slowday444
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I have SR disabled and don't want it enabled since I have a better alternative, so I don't want to even test the button. Thank You!
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61.5 That is why I have to ask so many questions!
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This is extremely unlikely related to TFC
I will forward it to the developer though just in case, and see if he has any idea
Admittedly, I'm merely basing this on the fact that I didn't use any utilities (other than CC) over the weekend. The other strange thing about the incident, as I mentioned, is it left icons, and shortcuts but essentially removed the programs. All could have easily been installed again, including running the connection wizard for the VPN issue, but it was just quicker to restore an AyRecovery snapshot with a reboot. Hope I never have to call on you for malware help and keep up the amazing work!
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I am always amazed at Rorschach's abilities in helping victims recover from malware infestations and periodically read the threads. At the end of the most recent thread he suggests TFC. Fortunately, I took a snapshot of my system before trying it over the weekend. After the first reboot in just the past two days I discovered it had wiped out the functionality of three programs. Over time I may have discovered others. It left both PopTray and WeatherPulse icons in the notification tray and in the start menu list but both programs were totally dead. It also completely removed my VPN connection (no evidence of it ever even existing) other than the desktop shortcut.
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I used to use Avast! as my preferred anti-virus until MSE came along, when I uninstalled Avast! & subsequently installed MSE.
Overall I am pleased with it, but I have one niggle - occasionally, and for no apparent reason, on boot up of my laptop MSE shows as a red icon in the system tray and warns that I am not protected. When I open MSE and click on the 'Start' button nothing happens, although if I click on update it will not only update the definitions file but will also 'start' the application.
However, last night 'it' happened again and no amount of updating, or clicking 'start', would coax the icon to turn green. I restarted the laptop and everything was fine
My wife has a similar laptop with an almost identical set up to mine and has none of these problems with MSE
Any ideas/suggestions would be gratefully received!
The exact same thing happens on my Vista Home Premo, SP1 laptop! I was really satisfied with Avira on it until the update issue started, which supposedly is resolved now. I went with Avast, which worked perfectly on my XP desktop, but it totally froze the laptop. I went through all the security apps I ever had on the laptop and cannot find any remnants so I don't know what it doesn't like. Have Online Armor and Mamutu just like on the XP machine. So that is why I'm now using MS SE. I was a six year customer of NOD32 on the desktop but with all the free choices, including frequent free licenses, I've gone free on it too. First Avast and now the free one year a-squared license. I feel like I'm playing anti-virus checkers or something!
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You can do this so much faster with CCleaner:
1. CCleaner: Cleaner -> Advanced -> Tray Notifications Cache
2. Close CCleaner.
3. End task: Explorer.exe
4. Restart: Explorer.exe
5. Restart Windows (this is necessary for any new customized settings of the tray icons to remain intact, otherwise if you don't restart they'll be completely lost when rebooting).
Now you tell me! lol
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If you are like me, after a while the clutter on your PC starts to get to you. (My wife would love if I felt that way about my dresser, etc. lol) So I searched how to do this and it worked like a charm if you are interested.
"Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify
Delete the IconStreams and PastIconsStream values.
Open Task Manager, click Processes tab, click Explorer.exe, then click End Process.
Still in Task Manager, click File, click New Task, type explorer, then click OK."
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Well, I bailed! could not figure it out! I swear it worked fine the first day, then I hadn't booted for a couple of days. I'm back with Security Essentials. Avast is still working great on the XP desktop with the exact same apps as the paptop has: Sandboxie, Online Armor and Mamutu!
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So this is working perfectly on the XP Desktop but on the Vista Home Premium SP1 a whoooole different story! It seemed to be alright last week, then today (perhaps after some Windows updates) it's nuts. Takes minutes to start browsing sessions and then it renders MSN and Yahoo in some strange kind of format (mostly text). I turned the Web Shield off and it rendered normally. There is no point in keeping it if the Web Shield is disabled! I did post this on their forum.
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No problems here w/ either one. The Avira slowdown didn't bother me (use it on a laptop), and Avast works ok on the desktop. Avira is of course said to run a bit lighter. I can't confirm that.
Have you given any thought to using Returnil or Powershadow when the kids use the computer? They don't slow down the operation, and protect the OS from any changes.
I've used paid Sandboxie for a couple of years! Actually, my children are adults and own homes. We visit and I take the laptop so I don't have to use their PCs.
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So I'm trying to keep the security on the laptop, which normally is only used when staying at the homes of our children, free. I had been using Avira and now there are all these update issues so I installed MS Security Essentials, which also is having update issues. I know many of you are using Avast. Any opinions or problems you've had? Thank You!
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Seen a post on another forum which said the link wasn't working for them either.
