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buffalo Says
Welcome to Buffalosjokes and Thank You for joining us. My
name is Buffalo and I have the watch.
I woke up early Thursday morning and started on my email so I
would have time to do the chips before TOPS. I would stop for
a few minutes and pop over to Farmville and do my crops and
as I went back to my mail the computer stopped responding. I
ran scans with AVAST and Super Anti Spyware in both normal
and safe mode and then transferred a new copy of Malwarebytes
with a flash drive as the one I had on the computer wouldn't
run. I suspect it also had a proxy server running on it as I couldn't
get my Avast to show as running along with the Firewall and
when I looked for system Restore it said I had no restore points.
Not to ignore a possible hardware problem I removed the CPU
fan and checked the radiator and reseated the RAM and PCI
cards. and when I took a break on Friday afternoon it had a black
screen and a cursor but would run normal in Safe Mode. When
I started back in Fri evening I removed all of the software I had
installed in the past several weeks including Open Office and
the Excel Viewer because at that point I didn't even trust MS.
Armed with RKILL which is supposed to shut down dangerous
processes I reran all of my scans with no luck and finally about
0400 I hit it with Combofix. It crippled the malware on the first
scan and gave me a long report of what it had done but I still
had a few errors and after a couple of hours the computer had
slowed down again and I ran combofix one more time and reinstalled
AVAST as Combofix kept telling me to disable AVAST before
running Combofix so I removed it completely and it still said it was
there.That is the effects of the proxy server modifying the data you
are receiving. It has been running smoothly for about 12 hours
now so it looks like I got the rascal. The people up here that
charge 75.00 to remove malware would have definitely earned
their money and with Best Buy it would have been cheaper to
buy a new computer.
What bothers me is that I never got the usual malware notice
telling me my computer was infected and asking if I wanted to
scan for an infection which normally downloads the infection.
Whatever did it was subtle enough I missed it.
In addition to computer problems the website is also down till we
get the domain reregistered.
Enjoy the chips... buffalo
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Reader's Respond
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Hi again,
Yes, I did save it in MS Word. I think I saved the same file, garbled
one in OpenOffice 3.3. as a odt. Hoping I could convert it. Nothing like
hope & trying.
Hugs again, Doe in B.C.
Have you tried copying and pasting a random file into it to see if it
was a
one time thing or if Word is corrupted. If it is word that is corrupted
there
should be a repair utility attached.
buff
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Thank you so much for all your help now and in the past.
My problem...
I have an icon on my desktop which I can't remove and can't open. It's
a Word Perfect icon/file (confirmation of an Ebay order) I put there
until I received my order. Well, the order came in and now I can't do
anything with this darn thing. When I try to delete, it says..."Cannot
delete file: Cannot read from file source or disc." I cannot even
hide it in a folder! It refuses to budge.
Can someone help me please?
Custom intel system
Win XP home
Mozilla
God bless,
Mo
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