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far from expert no school for me also but google is your friend :) "What happens Gary if you give the wrong malware advice to a member of ETS and they lose their OS and all their Data? Right! It gives ETS a bad name and as you know bad news travels fast. That's why we have properly trained Malware Specialists and the best" i understand this is to donetao and most forum's that help with malware are this way Malware Removal <---- no helping http://freepchelp.forum/f/24/ Who can post in this forum http://freepchelp.forum/t/200444/ Is my Computer infected or not?.... who can i ask? <--- if this is out of bounds please say so http://freepchelp.forum/t/200450/ i understand new to the forum is new and understand the warning (watch what i post) thanks very much good luck here everyone but moving along little doggie :) James

here is what i use donetao 1.My brain 2.Windows Defender 3.Windows 8.1 Firewall with GlassWire Network Security 4.Zemana AntiMalware (beta) i also have and use these malware scanners on-demand (no realtime) Malwarebytes pro Hitman Pro Emsisoft Emergency Kit MCShield usb scanner i use Firefox with Adblock Plus and Bitdefender TrafficLight and yes i use Ccleaner with some settings unchecked i make image backups with EaseUS Todo Backup Home /Macrium Reflect v5 Free if i think i'm going to do something dumb and/or for safety or if i want to test i will do it Virtual with something like Sandboxie Light virtualization Shadow Defender/Toolwiz Time Freeze but for some very fun learning learning and testing/safety i use Virtualbox because it will do so much i have not had a virus in over 7 or 8 years but i do not go looking also but thats not to say i have not had false positive's i have learned from beta testing to not have a panic attack if my scanners find something and start deleting stuff that can be a F/P and now when you restart your pc it will not start no more or some software is not working now my computer runs fast and has very few problems for me i would not advise anyone to use my setup because not everyone's computer knowledge and/or skill is the same but i also think paranoia will destroy ya having to much live computer security software can make your computer do some funny things there is a beta version of Malwarebytes out so a new version is not far off Malwarebytes Anti-Malware BETA 2.1.0.1009 http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/malwarebytes_anti_malware_beta.html paranoia will destroy ya Kinks - Destroyer 1981 :) James

well a 64bit version of Firefox is not far off it looks like so i can wait lol Mozilla releases 64-bit Firefox Developer Edition for Windows http://www.ghacks.net/2015/02/28/mozilla-releases-64-bit-firefox-developer-edition-for-windows/ <--(Ghacks Technology News is a tech blog that reviews software, apps, Internet services, and offers tips and tricks about Windows, Android, and other systems.) unless someone would like to try now :) Download Developer Edition https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/all/ :) James

i try to use portable software as much as i can (easy uninstall just delete the folder/and less stuff left behind) but here is a portable version of SeaMonkey if your looking to just test it http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/seamonkey_portable :) James

wait till you get to work on Windows 8/8.1 just give it time my friend you will come across one lol mine is not that easy on Windows 8.1 to get to safemode or boot from a cd/dvd i have to use a USB Drive made from the Recovery Media Creator to create a system recovery drive on a USB flash Drive because of UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) BIOS but i can turn UEFI off and use Legacy BIOS Mode then i can boot from a cd/dvd What You Need to Know About Using UEFI Instead of the BIOS http://www.howtogeek.com/175649/what-you-need-to-know-about-using-uefi-instead-of-the-bios/ now to get to safe mode 5 Ways to Boot into Safe Mode in Windows 8 & Windows 8.1 http://www.7tutorials.com/5-ways-boot-safe-mode-windows-8-windows-81 the Recovery Media that is made by Windows 8/8.1 is like the one that is made by Windows 7 it is just the way it is used to get booted from the rest of the troubleshooting is the same though :) James

remember this song but this is real classic rock :) 2CELLOS - Thunderstuck :) James :) James

do you know how this compare's to HitmanPro.Alert HitmanPro.Alert http://www.surfright.nl/en/alert HitmanPro's CryptoGuard http://www.surfright.nl/en/cryptoguard i know that Malwarebytes buy's out ZeroVunLabs to make Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit so do you think it is better would not Antiexecutable software like NoVirusThanks EXE Radar Pro also stop this kind of Exploits http://www.novirusthanks.org/products/exe-radar-pro/ thanks :) James

the slimwareutilities detections are more than likely a false positives if you use this software SlimCleaner/SlimDrivers https://www.slimwareutilities.com/ if your task manager and regedit work then this posts says it ok to clean or delete those DISABLETASKMGR and DISABLEREGISTRYTOOLS http://support.emsisoft.com/topic/13694-disabletaskmgr-and-disableregistrytools/ to see if your task manager works right click on the task bar and click task manager it should start to see if your registry editor works open run and type regedit and hit enter :) James