Not sure if I'd want to give a company all these details and ask them to look after them for me.
''Report on changes to your public record profiles including: addresses of owned property, children's names and schools and other assets''
http://www.identityguard.com/tpwithza.aspx
I realise you are using the free one of this service which I suppose just means you give them less info to monitor.
Thank you hazelnut! Actually, services like this in the US are quite useful now days. If someone attempts to open a credit card, take out a loan, etc., using your ID, there would have to be a credit check. These services would alert you that such and such is checking your credit so you would know that someone has stolen your identity. That is the gist of it. Another point is these bureaus already have your personal information anyway. I guess it's a moot point now though since the link doesn't work!
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That is the only reason I uninstalled Online Armor and installed it yesterday. The link which is accessed from "Identity Protection" in the GUI was down all day so I went back to a snapshot before installing ZA. If the link is working I can go back to the snapshot with ZA. For whatever reason, I did much the same thing last year, received the free license and never used it, but don't recall why.
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Apparently they have a forum where they discuss this in several threads: http://bwi.rivals.com/forum.asp?fid=36
that is where I read about it, however, there isn't any explanation as to the actual source or why their anti-malwares failed.
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So dozens of visitors to the rivals.com Penn State football board became infected with the Security Tool virus (not me!). Most, if not all, claim they had their anti-virus running and there doesn't seem to be any correlation as to any link they opened. How could that have happened?
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hazelnut, what do they mean by "Security Configuration"? I wasn't sure what to put in that registration field. Do they want a list of your apps or what? Thank you for the heads up!
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Yes, hit Backspace (or mouse button) a couple times and it works. I just found it kind of annoying using bookmarks of history if I wanted to go back to my home page. The Bs key is one of the only shortcuts I even use!
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You can go back from an email to the inbox or from any gmail entity to the previous one but not from gmail to any thing/where else. Have to use bookmarks or an address! I use the Ff extension gmail notifier so perhaps it is that. I'll have to check! Thank You!
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Slowday . . . are you using AYRecovery?
Does it also have its own defrag system -- and a "suspend" feature like Rollback RX?
After doing some reading about this stuff, I was of the impression that the built-in defrags for these programs were more about defragging their snapshot tree images than about defragging your system hard drive. However, I'm not totally sure about this.
Yes AR because they had offered a free license. I'm not aware of a suspend. Well you may be correct on the defrag. I'd assumed that since a snapshot represented the HD at a certain point in time and that when it was defraging the snapshots it was similar to a true defrag. I'd uninstall it and try a conventional defrag and see how long it takes sine I haven't done one in months but since there is a new version I'm not sure my license would work again.
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Ah yes of course; I hadn't thought of that. Losing all of the snapshots doesn't bother me per se; I would still be doing periodic image backups and when I want to defrag (which isn't often) I would just have to do it at the same time.
Though I am a little surprised that they recommend you uninstall; I'd have thought just suspending the defrag, as per their steps, would have been quite adequate. And I'm always wary of license re-activation where there's a hardware dependency involved.
Sorry guys, I should have mention that you should do all your maintenance, including defrag before installation. After that just use the programs defrag feature. It invokes automatically whenever you delete a snapshot which I do all the time, knowing that subsequent ones are of my PC running without issue. I always figured you could manually invoke a defrag but I looked at the GUI and I didn't see it but I didn't check any help files. When you start to delete a Maintenance tab is visible (you don't need to use it) which makes me believe that has to be available some how. Their defrag really does work because I used to use JK about once a month and it would take about 20 minutes. When I've un-installed AR and used it it takes less than five so AR must really work. Last but not least, check out this question dated Aug 05!
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I have never used Windows restore points, but the RollBack stuff goes much further anyway ... http://www.horizondatasys.com/169614.ihtml. I just like the idea that when I get one if those "Oh **** I wish I hadn't hadn't done that" moments I can get back to where I was in seconds rather than potentially hours.
If you browse their site there's more useful info. I did find one review of RollBack which basically said it was excellent; the only gripe was that the restore time wasn't as quick as advertised. Though slowday444 didn't seem to find that to be a problem!
The other feature that is really appealing to me is that you can access the restore points before you load Windows - there shouldn't be many issues this thing can't deal with.
I'm seriously tempted!!
I suggest you search or ask questions here. A whole lot of posters use it and over there.
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Someone on Wilders suggested .pdf, the one file type I hadn't tried, on the assumption that if it was .pdf, it would have ended in .pdf. Anyway, changed it and it opened fine. Thank You!
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Tried renaming the type to .doc and a few others, nor could zamzar.com do it. Thank You!
what does the "System Restore" button do?
in CCleaner
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I did suspect that is what it did! Thanks again!