from the manufacturing and industrial environment and now use it for the private sector.

FYI: Any programs, etc. that I recommend, I have run for at least two months; I have a separate computer that I use to download programs to, and evaluate them for a couple of months to see if they are what they say they are; and also to make sure there is no "junk" attached.

Good luck in your computing.

oldgolfer

Hello oldgolfer,

Thank you. I very much appreciate your invitation. I have done what little I could to help other and, I guess they are just sort of paying back, in a nice way, with the friendship and help. Thank you to you and all.

Just to say what has been said today here on this thread has really helped. As some know I have made notes and copied stuff to do over the next few days so it is not that I can make use of all the info today, there was and is too much. But it is all copied to my good ideas folder! If I remember to read it.........................it will come in more than useful in the future, but I hope you understand when I say, "I hope I never have to read that folder"!

Take care...........................

Hello oldgolfer,

Hope you do not think it cheeky of me but, the

"people do not care how much you know, until they know how much you care."

Would be a nice tag for the bottom of your post? Unless you have something else in mind?

Just A thought.............Take care

Hello Yuval,

I have crashed several times today while writing a post to wire so this will have to be quick...............................

I completely agree with you!!!!!! The things you mentioned I thought were unique to me!!!!!!

Take care and many thanks for your and anyone else's input to this very helpful thread.

I was about to start another of my own but, this deals with the stuff I need to do and is dealt with by people who know what they are doing!

Take care and thanks..........

Hello Yuval,

Thank you for starting the thread. I am afraid I kind of hijacked it in super quick time! You know when you are typing a post, you do not have the rest of the thread to check right? Well earlier I got the idea it was wire who started this thread. Sorry for that erroneous thought!

Take care.

I can recommend that anyone who owns a PC should run "Dr Web" at least once a week, its free and can be downloaded from here.

You may be in for a big surprise, I was!! But since then my PC has remained virus free....I just do not understand why Kaspersky had just ignored them!!

It needs to be updated at least once a week, but it will offer to do that each time you start it. First it checks memory, them it stops, you must ALWAYS select the complete/full scan and also configure it to handle the infections found. I always make it delete infections when it can, rename when it cannot.

Its easy to use.

that's surprising. what is your OS? hardware specs? in what applications do you notice such slow response? you'll have to be specific to get a clear answer.

in the older versions you named, after clicking, you can stand up and fix yourself a cup of coffee from the pantry, come back and still find the hourglass spinning. that's hardly what I'd call instant response. today's machines respond with speeds that are fantasies of 20 years ago.

there must be something(s) in your machine that is or are, causing the poor responses you're describing. you can't blame the OS outright. though I'm not an M$ fan, your comparison may not be equitable.

I hope nobody digresses into a Linux vs. MS discussion again on this thread.

Hello caramba,

nice to see you here!

GA for you, you have given a very good explanation , thank you!

Take care,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Way back in the 1900's I remember requesting a computer while serving in United States Naval Service, ha! It took so long to arrive I didn't remember why I ordered it; suppose is the reason eh.

It came on three pallets, took a working party to bring onboard, and about two weeks to assemble. I got a short course of command line archeology.

After all modules (thank God for that upgrade) were online (old school terminology) eighteen hours was the time required to boot.

Return MSG from Smithsonian proved fruitless as they had one too.

Hello wire,

Way back in the 1900's I remember requesting a computer while serving in United States Naval Service, ha! It took so long to arrive I didn't remember why I ordered it; suppose is the reason eh.

It came on three pallets, took a working party to bring onboard, and about two weeks to assemble. I got a short course of command line archeology.

After all modules (thank God for that upgrade) were online (old school

terminology) eighteen hours was the time required to boot.

Return MSG from Smithsonian proved fruitless as they had one too.

That sounds quite a learning curve! Instead of making a coffee while the thing boots, you had a couple of kids! When sort of?

I can't imagine what that would be like though I have read you had to know command line stuff before you could use one?

18 hours, ?WOW!

Take care...........Look I thought I had better tell you and anyone else who was kind enough to post me that I am starting at the bottom of the list and trying to get through to reply to each one OK?

Look for

Zlob.Downloader.exe it is what summons the Trojan and allows it through your security. Change the "r" in downloader to "b", this will prevent it from being used and you may catch a breath.

When you can download again get "CWShredder" to eliminate "Coolwebsearch"

Hello wire,

How are you?

So this downloader will take the place of the windows downloader then?

And the name I search for is the one you give, then I change the downloader to downloadeb?

Is that right?

Take care.............and thank you.

Hello bb,

No, no this down-loader you don't want. You may have it and if you do have it, it will cause havoc. So if you have it change one character in the file name to render it ineffectual.

Hi wire,

I have not downloaded this Installer. I was a little confused (whats new!) for the reason you posted it really?

No problems.

