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MBAM and SAS are the main AS apps I use in cleaning up other machines.

Some absolutely weird and wonderful trees that I would like to have in my garden! Socotra Island: you have to see it to believe it. Weird and Wonderful Trees?

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These spammers are probably using the dictionary attack method where anybody can get one. Luckily most AV's have the siggy's of the attachments in their data bases, or if not they will soon enough, hopefully. Dictionary Spam Attack: Webopedia

Received them myself this morning. I usually delete most spam at the servers end but if they have an attachment then I bring them through to check them out.

Might be worth posting a Hijackthis log first up just to make sure it's not related to malware? If not malware related you could have a look at this MS Support Link which may help? If no joy there then maybe add Take Ownership to the right click menu and see if you can give back permissions to yourself. Or you could reset the entire reg permissions back to default.Says it's for XP but works fine in Vista.

Be on the lookout for these two new spam which have zipped attachments and contain malware. Delta Airlines Attachment : Virus Total eTicket_K2.zip Flora Gabriel Attachment : Virus Total Fees_2008-2009.zip

Thanks Yo, bookmarked.

So do I, from now on that is. Actually the young salesperson was quite a nice fella and we both had a bit of a laugh about it.

Old version must be uninstalled first if deciding to try this new free version. Burnaware Free

Under Tools - Options - Main tab, try setting the downloads to be saved to desktop. Mozilla Article

I must be one of the luckiest people ever as I've just got another email telling I've won heaps again! Beers are on me fellas.

Went to Bunnings, our huge hardware store chain over here, to buy myself a sliding drop power saw. Only a cheapie for around 300 bucks but it would be fine for my needs. After getting it home and setting it up it was a sliding saw no probs but it wouldn't lift and drop. Cursing under my breath I repacked it and went back to get the sliding drop model. Salesman says to me "Did ya read the instructions" Me "Nope" Salesman "Well if ya did you would have known there's a spring loaded pin at the back of the motor that when removed allows it to lift and drop" The embarrassment was nearly unbearable. Oh well, still living and learning!!!

None on my own setups but I do use Dr Web's Cureit for scans on other machines if and when needed. Besides, they would only get in the way of all that lovely malware I'm constantly downloading. Virus Bulletin - Latest AV Test Results

Answer from MBAM's forum.Quote Raid:

Dunno Anthony? Maybe just run the fix and see what it comes up with. Uploaded to Rapid Share for those that can't get it from the forum. Rapid Share

Malwarebytes Forum Fix

Well I played with Chrome for an hour or so in a VM but I think I'll be sticking with FF. Doesn't work with Sandboxie properly unless low level access is allowed which is less secure. Still in beta but it does have potential though. Sandboxie Forum Discussion on Chrome How to crash Chrome Ars Technica Article

Thanks for the link Talldog9. Seems quite good and will probably be a keeper here.

If multiple tabs are opened then I think that each tab runs in it's own memory space so if one page crashes only that page will and not the others? Open a couple of extra tabs and check in taskmanager.

Gave it a brief run here and it seemed quite usable. The memory usage seems to be controlled exceptionally well. With one tab open it was only using 14 meg memory then I opened up six tabs with the mem going up to 50 meg with it dropping back to 20 meg after closing all but one tab. Speed is on par with FF but I really can't see myself using Chrome fulltime as I just like FF and my addons too much atm.

Google Chrome

Sandboxie

One of the tools I use when cleaning up/tweaking other machines.

Wonder if this new Google browser will be implementing a part of the Green Border security concept which they purchased a fair while ago? Yahoo Article