mommalina
04-06-2007, 08:08 PM
04/04/07 Wed Nite KH Computer Help Desk Chatroom Summary
Interesting chatroom session -- Rich trying to resuscitate a computer,
Lina trying to figure out cause of incessant BitDefender alerts
of Trojan.Clicker.CM blocks, Photolady trying to figure out an
IDE adaptor.
We were 4th and 5th in chatrooms, but that may not have been too
bad. Pi and Red Lion said some of the reported attendees in the
leading chatrooms may have been bots (virtual machines, or multiple
computers at one location with fake users logged on--just a way to
keep the numbers up). Reminds me of election fraud and phony
polls .. :(
With no more questions being asked or assistance being sought, we closed
the room shortly after 12 AM .
WHO WAS THERE
KH MEMBERS - Lina, Photolady, Lawrence, Elliot, Dan, Rich, Rob
(kern), Annie, Pi
VISITORS WHO CHIMED IN - Patrick C, gardengeorge, joanee,
redlion1957, tin man, jfklove (red-dotted; JFK had more class than
that!)
COMPUTER-RELATED DISCUSSIONS
HAIL PHOTOLADY!
Photolady has ascended to the throne of moderator at the *** forum.
SAGA OF LAPTOP / IDE ADAPTOR
I don't understand any of it, but apparently this mystery has been solved.
See thread started by Photolady on KH ......I Was Wondering If...
http://www.kickenhardware.net/forum/showthread.php?t=6600
TROUBLE-SHOOTING A DEAD COMPUTER
Rich struggled throughout the chatroom session, trying to resuscitate a
six-year-old computer he hoped to sell. Six months ago, the computer was
fine. It had serious spyware and virus issues. He purchased restore cd's from HP, and got it up to speed 6 months ago...
for a client who later lost interest and failed to pick it up.
Rich changed the ram, psu, video card, cpu grease, hsf. Many suggestions
were made and tried; all failed. Finally, at 11:39 PM, Rich concluded that
because it had sat unused for six to seven months, the problem was
probably the motherboard. He officially declared the cpu garbage .. :ohwell:
.. nice try!
TV TUNERS
Dan spent day beefing up on tv tuners; he's building a new system to
connect to a HDTV. Tuner has a coax connection for tv cable company.
Check out Hauppage, a leading tv tuner computer hardware company. Dan's
also looking at Leadtek. 125 channels.
ADMUNCHER TO THE RESCUE....AGAIN
A loud, annoying ad showed up again this week on Paltalk, so loud those
of us affected could not hear the oral conversation. Once I downloaded
Admuncher, it was gone! I love watching the Admuncher cow icon in my
system tray open its mouth and gobble ads as I browse the internet! Thirty-
day trial, $24.95 one-time subscription charge....I just hope it does not get
bought out by another company. (Check out our speculations about
SuperAntiSpyware here:
SAS / Something I never thought about
http://www.kickenhardware.net/forum/showthread.php?t=6616 )
HOW TO RUN CHKDSK UTILITY
Visitor joanee was getting error message and needed to run Chkdsk
Utility. Pi has a nice tutorial with pictorial instructions here:
http://pirules.com/xp_chkdsk.aspx.
Rob suggested M$ site:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/chkdsk.mspx?mfr=true
APPLE
Pi reported reading that Apple will be the first to have 8 cores in pc.
3.0 GHz. Xeon quad core x 2. (Pi, the url you gave us doesn't work
for me; maybe you have to be a member to get in that blog?)
TROJAN.CLICKER.CM AND BITDEFENDER
In the middle of the chatroom session, BitDefender inundated me with
constant alerts that it had blocked Trojan.Clicker.CM and that my computer
was not infected. They would not stop!
As the guys advised, I ran DiskCleanup (XP Home); there were 19,155
temporary files even though I ran Disk Cleanup just before I opened the
chatroom! Rebooted, and alerts stopped. Came back to chatroom, and after
a while same alerts started again. Checked DiskCleanup, and there were
some 1,500 temp files in there! Ran DiskCleanup again. No more alerts. I
may be wrong, but I suspect IE and Paltalk allowed that trojan to attack.
Before the chatroom session, I had used IE for a Windows Update; and I
think there is a connection between Paltalk and IE.....but what do I know!
GETTING TO PREFETCH FILES
Press Windows + R and type C:\Windows\Prefetch
Trying to get rid of the BitDefender trojan alerts, I took Pi's advice and
emptied Prefetch Files. Then, too late, others advised not to do it, could be
dangerous. So I left the Prefetch Folders in the Recycle Bin. When there
was no return of alerts the next day, I returned Prefetch Files from the
Recycle Bin to the folder to try to clear up a possible Java problem.
Java problem not resolved, but no more trojan alerts. Go figure!
PC WIZARD VS EVEREST
Photolady suggested that PC Wizard, http://www.cpuid.com/, was better than
Everest for detecting hardware.
OTHER SUBJECTS DISCUSSED
DEVELOPING COLOR PHOTOS
Photolady's dog Tiny was giving her tech support throughout her
Laptop / IDE Adapter problem .. ;) .. She has yet to post new photos of Tiny
because she doesn't develop color photos any more. Color film chemicals
have to be kept at a certain temperature,and she doesn't have all those
heaters and chemicals any more....plus the chemicals are not allowed to be
dumped down the drain, and she has no way to recycle them. (I never knew
it was that complicated! .. :eek: )
Until next week, ciao,
Lina
Interesting chatroom session -- Rich trying to resuscitate a computer,
Lina trying to figure out cause of incessant BitDefender alerts
of Trojan.Clicker.CM blocks, Photolady trying to figure out an
IDE adaptor.
