Provided you run a version of the removal tool that was produced after the version of XP Antivirus, it gets rid of it just fine.
Trying to do it by hand is really really hard though. Just when you think you have deleted it, it comes from nowhere and installs itself all over again. If you can't get the removal tool then I agree that reinstalling is the best way forward.
It always gets me how the virus writers don't go that little bit further. It would be dead easy to install 2 rootkits instead of one. The first one is obvious, and deleting it is convoluted but straightforward, while the second one is deeply integrated and very difficult to remove. So you get an infection, follow the steps to remove it, but aren't aware of the second one.
Or maybe they are doing this already and we haven't noticed...
So I would stock up on canned food and water. And plenty of seeds for replanting because you are on your own when it happens.
And guns. Lots of guns. To kill the people who try and steal your canned food and water, and guns.
We may think we are civilised, but just imagine how civilised a million people are going to be when they all realise that there is only enough food for a few thousand people.
What's even funnier is that my post is moderated 'Insightful'. Pay attention moderators!!! There was nothing 'Insightful' in my post - it was one of those things you do in the morning when you haven't had your caffeinated energy drink yet.
Yellowstone is a fixed point in history. What happens, happens. There's no stopping it.
That's just the sort of "bend over and take it up the arse" that has gotten you Americans into the mess you're in right now. You should be out protesting in the streets about this impending supervolcano! If you aren't part of the solution you are part of the problem. Won't someone _please_ think of the children? Maybe next time you'll vote in a government with a firm policy platform on the whole supervolcano issue. If this supervolcano goes off then the terrorists win.
That made me giggle. If Apple was losing $100 on every sale of OSX, then in terms of 'actual' damages, if you pirate it does Apple have to pay you?
I know it doesn't work that way, the 'loss' in question here is basically just income from software sales vs costs of development, so what I've said above is rubbish, but I still thought it was a curious concept:)
I bought an Abit BP6 about 8 years ago, and it served me well up until about a year ago, but I wouldn't call it reliable or good quality. Abit had heaps of trouble with crappy firmware releases for it, and the onboard ATA-100 controller was known to be crap. It caused massive corruption under Linux, which could have been a driver bug but I more suspect it was hardware related.
A later version than mine was released with bad capacitors. Apparently replacing those improved reliability in that model.
Still, it was a dirt cheap dual celeron board that did the job (I wanted to experiment with SMP coding). It's sitting on the floor next to me right now, but only because I haven't gotten around to turfing it yet.
Possibly, but as I just posted elsewhere, water vapor can rise and form clouds. Clouds are not water vapor, they are tiny droplets of water and ice crystals.
Whether enough of it does rise and form clouds is another thing of course, but I suspect that it would.
I think that water vapor, which you can't see, is a greenhouse gas, but clouds are not that, they are tiny water droplets or ice crystals, and are quite reflective.
So I guess the tricky bit is to make sure that the increased water vapor rises and turns into clouds.
If the spin rates were off afterall, then they could have lost two or three probes instead of one. It's always a gamble, and if a mistake with big consequences has been made, sending more probes might not give you more chance of success...
It's not your system administrators who make that decision.
Just about all such settings are enforceable via group policy these days, and as such can be 'enforced' by your system administrator. It's easy enough to get around though that I don't think it would stand up in a court of law.
It's even easier than that. You saw the message but assumed it was spam and deleted it without reading it. It's possible to prove that the email made it to your inbox (assuming someone, somewhere is keeping logs), but it's not possible to prove that your lack of response was anything other than that you assumed it was spam and deleted it.
It makes me a bit mad that someone would try and get out of their debts by just hiding, but me getting mad doesn't make this solution any more valid, and if someone tried it on me they'd get stonewalled.
"Yes your Honor, I do recall receiving a message with that subject/content but I deleted it assuming it was spam or a virus. After all, what kind of an idiot would serve a legal document via Facebook?".
Aside from the fact that inferring that a judge is an idiot is seldom a good idea, it would appear to be a valid assumption - it's what I would do if I saw an email with a subject that looked like it contained a legal document (or any attachment from someone I didn't know), and ditto for a facebook message if I had a facebook account.
I can't believe the other "two local data recovery firms" got stumped by this simple problem.
I have more trouble believing that the police only had a single copy of the interview, and no transcript (or maybe that was on the DVD too?).
If the TV shows i've watched are correct, then they are supposed to give a copy to the interviewee too, so what's wrong with running off another copy (or 3) for storage at another site???
I firmly believe that if your are relying on a data recovery firm to save you then someone, somewhere, hasn't done their job properly.
Lots of people are intolerant of even rebooting their computer during the day, but don't realize how infuriated they would get when their computer starts acting up because they didn't restart.
