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Print preview and print with "Acrobat Distiller" (from Acrobat 5) or "Adobe PDF" (from Acrobat 6 Pro) seem both to work correctly without issues here.

No problems CharlesF, glad I could be helpful somehow. I was wondering if you,or anyone else for that matter, using a version of Opera that require KernelEX as their default browser, also suffer from the following issue?: When Opera is already running and I double click on a filetype associated with it ( .url, .htm, .mht, etc...), instead of processing it normally, it seems to receive a stream of garbage chinese characters it then googles. Very minor issue since I can drag and drop those files onto Opera instead but I was wondering if others were also experiencing that. And btw, in case it's useful for anyone I have figured out a nice workaround for the issue that was annoying me the most, namely that it doesn't in most cases append an extension automatically to the filename when saving web pages (whenever the filename doesn't contain a dot). I have now configured the amazing Stroke-It, which I run since years for having mouse gestures in all applications, so that it sends a string of characters (.mht as I always save as mht)) when I do a specific gesture in the file name field of the Opera save dialog box, sparing me to have to type the bloody extension each time.

Not using any ramdisk dencorso nor was there any single DOS box involved, VCache was around 400MB and AGP aperture 128MB. I have now reduced the VCache a bit to around 350MB and reduced the AGP aperture to the minimum I can in the BIOS and which is 32MB. Also I removed some low level runtime Photoshop Album 2 had apparently installed and that I had overlooked when installing it recently, namely gearaspi.vxd. After doing that the problem seems to have gone away and I am suspecting the removal of gearaspi.vxd is actually the fix since I can't recall that problem occuring before having that file running on my system. Could it be possible that this file was slowly filling the system arena with garbage over time even though it was not obviously used for anything?

Thanks, I thought it could perhaps be a system arena issue since the error message is the same as the one I would get on trying to run a DOS box if I had more than 512MB of VCACHE and this would occur immediately in a freshly booted system. But here the thing is that this will not happen on a freshly booted system, It may occur only after some time, say 8-10 hours of use, opening and closing many programs in the meantime, which points to the depletion over time of some free memory resource as I am able to run much more programs concurrently on a freshly booted system than those I have running after 10 hours when this error begins to occur. Btw, Windows ME doesn't become unstable with above 512MB of RAM, that's more of an urban myth than anything else.

After running the OS for a while I may run into that error when trying to launch a new program but I had (last time it happened for example): More than 1GB of free physical RAM ~40% of free User resources ~75% of free GDI resources ~40% of free LDTs And when it happens it affects anything I will try to run however little resource consuming it may be and I am not even able to open a new folder window by clicking on one in the desktop unless I close some other program I have running. So the question is: What "memory" am I dealing with here? Any ideas guys?

No, there isn't any, if you want java to work in firefox you need to use version 3.5.xx but you know that already, don't you?

Seriously what's sooo bad with 11.10 that you're putting up using the previous version with an original skin instead? I can't figure it out and I use 11.10, well, all the time. And btw sorry for not looking into that skin glitch as I don't do fixes for outdated versions. (joke) And also, pehaps you want to use this translate extension: https://addons.opera.com/addons/extensions/details/translate/1.5/?display=en instead of the other one, it's the best of all of them IMO.

I am not sure you really know what you are talking about...

I just did run the GenuineCheck.exe tool, and , bingo, on second run it gave me a code which I could use without problems with Opera to authorize a restricted download from MS website. On first run it just did complain it was out of date or something and that was it, no need for any other fiddling. I'll have to run it again some time doing a packet capture to see what it is actually sending to them.

Hehe, thanks for that, I wasn't aware of that compatible genuine check tool.

As I've said I got Gozi on my machine through an Internet Explorer javascript/activeX exploit and the details you copy/pasted about it are most certainly correct. I got infected beginning of February 2007 I believe and FWIW I also believe I have been the first person in the world to post about it in forums and from what I had been told by phone afterwards by a guy claiming to be an IT security journalist who first contacted me about it by PM, the gozi virus was already known by major software security companies but none had published anything about it or had any signatures for it yet And no I wasn't running a dual boot system, only Windows ME and, as I have already said, even if you don't believe it for whatever reason, Jetico succesfully blocked a first executable from downloading another one, which means it was actually running without crashing on my machine. I also got infected by a rootkit once, it was nearly undetectable, invisible file, invisible process and invisible registry startup key. Yes there are rootkits for Win 9x as well...

