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4 to 5 minutes is way out there and there must be other issues where posting a Hijackthis log in the correct section of this forum may be advisable. 2 seconds normal and 3 seconds to open sandboxed here. If you have confidence in your other security apps you could turn off FF's website checking security features which use a lot of resources and to be honest just doesn't seem to work? A lot of people have something like a Site Advisor, their resident AV and FF's inbuilt all checking every link they open which would be slowing things down. FF - tools- options - security tab and untick the top three then find and delete the urlclassifier3.sqlite and urlclassifier2.sqlite files. They will be rebuilt if and when you turn those security features back on and up to you if you wanna do it. urlclassifier3.sqlite woes on Firefox Article

They are all much the same with none providing decent coverage, well for me anyways. Same as windows updates which are never ending and useless bloat. Below are a couple of sample malware I've picked up lately. Virus Total Virus Total

41 C around 107 F here yesterday. Perfect beer drinking weather. But then again any type of weather is perfect for a beer.

I LOVE CATS! If you want a cat that's as clever as a dog look no further than the Bengal breed. Mine follows me all over the place, even across the road to the neighbours. Can be a pain as he's always jumping up onto the keyboard though.

new5scan.com/21/?uid=167\?uid=167 seems dead atm. Went to hxxp://www.online-safe-way.com/ and picked up an "installer_00001.exe" which installs Antivirus Plus which is another rogue. Not too many are flagging the above installer so it must be a fairly new one and which I've uploaded to Malwarebytes. Virus Total

Firefox with noscript stops those rogue sites cold. Or if browsing sandboxed with scripts allowed globally you can right click Sandboxie's taskbar icon and terminate programs or delete contents will have the same effect.

Just to follow up, the installer I downloaded for Internet Antivirus Pro was a morphed version from the other five samples I have. You can see in the pic below they are the same size but packed at a different size. Edit: Changed the url again to: and picked up another installer for Internet Antivirus Pro which is different again. Ya gotta pity those poor Antimalware good guys trying to keep up with these rogues, huh.

Site seems down atm? Yep, most if not all of those installers belong to the rogue Antivirus 2009. A couple may be for Antivirus 360 which is a clone of AV 2009. Funny thing is I changed the url to: and picked up an installer for Internet Antivirus Pro which is another rogue app which must be quite a new one as not too many are flagging it including MBAM. Virus Total

Just to give an idea of what the AV/AS authors (good guys) have to try and stay on top of. Below is a pic of a few Antivirus 2009 installers I've picked up in the last month or so. On the day they are released most AV/AS won't pick them up as they have been morphed (changed) ever so slightly so as to avoid detection until the AV/AS apps have their databases updated in order to detect these new rogue installers. I think over at MBAM's forum we've found 6-8 new installers since Friday, and that's only for Antivirus 2009 with a lot of other rogue apps doing exactly the same thing. The installer I uploaded to Virus Total wasn't being flagged on the day I found it. Virus Total And on re-uploading just now a few AV's are starting to detect it. Virus Total

PDF - Foxit. Firefox 3 with Noscript and Adblockplus. Scripts are allowed globally when I go hunting malware but then again I'm always hunting sandboxed so no probs. Office 2003 - Word, Excel and Power Point are all I need. Pics - Default viewer. Burning - Burnaware free version. Audio - WMP or Spider Player Cleaning - a reboot out of Returnil mode and/or deleting the contents of the sandbox cleans everything that needs cleaning, but I do run CCleaner every now and then, who doesn't? Security - Sandboxie, Returnil and Ghost Images. Same setups on all my XP Pro/Vista Ultimate installs.

From the article.

Well lookee there, Hazelnut's drawn level!

Apparently Malwarebyte's flags it as a rogue? Malwarebyte's Discussion

Be very careful LuLu! Make sure you check it out completely as there are scams all over the place. One Such Scam

Castle Cops was a great site and I think Returnil had a support thread over there?

Malwarebyte's Rogue Listing

Seems all of SUPERAntiSpyware is having a bit of strife atm.Just hang 5 for a bit till they resolve any issues their end.

Booting from an XP install cd uses generic drivers so if nothing shows it may to be the graphics card or a static buildup. With the power cord unplugged from the psu press and hold the power button for around 30 seconds then replug the power and see if it will boot. If the mobo has onboard vid then plug the monitor there or try another video card.

What am I missing here? Can't you boot from the XP install CD and format the drive that way?

Go to Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Services and check to see if Windows Firewall is set to Automatic and has started after you first boot up.

Glad you had a laugh Hazel. In case anyone missed it, at the end of the vid if you wait a bit you can create the same vid with any name and email the link to your friends.

Anyone know this person.Seems to ring a bell here! World's Greatest Business Mind

Around 48 Woody? Old and grumpy here and I'll be 54 in January where I share the the same birthday as our very own Mod in DennisD. DennisD is way older (and grumpier) than me though, like about a year I think.

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