We were 4th and 5th in chatrooms, but that may not have been too
bad. Pi and Red Lion said some of the reported attendees in the
leading chatrooms may have been bots (virtual machines, or multiple
computers at one location with fake users logged on--just a way to
keep the numbers up). Reminds me of election fraud and phony
polls .. :(
With no more questions being asked or assistance being sought, we closed
the room shortly after 12 AM .
WHO WAS THERE
KH MEMBERS - Lina, Photolady, Lawrence, Elliot, Dan, Rich, Rob
(kern), Annie, Pi
VISITORS WHO CHIMED IN - Patrick C, gardengeorge, joanee,
redlion1957, tin man, jfklove (red-dotted; JFK had more class than
that!)
COMPUTER-RELATED DISCUSSIONS
HAIL PHOTOLADY!
Photolady has ascended to the throne of moderator at the *** forum.
SAGA OF LAPTOP / IDE ADAPTOR
I don't understand any of it, but apparently this mystery has been solved.
See thread started by Photolady on KH ......I Was Wondering If...
http://www.kickenhardware.net/forum/showthread.php?t=6600
TROUBLE-SHOOTING A DEAD COMPUTER
Rich struggled throughout the chatroom session, trying to resuscitate a
six-year-old computer he hoped to sell. Six months ago, the computer was
fine. It had serious spyware and virus issues. He purchased restore cd's from HP, and got it up to speed 6 months ago...
for a client who later lost interest and failed to pick it up.
Rich changed the ram, psu, video card, cpu grease, hsf. Many suggestions
were made and tried; all failed. Finally, at 11:39 PM, Rich concluded that
because it had sat unused for six to seven months, the problem was
probably the motherboard. He officially declared the cpu garbage .. :ohwell:
.. nice try!
TV TUNERS
Dan spent day beefing up on tv tuners; he's building a new system to
connect to a HDTV. Tuner has a coax connection for tv cable company.
Check out Hauppage, a leading tv tuner computer hardware company. Dan's
also looking at Leadtek. 125 channels.
ADMUNCHER TO THE RESCUE....AGAIN
A loud, annoying ad showed up again this week on Paltalk, so loud those
of us affected could not hear the oral conversation. Once I downloaded
Admuncher, it was gone! I love watching the Admuncher cow icon in my
system tray open its mouth and gobble ads as I browse the internet! Thirty-
day trial, $24.95 one-time subscription charge....I just hope it does not get
bought out by another company. (Check out our speculations about
SuperAntiSpyware here:
SAS / Something I never thought about
http://www.kickenhardware.net/forum/showthread.php?t=6616 )
HOW TO RUN CHKDSK UTILITY
Visitor joanee was getting error message and needed to run Chkdsk
Utility. Pi has a nice tutorial with pictorial instructions here:
http://pirules.com/xp_chkdsk.aspx.
Rob suggested M$ site:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/chkdsk.mspx?mfr=true
APPLE
Pi reported reading that Apple will be the first to have 8 cores in pc.
3.0 GHz. Xeon quad core x 2. (Pi, the url you gave us doesn't work
for me; maybe you have to be a member to get in that blog?)
TROJAN.CLICKER.CM AND BITDEFENDER
In the middle of the chatroom session, BitDefender inundated me with
constant alerts that it had blocked Trojan.Clicker.CM and that my computer
was not infected. They would not stop!
As the guys advised, I ran DiskCleanup (XP Home); there were 19,155
temporary files even though I ran Disk Cleanup just before I opened the
chatroom! Rebooted, and alerts stopped. Came back to chatroom, and after
a while same alerts started again. Checked DiskCleanup, and there were
some 1,500 temp files in there! Ran DiskCleanup again. No more alerts. I
may be wrong, but I suspect IE and Paltalk allowed that trojan to attack.
Before the chatroom session, I had used IE for a Windows Update; and I
think there is a connection between Paltalk and IE.....but what do I know!
GETTING TO PREFETCH FILES
Press Windows + R and type C:\Windows\Prefetch
Trying to get rid of the BitDefender trojan alerts, I took Pi's advice and
emptied Prefetch Files. Then, too late, others advised not to do it, could be
dangerous. So I left the Prefetch Folders in the Recycle Bin. When there
was no return of alerts the next day, I returned Prefetch Files from the
Recycle Bin to the folder to try to clear up a possible Java problem.
Java problem not resolved, but no more trojan alerts. Go figure!
PC WIZARD VS EVEREST
Photolady suggested that PC Wizard, http://www.cpuid.com/, was better than
Everest for detecting hardware.
OTHER SUBJECTS DISCUSSED
DEVELOPING COLOR PHOTOS
Photolady's dog Tiny was giving her tech support throughout her
Laptop / IDE Adapter problem .. ;) .. She has yet to post new photos of Tiny
because she doesn't develop color photos any more. Color film chemicals
have to be kept at a certain temperature,and she doesn't have all those
heaters and chemicals any more....plus the chemicals are not allowed to be
dumped down the drain, and she has no way to recycle them. (I never knew
it was that complicated! .. :eek: )
Until next week, ciao,
Lina