a trully disturbing error message...
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Shock Trooper
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written Thursday, November 27 2003 12:24
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ok. Windows dicided that at startup it need to send me an error message about a program called "sex" it gives me the following error message.  any one know what the hell this is? [ Thursday, November 27, 2003 12:25: Message edited by: Sylak of Borg ] -------------------- -Sylak Proud Member of the Church of Devine Luchere Way too many lifeforms are carbon-based. Put this in your signature/AIM Profile if you're not. Posts: 319 | Registered: Tuesday, May 14 2002 07:00 |
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written Thursday, November 27 2003 12:51
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Hmm. My semi-educated guess is that you went to a site (quite possibly a porn site, but that's none of my business) that forcibly downloaded spyware onto your computer, and the spyware had a bug. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Thursday, November 27 2003 13:24
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no. i haven't gone to a porn site. but i can't speak for the other people in my house... anyway, Ad-Aware dosen't regognize it as spyware and PAnda dosen't recognize it as a virus. any other sugestions? -------------------- -Sylak Proud Member of the Church of Devine Luchere Way too many lifeforms are carbon-based. Put this in your signature/AIM Profile if you're not. Posts: 319 | Registered: Tuesday, May 14 2002 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Thursday, November 27 2003 17:44
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If it does that at start-up, you can probably make it...not start up. To do this, select run from the start menu, then type in msconfig Once you are there, goto the startup tab and uncheck the program which you think might be causing the problem. [ Thursday, November 27, 2003 17:45: Message edited by: Reality Corp. ] Posts: 203 | Registered: Saturday, July 19 2003 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Friday, November 28 2003 04:22
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Msconfig isn't working on this computer. Stupid Win2K -------------------- -Sylak Proud Member of the Church of Devine Luchere Way too many lifeforms are carbon-based. Put this in your signature/AIM Profile if you're not. Posts: 319 | Registered: Tuesday, May 14 2002 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Friday, November 28 2003 04:29
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Scan your computer with BHODemon. I also recomend Spybot Search & Destroy -------------------- Call 1-800-NOT-1337 -------------------- Disturbing the dead since 1986. -------------------- All your ass are belong to ME! -------------------- NEVER underestimate your enemies Never OVERestimate your friends Posts: 91 | Registered: Tuesday, August 26 2003 07:00 |
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Guardian
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written Friday, November 28 2003 06:02
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With Win 2k right-click on the bottom taskboard, just left of where you see the time. A menue pops up and you'll find the Taskmanager there. Click on it. You'll see the programs and the processes that are currently running. As an afterthought: if you haven't been to a porn site, have you gone to a crack site? They sometimes give you little gifts as well. [ Friday, November 28, 2003 06:05: Message edited by: ef ] -------------------- Polaris Rache's A3 Site reformatted 2/3 done Rache's A3 Site, original version Posts: 1828 | Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00 |
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Babelicious
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written Friday, November 28 2003 09:43
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I know of a program called sex. It's entirely legitimate. Justin Frankel wrote it. http://www.nullsoft.com/free/safesex/ -------------------- I've got a pyg in a poke. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, November 28 2003 12:35
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I'm sure there are plenty of legitimate programs with that name, but I was working on the assumption that since he didn't know how it got into his startup items, it probably wasn't one of them. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Babelicious
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written Sunday, November 30 2003 09:09
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"no. i haven't gone to a porn site. but i can't speak for the other people in my house..." Public-use computer. Sylak could have absolutely nothing to do with it and it could still be legit. -------------------- I've got a pyg in a poke. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, November 30 2003 13:39
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He hadn't mentioned that at the time I posted. Anyway, the program you mention doesn't seem like the sort of thing one would run at startup. I suppose the obvious thing to do is ask everyone in the house if they've deliberately installed any such thing. If they haven't, find the program and try to get rid of it. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Monday, December 1 2003 17:44
