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    Anti-spyware

    in Software

    Posted

    Here ya go: http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=122

     

    ... Erm, on further thought, your Arovax Shield might be the alternative that's easier to implement... LOL

     

    As for SG, I've always be a fan of Javacool's, but I fear he's been spreading himself too thin... The lack of movement with regards to MRUBlaster was in fact what led me to CCleaner in the first place...

     

    His SpywareBlaster is still very much to be recommended, and it is being kept up to date as well

    Anti-spyware

    in Software

    Posted

    I think you need to get something more current than SpywareGuard because it's hopelessly outdated with the last def file being from 2004

     

    I have to say I agree there, although SG for a large part doesn't rely on definitions. Not familiar with Arovax myself, but alternatively, for real time protection SpyBot S&D might also be a good choice, with its Teatimer component.

    Anti-spyware

    in Software

    Posted

    Can you do the Startup Folder thing yourself, or do you want some guidance there as well?

     

    As for that one, log in as Adminstrator, rightclick the Start button, and choose "Explore All Users".

     

    Drill down to the Startup folder of the account where SQ launches automatically at boot (typically C:\Documents and Settings\"User Name"\Start Menu\Programs\Startup, locate the SG link and move it to the Startup Folder of the All Users account

     

    As for the Registry bit I'd like to see an export of the registry key in question.

     

    Log on to the account where SpywareGuard does start up automatically.

     

    Now go to Start > Run, and paste the following into the box, then click OK:

     

    regedit /e C:\run.txt HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

     

    That will export the contents of that key to a C:\Run.txt file

     

    Paste the contents of the run.txt file into your reply, and I'll tell you how to proceed.

    CCleaner.

    in CCleaner Bug Reporting

    Posted

    Thanks again Tony. didn't work for me, the biggest mystery was all the other keys on my keyboard being "dead" when I tried to type anything else.!!"

     

    If it is a USB keyboard, and your computer's BIOS doesn't provide legacy support for USB devices it won't work in MS-DOS at all. But I understand that some keys DO work? :huh:

    Anti-spyware

    in Software

    Posted

    SpywareGuard is generally launched from the Startup folder. If you want it to launch automatically at boot in ALL accounts, move the link to the Global (All Users) Startup folder

     

    SuperAntispyware on the contrary is generally launched from the Registry, for the current user only, creating a string value in this key:

     

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/ CurrentVersion/Run

     

    If you want the application to launch at boot for all accounts the startup entry needs to be in the similarly named key in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE branch of the Registry

     

    Moving the SG link from the User Startup folder to All Users shouldn't be a prob.

     

    If you have trouble with the Registry part, just say so, and I'll help you fix that as well.

    mswmccds.exe

    in Windows Security

    Posted

    In addition, here's some more information from this excellent Task List Programs Database:

     

    Microsoft?s Windows Media Connect Service. Windows Media Connect is a Microsoft technology which enables Digital Media Receivers to play music, video, or photos that are stored on a Windows XP PC. At the time of writing, 1-Oct-2005, most Digital Media Receivers (DMR) take the form of a piece of Hi-Fi equipment which can connect wirelessly to your PC or PC network, and play music (or music playlists) stored on your PC or network. For example, you would have your Digital Media Receiver in the living room connect wirelessly to your PC in your study or one of the spare rooms, and play music files or music playlists stored on the PC. MSWMCCDS, the Windows Media Connect Service, is the process which enables this process by streaming the music to the Digital Media Receiver (which has no storage capacity of its own).

     

    Recommendation :

     

    Unless you are a Windows Media Connect user, the default Startup Mode of this service will normally be Manual, which is fine. In fact, at the time of writing, 1-Oct-2005, given some of the bugs we have seen with the Windows Media Connect Service, we feel it would be prudent not to have Windows Media Connect automatically start when Windows starts as some of the recent problems have included Windows taking up to 20 minutes to start because of a problem with the Windows Media Connect Service. If you use Windows Media Connect, simply start this service through the Windows Media Connect icon in the Control Panel ? this service starts as soon as you open the Control Panel?s Windows Media Connect icon (the Windows Media Connect Configuration program) and you can stop it on the SETTINGS tab.

     

    As for the UnpnP Internet Server vulnerabity, it was first reported in 2001 and MS subsequenly issued a couple of patches to fix (most of) it.

     

    Still, it IS recommended to disable the 'feature' until (possibly) needed. You can use Steve Gibson's handy little "UnpLug 'n Pray" application to toggle it off/on should it be needed:

     

    http://www.grc.com/unpnp/unpnp.htm

    How to delete files that can be found within the recycle bin?

    in The Lounge

    Posted

    You can also delete it through cmd but I've forgotten how to do that. :)

     

     

    Well: rd /s /q c:\recycler , as I said before... ;)

     

    That will get rid of the Recycler folder, including a possibly corrupted Info2 file.

     

     

    (Incidentally, I had to correct my previous post, in which I had it as C:\recycleD, which would be have been the case if this were Fat32)

    How to delete files that can be found within the recycle bin?

    in The Lounge

    Posted

    you have to delete it from the registry.

     

    Neighberaaron is absolutely right in that Recycle Bin problems can also be due to corruption of one of the pertinent registry keys, and that can certainly be fixed, but I rather have an idea that this is not the case here. In fact, is this even a Recycle Bin problem at all?

