FaT_PHiL

I installed spybot but all that came up was two internet explorer related things.. fixed hijack this fixed a few startup things i tried installing AV and AVG both gave me errors during setup and i couldnt install, i think when installing the worm infects them, cause as soon as i installed AVAST it said that itself was infected lol AVAST found the worm and a few trojan, their called Win32:Strator, Win32:Trojano-522, Win32:Rameh and Win32:Hantaner but whenever i try to go to Repair File or Move to chest to quarantine it gives me an error and i cant do it. The files that are infected are mainly from a hidden _RESTORETEMP folder, and basicly every EXE that ive opened. Its like invincible or something .. i wish format would work :(

i can deal with the login part just wondering if there was a way around it, when i had the worm on my main computer i tried all of the softwares in safe mode and it never worked.. although i dont recall using AVG back then .. this was about 2 years ago. im gonna make a cd with a few installers like spybot, AVG, and hijack this and see what turns up

ok i was able to restore the original registry and fix one of the 2 main problems that prompted me to format this computer one was to fix this pesky problem that wouldnt let me change out of 256 colors and the other to remove a really bad Worm that attacks certain process's and every exe i open. So if i cant format my next step would be to try to salvage the drive and try to remove the worm. I had this worm on the computer im on now and with several programs and help wasnt able to remove it so i formated. Being that that computer is so old im not sure what i should do to try to remove the worm if i can at all. and on a side note .. the restoration of the registry brought back my friends login and password.. how can i unregister the computer to him .. or that would require re-installing windows?

ok i booted up and i found that D is my ramdrive so i typed D: and typed dir.. which showed a small list that contained FORMAT so i typed format C: and it got to 84% .. and error again i noticed that when it displayed the RAMdrive it said stuff like disk sector 64 and something else 512 .. the config.sys is set to 9,256 ... but that shouldnt make a difference cause doesnt it skip the config.sys file and just read from the IO.sys or something else .. is there any thing else i can try perhaps modifying a file on the bootdisk. id just like to say thanks to everyone even if we cant resolve this problem.. and cholla ur diagnosis has been the most easily explained and made the most sense out of any of the forums ive been to lol thx alot

could i use a no ram drive bootdisk? they have them at bootdisk.com but i wasnt sure what that meant. If not ill try your way and post back with the results.. currently im using scandisk to see if theres anything wrong with the hdd but i doubt it

but then why does it say change the stack size the hdd has never really been used its just been sitting in my closet for a while. Is there anything i can do to check if the hdd is bad? and could partitioning do anything .. i dont know anything about partitioning =/ but could i do something with fdisk and fix the problem If all else fails ill just buy a cheap 10 gig hdd

ok i have tried 3 bootdisks so far.. 1 windows98SE and 1 windowsME from bootdisk.com, and chollas ME bootdisk. After i insert the bootdisk and it recognizes it, i select boot with cd rom support.. it configures a few things and when it gives the A prompt i type format C: and i select yes to format. My screen then reads Checking existing disk format. Recording current bad clusters Complete. Verifying 6,102.78M Trying to recover allocation unit 1,322,495 (here is where it gets to 84% and then it reads...) "An internal stack overflow has caused this session to be halted. Change the STACKS setting in your config.sys file and then try again." i have tried 2 different stack settings the most common. 64,512 and 9,256. im pretty sure it doesnt mean 64 thousand .. it means 64 and 256 which are 2 different values. i tried researching the problem online and alot of people that have this problem say it could be related to 2 main things.. bad hdd or a corrolation between hardware and memory. I know for a fact my hdd is good because i can boot perfectly fine at my current state and im able to read and write. It doesnt give me any lock ups or any reason to think the simms can be bad. i really would like to get this to work cause its not worth it to go out and buy a new secondary pc when i can fix this. i dont have any idea of what to do next..

did the router come with an installation cd? if so have you installed the software to configure your router to your modem yet. also have u tried releasing and renewing your ips Start>run>winipcfg im not an expert but maybe this will help, smart guys will be on in the morning ^^

ok i put the floppy in, it booted from A and i typed A:>format C: and then it did its thing, but after 100% of recording bad clusters it says An internal stack overflow has caused this session to be halted. Change the STACKS setting in your config.sys file and then try again.. what does that mean and .. can i change it on the boot disk manually?

