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MyWebSearch, Coolwebsearch, SearchAssistant, ... so many of them. Google for cracks, porn, warez, and start clicking the links, you'll hit at least one malware site eventually.

Just ensure that no disk activity is occurring, then simply unplug it. You don't need to use that function, unless your USB drive is formatted with NTFS (which is *highly* unrecommended, as NTFS journalling filesystem will wear out flash RAM very quickly).

Full version Acrobat will allow you to edit PDFs.

Revert back to your previous gdi32.dll (I'm assuming it's that update). The vulnerability was never "critical", I've been using the original gdi32.dll since mid-2000 without any problems.

They sure are stubborn Reminds me of the time when I emailed another flash memory company (not SanDisk... I forgot which one) and told them that all the drivers they had on their site for the different USB drives they made (there was a driver for 32Mb, another for 64Mb, 128Mb, etc.) were exactly the same except for the deviceid in the INF file, but they didn't understand. All they gave was a standard "Thank you for contacting ... Technical Support" response!

In the world of computer software, there are ways around every restriction. However it is sickening how Microsoft is trying to control user's machines.

I haven't tried it yet, but won't removing the toolbars in hihackthis also remove smiley central? Depends how it was coded. Most likely the toolbars are a separate portion of the software, added-on just before packaging for release. Once again I suggest you examine the Installer file by unpacking it.

Nonsense. How do you think users with wireless cards have been able to use them before even SP1 came out? In fact, I can tell you quite surely that you *don't* need SP2 to be able to connect to a wireless network. The problem is with your network configuration.

One is a shell houk, the other is an IME.

Then you should just ignore the warnings.

You have one? Could you tell us more specifics about it?I prefer them external, since you can easily give internet access to another computer or use a Router.

DivX (not sure of the version) does work on 98se... but I prefer the free ffdshow universal codec instead.

Haha o wow... I heard a large portion of Vista was written in .NET... maybe that explains it. Here's a 4.38Mb Win98: http://www.etek.chalmers.se/~e8gus/nano98/ That's almost two thousandths the size Vista is taking. My Windows directory is 970Mb, and that's after 6 years of use and much software being installed. I'm sure much of that is duplicated (backup) files of files that I've customised in one way or another. M$ software is in a state of decline... definitely.

This is not surprising, most USB mass storage devices conform to the same standard.

Actually I don't think the WMF "vulnerability" actually exists on 9x, I've tried opening a known-infected WMF file with many programs and nothing happens. This is on a system that doesn't have this patch installed at all, original gdi32.dll.

Removing toolbars is easy. It can be done with HiJackThis. However, I'd rather not have installed the toolbar in the first place, which is possible by unpacking the installer and performing manual install (only copy what you need, delete the rest).

I recommend you not install any Norton software. Besides Ghost, the other soft they make is of a less-than-good quality...

Yes, Unicode text files should have FFFE as the first word. The programmer forgot to add a check for that, and instead assumed Unicode.

Probably impossible. First of all, it's VB, which isn't really a language for low-level systems programming. Secondly, it's .NET, which imposes more restrictions on the execution environment.Rootkits are coded in C/Asm, even sometimes Delphi, but never in .NET

A FireFox is initiating those connections? It looks like a browser hijack to me. HiJackThis log results should be more conclusive.

I can't really tell from the picture but it seems there are no Fans blowing across your suspended HDDs. I would suggest you have such a fan, as in a normal rigid mount the metal of the case acts as a heatsink for the HDDs and carries heat away from them. In your situation, the HDDs are isolated both mechanically and thermally from the case, so they'll get hotter than in a normal rigid mounting. Hence, the recommended fan.

Thermal problem! Clean the fan and heatsink of dust accumulations and ensure that airflow is unobstructed.

Elaborate please.

Its memory usage isn't that small either.

AutoIt is best for more extensive tasks, as the overhead it adds is absolutely astronomical. I don't know the specifics of BAT2EXE, but most of the batch file "compilers" that exist simply add a (should be) small stub of code that just executes the commands in your batch file, which is appended to the stub, via spawning a shell. There is likely no BAT interpreter present (though 8Kb of code is more than enough to implement one).