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| Thread ID: 75189 | 2006-12-19 17:59:00 | Help!!! Viruses | jenlad (11635) | Press F1 |
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| 508013 | 2006-12-19 17:59:00 | About a week ago I had to completely restore my computer because of viruses. It has been working so much better. But last night I was using movie maker, editing a video, when the comp completely froze. It also has been saying im low on virtual memory??? Which I dont really have much on my comp except for some pics, music and 2hrs worth of video. Then today, the same thing happened ,but this time a pop up came up saying dumrep.exe, so I researched it and found in a forum to bring up my syst configuration, and in startup tab get rid of dumprep.exe. But there was none listed??? On top of that, I noticed that rundll32.exe was in that listing in startup tab, which concerns me because that would always pop up when my comp was filled with viruses. Someone help please. | jenlad (11635) | ||
| 508014 | 2006-12-19 18:40:00 | Welcome to PF1 :) This is in the wrong forum area, but a mod will move it. What are your system specs? eg CPU RAM Operating System etc... When it says it is low on virtual memory, it means that there is not enought RAM installed so it is using the hard drive as, well virtual memory, the setting for this is right click on My Computer and click properties, advanced tab and then click the performance settings button and advanced tab again and down the bottom it will tell you a number like 2046 MB under a box called virtual memory, what is this number? dumprep.exe is the MS error reporting program, which tells you if Windows or a program has crashed etc so it is fine. rundll32.exe is another of Windows' needed programs and is critical to keep Windows stable... so leave it alone Download and run Hijackthis (www.download.com) and save a log and post the whole log up here, this will tell us what nasties there are on you system. Also do you run the usual anti virus programs, adware and spyware scanners like Adaware (www.lavasoftusa.com/) and Spybot Search and Destroy (http:)? if not it would be best to download these as well and un them regularly |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 508015 | 2006-12-19 22:48:00 | Get a Mac, you can do everything you want and not get stuffed by viruses - you can even run Windows to if your still missing the virus part. | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 508016 | 2006-12-19 23:02:00 | Get a Mac, you can do everything you want and not get stuffed by viruses - you can even run Windows to if your still missing the virus part. Change the record dude. Not everyone wants or can afford a mac. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 508017 | 2006-12-19 23:50:00 | Linux is free and it has no viruses either. For the record Intel Mac minis start at $1,128.00 which I wouldn't class as excessively expensive considering that you don't need any additional antivirus which everyone around here seems to complain about 99% of the time....go figure. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 508018 | 2006-12-20 04:28:00 | [QUOTE=winmacguy;508764]Get a Mac, you can do everything you want and not get stuffed by viruses QUOTE] Oh Really? (www.macvirus.org/) and what about This Too. (http:) We are straying into ostrich territory now. I've been running Windows since 3.11 days and have never had a virus infection. It's all about how and where you play. Cheers Billy 8-{) :2cents: |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 508019 | 2006-12-20 04:51:00 | Is someone going to ask him what Virus scanner he has? or does he run any kind of firewall. Just a thought :rolleyes: |
Master_Frost (9951) | ||
| 508020 | 2006-12-20 05:05:00 | [QUOTE=winmacguy;508764]Get a Mac, you can do everything you want and not get stuffed by viruses QUOTE] Oh Really? ( (http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2001/09/18/insecurities.html" target="_blank">www.macvirus.org/) and what about This Too. (http:) We are straying into ostrich territory now. I've been running Windows since 3.11 days and have never had a virus infection. It's all about how and where you play. Cheers Billy 8-{) :2cents: Apparently... The virus mentioned in the first link was a WINDOWS only virus picked up from an infected PC used for testing in the Apple factory in China it affect about 1% of all shipped iPods. The rest of the articles mentioned on the site refer to vulnerabilities which is why Apple has security updates on a regular basis, since NO operating system is perfect. OS9 and prior versions had some Mac only viruses in its day but they pretty much had to be transfered by floppy from one machine to another. In terms of actual viruses that can infect OS X since its release to the public in 2001 there are 0 (zero) viruses. There have been a few proof of concept trojans in the last 2 or so years but most of these failed to materialise in the wild so NO actual users like Joe public were ever infected unless they did it themselves (the editors of MacWorld.com) to see if it worked, as reported and first picked up on MacRumors forum last year if my memory serves me correctly. Cheers winmacguy :) Note: I just play:D and iCreate. Just a thought....Does the original poster use any antivirus or firewall |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 508021 | 2006-12-20 06:23:00 | Is someone going to ask him what Virus scanner he has? or does he run any kind of firewall. Just a thought :rolleyes: Why don't you ask? :rolleyes: :rolleyes: |
Billy T (70) | ||
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