XPerties

misskellibad1 is a she not a he tinker...rofl rofl

i got 95 of those bastards

yah weve all pretty much been together dealing with each other s*** for over a year now. We invite anyone to join the family and dont worrie there several people who just like to chat and post funny stuff so stick around , were here to help if need...if not we just screw around! -Xperties

When XP was released I bought the XP pro version...I have well over 2000 thousand bucks of software installed on my system and so much more in storage but when it comes to the base of my system I had to buy the real deal XP. Just dont like to mess with the base, thats my option tho -XPerties

hey hey hey....great, Im glad all went well. As far as windowsupdates just keep trying it, sometimes windowsupdates gets bogged down due to traffic. Try in the morning or early afternoon. And let it do its scan. Eventially it should complete it scan and I would have to guess youll probaly have around 20-43 updates to download. -XPerties btw I started a thread about what happenes when you dont cleab your system. You should probaly grab a small free app called ad-aware since your brother probaly uses Kazaa or blubster to download music. Ad-aware makes sure you dont have spyware which is stupid small crap thats sneaks and installes itself and keeps track of the website you visist. Read more at there website..... http://www.lavasoftusa.com and take a look at the thread.... http://www.msfn.org/index.php?act=ST&f=2&t...31997f08a0e8aa0

woooooooooo........you dont do anything with the ME disk. You put the XP disk in while your in windows. and follow what I posted above, when the XP installation ask for verifacation of a exsiting operating system thats when you take out the xp cd and put in the ME disk. It will check the disk , see you have a legit copy and then cont to install XP. -Xperties

with a virus like this jack you shouldnt back anything up on disk. Read up on the nasty think it combines itself with zip files, rar files, exe files and tons of other normally used files. Norton has had extremely bad luck detecting this in files through out your system. misskellibad1- when you get done dont forget about us lonely techs out here, hope all goes well and keep that know it all brother in his place! -Xperties

This is why......uggg havent done it in about 2 weeks and see.... http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3vg3n/holly.jpg All that ad-ware -Xperties

lol...hahaha, thanks. Yah your going to lose all your programs but keep this in mind about backing anything up. This trojan attaches itself to dozen and dozens of applications which there still finding out and the list gets bigger, so I wouldnt backanything up from your old XP install. Reinstall all your programs fresh. You should get all your addreas info if you use outlook or any screen names. The basic stuff but dont transfer anything from the old XP install to the new one, youd be asking for trouble then. Oh and all those info you were getting , well they were probaly telling you to change in your bios "Boot from the cd", thats why if it doesnt just boot from the cd then do step 1 and just put the cd in the drive while your in windows. Its to complicated to explain the bios if your not familiar with it. That will be in lesson 2 after we get the pc up and running virus free :user :user -XPerties

Welcome to the board Hottt. It wasn't IBF showing a small preview, it was people making their own preview. It makes it a little easier on dialup users. well Mr. Admin how the hell do you do it Mr admin sedative sir!!!!!!

well I have but Im not going to vote and say i was as dumb as you...I was just to lazy to turn off the power...heh -XPerties

uhh yah...rofl rofl rofl...welcome

Things to have for a new Install of XP "Fresh...Meaning clean hard drive".... Have that recovery disk with me on it and your XP cd along with the key. Theres two ways to start off. The best one is the second choice but sometimes if your computer does not boot from the cd the first one is the only way. Choice one: While your in XP insert your cd of XP , a pop up window will appear, choose "Install XP" which should be the first option. Your PC will copy the setup files and restart. Once it restarts simple follow the on screen directions. It will ask you to choose the destination where to install XP, choose c: drive. It will inform you that you already have a copy of XP on that drive. Then it will ask to do the following.... 1. Repair 2. Cont install on that drive 3. choose another. You want to cont the install on the drive that you already have XP installed on. The next step will ask you to format c: drive. It will give you 5 options. I personaly pick "format NTFS" (its a more safer and suficiant way to store files) but you can pick if you would like "format fat 32". What ever you do do not choose any of the options that say "Fast" next to them. Once its done formatting the rest is a piece of cake. Im not sure when but at one point XP will ask you to verify a earlier operating system because you have the XP upgrade. When it does simple take out the XP cd and place the ME disk in the cdrom. If it doesnt auto pick the cdrom to look for ME choose the cdrom drive as the destination so it can validate you have a previous version of windows. Choice two: Have your XP cd in the cdrom drive and restart your computer. Watch the screen and a option should show at the bottum saysing "push key to boot from cd" Try the second way first if you dont see it offer you to boot from the cd as soon as your computer starts then youll have to do the first option.if second choice works then just follow the rest of the instructions from here..... Once it restarts simple follow the on screen directions. It will ask you to choose the destination where to install XP, choose c: drive. It will inform you that you already have a copy of XP on that drive. Then it will ask to do the following.... 1. Repair 2. Cont install on that drive 3. choose another. You want to cont the install on the drive that you already have XP installed on. The next step will ask you to format c: drive. It will give you 5 options. I personaly pick "formatte NTFS" (its a more safer and suficiant way to store files) but you can pick if you would like "format fat 32". What ever you do do not choose any of the options that say "Fast" next to them. Once its done formatting the rest is a piece of cake. Im not sure when but at one point XP will ask you to verify a earlier operating system because you have the XP upgrade. When it does simple take out the XP cd and place the ME disk in the cdrom. If it doesnt auto pick the cdrom to look for ME choose the cdrom drive as the destination so it can validate you have a previous version of windows. I hope that it doesnt sound to confusing, its really not. -Xperties PS...If you have any questions just ask. BTW theres a update to prevent that viruis in the future. as soon as your done install XP go to windowsupdate.com and get all the updates.