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quote:Um... what's a Crack site? The name implys a site where you purchas drugs. -------------------- -Sylak Proud Member of the Church of Devine Luchere Way too many lifeforms are carbon-based. Put this in your signature/AIM Profile if you're not. Posts: 319 | Registered: Tuesday, May 14 2002 07:00 |
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Babelicious
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written Monday, December 1 2003 20:46
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How innocent. A crack is a piece of software intended to allow illegal use of software. -------------------- I've got a pyg in a poke. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Tuesday, December 2 2003 10:55
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ok, but why not use a P2P program to get software illeagaly? I found the program. it was Drive:\%windowsdir%\system32\hiddenrun.exe (C:\WINNT\System32\hiddenrun.exe) -------------------- -Sylak Proud Member of the Church of Devine Luchere Way too many lifeforms are carbon-based. Put this in your signature/AIM Profile if you're not. Posts: 319 | Registered: Tuesday, May 14 2002 07:00 |
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Guardian
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written Tuesday, December 2 2003 11:45
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quote:Well, in many cases shareware programs which have been unlocked by registration keys become re-locked with new keys when transferred to a different computer. Thus, attempting to send someone a registered shareware program through a file sharing program is often useless. -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Tuesday, December 2 2003 15:12
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Well if you are going to transfer the registered game you have to make sure you also include the registry files so that it would be considered registered... sorta like when you get exile on another computer and need it registered but lost your code... or if you get an older version of Exile because you just like the old graphic set :-D. Posts: 111 | Registered: Monday, June 30 2003 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Tuesday, December 2 2003 15:20
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What constitutes a major transgression for a member: + Any communication that is intended to harass, belittle, humiliate, threaten or cause embarrassment to a fellow member. + Hate speech against a certain group of people, due to their religion, sex, sexual orientation, nationality, etc. + Impersonation of another person or screen name (including "faking" a screen name by using similar-looking text characters). + Discussion of illegal activities. + Depictions of sexually explicit material. + Flooding the forums with lots of topics and posts about nothing legitimate. + Requests for "cracks", pirated software, ways to pirate software, etc. ...Although no one has requested any, it is not preferable that you talk about it. [ Tuesday, December 02, 2003 15:21: Message edited by: Reality Corp. ] Posts: 203 | Registered: Saturday, July 19 2003 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Tuesday, December 2 2003 18:02
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so you're basicly saying if we keep this up, Lis a or Drakey might interprit it as so? -------------------- -Sylak Proud Member of the Church of Devine Luchere Way too many lifeforms are carbon-based. Put this in your signature/AIM Profile if you're not. Posts: 319 | Registered: Tuesday, May 14 2002 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Tuesday, December 2 2003 18:14
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Or another moderator...like Imban, Aloreal, etc. Posts: 203 | Registered: Saturday, July 19 2003 07:00 |
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Guardian
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written Tuesday, December 2 2003 20:09
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As of yet, I believe that no one has said anything inappropriate in this discussion. While the topic of cracks has been discussed, no one has crossed the line here and actually requested or supplied anything. There's no need to be an alarmist in this situation, RC. I think that most of us are aware of the rules and are taking care to abide by them. -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
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Shake Before Using
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written Tuesday, December 2 2003 21:05
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Drakey, Alorael, and I all have brains, thank you very much, Reality Corp. Posts: 3234 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Wednesday, December 3 2003 05:07
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http://housecall.trendmicro.com Free online virus scan - excellent service. It finds things that even Norton Antivirus (the paid, registered version) does not. Sometime the servers are busier and it won't run, but keep trying. It also cleans off the viruses and trojans when it can. -------------------- Behind, the sea of time and space roars and follows swiftly Posts: 280 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Wednesday, December 3 2003 11:51
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ok. this topic got it's point across. colud a mod please close it? -------------------- -Sylak Proud Member of the Church of Devine Luchere Way too many lifeforms are carbon-based. Put this in your signature/AIM Profile if you're not. Posts: 319 | Registered: Tuesday, May 14 2002 07:00 |