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[glow=red,2,300]Solid Article!!!!![/glow]

Does anyone know if BearShare is safe at all compared to LimeWire?

[glow=red,2,300]BearShare[/glow] contains spyware......[glow=red,2,300]WhenUSave[/glow]

Limewire is alright........

BT,Azureus......are tha best.....

I meant to say he went into a deep sleep while brushing his teeth, and died.

He had 2 daughters I believe.

Heart disease doesn't cause enlarged muscles lol.

Well...[glow=red,2,300]YEAH!!!!![/glow]

just for Test purpose's try my cablenut settings....And,do you have TCPOptimizer?????

no router......i do have a firewall though,that's what probally kills my connection abit to

Well here are my cablenut settings,i guess if ur on the same plan as me,this may be of some help...

so, u may or may not use LimeWire.. I used to..

If you do use it, you are familiar with a new version coming out, and auto downloading into your limewire library.

Usually, I've had no problem with this... but the downside is, your downloading off of other users.. not directly from the site.

anyhow...

I've been cleaning up this mess for a while.

*editing image size brb

oksorry

yeah,it figures,i have limewire too,you just have to make sure you scan what ever you download.I do recall trying to download this one program that was in .rar format,well it didn't matter how many times i tried to download it from other sources,the file itself was infected which in turn,other people downloaded it,and their pc's became infected.definitly do a scan on whatever file ya download ..etc...

where do u live man? im in toronto and i get under 3Mbps speeds on the same rogers package as u

Right on,You live in the T-dot......im In london,onatrio.......

Hey,post ur cablenuts settings on here,you should be gettin way higher.

good man steven........all im sayin is that maybe that's the only option...if nothing else works...reformat...and remember,stay on top of that sh*it......scan for spyware/trojan's/ad-ware...etc.....maybe as much as possible.

Lastweek,i had fix my friend tanya's pc......p2 400MHZ 128Mb RAM Windows 98 SE......

I've never worked on or seen a pc that had so many virus's/spyware/adware in my entire life..it's was the worst.

I ran spy-bot,CWShredder,AVG,Registry fix,regcleaner.....problem after problem...even her TCP/IP STACK was damaged and she just got hooked up to the www and she couldn't do sh*t..and to top it all off,she didn't even have the windows 98 SE disk,it was a major pain,but, i got the disc for her,got rid of all of the virus's and finally earlier today i totally cleaned up her pc,she likes to download screensavers,she uses smileycentral,mywebsearch...all that crap.....etc

So good luck,i know it's a major pain in the arse tryin to get to the root of the problem......later...........

YELLOW ALERT:

http://www.processlibrary.com/directory/files/smss/index.php

http://www.processlibrary.com/directory/files/csrss/index.php

http://www.processlibrary.com/directory/files/services/index.php

http://www.processlibrary.com/directory/files/lsass/index.php

http://www.processlibrary.com/directory/files/svchost/index.php

http://www.processlibrary.com/directory/files/spoolsv/index.php

http://www.processlibrary.com/directory/files/explorer/index.php

http://www.processlibrary.com/directory/files/rundll32/index.php

http://www.processlibrary.com/directory/files/winlogon/index.php

Removing those processes wasn't really where I was headed.  Obviously you cannot delete explorer.exe. What I was illustrating is that there are trojans and worms that utilize these processes, as opposed to creating there own.

It seems to me that that is exactly what was happening on supersteven's machine, as the problem was not evident in safe mode where some of these processes may not have been loaded.

In situations like this, formatting and reinstalling the OS is definitely your best bet.  We have exhausted many methods of removing the infection that did not work.  It is likely a kernal-level virus that cannot be picked up by conventional means, if by any at all.  Many people are scared of a rip and reinstall of the OS, but it's not that hard.  Just back up your files externally, scan them before putting them back on the HD after the reinstall, and you're good to go.  Nice, healthy PC.

I never suggested that he actually remove these processes which in fact you can't because some of them  are windows processes.What i was tryin to say is that if you go to that site i posted, http://hjt.iamnotageek.com/ it analyzes and parses your hijack this logfile....

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It explains what could be a possible threat,what's safe and what's unknown.

Don't tell me you guyz actually re-format????There's always a solution........Maybe im just lucky out of a 3 year span,i reformated once,reason,i had way to much crap on my HD,needed a fresh re-install.

Personally,my best friend always re-format's his pc when something goes wrong,he never takes the time or paitence to actually figure out what's wrong.I actually find it redundant that he actually downloads whatever or put's any games or apps on his pc when he just re-format's his pc in a month or so,sound pointless right?

