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Glad you got it going. Sounds like you and your PIII are old friends.

Nice one. Thanks Hazelnut, and also Chris Wiles. From a bona fide downloadaholic.

Hi cl5776 and eknirb. There are lots of Googleable (is that a word?) articles about secure deletion. Not going to repeat them here, but in short, how much energy you put into deleting depends what you want to do. - If you just want to delete files so that the space is freed up on the hard drive, just delete'em. - If you want to prevent casual, easy recovery of something private, like say, an invitation to a surprise birthday party, then 1 overwrite will do it. The file name might still be there, but the file is now full of junk. - If you want to prevent recovery of something really confidential, one of the standard schemes (DOD, NSA, etc) is generally regarded as better. For instance, if a computer used in a business is being transferred to a different user. - If you want to prevent the super snoopers from ever seeing the file, replace the hard drive. Edit: Feel like I should say more, am conflicting slightly with YoKenny. If I were responsible for protecting really important data, such as account numbers and personal ID numbers, I would replace the HD. No matter what the experts say publicly. Not sure if Ccleaner overwrites the file tips or flushes the buffers when overwriting, or renames the files, but it is a very good deleter. Considering the other functions it can perform, it is a top notch app. Just my opinion. Wait for some of the other members to post, most know more than I. Hope this helps.

Funny how our metabolic thermostats adjust.

<--- Sorta looks like the unfortunate Kenny from South Park. ~ -10C here.

edit, post moved by poster...to the lounge.

I sent installer_00526._xe to MBAM just now. By the way, the picture looked different on "safe-way" earlier today. Also, don't know if it is related, but tcpview showed an attempt to connect to a site in Italy, one in Latvia, and one in Mexico.

Happy Birthday, Dennis.

You're welcome, Andavari. The last trip gave 2 more: http://new5scan.com/21/?uid=167\?uid=167 and when you close that, to http://www.online-safe-way.com/ And a new installer file, called installer_00526.exe Still no warnings are triggered from avast or A2, even though it installed. Gonna sign out now. Would be glad to help or report more about it if need be.

Site is still there, looks and behaves differently. Several clicks required to get to the install prompt. No warning from avast nor from A2 this time, even upon installation. ?

Thanks, Davey, for letting me off the hook. Be comforted, I have Piri on speed dial. The eDintori foray was an experiment to see how different search engines find the same entry. Tunerz, you are quite right, and maybe a lot of people don't know that. If I hadn't had a virtualization app running, I would have just shut down IE. Might have been too late anyway. edit: The malicious site is still there. Going to go there 3 times: once w/ PS running, once with Returnil running, and once with Sandboxie running, see what happens. Back soon, I hope. Don't try this at home.

Same for me, Lulu, but I think it is the dreaded "Bouncing Smiley Buffer Overflow". If I click on the link to the 3d smileys, I wind up at a blocked site, incentaclick dot com. That site lets you put a direct link into a post, so that the smiley shows up in the post. Is it dangerous to do that?

OK, thanks, Andavari, I will post the site below. I didn't before for fear someone would go to it. Humpty, the anti-malaware business must be like fighting a swarm of bees. Are those all variations of a single install.exe? The site: http://new4scan.com/22/?uid=117 It was (and is right now) the only anomalous finding when searching for "Piriform". The site is listed as "the Hanging Tree...etc", and appears to go to dealfa . com but it is an obfuscated url. It is listed below: http://ie.edintorni.net/search/redirector.asp?t=&u=http%3A//wzey1.ask.com/r%3Ft%3Dp%26d%3Dsyneu%26s%3Dedn%26c%3Dbh%26l%3Ddir%26o%3D0%26sv%3D0a5c4318%26ip%3D415004db%26id%3D4F3614A90464748B0D62A6C4A7E71196%26q%3Dpiriform+forums%26p%3D1%26qs%3D121%26ac%3D7%26g%3D7edbaRxFOjIJSA%26en%3Dte%26io%3D5%26b%3Dalg%26tp%3Dd%26ec%3D10%26pt%3DThe+Hanging+Tree%253A+Execution+and+the+English+Hanged+People.%26ex%3D%26url%3D%26u%3Dhttp%3A//dealfa.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/oudelcn-2381.html Now lookit, guys, I don't hang around (no pun intended) morbid sites. It was anomalous, I'm tellin ya...

Thanks, cc1.

No install, no reboot needed, lots of data, fast, too. Veeerrry nifty application. Thanks, Dennis.

What's in your wallet? .... Oh, nothing much. Loved the fuel guage.

Hello.

Thanks for the info, YoKenny. MBAM is a great app.

Had Powershadow running, Returnil probably would have worked also. Used eDintori.net, Irish search engine to look for Piriform forums. One of the links (about hanged people, dont go) went to a site which locked me up. All I did was open it. It tried to install a rootkit, I think. Edit: would welcome any comments from members more knowledgeable about what happened. Not entirely sure of the following order, but IE was locked up, thats for sure. Got warning 1. Clicked cancel. Window wouldn't get out of the way...always on top. Windows key+d will clear the screen. Got the install prompt. Clicked cancel on the install prompt. It cancelled. Clicked cancel on the download prompt. The prompt just repeated itself. 5 times Clicked the x to close the next install prompt. The prompt just repeated itself. 5 times Clicked on another tab in IE. Wouldn't change tabs. Got the bloop sound. Clicked on the x to close IE. Nope. Clicked on the system tray to close IE. Nope. Disabled 'net connection from systray. ctl+alt+delete brought up task manager. Used tskmgr to shut down IE. worked. Scans of C:\Documents and Settings\Compaq_Owner\Local Settings before reboot Avast = nothing SuperAnti = nothing mbam = nothing A2 = Rootkit.win32.TDSS!K in c:\...Local Settings\temporary internet files\ContentIE5\O9H2O13\[1].EXE. Apparently this is a fairly new malaware. ? Scans after reboot: Apparently nothing installed. Don't Know what would have happened if I hadn't had PS running. Wish it was still free, but Returnil has the same capabilities, I guess. I notified eDintori. Edit: Well, OK, guess I'll quit using xs.to for image hosting. Lotsa junk comes with those thumbnail links.

This thread, started by Hazelnut, is sort of a warning: http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=14685&hl= I followed the link to wilders, the info there scared me away from later versions of Eraser, but I have used 5.84 32 bit for a long while with no problems.

'nuther one: http://www.tropicalglen.com/

Very nice.

Hey, tried'em out. Thanks, they worked fine. "Get It" seems to require wmp 11, so gave it a pass, but gonna go back soon. Cookies not a problem for me, delete'em all every time.

http://www.theradio.com/ Maybe common knowledge, but new to me. Lotsa' choices. Have it playing now, doesn't seem to interfere with other activities. Check out "British Invasion" under the channels tab. Know any other good ones?

Wish to all merry Christmas and may God bless. Don't forget to leave a snack for Santa.