I use XP on my laptop, and am very intolerant of rebooting (takes ages). I only reboot it to apply Microsoft updates, and only when they are critical enough for me to bother, so uptimes of 2-3 months aren't unusual. Instead of shutting down at night, or between work and home, I just suspend. Not sure how much longer i'll be able to keep that up for though... the battery is pretty much stuffed (laptop is somewhere around 4 years old) and there will come a time when it doesn't have enough juice to last the required time in suspend mode anymore...
I'm doing this but just with Cisco routers at each of the remote branches, and using the 'wakeonlan' (debian package name) app to send wakeup packets. You'll need to enable directed broadcasts on the routers for that to work, but you should be able to find (or write) a similar tool for Windows.
Compared to a non-breastfed kid exposed to the same things a breastfed child is, all other things being equal, less likely to get as sick.
My daughter was breastfed and at 10-11 months (too young for the MMR to be administered) got measles after attending creche where measles was going around. We got her immunised early, after finding out about the measles outbreak at the creche, but she had obviously already been infected as she got it anyway. It does happen and it isn't that rare, although she probably would have gotten it worse had she not been breastfed.
She also has aspergers, and while I believe it _may_ be possible that immunisation may have some vague influence over that, I do know that immunisation saves many many times the number of lives than it could possibly affect in other ways, so I'd choose immunisation over not every time.
Strictly speaking, Godwins law was just an observation about the inevitability of someone likening the opposing party to the nazi's or hitler the longer an online thread ran for, it never said anything about the merits of the association (likening the opposing party to hitler may actually be quite appropriate in some cases).
What you appear to be referring to is what is sometimes referred to as Dods Law (or something like that?) that says that mentioning the nazi's or hitler is an automatic forfeit of your argument.
I only wish that the law was that broken. If it really is that broken it will get tested in court and it will turn out that it conflicts with a bunch of other things and be overturned.
The sort of response you are chastising is very typical of ask slashdot responses. And there is nothing wrong with using the computer (or the TV) as a babysitter now and then for a short time, in the same way that you give a child a toy to play with by themselves.
If you spent every waking moment with your child you would both go insane, and you'd never get anything else done - meals still have to be cooked, dishes have to be cleaned, clothes have to be washed, etc, and everyone needs a few minutes to chill out and relax for a few minutes.
Obviously if you expect your child to spend every waking minute in front of a TV or on a computer then something is wrong, but the OP never said that, and never even implied that.
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Maybe someone let off an EMP bomb amongst the fireworks, just to give people the willies
"I tell you, mine and my mums computers both crashed at exactly midnight. It's a conspiracy I tell you. I'm never coming out of the basement again!"
Provided you run a version of the removal tool that was produced after the version of XP Antivirus, it gets rid of it just fine.
Trying to do it by hand is really really hard though. Just when you think you have deleted it, it comes from nowhere and installs itself all over again. If you can't get the removal tool then I agree that reinstalling is the best way forward.
It always gets me how the virus writers don't go that little bit further. It would be dead easy to install 2 rootkits instead of one. The first one is obvious, and deleting it is convoluted but straightforward, while the second one is deeply integrated and very difficult to remove. So you get an infection, follow the steps to remove it, but aren't aware of the second one.
Or maybe they are doing this already and we haven't noticed...
And guns. Lots of guns. To kill the people who try and steal your canned food and water, and guns.
We may think we are civilised, but just imagine how civilised a million people are going to be when they all realise that there is only enough food for a few thousand people.
What's even funnier is that my post is moderated 'Insightful'. Pay attention moderators!!! There was nothing 'Insightful' in my post - it was one of those things you do in the morning when you haven't had your caffeinated energy drink yet.
That's just the sort of "bend over and take it up the arse" that has gotten you Americans into the mess you're in right now. You should be out protesting in the streets about this impending supervolcano! If you aren't part of the solution you are part of the problem. Won't someone _please_ think of the children? Maybe next time you'll vote in a government with a firm policy platform on the whole supervolcano issue. If this supervolcano goes off then the terrorists win.
I've got plenty more!
Why is there no "Don't Go There (-1)" moderation option?
That made me giggle. If Apple was losing $100 on every sale of OSX, then in terms of 'actual' damages, if you pirate it does Apple have to pay you?
I know it doesn't work that way, the 'loss' in question here is basically just income from software sales vs costs of development, so what I've said above is rubbish, but I still thought it was a curious concept :)
That's a simple algorithm:
if (object == person)
wants_beer = 1;
Sure there is going to be some margin of error in that algorithm, but it's going to be right most of the time.
I bought an Abit BP6 about 8 years ago, and it served me well up until about a year ago, but I wouldn't call it reliable or good quality. Abit had heaps of trouble with crappy firmware releases for it, and the onboard ATA-100 controller was known to be crap. It caused massive corruption under Linux, which could have been a driver bug but I more suspect it was hardware related.
A later version than mine was released with bad capacitors. Apparently replacing those improved reliability in that model.
