Tom AZ
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It's probably OK, but it's a one way firewall only. It helps protect against inbound intrusions, but does nothing for outbound issues.
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You may want to consider a firewall.
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No -- still a problem for me.
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I've already tried disabling AdBlock Plus, but that didn't help. Can you tell me where to find the Windows HOSTS file, so I can take a look at that?
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That's very interesting. Did your problem also involve YahooMail? I hope I'm as fortunate with a resolution.
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Try it in Firefox Portable and see how it goes, that way your older installation won't be messed with.
That's a good idea, Andavari. However, I did install the most current standard version of FF under Returnil. Unfortunately, it didn't help at all. This whole thing is so bizarre. As far as I can tell, the only pages that won't load are my Yahoo Mail pages. They yield nothing but a blank screen. So far, every other site loads and responds just fine. I"m sure there's an answer, but who knows what it is!
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I'm using FF 2.0.0.20. Haven't really changed any settings, but I'll check these just in case.
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Everything seemed fine a couple days ago, but I've started having a very strange problem with YahooMail -- but only in Firefox. When I try to login to either one of my YahooMail accounts, it appears that everything is loading properly, but then all I get is a blank screen and it indicates that it's done loading. Interestingly enough, my Gmail works fine in Firefox.
By the way, both YahooMail accounts work fine with IE -- so it must be some kind of Firefox issue, but I can't figure it out. I've tried several things, but it still doesn't work. Any help or suggestions??
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I've been looking for such a said application myself since chkdsk runs so slow on my system just doing a normal scan.
Actually, I even thought about SpinRite, but that's much more sophisticated -- and it's not really the same kind of tool (and of course, it's not free, either). SpinRite is not just a diagnostic tool, but rather, a highly successful (almost professional) HD surface repair tool. Actually, I own SpinRite, but it's overkill for just doing a quick diagnostic scan -- and as you might imagine, it's pretty slow -- and thorough!!!
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What about HD Tune Tom? It has an error scan besides other things.
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I have HD Tune, Dennis, but thanks for the reminder. Also, I'm not sure if that HD Tune scan is a read or write scan. Maybe it doesn't really matter. It would be interesting to know what protocol chkdsk uses in checking for bad sectors??
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Thanks for the suggestions.
Is there any other way (or perhaps even a better way) to check for bad sectors besides chkdsk? Are there any other applications that will do this?
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Just recently started having a problem CheckDisk -- specifically the component checking for bad sectors (I assume that's the old ScanDisk program). It seems to run fine through the end of Phase 2 (I don't know how many phases there are). Then, I get this error message: "Windows was unable to complete the disk check."
Any thoughts or suggestions?? Wondering if there could be some "Services" dependencies that aren't active or properly set?
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Does any defragger really check for bad sectors?
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Only AntiVir is resident, I use the freeware version of MBAM.
Same combo I'm using. Only difference may be that I'm using AntiVir Premium because of its added protection for my POP 3 e-mail client.
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Just curious . . . you're not running MBAM resident with Avira are you?? Didn't really think that was necessary with Avira -- thought it covered most malware issues.
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Anyone else been having any problems with CleanSoft's Update Notifier over the past few days?
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I guess that makes sense. By the way, Antavari, have you had any experience with Karen's HASHER? (Check my earlier post in this thread.)
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Does anyone know if CRC is as reliable in hash analysis as MD5 and/or SHA1 when it comes to reviewing duplicates?
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My suggestion is use an MD5 software like NirSoft HashMyFiles.
Anyone know how Karen's Power Tool Hasher compares with HashMyFiles -- or are they about the same?
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Also use Macrium Reflect here.
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Sophos Anti-Rootkit1.5 released today.
New in this version:
* Support for disk and registry scanning on new platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows
Server 2003 SP2, Windows 7, and Windows 64-bit platforms.
* Sophos Anti-Rootkit uses virus data if Sophos Anti-Virus is installed, and will report threats more specifically
than if data is not present.
* Sophos Anti-Rootkit can now scan every file on the disk instead of just the hidden ones, which will potentially
find more malware. This option requires Sophos Anti-Virus to be installed.
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Thanks, Andavari, for the detailed explanation.
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My suggestion is use an MD5 software like NirSoft HashMyFiles, as it will clearly show on screen when having the sorting show identical MD5's next to each other and is a much safer approach to deleting duplicates which should be done manually.
Andavari, how do you use this program to find duplicate files? What actually constitutes a duplicate and how will it show up? Exactly what has to match?
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I believe SAS and MBAM will scan for them as well.
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Personally, Windows System Restore has failed me a few too many times, whereas ERUNT has never failed.