The grumpy thread

[warren t claim]

The thing is the lady in question has found someone else and her ex doesn't like it, either because he is jealous or because she has had many years of being told that if she left him she wouldn't find anyone else and he hates to be proven wrong.

[brammy777]

Yesterday I went out at one in the afternoon, hung around Basingstoke with some mates for a while and then went to London to some club thing in Kings Cross, turned out to be pretty lame as most of the people there are egos with legs. Anyway, waited for the first tube at 537 and then got the 612 train to Winchfield. Of course, that meant it arrived at 714, around an hour and a half before the first bus, but I looked at the timetable anyway. It said 752, which came as a surprise as I had never seen that bus before. Oh well, fuck it Ill wait anyway. It didnt come and I walked 3.3 miles home. Down a road which is national speed limit and has no pavements.

[Cavcraft]

Anyone who beats women up is just utter pond life and I hope that karma will get them one day and they die an extremely violent/painful death.

[Guest]

Warren, all this tracker skullduggery is a bit terrifying to be honest. Surely she has some kind of harrassment case? Any forensics team worth their salt would be able to trace a sale back to the ex or find some fingerprints of his on the box.

 

Anyway, on to my (comparatively minor) grump.

I think Firefox \ Explorer or Google has some kind of spyware redirecting me every time I try to search for things. Every second or third attempt it sends my query to some poxy unrelated search engine which has to be clicked through \ otherwise circumvented so that I can look at my Google search results.

 

It's getting on my mantits to be Frank, and I don't want old Wat to come back and wreak havoc. I've run Avast on a full system scan that includes Firefox and IE, and aside from finding a nascent registry Trojan nothing else was amiss.

 

Any suggestions? Something's doing it, and it's nothing I've set intentionally.

[warren t claim]

Is it the basic free Avast! or the paid for version?

[Guest]

Is it the basic free Avast! or the paid for version?

 

Er, basic Mr C.

Sweet jesus fuck, your avatars are getting worse.

[warren t claim]

Is it the basic free Avast! or the paid for version?

 

Er, basic Mr C.

Sweet jesus fuck, your avatars are getting worse.

 

well as Autoshite seems to have lots of threads about old Fords I'd add Lita Ford to the list.

[barrett]

Warren...seriously? I'm no keyboard warrior, but it seems like someone needs a fucking good smacking.... I'm at your service, if needs be

[Richard]

I think it would take more than a kicking to stop that sort of behaviour unfortunately.

 

Wat- try http://www.superantispyware.com/ . The free version has fixed a few things for me that nothing else would touch.

[whitevanman]

Wat, download spybot and run it that will find any spyware and sort it

[myglaren]

I think Firefox \ Explorer or Google has some kind of spyware redirecting me every time I try to search for things. Every second or third attempt it sends my query to some poxy unrelated search engine which has to be clicked through \ otherwise circumvented so that I can look at my Google search results.

 

It's getting on my mantits to be Frank, and I don't want old Wat to come back and wreak havoc. I've run Avast on a full system scan that includes Firefox and IE, and aside from finding a nascent registry Trojan nothing else was amiss.

 

Any suggestions? Something's doing it, and it's nothing I've set intentionally.

 

Go to Filehippo an get Spybot Search & Destroy. Install with the Tea Timer and Secure File Shredder.

Run it to dig out any nasties then go into advanced mode, ignore the warnings and go to "tools", select the lot from the right hand pane then run them from the left hand pane.

 

The two most significant will be the hosts file - install the Spybot S&D hosts file. Use the Activex control to remove any suspicious or unwanted Actevex entries.

On the main screen run the Immunization tool - which is more or less doubling up the hosts file to prevent redirects.

 

Superantispyware is also an excellent free tool. You need several to overlap ans no single one or even two can get everything and they aren't all looking for the same stuff anyway.

 

Back on the tools page, lock the IE page to prevent hijacking. Even if you don't use it as it is used for Windows Updates.

[Guest]

Haha.

 

I think whatever this is is more devious than I first thought. It's now saying Firefox \ IE 'can't connect to those Spyware removal sites.

Whatever is lurking in the background doesn't want to be found and is obviating my attempts to get rid of it.

 

Superspyware won't install. Devious, devious, devious little fucker.

[myglaren]

Try it in safemode with networking.

And/or run Avast in boot-time mode.

[Guest]

In another unrelated note, I'm now being told that replying to a wedding invite by text 'isn't alright'.

 

Neither's bringing the invite round 8 days late.

Wonderful, another argument to sort out.

[Guest]

Haha.

 

I think whatever this is is more devious than I first thought. It's now saying Firefox \ IE 'can't connect to those Spyware removal sites.

Whatever is lurking in the background doesn't want to be found and is obviating my attempts to get rid of it..

 

Superspyware now won't install. Devious, devious, devious little fucker.

[Cavcraft]

In another unrelated note, I'm now being told that replying to a wedding invite by text 'isn't alright'.

 

Neither's bringing the invite round 8 days late.

Wonderful, another argument to sort out.

 

I did the same and she still married me.

[Guest]

Haha.