Thanks Aries, You also have a nice start to a forum. Hope all goes well and thanks for the great comments. -Xperties

The reason why norton wouldnt work properly and you had to install it would be due to what the virus does............. the worm attempts to unload several processes (antivirus programs) from memory including those containing the following strings: _AVP32 _AVPCC NOD32 NPSSVC NRESQ32 NSCHED32 NSCHEDNT NSPLUGIN NAV NAVAPSVC NAVAPW32 NAVLU32 NAVRUNR NAVW32 _AVPM ALERTSVC AMON AVP32 AVPCC AVPM N32SCANW NAVWNT ANTIVIR AVPUPD AVGCTRL AVWIN95 SCAN32 VSHWIN32 F-STOPW F-PROT95 ACKWIN32 VETTRAY VET95 SWEEP95 PCCWIN98 IOMON98 AVPTC AVE32 AVCONSOL FP-WIN DVP95 F-AGNT95 CLAW95 NVC95 SCAN VIRUS LOCKDOWN2000 Norton Mcafee Antivir which means it trys to uninstall norton and from what you are saying it did its job. Iev read at least 10-15 different people post there steps they took to get ride of the virus and all have ended up just formatting "erasing" the entire harddrive and starting from scratch. The reason is this trojan attaches it self to dozens of applications on your pc with extensions. It would by far take more time to go through each registry entry and try to correct its entry VS doing a reinstall. Reinstall XP is really simple and Id be happy to post the correct stages on how to do that. I dont see a solution other than that that would insure 100% clean system. heres an example on what the virus does to your system files.... Target filenames are chosen randomly, and can have single or double file extensions. For example: 350.bak.scr bootlog.jpg user.xls.exe The worm may also copy itself into RAR archives, for example: HREF.mpeg.rar HREF.txt.rar lmbtt.pas.rar Just for the future what does your brother download? Music? If so and he downloads music files he should only be downloading mp3's, and if theres any files ending in .zip, .rar, .ace, .rar he should right click on them and choose scan using Norton anivirus and always update your antivirus program. -Xperties

Ok first let me ask you a few things because Ive been reading up on this virus for the last day. What antivirus software are you using? After your done and you supposely kill the virus is your antivirus saying its still on your system or are you recieveing e-mails that are making you think you still have the virus. As posted on a few virus forums they have said in the past the antivirus after being killed will still be detected by the anivirus even tho you dont have it. What happens is when the virus first infected your system it makes registery entrys into the antivirus folder such as nortan, Mcaffee, exc. exc. exc. Also it makes registry entrys in your outlook or oulook express thus generating e-mails. Ill look around on the forums and see what others did to correct this and maybe we can find a solution for this promblem. Just try to give me some insight on the questions I ask oh and how did you get infected? e-mail right? -Xperties oh ps is your pc on a network with other pc and are you on a cable or dsl connection?

Theres a specific stop error, It will say stop: "a bunch of numbers and letters"...when you get that post it. You can search MS database for the promblem with the stop numbers or we can find the info for you. -Xperties

