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  1. S

    Windows 7 W7U will not Update

    Two days ago WUS on it's own updated windows update agent 7.6.7600.256, as of then Windows 7 will no longer update, 80244004 is the error message. There is not much data on the net pertaining how to fix, My question has anyone here experienced the same problem? How did you fix? What I have done...
  2. papamidnight

    Windows 7 Frequent multi-colored crashes

    Basically My computer crashes whenever running some sort of application such as minecraft, or even Youtube, and it also crashes at random as well. I have a 64bit Windows 7 OS, Radeon HD6870 GPU, AMD Phenom II CPU x4 855, WD 1tb HDD, Corsair Vengeance 8gb RAM, an OCZ 850w PSU, and finally a disk...
  3. R

    Windows 7 Microsoft Security Essentials Wouldn't Update-Here's Why

    To start, I know that probably everyone in this forum already knew the solution, but I didn't. I worked on a customers laptop that wouldn't boot. After throwing everything but the kitchen sink at it I was finally able to remove 2 rootkits, 80 viruses and a bunch of other malware. After cleaning...
  4. Mike

    VIDEO Malwarebytes Video Review

    Download: https://store.malwarebytes.org/342/cookie?affiliate=3402&redirectto=http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_pro Explore the benefits of Malarebytes pro-active protection and on-demand scanning with both the freeware and paid versions of the software using this review...
  5. F

    Windows 7 Disappearing Icons N Start Menu

    Been messing with this problem for 3 solid days with other guys on other help sites. Rran every diagnostic known to man! Nothing! Had been infected with the "zero access" rootkit. Anyways, i took a look at my "Services' program and found that damned thing had shut off most all of my...
  6. Mike

    VIDEO ESET Smart Security 5 Review

    ESET Smart Security 5 February 2012 Review: ESET Smart Security 5 Original 2011 Review: Link Removed is the latest version of ESET's full system protection suite. It includes the components of NOD32, as well as strong prevention against Viruses, Worms, Trojan horses, Rootkits, Adware...
  7. nothsa

    Windows 7 explorer.exe high CPU usage - tried everything I can think of

    [SOLVED] explorer.exe high CPU usage - tried everything I can think of Hi, My explorer.exe is constantly using 30-45% of my 4-core CPU. I have determined after MUCH testing that the cause is likely not a virus / malware / rootkit. I have also: tested booting into safe mode (explorer.exe is...
  8. JMH

    Windows 7 Users turning off UAC put their PCs at risk, says Microsoft

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  9. JMH

    Windows 7 Counterfeit Windows XP Breeding Malware

    Counterfeit Windows XP Breeding Malware -- InformationWeekCounterfeit Windows XP Breeding Malware - security Blog
  10. I

    Windows 7 Windows 7 won't boot, hits BSOD and restarts.

    I've spent the last two days reading threads on anything remotely connected to my problem but i can't fix it, i'm really hoping someone here can help me...I run Windows 7 64bit. The other day the computer shut down on it's own. I turned it back on, Windows wouldn't load, it entered a loop of...
  11. News

    Alureon Malware Bites Windows 7

    The threat's rootkit gets an upgrade to compromise Microsoft's 64-bit operating systems by defeating driver-signing security. More...
  12. reghakr

    Windows 7 AVG Anti-Virus Free 2011

    AVG Anti-Virus Free 2011 In 1992 a couple of young Czech entrepreneurs introduced their "Anti Virus Guard" security utility. Today, almost 20 years later, AVG is an international success, offering a free antivirus utility used by millions and a full line of commercial security products. The...
  13. S

    Windows 7 disable folder-hiding and folder no-search CLSIDs

    Folks, OK, I've had enough of things I can't see. How for example, can I find and view all files named "index.dat". If you enter this into the search bar, you won't find any, but I assure you, there are dozens on the typical system. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. There're many...
  14. S

    My Anti-Malware/Rootkit cocktail!!

    I believe I've got it down to a science. 1. Unhackme - http://www.greatis.com/unhackme/ removes ALL of those Antivirus 20xx both the fake alerts and the programs that can't be uninstalled. Deals with the registry so the usuall legalese to registry modification aplies so be careful. But by...
  15. D

    Windows 7 Installed/Ran an unknown application

    let me start by saying I didn't know this was an illegal app or something, I simply had a problem with updates. Whenever i would run update, it would detect two updates and then often would fail downloading and installing one or two and rarely would install them and then restart and the update...
  16. S

    My son went to Windows 7

    After a month of having Win7 at work, it seemed easy to give it to my son when he caught the Antivirus 2010 rogueware. It was nasty in that it wouldn' even let exe or com files to be executed. I normally insist on manually removing rootkits and malware. I'm proud of my success using free...
  17. kevin from Chi-town

    Windows 7 How to Remove Persistent Browser Hijacks from Infected PC

    This came from part of a HiJackThis log.... Hosts- 74.XXX.40.xxx paybillsnow.com (this is not the address, I will not give real link because it hyperlinks directly to infection) (There are multiple addresses linking to these browser HiJacks, I'm only showing one) This seem to be some...
  18. cybercore

    Windows 7 Download Free Avast! Home Edition Antivirus - Comprehensive Protection for Windows

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Download FREE antivirus software - avast! Home Edition http://files.avast.com/files/manuals/user-manual-home-eng.pdf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Complete antivirus software for free All-inclusive and...
  19. C

    Windows 7 Security upgrade 8/30 kills internet use

    It didn't kill it but it makes the computer useleess for internet access. I have win7 ultimate 617100 7100 HP pavilion x64 1 week old intel2 quad CPU Norton is embeded with automatic ugrades If this security upgrade is not a rootkit virus it acts like one. Active X disabled and will not...
  20. L

    Windows 7 win7 weird behaviour

    Hello, Recently my Win7 Beta is behaving very weird: 1. The taskbar (explorer) is not freezing, yet the clock does not update; I had to kill explorer and run it again, then clock updates. It freezes again 2. Task manager shows no processes in the list as I launch it. Pressing F5 will refresh...
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