And what i find ironic is that he also use's a ripped OS of windows 2000...hehe...i can definitly recall witnessing his pc reboot by itself after it's been idle for a couple of minutes.This is a guy who doesn't even use any anti-virus programs or even a firewall.....to funny....

You guyz definitly have to post ur Hijackthis logfile,im curious to see how many processes you are runnin,the most processes i run are about 16/17,my pc runs alot faster since i disabled alot of the useless windows processes and my connection seems to be alot faster too...check it out,it may work for ya......

I bet you all didn't know that Michael Jackson own's half of Sony...well at some point he did,i don't know about now....

I've decided to surrender and reformat my computer Saturday. Thank you all for the help, especially FallowEarth, it's been an honor. I will continue to post here. I love this place.

i agree this site is great......but,im sorry to hear that you had to reformat you're pc.

In the future,if you're not sure what processes are what and ya need to check out if ya have trojans/spyware/ad-ware,this site here

http://hjt.iamnotageek.com/ will definitly help you out.it checks out you're Hijackthis logfile and tells ya what's safe and what's not...etc......

It definitly helped me out......

Maybe this might help ya out......I've got the 3000/384 connection and here's my cablenut settings....

You can even check out some of my previous posts to see what speeds i've been gettin......

Whenever I connect to the Internet.. after some minutes(1-10mins), my computer will just

suddenly restart/reboot. I dont know why. Im getting irritated already. I tried not

connecting to the net, after about an hour, it didn't restart. So, I assumed that the

"restart" thing problem occurs when I am connected to the internet. What do you think

causes the problem?

Interesting.......i had the same thing happen to me before.When you're done scanning for virus's and malware...etc....and

You should read this first.....http://www.testmy.net/forum/index.php?topic=2097.0

Hey guys.. Nice site you guys have here.. I have been reading some posts here about Dial-Up tips/speeds/etc.. Great stuff.. anyways, i tried some tips.. i have a 56k modem.. connects at 50.6Kbps.. i disabled hardware compression. etc.. and did some tests.. here's what i got:

No Settings, w/ firewall - Under Firefox: at (50.6Kbps)

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Connection is:: 38 Kbps about 0 Mbps (tested with 97 kB)

Download Speed is:: 5 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2)

Test Time:: Thu Nov 03 2005 01:20:11 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Bottom Line:: 1X faster than 56K 1MB download in 204.8 sec

Diagnosis: 90% + Okay : running at 100 % of your hosts average (195.60)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-NERXYVM7T

VanBurens version 7 56k dialup - Under Firefox: at (50.6Kbps)

=======1st try========

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Connection is:: 16 Kbps about 0 Mbps (tested with 97 kB)

Download Speed is:: 2 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2)

Test Time:: Thu Nov 03 2005 01:26:40 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Bottom Line:: 0X faster than 56K 1MB download in 512 sec

Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 2.96 % of your hosts average (194.38)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-YONG7JKP9

=======2nd try========

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Connection is:: 29 Kbps about 0 Mbps (tested with 97 kB)

Download Speed is:: 4 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2)

Test Time:: Thu Nov 03 2005 01:27:40 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Bottom Line:: 1X faster than 56K 1MB download in 256 sec

Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 5.81 % of your hosts average (194.38)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-6STH7ZI9K

=======3rd try========

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Connection is:: 33 Kbps about 0 Mbps (tested with 97 kB)

Download Speed is:: 4 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2)

Test Time:: Thu Nov 03 2005 01:28:46 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Bottom Line:: 1X faster than 56K 1MB download in 256 sec

Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 7.13 % of your hosts average (194.38)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-BIRLVHKNM

No Settings Again, w/o firewall- Under Firefox: at (50.6Kbps)

=======1st try========

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Connection is:: 40 Kbps about 0 Mbps (tested with 97 kB)

Download Speed is:: 5 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2)

Test Time:: Thu Nov 03 2005 02:00:59 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Bottom Line:: 1X faster than 56K 1MB download in 204.8 sec

Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 42.86 % faster than the average for host (194.85)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-B26ZUHVXM

=======2nd try========

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Connection is:: 41 Kbps about 0 Mbps (tested with 97 kB)

Download Speed is:: 5 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2)

Test Time:: Thu Nov 03 2005 02:02:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Bottom Line:: 1X faster than 56K 1MB download in 204.8 sec

Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 28.13 % faster than the average for host (194.85)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-I7CWXO0NU

=======3rd try========

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Connection is:: 40 Kbps about 0 Mbps (tested with 97 kB)

