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That wouldn't work around here. I'm not sure what it is like in Chile, but here if you hit a domestic animal you are supposed to pull over and call it in. I'm also not certain if this is a rule of law or a neighborly etiquette.

The only product I am aware of (that I use) that has a seamless, rapid-release type update system is Chrome. It updates itself and never notifies anyone, but then again it never has any problems. It hasn't helped Firefox much (imo) because it still notifies and asks to update... and I'm still clicking NO because I don't want my browser to start looking like Chrome.

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/172137-internet-explorer-name-officially-changed/

Well, I guess I haven't had to do that in some time then! You can try enabling boot logging, but in my experience sometimes the file isn't helpful.

Welcome to the MSFN!

That is MHz's avatar: http://www.msfn.org/board/user/26076-mhz/

Preface: After connecting the drive to the PC, reboot and go in the BIOS. See if the drive is detected there. Regarding Windows XP: You can try updating the USB controller drivers, although it looks like Abit's newest is only in the nForce chipset package and it is from 2004. There may be newer drivers available on driverpacks. Also I note this board has 2 onboard ports and 4 from 2 header blocks. Have you tried all ports? http://abit.ws/page/en/motherboard/motherboard_detail.php@pMODEL_NAME=NF7-S2&fMTYPE=Socket%20A&pPRODINFO=Driver

What motherboard is it?

These drivers you tried to find, were they for your USB controller?

What else is weird, the Win2000 updates aren't in the catalog, but the Server 2003 for Itanium one is.

You can determine what the next "invisible" item is by doing a step-by-step boot.

New sig made: EDIT: displays not all being equal, this image doesn't look so nice on an LCD monitor, for whatever reason. I will revert to my previous one.

It is a point of view difference. The provider is not allowed to enforce the law, that is the job of the police. I used blanket statements and examples in what I wrote. To the provider, committing a crime is violation of the terms of service. Regarding this particular story, I suspect that the provider was not actively watching the user's activity (although the system should backup everything anyways) and was told to retrieve the data due to a tip or ongoing investigation into that person's activities for whatever reason. It could have specifically been for the published reason, or they could have been under investigation for something else. Who knows! But interesting how you point out, that the employee at the email provider may also be in violation of the law by looking for these illegal emails! It reminds me of a small town nearby where it is (or was) both illegal to back out or back into your driveway.

The process that crashed was Microsoft MapPoint. What version of MapPoint is it? The dump indicates a memory error, but I wonder if the other dumps are the same error or different ones. Even if you don't have the old memory.dmps, the bugchecks still may be preserved in Event Viewer. It also looks to be you have a very old F-Secure encryption software installed, the driver it uses is from 2002.

This is the other thread. http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/172435-taskbar-problems/ Do not create any more duplicate topics.

Your usage of the term "RCA jacks" is fairly generic. It seems you specifically mean Component output. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_connector My main complaint of HDMI-out only devices is that they no longer have the Composite Audio out connections that I would use to connect into my "sound system." This is the main reason why I decided not to pursue purchasing the Retron5, which I was actually looking forward to.

Well it would still be a partial infection. I had a similar case where some AOL IM virus was on my Win98 PC... The initial infection did occur, however the virus would not function properly because AOL IM was not installed. All it did was fill up my HDD with text files with errors in them. Now, Symantec could clarify what the behaviour would be like if a Win9x was infected with this. Maybe it would show an error because Powershell isn't installed or doesn't work, or maybe it will just make text files until you run out of hard disk space.

Things certainly may have changed in the past 13 years or so, but I can offer this perspective. I had previously worked at an ISP, but they did not (to my knowledge) have any automatic filter/alarm type system. Their process required a report from another person, a complaint or some other such correspondence from another ISP or corporation. So a complaint could be made against a person suspected of some illegal type activity. What happens then is that the customer's account gets flagged to the abuse department. If said customer were to call into customer service or support, even for an unrelated issue (for example they may have a service outage and not be aware they are being investigated) the alert would appear to the phone rep and they would not be allowed to talk to the customer. The rep would read from the screen informing the customer they are being investigated for abuse of service and tell them the phone number to call that department. Now, once a customer is flagged as such (at least then) the abuse department certainly would have access to a customer's emails. Not specifically a user's mailbox as the mail server has many places one can see another's email without logging into an account. A user's mail could be seen in the mail exchanger, the "sorting server" that puts emails in the correct accounts. I would imagine, if situations were dire enough, that a password reset could be done on the account in order to access the inbox... presuming mail is set to be left on the server. In the case of webmail, it is always set to be on the server, although I am not certain how trashed items are handled. Even so, there were also at least 3 months worth of tape backup of everyone's email. If a criminal investigation is warranted, a user's email history can be restored and inspected. Of course, the ISP or email provider isn't allowed to do things on their own. Only law enforcement can permit the provider to do these things. In the case of a mail filter that searches for phrases or whatever, that would be an apparatus provided by law enforcement for the provider to use. That being said, it is technically possible for certain people at the provider to access any user's email if they so desire, although it would be a cause for termination.

I don't think it is. Whoever wrote this particular delivery method merely found that it is possible to execute javascript via rundll32.exe and used it as the infection vector. The run-down on the link show it as such, after the javascript is executed (and minimum requirements are met) then the payload is delivered. That seems to be the only function of the javascript, and everything afterwards is handled with whatever the payload is and .NET and Powershell. However, note the exploit uses mshtml to create an ActiveX object. If you were to disable ActiveX in IE, would this then fail or are those things in Internet Options only used when iexplore.exe is running?

This is the common problem which I am not sure how to fix. Although it is written near the edit field that ZIP(postal code) needs to be filled, I still get many questions how to log in. I'm also thinking about using regular password which would be sent via e-mail after donation but I believe that many users will ask where to get the password then. Not knowing what this GUI looks like, does that field say "password" to the user? Maybe have it say "zip code" instead?

Even if your account were to be deleted, your posts would stay. They would even still have your username attached to them. So if you wanted to leave the forum, you can empty your profile of information (if any is there), log out and delete the msfn cookies.

I also disagree. The current layout is fine as it is.

Well, I wonder about the ability of using rundll32.exe to execute JavaScript via CMD. A poc was posted on facebook which apparently will open calculator. However if worried, test in a VM: If it does work, it would be possible to have a half-way installed virus on the system.... presuming .NET Framework and Powershell add-ons do not exist for Win9x.

It sounds like your install put the BCD onto the USB key. I'm not sure if using an answer file would be enough to stop it from happening. Do you have a USB DVD drive you could install from instead? Also, are you still going to want to use the SSD for caching? I bet your SATA mode is set to RAID in the BIOS (might be related)