will this help this seems like a common error Access Violation? How dare you SOURCE : http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2008/06/03/access-violation-how-dare-you.aspx I am sure we have all seen access violations occur since we took ownership of our first x86 PC's. The infamous "Bluescreen", application crashes, it doesn't really matter, access violations are all over the place. For any of you that remember the good old Windows 9x days, a General Protection Fault and Invalid Page Fault are basically the same thing (and a segmentation fault too). To many people, the phrase 'access violation' is synonymous with "crash". But what exactly is an access violation? To put it simply, an access violation occurs any time an area of memory is accessed that the program doesn't have access to. This can be due to bad code, faulty RAM or even a bad device driver. It really doesn't matter who the culprit is, the root issue is basically the same. For instance, memory location zero is reserved for the operating system, so any application that tries to access this address will crash with an access violation. The problem with this is that it is very easy to end up with a value of zero. If you set a pointer and initialize the value to NULL (which is 0), then try to access it, you will crash in this fashion. We call this a NULL Pointer and it is very common. The error you will receive should be similar to the following: Unhandled exception at 0x00032b15 in Application.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000000 This states that the program Application.exe, which was loading at the arbitrary address 0x00032b15, attempted to read address 0x00000000. The code 0xC0000005 is the code for access violation,so expect to see this quite a bit. In a memory or user dump, you may see if referred to as STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION. This type of error can occur when either reading or writing, so it is pretty common. Below is an example of how this may look in a bugcheck dump, by simply doing a "!analyze -v". In this case, it was due to a driver fault causing an access violation. You will also get an access violation if a program triggers Data Execution Prevention (DEP). This is a feature that uses both hardware and software to minimize the threat of malicious code like viruses. How this works is that memory locations can be marked as being used either for executable code or for data. Viruses commonly dump their payload into a data location and then execute it from there (like in a buffer overflow scenario). This is exactly what DEP is designed to prevent. If something tries to execute code from a data location, DEP will trigger an access violation to protect the system. The reason this is important to us is that some applications do the same thing simply due to the application's programmer not quite following the rules. For instance, if an application dynamically generates code, such as in a Just-In-Time scenario, and do not explicitly mark the code as executable, they will run into the Wall of DEP :) James

i use BlueScreenView from Nirsoft there is a lot of good freeware tool's there like HashMyFiles that i use to calculate the MD5 and SHA1 hashes of my download when needed http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/index.html and do not forget Bug Check Code Reference https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/hh994433%28v=vs.85%29.aspx :) James

thank you for the link and very happy it worked out for you :) James

@Rich-M mabe this could help Macrium Software Coupons get 20% off all Macrium Reflect orders ends 02/28/2015 http://www.retailmenot.com/view/macrium.com :) James

good for you donetao i would of uninstalled it also since most mouse's come as a plug and play device's and i doin't need the added features i would not use Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center or Logitec Setpoint i'v had nothing but trouble with both Mouse and Keyboard Center http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/downloads/mouse-keyboard-center SetPoint Software http://www.logitech.com/en-us/mice-pointers/articles/11650 i have a $85 Razer gaming mouse and have to deal with a program called Razer Synapse configurator that's sort of a pain and that's bad enough :) James

ssl certificate stuff is scary i tested both my browsers also and passed since this thing/and or story is spreading in to more than just Lenevo thing :) James

@donetao new update for v6 today lets hope the free version comes soon i want to try this new version it's faster than v5 Macrium Reflect Bug Fixes 6.0.482: Upgrade from v5 rescue media issue After upgrading from Macrium Reflect v5 the rescue media Wizard would not prompt to upgrade to v6 rescue media. It was necessary to click the 'Rebuild' button. this has been resolved. Windows PE prompt for XML file when cloning When cloning using the Windows PE rescue media, Reflect would incorrectly prompt to save an XML definition file. this has been resolved. Technicians portable USB stick issue The Technicians portable version of Macrium Reflect would build a 'Trial' version of the rescue media. This has been resolved. v5 upgrade of XML definition A v5 XML definition would incorrectly use the global v6 retention defaults if DSM was disabled in v5. This has been resolved. so let's hope this update helps with the version upgrade from version 5 when version 6 comes out Version 6 of Macrium Reflect Free will be available soon http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx :) James