Picked up something called Smitfraud-C.Toolbar888 and can't seems to kill it with Spybot S&D and Ad-aware. (was looking for a key gen..teach me to go to a place i didn't know) Anyone have any ideas to kill it. Tryed the normal safemode and running them, keeps coming back. Thinking i might need to do a system wipe.
at the risk of being pelted by mangoes, I suggest you try MS windows defender. It's free. Only available for XP. Worth a try. Link.
Yep tryed that, it didn't seem to work. Ended up doing a scorched earth and formatted the comp, only way i could beat it, kept making DLL's with random names quicker then i could delete them. New malware infections were found after every sweep.
Thats something else, the thing i picked up didn't change the backgrounds. Just tossed out the odd popup (even with a popup blocker running) and made 100's of copies and all other sorts of nasty things.
There are standalone cleaners for that evil motherfucker. That's the kind of vermin I'd really like to share a sealed room with the 'authors' for an hour or so
do my new trick, install anything on a virtual machine. if it turns out to be crap delete virtual machine... main system is kept clean that way.
^VMware (to summerteeth) get ahold of VMware workstation, and you can create virtual machines with a range of operating systems and control how they access the host PC. i'm still going through the possibilities, but my next PC will be running a basic linux distro (for browsing the web, and basic everyday things) with virtual windows servers and desktops for my IT work. you can set how much drive space and memory they take up, clone them so you can have backups to revert to or copies to test new programs on. you can even network the buggers!
depends on your settings, but since it only takes up resources when running its a non-issue. if you want an XP install as a testbed only actually 'play' it when you need to do some testing, rest of the time its not running. guest operating systems only boot up when you play them, not as part and parcel of the general running of the pc.
^ Oh, I know how it works. My question is - can you actually work with the guest OS or is it so sluggish that it's more of a toy?
i have a sempron 2800 with 2gig of 400mhz DDR2 memory running win2k AS, on top of that i can run XP and ubuntu without any major issues, so i'd say yes. given my systems about 2-3 years behind current tech, it'll doubtlessly run like a dream on modern hardware.
I liked VMWare when I had it. The only gripe I had was that it didn't (at that time, anyway) support 3D graphics acceleration on the guest OS, and I was really wanting to play with the whole Linux version of the 3D UI. (I forget now what that was called.)
