Teenage boys
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My nephew spent the weekend at ours, and being a teenage boy he is basically nocturnal. So when we went to bed, he stayed up playing on the internet. I thought I had a fair idea of what he would be doing, looking at picture of "models" and that sort of thing. Boy was I wrong! Turns out he was trying to download software to crack the activation of some software he's downloaded at home. Cheeky little sod. In the morning, he sheepishly tells me that he thinks my computer has a virus called avast, telling me that this virus popped up a message on the screen telling him that the software he was running (called crack.exe) had a virus - "that can't be right can it Uncle?". Oh boy, here we go. It took me two ours to get into Windows on Sunday morning, and twelve hours to let avast run a through scan and clean up the mess he's made. I could throttle the little git. I've finally got the system back up and running, with only two small problems. When you click your name to load your profile, the 'loading your personal settings' screen appears and takes around 4 minutes to complete, and when shutting down it takes around six minutes. There's nothing untoward in the event viewer logs, just the normal services, and I'm having little luck finding out what the OS could be doing during these periods on MSDN and google. Can anyone point me towards a guide as to what the machine could be doing during these periods so I can try to speed it up?
- Dy
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Christian Graus wrote:
zack effron totally nude full on was one
I dunno who or what that is, but it sounds scary enough :)
xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support
IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 3 out nowThe male star of high school musical.
Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
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The male star of high school musical.
Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
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Actually, I blamed my father in law at first and lectured him on deleting his history, not downloading any ActiveX, etc. Whenver my tenant does a google search now, it finds porn and shows photos. No matter what she looks for
Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
Christian Graus wrote:
Whenver my tenant does a google search now, it finds porn and shows photos. No matter what she looks for
Lucky tenant! :-D Why don't you try disabling the suspicious BHO entries with the help of HijackThis? I've fixed similar problems (more than once) at my neighbors place.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP
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Christian Graus wrote:
Whenver my tenant does a google search now, it finds porn and shows photos. No matter what she looks for
Lucky tenant! :-D Why don't you try disabling the suspicious BHO entries with the help of HijackThis? I've fixed similar problems (more than once) at my neighbors place.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP
I felt the safest thing was to just reinstall.
Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
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Really scary!
xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support
IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 3 out nowyes, indeed. Most of her other searches were not lounge friendly. At 10.
Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
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I felt the safest thing was to just reinstall.
Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
Reinstall what? Windows?
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP
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My nephew spent the weekend at ours, and being a teenage boy he is basically nocturnal. So when we went to bed, he stayed up playing on the internet. I thought I had a fair idea of what he would be doing, looking at picture of "models" and that sort of thing. Boy was I wrong! Turns out he was trying to download software to crack the activation of some software he's downloaded at home. Cheeky little sod. In the morning, he sheepishly tells me that he thinks my computer has a virus called avast, telling me that this virus popped up a message on the screen telling him that the software he was running (called crack.exe) had a virus - "that can't be right can it Uncle?". Oh boy, here we go. It took me two ours to get into Windows on Sunday morning, and twelve hours to let avast run a through scan and clean up the mess he's made. I could throttle the little git. I've finally got the system back up and running, with only two small problems. When you click your name to load your profile, the 'loading your personal settings' screen appears and takes around 4 minutes to complete, and when shutting down it takes around six minutes. There's nothing untoward in the event viewer logs, just the normal services, and I'm having little luck finding out what the OS could be doing during these periods on MSDN and google. Can anyone point me towards a guide as to what the machine could be doing during these periods so I can try to speed it up?
- Dy
Funny, I used to be just like that, but I was clever and ran every unknown executable under an account called "Sandbox" (with privledges more restricted than Guest).
So the creationist says: Everything must have a designer. God designed everything. I say: Why is God the only exception? Why not make the "designs" (like man) exceptions and make God a creation of man?
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yes, indeed. Most of her other searches were not lounge friendly. At 10.
Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
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I felt the safest thing was to just reinstall.
Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
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My nephew spent the weekend at ours, and being a teenage boy he is basically nocturnal. So when we went to bed, he stayed up playing on the internet. I thought I had a fair idea of what he would be doing, looking at picture of "models" and that sort of thing. Boy was I wrong! Turns out he was trying to download software to crack the activation of some software he's downloaded at home. Cheeky little sod. In the morning, he sheepishly tells me that he thinks my computer has a virus called avast, telling me that this virus popped up a message on the screen telling him that the software he was running (called crack.exe) had a virus - "that can't be right can it Uncle?". Oh boy, here we go. It took me two ours to get into Windows on Sunday morning, and twelve hours to let avast run a through scan and clean up the mess he's made. I could throttle the little git. I've finally got the system back up and running, with only two small problems. When you click your name to load your profile, the 'loading your personal settings' screen appears and takes around 4 minutes to complete, and when shutting down it takes around six minutes. There's nothing untoward in the event viewer logs, just the normal services, and I'm having little luck finding out what the OS could be doing during these periods on MSDN and google. Can anyone point me towards a guide as to what the machine could be doing during these periods so I can try to speed it up?
- Dy
We don't have children but when our friends drag theirs around we *always* lock down every computer in the house and password protect the lot and declare them off bounds under threat of extreme prejudice. A kid is like a bomb to any computer.
"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot
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Norton Ghost. That and creating User acounts for idiots.
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
I have actually found that keeping a Virtual PC image around for guests that need to use the internet solves a lot of these problems. Once the image is the way you want it, you can enable undo disks so it always returns to a 'pristine' when they are finished. Its easy to create a shortcut on start menu that will launch VPC for whatever configuation you have setup as your 'guest usage' system.
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I have actually found that keeping a Virtual PC image around for guests that need to use the internet solves a lot of these problems. Once the image is the way you want it, you can enable undo disks so it always returns to a 'pristine' when they are finished. Its easy to create a shortcut on start menu that will launch VPC for whatever configuation you have setup as your 'guest usage' system.