     

    What program did you use, what were the files it found, did YOU move those to the registry bin, and were you subsequently unable to delete them from there?

    Or did you delete them, but they returned. And if so, did they return to their original location, or to the Recycle Bin...?

     

    :blink:

    is it possible to MAKE a temp folder?

    in The Lounge

    Posted

    As I explained, if you name any other folder Temp nothing will touch it, and its contents will remain intact.

     

    I thought that is what you were after.

     

    Or am I misunderstanding you, and do you on the contrary WANT the contents of your newly created Temp folder to be deleted automatically??

    How to delete files that can be found within the recycle bin?

    in The Lounge

    Posted

    I'm assuming your copy of XP is using the default NTFS file system

     

    I'm not completely certain what you're referring to here, but anyway, the Recycle Bin (with NTFS "C:\Recycler" by default) is a 'special folder'.

     

    Even after emptying the Recycler bin or cleaning it with CCleaner Recycler will still contain a "Recycle Bin" for each user that logs on to the computer, sorted by their security identifier (SID). These objects have weird, long filenames, like for example"S-1-5-21-2272455930-4098879298-1067392489-1006"

     

    Sometime the folder does get corrupted. First try this:

     

    Go to Start > Run type 'cmd then hit 'Enter'

     

    Type the following at the command prompt:

     

    rd /s /q c:\recycler (note: mind you include the spaces after 'rd', 's', and 'q',

     

    Press 'Enter'.

     

    That will remove the Recycler folder

     

    Now rightclick your Desktop, and choose New > Text document.

    A new txtfile is created.

     

    Delete it by dragging it to it to the Recycle Bin on your desktop.

    Next, rightclick the Recycle Bin, and choose: "Emtpty RB"

     

    After that you should have a brand new Recycler folder that should be empty, apart from the aforementioned SID-file(s)

     

    Tell us how that goes.

    CCleaner.

    in CCleaner Bug Reporting

    Posted

    Hi,Tony. As I am also a "keep it simple" guy, I decided to go for your solution initially and I happily confirm that it was successful and the Content IE5 element of my Index.dat entries now disappear on boot-up.

     

    That's good to hear. :)

     

    According to my old SPIDER index.dat cleaner I also have index.dat files at :------C:\WINDOWS\Cookies\index.dat -----

    C:\WINDOWS\History\History.IE5\index.dat-----

    C:\WINDOWS\History\History.IE5\MSHist012006052720060528\index.dat------ and the scan duly records entries under those each of those headings. I can locate the Cookies ID file but I've never been able to locate the two History.IE5 ID files. !! Can you advise me what lines I should put into my autoexec.bat to zap these other index.dat files at boot-up,please. ?

     

    Here you go; in fact, in the Autoexec.bat, delete the "Deltree /Y C:\Windows\Tempor~1" line I frst gave you, and replace it by adding the folllwing three lines under the 'smartdrv' line:

     

    DELTREE /y c:\windows\tempor~1\*.* > NUL

    DELTREE /y c:\windows\history\*.* > NUL

    DELTREE /y c:\windows\cookies\*.* > NUL

     

    It's just a tad more 'elegant', and achieves the same thing.

     

    Now the contents of your History, TIF, AND Cookies folders will be deleted on boot, and a spanking new index.dat file will be created in each.

     

    BTW, all this happens because Windows stores the location of these and other per-user special folders under the following registry keys:

     

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

     

    ... and it consults those keys at boot, making sure those shell folders exist. If not, it will create them

     

     

    Can you also tell me if the "Overwrite" exercise I've been attempting would be any more effective than this autoexec method, as I was told that it would actually "kill-off" the ID entries at birth so there would never be any on your PC, even between boots. ?

     

    It's a nice excercise in batch file writing, but, no not really. A brand new index.dat file contains no user data, so if you do it 'my' way that's absolutely sufficient.

    is it possible to MAKE a temp folder?

    in The Lounge

    Posted

    I'm not sure everyone is talking about the same thing here (and I'm not even sure I am... weee.gif ) .

     

    Anyway, if I understand your question correctly, yes, you can certainly create a new folder called "Temp" in any location you want without the risk of any application, Windows OR CCLeaner seeing it or messing with it.

     

    Windows and applications look at the registry to determine what constitutes the "real" temp folder, and that's the one they use.

     

    We're talking about the "Temp" and "TMP" Expanded String Values in this key:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\currentcontrolset\Control\Session manager\Environment

     

    By default it is %SystemRoot%\TEMP (generally C:\Windows\Temp)

     

    And per User, the same values in

     

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment

     

    ... being: %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp (ie C:\Documents and settings\UserName\Local Settings\Temp

     

    You should stay out of those folders.

     

     

    Temp folders located anywhere else however will not be recognized by applications or the operating system, and in fact I have four or five of them myself:

     

    C:\Temp

    C:\Downloads\Temp

     

    and so on...

    Windows wont shutdown.

    in The Lounge

    Posted

    Wonder if the app at the link could help.

     

    User Profile Hive Cleanup

     

     

    Ah, thanks for the tip! :)

     

    Not sure whether it will help in this case, but it may help me LOL!. I've seen occasional occurences of profile unload problems (evt ID 1517) in my Event log, but as otherwise everything runs fine I never bothered to investigate further.

     

    This may however be just what's required.

     

    Thanks again!

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