Have you tried this and followed it word for word? http://de.mcafee.com/root/genericVIL.asp?g...p&virus_k=99455 Use current engine and DAT files for detection. Once infected, VirusScan may not be able to run as the virus can terminate the process before any scanning/removal is accomplished. The following steps will circumvent this action and allow for proper VirusScan scanning/removal, by using the command-line scanner. Ensure that you are using the minimum DAT specified or higher. Close all running applications Disconnect the system from the network Go to a command prompt, then change to the VirusScan engine directory: Win9x/ME - Click START | RUN, type command and hit ENTER. Type cd \progra~1\common~1\networ~1\viruss~1\40~1.xx and hit ENTER WinNT/2K/XP - Click START | RUN, type cmd and hit ENTER. Type cd \progra~1\common~1\networ~1\viruss~1\4.0.xx and hit ENTER Rename SCAN.EXE to CLEAN.EXE to prevent the virus from terminating the process and deleting files. Type, ren scan.exe clean.exe and hit ENTER First, scan the system directory Win9x/ME - Type clean.exe %windir%\system\win*.exe and hit ENTER WinNT/2K/XP - Type clean.exe %windir%\system32\win*.exe and hit ENTER Once the scan has completed, Type clean.exe /adl /clean and hit ENTER Rename scan.exe. Type, ren clean.exe scan.exe and hit ENTER After scanning and removal is complete, reboot the system Apply Internet Explorer patch if necessary. Klez can delete anti-virus software files. It may be necessary to reinstall VirusScan after cleaning a system. Additional Windows ME/XP removal considerations Let me know if this page helps. -Xperties

I love the fact that NVidia has pushed the limits on 3D performance (NVidia's drivers aren't bad, either). The company has established its reputation by releasing new products every six months or so. The downside to this? With new chips coming out and older chips still on the market, that means lots and lots of NVidia-based boards out on the shelves. Here are all the NVidia-based boards listed on Price Watch (as of today). It doesn't even bother to break out the boards that Leo, Kevin, and I have in our home systems. All three of us currently use the "outdated" TNT2 (though Kevin and Leo definitely started to hit the wall on that card when they fired up "Warcraft 3"). Perhaps we don't deserve to call ourselves serious gamers. $284 -- GeForce4 TI 4600 $200 -- GeForce4 TI 4400 $136 -- GeForce4 TI 4200 $118 -- GeForce4 MX 460 $69 -- GeForce4 MX 440 $61 -- GeForce4 MX 420 $125 -- GeForce3 TI 500 $86 -- GeForce3 TI 200 $302 -- GeForce3 Deluxe $101 -- GeForce3 $68 -- GeForce2 Ultra 64MB $54 -- GeForce2 TI 64MB $72 -- GeForce2 TI 32MB $54 -- GeForce2 Pro 64MB $40 -- GeForce2 MX400 64MB $40 -- GeForce2 MX400 32MB $37 -- GeForce2 MX200 64MB $31 -- GeForce2 MX200 32MB $54 -- GeForce2 GTS 64MB $43 -- GeForce2 GTS 32MB TNT2-based boards list from $10 to $70 on Price Watch. I still see them on shelves for up to $50. Same thing for GeForce 256, the first generation of GeForce processors. For that kind of money, you can get the latest generation of GeForce4 boards, at least the low-cost MX versions. That said, the GeForce4 MX-based boards may not be the best way to go. Don't get me wrong: Every board listed will play games (especially pre-DirectX 8 games). Read Tom's VGA Charts for a comparison of almost every graphics card sold in the last three or four years. Look closely; you'll see that the GeForce3 and GeForce3 Ti 500 generally outperform the newer GeForce4 MX boards, and pretty much trounce them on "Aquanox," a DirectX 8 game. Read the entire atrical at the ScreenSavers -Xperties

In Windows 2000 and XP, each user must log into an account. Accounts are designed to limit what the user can do. These limits usually involve system settings. In Windows 2000 and XP, an "administrator account" is a user account that has "administrator rights" -- open access to all the system settings. Any account with administrator rights is considered an administrator account. Some Windows software programs, such as Nero, will not operate unless you are using an administrator account. If you're in a nonadministrator account, does that mean you have to log off and log back in as an administrator? Not necessarily. The steps Here's how to use a program as an administrator without logging off: Find the icon for the program you want to run as an administrator. Hold the Shift key and right-click on the icon. Select "Run as." Find the option for "Run the program as the following user." Select it and fill in the boxes with the appropriate administrator account user name and password. The application will launch as if it's being used by an administrator. All other applications will continue to operate under your user account Source ScreenSavers -Xperties

Happy b-day old buddy, so Hows it feel to be 50? rofl rofl, just kidding. Hope your b-day is good to you. -Xperties

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well Im ready up on how to use php...I just got a new domain name htpp://xperties.net...I havent set anything up yet but I will be soon. The host handles php and all the good s***. So maybe I might redesign a site with php, how I dont know. Useing what I dont know but Ill play with it all week long. -Xperties

Nvermind, I got the rediret working ...hehe...now to fix the banner on the main page -Xperties

ok new question...when I made the swish graphic i didnt save the swi file only the swf file. So the forums button Im unable to link that to the board. I know theres a way to create a forum.html file and place it on my server but how would I direct that to go to msfn.org? -Xperties