My system is just working at the moment. I tried to load a VGA Controller yesterday and found one of the drivers with one particular ATI software download effected my Graphic, so my icons were fuzzy? I knew it was one of the now two VGAs which are asked to load and install each time I reboot, but was not sure which one. I do not know how there was two copies of almost identical software on my computer?????????

I have now managed to trash them. I am not worried about the not being able to unload stuff. As long as I can keep working and get onto the net, for the moment I won't worry. But every now and then it goes for a while and then suddenly all the type I am doing is delayed about ten seconds. I have chased it down to everything slowing down when the PC Tools Spyware Doctor is on a full scan.

I had a lot of problems with my ISP dropping the connection over the last three weeks. It will connect then after five minutes but often less in disconnects for 5/10 minutes, and runs like that the the evening to about 02:00. It only happened 5 times today. I know it is a poor connection from the ISPs end because I queried it a week ago, and he was able to tell me when I was about to lose the connection. He said there is a problem with the Tel' exchange but what it is they have yet to find?

Things I do not understand: how Microsoft was able to download updates on normal use, when I can't get any web page on normal use? Very odd. I understand roughly how DHCP works but I do not know how it became listed as damaged. I thought it may be a simple task of deleting the damaged file (DHPC) and replace automatically with one on the Windows install CD. But I could not unload it anyway. I will stay as I am until I can get out or buy a mini computer (perhaps) on-line. I do not want to risk my connection, though it works only in safe mode for me to get on the web, it is still a connection. I have spent so much time trawling through my computer ref' books I could not face it when Kris sent me a helpful DHCP info. But I now know there is no DHCP working or installed on my machine. Through a lot of time wasting I have found that out at least. I am pretty sure I have a static address so maybe I do not need the DHCP for the moment.

If it halfway behaves as it is doing now for the most part, I will continue to learn more of the intricacies of DHCO and general connections. I do however understand the basic idea of how it works with Licenses being renewed each day or each time I reboot. Any other detail will have to wait until I can read it and say "oh I see the problem". But as the Microsoft 'expert' could not fathom my problems I am not surprised I can't! I will leave it there. I just wanted you and Kris and ducky to know I am all read out at the moment but, it does not mean I am not trying things out and the pieces from you, ducky and Kris are in my come in handy folder as they are worth knowing anyway!

Take care wire..........................

Super glad you are back on the pedal.

DHCP is obsolete forgetaboutit.

That zlob.downloader is a malware you should avoid but it can piggy back into your computer so it is F.Y.I. to not allow [zlob] to run ever. That was my reason for writing of it, it is the precursor to "Anti-Virus 2009 and a real bugger to deal with if you don't know the file name.

The other "CWShredder" is a repair tool to eradicate the "Coolwebsearch" malware which replicates itself and morphs faster than any other tool can be maintained to kill it.

Fair winds and following seas...

GA. This is an important, severe issue

That is a whole can of worms, that is.

Spyware pretending to be some "freeware" anti-spyware, that is.

Way back in 2003, there were numerous warnings about such Trojan schemes.

The most common advice then and especially now, was and is to google any such candidate inside out, before you think of installing such programs.

Hello Yuval,

True and the twist with [zlob] it will piggy back in, set-up house then call home and authorize the download without acknowledging the administrator. So viola` that's how it happens one moment you're surfing then poof "Anti-Virus 2009" is downloading itself before your eyes. You have about three seconds to react; disable internet connection and pull the plug! or open wide here's you new nightmare

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Tettnang, 17 February 2009 – "I hereby consent to personal data being passed on to affiliated companies" – an established clause, which often pops up in competitions, fitness center contracts and loyalty cards used by department stores and gas stations. Once signed, such an agreement can have a myriad of consequences: Unsolicited telemarketing and mailshots or in the worst case illegal debit entries on a bank account.

Hi wire,

Just to say I did take your post as a warning! Not an instruction. I have not had either of the file and apps names you mention. I have been checking things out and going through the files and have not seen anything you describe in your post # 75.

Take care..............

PS. Can you please stop the flashing Tryangle? It is screwing me up. Sorry.

PPS. I may have to go to bed and continue this tomorrow. I will see how I do but it is freezing on almost every reply I try to write and takes ages to do even a short reply like this.

I used DrDos6 back in the day. I thought is was great. O lived the fact that there were alternatives to MS. To bad they all got squashed.

i use Irfanview a small usefull picture viewer program

(if it Doesn't Hang Forever)

I wonder what's the longest time some one has sat waiting for a PC to respond?
Del.. (I'm sure it will shut down if we give it another minute )

whoa! took him THAT long?

I am using avira i hope that is not malware

Yuval it is the beginning of skynet!

I'm afraid that people will blow up this planet long before Skynet could ever have a ghost of a chance to rise...

Besides, according to some leading logician figures such as John Searle, intelligent machines are not even theoretically possible.

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Avira seem to be a credible operation - They are widely known, so they have to maintain some positive reputation