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| Thread ID: 52792 | 2004-12-30 02:26:00 | Some Adaware program has installed itself on my computer | paragone (6714) | Press F1 |
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| 308857 | 2005-01-02 18:53:00 | I have found WildTangent games installed on certain new computers (Packard Bell was one, I think) . Is that related to the WildTangent you are talking about? You know, Foxy, I don't really know for sure . I am positive that there are some things out there that come pre-installed in opsys's that are both good and bad . A blessing and a malediction, if you will . It really has taken me by surprize that this virus has either attached itself to (coat-tailed) or was actually installed by the WildGames Company . (Maybe the WT virus just goes cruising by your ports peeking in and looking for the games, and invites itself in when it finds it's own name there) . I suspect that even they (WildGames?) don't know the full ramifications of what is being done in their name, unless they planted it themselves . I am not a game-r, nor do I use or buy commercial computers . I build my own from virgin motherboards, ecu's and cards . I run some serious hotrod processors with overclocking, high-end ram, RAIDs with 6 / 180gig 10,000 rpm drives . This is for my music and video files . I water cool my processors and boards, and run full temp sensors for all critical devices . 7 fans make the tower sound like a fleet of helicopters taking off until the drivers slow them down to a small scream . I write code in Forth-69 and Pascal . My oldest daughter can read machine language like a cheap book, and my oldest sons are in the puter building and renovation business, with the older of the two as the hardware king, and the younger as the systems tech . We are very diversified and also volunteer a lot of time and trouble to/for people who get burned by these attacks . Currently, our consolidated opinions are that computers are to be issued to only those who have had at least 4 years of computer sciences and lab time in an accredeted university environment . Much less is tantamount to giving a child a small yield nuclear device . There are going to be more panic calls from more friends (outta the woodwork they come) who got their Christmas presents and plugged them in and got killed online in a few minutes . That is very sad . . . and not the way things should be . So, I take my 'puters seriously . What I also take seriously is someone trying to commandeer my systems . I see red, and as a Type-I personality, I get a little hostile as a father would if his child was being stalked by wolverines . Sorry . . . . bad mental picture there . I do not subscribe to P2P file swapping, bit torrenting, or booting illegal OS's . Running a legal and sane motherboard is my primary concern . Do you see why I get a little miffed at those who like to cause damage to me and my friends? So, to answer your question from my soapbox (sorry), I say get rid of the WT thing asap . If it is not the cause, then it is surely in my opinion, the harbinger of bad future news . Surfer Joe ;) |
SurferJoe1946 (6716) | ||
| 308858 | 2005-01-02 18:56:00 | Try using system restore to go back to before you ran adaware. Start, all programs, accessories, system tools, system restore. | augustus (6717) | ||
| 308859 | 2005-01-02 19:35:00 | www.google.com | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 308860 | 2005-01-04 20:20:00 | Try using system restore to go back to before you ran adaware. Start, all programs, accessories, system tools, system restore. If the worm/virus/spyware was already there then this will only serve to restore it as well. You need to be very careful about using restores - personally I don't use them at all (I disable it totally), far better to do proper back-ups and/or disk images. |
Mycenius (6715) | ||
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