Success .. i tried 4 times with the first mirror on the boot disk site.. then i put another floppy in and tried the 3rd mirror and it worked.. went straight to 100% in like 30 seconds.. now im gonna see if i can format the old comp.. ill be back in a bit

i went out and bought 10 new floppys, i formated them and created a boot disk without the use of a self extractor .. i copied the files and wrote the autobat and sys configs myself and im pretty sure they are correct. Now my problem is my other computer wont boot from A.. i go into the bios and there are numerous settings that show various drives but not just A.. theres like A,C ... A,cdrom,C.... D,A i tried them all and it just bypass's everything and loads windows. The other thing is the OS im trying to get rid of is windows ME.. which doesnt allow u to boot in dos mode. And if on the chance that the boot disks i created are not correct i still cant create one using bootdisk.coms self extractors.. every time i format a floppy and try it it gives me an error track 0 and head 0 i dont know what else to do i just wanna throw it out of a window lol

ya nothing can ever threaten apples hold on the portable music market. The only way any competitor can compete is to offer more space/features for lower the price, which i doubt any company is willing to do. I remember back when ipod first launched for like 400$ it was just the normal music playing one that stored 40gigs. My friend came to school after winter break with a Creative pocket pc. It looks just like a tablet pc except its more thick .. (original gameboy thick) and it cost 400$ but it offered the same amount of space and it was able to playback video. Its to late for anyone to catch up with the ipod craze even if there are better and cheaper substitutes nothing can stop it

Hijack This Utility works great too, been using it for a long time and it always fixed my problems

ya that thing is quite big to be compared to an ipod.. i think the only reason why apple was allowed to corner the market for so long was because of the size factor. There are plenty of other products out there that provide all the same stuff an ipod will do + tons more for the same price but there a little bigger unless u got some big pockets idk how it would be portable for a normal person.. perhaps business people would use it

ya im pretty sure it can, would i just put whatever files go on a floppy bootdisk onto a cd and boot from cd.. would that work?

ya i run 98SE on this comp, but the problem i have now is .. i have no floppys left thats why i was wondering if its possible to format from a cd drive .. might be a stupid question =/

I recently came across my old comp and its realllly old. amd 266mhz 47 ram.. has 4 simms .. they look all different than each other lol uses onbard video and it has ISA slots the really bad hardware isnt the problem though, on my other comp ive been trying to create a bootdisk for windows ME to put on the old one. i went to bootdisks.com and tried making one like 10 times.. and all 10 times it would give me errors.. only one time i got to 100% but during the process i had to skip alot of files and it wouldnt work when i put the floppy in my old comp i tried the system restore but theres no previous restore points the main reason i want to format is because theres a bunch of problems with it, mainly drivers and a worm that disables alot of windows process's what could be the reason why its not allowing me to fully create a 100% working bootdisk, and is there any other ways of formating or reinstalling windows without the use of a floppy?

i came here over a year ago when Orlando got its service increased to 5/384... after googling bandwidth speed test, i found this wonderful paradise and i been doing tests ever since

Too bad this was meant as a joke, i couldnt stop laughing after i read this part "Popular hacker software includes "Comet Cursor", "Bonzi Buddy" and "Flash" back in 1998 i got my first computer it was a compaq, and those were one of the first software i installed lol.