Unless you got it already, here is the hard to find MTP9x-2k: http://www.mediafire.com/?r155zetst89543n MTPPK10 or 11 are apparently only for XP from what i gather Version 12 is available from MS but requires WGA for dowloading it and version 11 nowhere to be found but version 10 can be downloaded freely here in case you think something might be compatible in it: http://am.net/lib/tools/Microsoft/WinXP/mtppk10.exe Have you got an older porting kit?

Version 4 is abysmally slow on any KernelEx 98/ME system I believe. I don't really care about it as I use Opera 11 as my default browser and that one is blazingly fast.

A topic from a couple of years ago that might interest you: And then Tihy's GDI Heap expander topic which came in response might also be of interest:

While this is true, I don't think it means firewalls are useless as the larger number of malware don't use firewall circumvention methods and I selected Jetico as my firewall as it would appear most circumvention methods don't work with it (Perhaps not so true today as it was some years ago since I use version 1 which doesn't get updated anymore). Jetico blocked the gozi trojan from accessing the network for fetching some other files when it was still a zero-day and went undetected by my then real time antivirus. I then uploaded the file on Jotti for online scan and it was deemed clean by all scanners. I was still using IE at the time and it ended on my machine through a javascript/active X exploit. I posted about it under another nickname a few years ago.

Not sure if time stamps had been altered, I didn't check that but I monitor a certain number of files/folder for changes at least once daily using Syslog and Md5Checker so it hadn't been running for too long until I became aware there was a problem. I run uTorrent and eMule from time to time but I don't download executables with them and they aren't Gnutella clients anyway AFAIK. Anyway those malware reports that are copy/pasted everywhere are usually a mixture of good info and rubbish IMO. That's most probably what happened when I was sorting and running some of the massive number of programs I had downloaded from sites such as leetupload, vxchaos and so on sometime ago.. Nope, I had files altered by it in various other directories, including some on other drives.

Well, it is very possible that the original source of infection had been skillfully hexed as to escape signature detection while still working, (something which is much easier to achieve than writing a new malware from scratch) but I think real time protection would have blocked execution of the infected files which you run routinely everyday and were responsible for the bulk of your massive infection.

BitDefender 8 still gets updated with the latest virus definitions and there are currently 6.902.664 signatures in the database. The free edition doesn't have a resident shield protection and, if relevant, KernelEx must be disabled on the file BDSS.EXE located in PROGRAM FILES\COMMON FILES\SOFTWIN\BITDEFENDER SCAN SERVER otherwise it won't work or crash. http://www.filehippo.com/download_bitdefender/577/

wsxedcrfv, AFAIK (but you'll tell me if I am wrong) a router won't block outgoing traffic so a decent firewall is still necessary IMHO in case one gets hit by an online browser/flash/java exploit downloading and executing code on one's machine.

Timely topic as my system just got hit by a W32.Polipos.A virus which has infected about hundred executables or so. I have so far cleaned it up to the point it doesn't seem to be spreading anymore but I'll take me another day or two for doing a full cleanup I guess as I have got to reinstall a lot of commercial software packages as well as finding on the net again quite a few freebies freebies that also got infected . After that one I am kinda considering running again a resident virus scanner.

I guess you didn't find anything with Clamwin either or am I wrong?

AVZ Antiviral Toolkit 4.35 is well worth having I guess: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/AVZ-Antiviral-Toolkit.shtml

No it's not weird, think about heads and platters, the more you work on E, the more all heads move above the platters, some of which are above partition C and one of whom at least is causing physical damage IMO, I'd image the drive immediately and replace it if I was you.

128MB of AGP aperture means you've got 128MB of your onboard memory that can be used as VRAM subsitute for storing textures for your game, try increasing your AGP aperture to 256MB if your BIOS allows it and see if it improves things. I don't think it will as it is highly unlikely it will increase your framerate considering that RAM is slower than VRAM and I suggest you upgrade your graphic card to a faster one if you want to really improve things.

In your "Add/Remove Programs" control panel applet there should now be a "Beta 10 Optional Components" listed in the "Windows Setup" tab, double clicking on it should bring up a window listing all the components that can be removed including "PC Health/System Restore".