Download Speed is:: 5 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2)

Test Time:: Thu Nov 03 2005 02:03:19 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Bottom Line:: 1X faster than 56K 1MB download in 204.8 sec

Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 21.21 % faster than the average for host (194.85)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-BZH1L9N3V

=======4th try - NO BAR========

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Connection is:: 40 Kbps about 0 Mbps (tested with 97 kB)

Download Speed is:: 5 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2)

Test Time:: Thu Nov 03 2005 02:04:15 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Bottom Line:: 1X faster than 56K 1MB download in 204.8 sec

Diagnosis: Looks Great : 17.65 % faster than the average for host (194.85)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-PD1OKH0JC

is there anyway i can get a higher speed?

thanks..

What's your cablenut settings???

My Latest Speed test.....

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Connection is:: 3433 Kbps about 3.4 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)

Download Speed is:: 419 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2)

Test Time:: Wed Nov 2 20:11:52 PST 2005

Bottom Line:: 61X faster than 56K 1MB download in 2.44 sec

Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 25.89 % faster than the average for host (rogers.com)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-4JPONLM0Q

:::.. Upload Stats ..:::

Connection is:: 403 Kbps about 0.4 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)

Upload Speed is:: 49 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server1)

Test Time:: Wed Nov 2 20:14:04 PST 2005

Bottom Line:: 7X faster than 56K 1MB upload in 20.9 sec

Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 30 % faster than the average for host (rogers.com)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-A4Q2JGP5H

Nov,3rd,2005

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Connection is:: 3478 Kbps about 3.5 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)

Download Speed is:: 425 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2)

Test Time:: Thu Nov 3 21:06:50 PST 2005

Bottom Line:: 62X faster than 56K 1MB download in 2.41 sec

Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 25.97 % faster than the average for host (rogers.com)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-NTRPY4MW9

:::.. Upload Stats ..:::

Connection is:: 378 Kbps about 0.4 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)

Upload Speed is:: 46 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2)

Test Time:: Thu Nov 3 21:13:28 PST 2005

Bottom Line:: 7X faster than 56K 1MB upload in 22.26 sec

Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 21.54 % faster than the average for host (rogers.com)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-8VOQ4PJBT

Did ya check to see if you have the sound on mute?...Control Panel/Sounds & Audio Devices

That's happened to me before,all of a sudden,no sound.....checked out my audio properties,and mute was on......[move][glow=green,2,300]go figure[/glow][/move]

What bundle are you on?....Rogers Lite,Rogers Hi-speed Express...etc....?????

Try PC Booster.....I've tried Xp smoker,didn't really do anything...i found personally that [glow=blue,2,300]Tweak-xp[/glow] and[glow=blue,2,300] Pc Booster [/glow] work the best......

Go to this site and check your Hijackthis logfile....http://hjt.iamnotageek.com/

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1

Scan saved at 11:32:59, on 30.10.2005

Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)

MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)

Running processes:

C:WINDOWSSystem32smss.exe

C:WINDOWSsystem32winlogon.exe

C:WINDOWSsystem32services.exe

C:WINDOWSsystem32lsass.exe

C:WINDOWSsystem32svchost.exe

C:WINDOWSSystem32svchost.exe

C:Program FilesSygateSPFsmc.exe

C:WINDOWSExplorer.EXE

C:WINDOWSsystem32spoolsv.exe

C:PROGRA~1GrisoftAVGFRE~1avgamsvr.exe

C:PROGRA~1GrisoftAVGFRE~1avgupsvc.exe

C:WINDOWSsystem32crypserv.exe

C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedVS7Debugmdm.exe

C:WINDOWSSystem32svchost.exe

C:WINDOWSsystem32RunDll32.exe

C:PROGRA~1GrisoftAVGFRE~1avgcc.exe

C:PROGRA~1GrisoftAVGFRE~1avgemc.exe

[glow=red,2,300]C:Program FilesJavaj2re1.4.2_06binjusched.exe[/glow] you don't need

hehe......more like once a week...i wish i saved all her log files.....if you could actually see how many prob's she had rap,you'd shake you're head.....

that's good to hear.......i just fixed my friend's PC...she's running Windows 98.....she doesn't know what spyware/ad-ware/virus's are.....she had so many virus's....i've never worked on a PC that has been so messed up before.

I ran spybot,she had over 200 problems,i ran AVG,she still had virus's,i ran registry fix...over 200 errors......i used Hijackthis,my god,by far the worst infected PC i ever worked on,took me 2 days to fix......but now it's clean and it's running good.........