FaT_PHiL... well my names Phil and .. um lets just say im big boned lol. HeLLFiRe is my main nick, i got it back in 2000 when i registered an illy (illegal account containing illegal Characters) on battle.net for starcraft, HeLLf][Re. And ive used that ever since

Ok well im no stranger to this forum, just havent been online in about 5 months And the new brighthouse upgrade got me excited. I have windows 98, isp is RR and they advertise 8/512 Ive been using Cablenut and the setting i use is one that Van gave me a while back its called win98 5000+, ive tried all the other settings in his 8th settings folder and 7th and this one seems to work the best Your connection is: 7495 Kbps or 7.5 Mbps You Downloaded at: 915 kB/s You are running: 134 times faster than 56K and can Download 1 megabyte in 1.12 second(s) Member Ident: Username:FaT_PHiL CompID:6254713993501 Test Time:: 2006/03/03 - 2:31pm Test ID: QKM1RFTGI (if this is a screenshot go to testmy.net to see if this is fake) Diagnosis ^info^: Awesome! 20% + : 72.06 % faster than the average for host (rr.com) This was tested from a 5983 kB file and took 6.54 seconds to complete Your connection is: 402 Kbps or 0.4 Mbps You Uploaded at: 49 kB/s You are running: 7 times faster than 56K and can Upload 1 megabyte in 20.9 second(s) Member Ident: Username:FaT_PHiL CompID:6254713993501 Test Time:: 2006/03/03 - 2:34pm Test ID: L5HSBK8E2 (if this is a screenshot go to testmy.net to see if this is fake) Diagnosis ^info^: Awesome! 20% + : 26.42 % faster than the average for host (rr.com) This was tested from a 579 kB file and took 11.81 seconds to complete Ive gotten 8.3mb down and i cant get over 420kbps on up, i should be getting at least 500 heres the tests TCP options string = 020405b401010402 MTU = 1500 MTU is fully optimized for broadband. MSS = 1460 Maximum useful data in each packet = 1460, which equals MSS. Default TCP Receive Window (RWIN) = 65535 RWIN Scaling (RFC1323) = 0 bits Unscaled TCP Receive Window = 65535 Note: TCP 1323 Options need to be enabled for RWIN over 2^16 (65535). Windows 9x might also need the MS Vtcp386 fix. For optimum performance, consider changing RWIN to a multiple of MSS. Other RWIN values that might work well with your current MTU/MSS: 513920 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 256960 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 4) 128480 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 2) 64240 (MSS x 44) bandwidth * delay product (Note this is not a speed test): Your TCP Window limits you to: 2621.4 kbps (327.675 KBytes/s) @ 200ms Your TCP Window limits you to: 1048.56 kbps (131.07 KBytes/s) @ 500ms MTU Discovery (RFC1191) = ON Time to live left = 54 hops TTL value is ok. Timestamps (RFC1323) = OFF Selective Acknowledgements (RFC2018) = ON IP type of service field (RFC1349) = 00000000 (0) Cablenut settings Current date is Fri 03-03-2006 Current time is 4:35:10.60p Windows 98 [Version 4.10.2222] Pinging testmy.net [67.18.179.85] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=47ms TTL=53 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=43ms TTL=53 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=46ms TTL=53 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=53 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=43ms TTL=53 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=53 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=53 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=53 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=53 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=42ms TTL=53 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=53 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=57ms TTL=53 Ping statistics for 67.18.179.85: Packets: Sent = 12, Received = 12, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 42ms, Maximum = 57ms, Average = 46ms Ping Complete. Tracing route to testmy.net [67.18.179.85] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 9 ms 8 ms 9 ms 10.105.224.1 2 12 ms 11 ms 24 ms 97.230.95.24.cfl.res.rr.com [24.95.230.97] 3 9 ms 9 ms 12 ms 145.228.95.24.cfl.res.rr.com [24.95.228.145] 4 12 ms 9 ms 11 ms p1-0.hsa2.orl1.bbnplanet.net [63.209.120.29] 5 10 ms 12 ms 11 ms ge-5-0-0.mp2.Orlando1.Level3.net [4.68.97.205] 6 42 ms 47 ms 47 ms ae-0-0.bbr2.Dallas1.Level3.net [64.159.1.110] 7 42 ms 49 ms 40 ms ae-24-52.car4.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.68.122.48] 8 41 ms 43 ms 43 ms 4.78.221.146 9 42 ms 47 ms 43 ms vl31.dsr01.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.127.29] 10 45 ms 43 ms 44 ms vl41.dsr01.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.85.127.83] 11 49 ms 42 ms 42 ms gi1-0-1.car17.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.116.69] 12 43 ms 43 ms 41 ms testmy.net [67.18.179.85] Trace complete. Is there anything i can change in the current tweak im using to optimize my upload? Thanks, HeLLFiRe