Still, it was a dirt cheap dual celeron board that did the job (I wanted to experiment with SMP coding). It's sitting on the floor next to me right now, but only because I haven't gotten around to turfing it yet.
Possibly, but as I just posted elsewhere, water vapor can rise and form clouds. Clouds are not water vapor, they are tiny droplets of water and ice crystals.
Whether enough of it does rise and form clouds is another thing of course, but I suspect that it would.
I think that water vapor, which you can't see, is a greenhouse gas, but clouds are not that, they are tiny water droplets or ice crystals, and are quite reflective.
So I guess the tricky bit is to make sure that the increased water vapor rises and turns into clouds.
If the spin rates were off afterall, then they could have lost two or three probes instead of one. It's always a gamble, and if a mistake with big consequences has been made, sending more probes might not give you more chance of success...
Just about all such settings are enforceable via group policy these days, and as such can be 'enforced' by your system administrator. It's easy enough to get around though that I don't think it would stand up in a court of law.
It's even easier than that. You saw the message but assumed it was spam and deleted it without reading it. It's possible to prove that the email made it to your inbox (assuming someone, somewhere is keeping logs), but it's not possible to prove that your lack of response was anything other than that you assumed it was spam and deleted it.
It makes me a bit mad that someone would try and get out of their debts by just hiding, but me getting mad doesn't make this solution any more valid, and if someone tried it on me they'd get stonewalled.
That's a very valid point.
"Yes your Honor, I do recall receiving a message with that subject/content but I deleted it assuming it was spam or a virus. After all, what kind of an idiot would serve a legal document via Facebook?".
Aside from the fact that inferring that a judge is an idiot is seldom a good idea, it would appear to be a valid assumption - it's what I would do if I saw an email with a subject that looked like it contained a legal document (or any attachment from someone I didn't know), and ditto for a facebook message if I had a facebook account.
I can't believe the other "two local data recovery firms" got stumped by this simple problem.
I have more trouble believing that the police only had a single copy of the interview, and no transcript (or maybe that was on the DVD too?).
If the TV shows i've watched are correct, then they are supposed to give a copy to the interviewee too, so what's wrong with running off another copy (or 3) for storage at another site???
I firmly believe that if your are relying on a data recovery firm to save you then someone, somewhere, hasn't done their job properly.
I use XP on my laptop, and am very intolerant of rebooting (takes ages). I only reboot it to apply Microsoft updates, and only when they are critical enough for me to bother, so uptimes of 2-3 months aren't unusual. Instead of shutting down at night, or between work and home, I just suspend. Not sure how much longer i'll be able to keep that up for though... the battery is pretty much stuffed (laptop is somewhere around 4 years old) and there will come a time when it doesn't have enough juice to last the required time in suspend mode anymore...
I'm doing this but just with Cisco routers at each of the remote branches, and using the 'wakeonlan' (debian package name) app to send wakeup packets. You'll need to enable directed broadcasts on the routers for that to work, but you should be able to find (or write) a similar tool for Windows.
Compared to a non-breastfed kid exposed to the same things a breastfed child is, all other things being equal, less likely to get as sick.
My daughter was breastfed and at 10-11 months (too young for the MMR to be administered) got measles after attending creche where measles was going around. We got her immunised early, after finding out about the measles outbreak at the creche, but she had obviously already been infected as she got it anyway. It does happen and it isn't that rare, although she probably would have gotten it worse had she not been breastfed.
She also has aspergers, and while I believe it _may_ be possible that immunisation may have some vague influence over that, I do know that immunisation saves many many times the number of lives than it could possibly affect in other ways, so I'd choose immunisation over not every time.
No it's true, really. Happened to a friend of a friend of mine. His wife never made it home apparently.
Strictly speaking, Godwins law was just an observation about the inevitability of someone likening the opposing party to the nazi's or hitler the longer an online thread ran for, it never said anything about the merits of the association (likening the opposing party to hitler may actually be quite appropriate in some cases).
What you appear to be referring to is what is sometimes referred to as Dods Law (or something like that?) that says that mentioning the nazi's or hitler is an automatic forfeit of your argument.
I only wish that the law was that broken. If it really is that broken it will get tested in court and it will turn out that it conflicts with a bunch of other things and be overturned.
It's uncommon but they can reproduce.
I think the nature of Down's though is that they seldom outlive their parents - life expectancy is much lower.
The sort of response you are chastising is very typical of ask slashdot responses. And there is nothing wrong with using the computer (or the TV) as a babysitter now and then for a short time, in the same way that you give a child a toy to play with by themselves.
If you spent every waking moment with your child you would both go insane, and you'd never get anything else done - meals still have to be cooked, dishes have to be cleaned, clothes have to be washed, etc, and everyone needs a few minutes to chill out and relax for a few minutes.
Obviously if you expect your child to spend every waking minute in front of a TV or on a computer then something is wrong, but the OP never said that, and never even implied that.