 

I think whatever this is is more devious than I first thought. It's now saying Firefox \ IE 'can't connect to those Spyware removal sites.

Whatever is lurking in the background doesn't want to be found and is obviating my attempts to get rid of it..

 

Superspyware now won't install. Devious, devious, devious little fucker.

 

I'm doing a mega thorough scan now to see if that will out it. Failing that it will be boot time mode.

[pogweasel]

WAT, you can get superantispyware to run and beat this by renaming the .exe element of that program. Basically this bug blocks most popular .exe things (except IE which it routs to pr0n instead) and things that could kill it. I renamed it opera.exe and it worked.

[Guest]

WAT, you can get superantispyware to run and beat this by renaming the .exe element of that program. Basically this bug blocks most popular .exe things (except IE which it routs to pr0n instead) and things that could kill it. I renamed it opera.exe and it worked.

 

This bloody thing directs Firefox to pr0n as well. My deep level scan in avast has come up with 3 infected things ATM and it's been running, erm, 10 minutes.

I'll let it do it's thing and then I will try what you've suggested.

 

Spyware with its own preservation in mind is a bit worrying really.

[warren t claim]

Latest message from Mrs-Claim regarding her friend Lisa and her psycho ex Steph....

 

 

"stef has got a gun & a big knife in the house , lisa told the police where they were hidden and they wouldnt look 4 them , they believed him cos hes so good at making lisa look like shes lost the plot xxxxxx"

 

When I asked what sort of gun.....

 

"a handgun but shes not sure if its a replica or not , he said its for protection 4 burglars"

 

I really don't know what to say/believe.

[retrogeezer]

Jon, I wonder if what you have is another clone of xp defender pro? I had this a few months back and got rid of it using the info from here:

 

http://www.myantispyware.com/2010/03/17 ... ent-331756

[autofive]

routine bugging of private consultations

 

this is making me grumpy, and angry today

 

http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/news/north-e ... -27388250/

 

i have heard from several friends in the legal profession that its routine to bug the client / legal rep. interviews in murder cases, but it now seems the dodgy bstards at consett are bugging attempt murder suspects too

 

no one should be above the laws of the land, especially the flash suited DCs who listened on on this one

[Station]

I'm not watching XFactor, which is on in the background. I've got my headphones on, listening to Cannibal Corpse so no noise creeps in.

 

Cheryl: "She's got really lovely hair, so I think she should go through."

 

Sentimental semi-scripted TV dogpoo, the only solace I have of growing older is the fact that Simon Cowell and his horrible ball bag mates will be dead.

[Guest]

OK. I'm now posting from the worst laptop in the world as my computer is now getting royally skull fucked by a trojan called Ramnit-B \ VBSEXEdropper.

 

About 45 minutes ago avast started going ape shit and quarantining 50 attacks a minute. I cannot install anything else because the little cunt keeps blocking me. Can't install spybot, superspyware remover or anything like that.

If this little bastard destroys my computer I will hunt down the arsehole responsible, fire a crossbow bolt through his bollocks and stamp on his head repeatedly until nothing is left.

 

I do not need this.

[autofive]

OK. I'm now posting from the worst laptop in the world as my computer is now getting royally skull fucked by a trojan called Ramnit-B \ VBSEXEdropper.

 

About 45 minutes ago avast started going ape shit and quarantining 50 attacks a minute. I cannot install anything else because the little cunt keeps blocking me. Can't install spybot, superspyware remover or anything like that.

If this little bastard destroys my computer I will hunt down the arsehole responsible, fire a crossbow bolt through his bollocks and stamp on his head repeatedly until nothing is left.

 

I do not need this.

 

if you want to save your personal stuff (pictures / docs / video etc) then put the HDD into another PC is a slave, then transfer all the stuff before formatting the disc

 

In my previous experience trojans hide in your windows start button, and are almost impossible to remove, and keep the drive intact, but run the drive as a slave and windows doesnt function

[scaryoldcortina]

If this little bastard destroys my computer I will hunt down the arsehole responsible, fire a crossbow bolt through his bollocks and stamp on his head repeatedly until nothing is left.

 

you are looking for this man

[autofive]

lol

[Richard]

You can install the cleaning software on another computer and fit the infected drive as a slave, I've had to do that before.

[Station]

Can't you run in safe mode? I think the virus even disables that. And these things are mostly done for a laugh.

 

Have this! It doesn't install as an exe but a script so the virus doesn't suspect anything.

 

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic351188.html

 

If it's any solace, one person write a virus that was pandemic got about 7 years in prison. I can imagine you're close to ripping your hair out over this!

[Guest]

Can't you run in safe mode? I think the virus even disables that. And these things are mostly done for a laugh.

 

Have this! It doesn't install as an exe but a script so the virus doesn't suspect anything.

 

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic351188.html

 

If it's any solace, one person write a virus that was pandemic got about 7 years in prison. I can imagine you're close to ripping your hair out over this!

 

After a lot of dicking around, I've managed to get SuperAntiSpyWare running in safe mode. So far I have one trojan, 6 hijacked DNS trojans and 510 malware cookies.

 

And it's been running for 8 minutes.

 

Shit the bed!