i think our down is fine 8mbits gives u 1mb/second, i just wish our up was 1, it takes forever to transfer files to friends at like 30kbps Maybe they will do another upgrade before the year is over to 10/1 that would be sweet

Is it possible that because i have Windows 98 my Upload cap cant be reached? im using win98 5000+ cablenut config This is the highest i can get it to go, and its stil under my old cap of 384, should be 512 now Your connection is: 363 Kbps or 0.4 Mbps You Uploaded at: 44 kB/s You are running: 6 times faster than 56K and can Upload 1 megabyte in 23.27 second(s) Member Ident: Username:FaT_PHiL CompID:6254713993501 Test Time:: 2006/03/03 - 11:57am Test ID: 0031URNES (if this is a screenshot go to testmy.net to see if this is fake) Diagnosis ^info^: Looks Great : 14.15 % faster than the average for host (rr.com) This was tested from a 2992 kB file and took 67.56 seconds to complete

I got the upgrade too except my upload is the same as the old 384 it wont go up .. but my download is looking real sexy at almost 8mb down Your connection is: 7695 Kbps or 7.7 Mbps You Downloaded at: 939 kB/s You are running: 137 times faster than 56K and can Download 1 megabyte in 1.09 second(s) Member Ident: Username:FaT_PHiL CompID:6254713993501 Test Time:: 2006/03/02 - 7:23pm Test ID: UCL5H2VZK (if this is a screenshot go to testmy.net to see if this is fake) Diagnosis ^info^: Awesome! 20% + : 76.65 % faster than the average for host (rr.com) This was tested from a 5983 kB file and took 6.37 seconds to complete I think all brighthouse cable subscribers will get the upgrade in the florida area, or at least in central florida.

Hi i recently got my internet back and brighthouse in my area have upgraded to 8 megs down and 512 up My first speed test showed 7.4 down and 0.2 up, Your connection is: 7438 Kbps or 7.4 Mbps You Downloaded at: 908 kB/s You are running: 133 times faster than 56K and can Download 1 megabyte in 1.13 second(s) Member Ident: Username:FaT_PHiL CompID:6254713993501 Test Time:: 2006/03/02 - 6:58pm Test ID: LYZJ5B9EO (if this is a screenshot go to testmy.net to see if this is fake) Diagnosis ^info^: Awesome! 20% + : 70.79 % faster than the average for host (rr.com) This was tested from a 5983 kB file and took 6.59 seconds to complete Your connection is: 262 Kbps or 0.3 Mbps You Uploaded at: 32 kB/s You are running: 5 times faster than 56K and can Upload 1 megabyte in 32 second(s) Member Ident: Username:FaT_PHiL CompID:6254713993501 Test Time:: 2006/03/02 - 5:59pm Test ID: EA9LY8WKD (if this is a screenshot go to testmy.net to see if this is fake) Diagnosis ^info^: May need help : running at only 82.65 % of your hosts average (rr.com) This was tested from a 579 kB file and took 18.12 seconds to complete I used to be able to break my cap when it was 5/384 , is there any new tweaks for windows 98?.. i would like to reach my upload cap of 0.5 if thats possible thanks guys , FaT_PHiL