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Feb 12, 2012 | 09:30 PM

#16

Swimholm

Mountain Pass

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From: League City, TX

I spent all freaking day removing this "Defragmenter Virus."

Followed these directions:
Remove System Defragmenter (Uninstall Guide)

my comp is still not running quite right. Let's control this a little better FTE.

Feb 13, 2012 | 09:16 AM

#17

nlemerise

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Joined: Jun 2005

Posts: 4,243

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From: AZ

Quote:

Originally Posted by Swimholm

Dave, read my earlier post...if you were running in a VM environment, the worse that you would have to do is reboot the computer. With a VM, up-to-date AVG (or similar), and up-to-date Spybot (or similar) it is nearly impossible to get infected....20+ years now, trouble-free. I scan my computers with AVG & Spybot weekly, but never find anything. FTE cannot protect you, you have to protect you. An interesting proof of this is run under a VM environment, turn OFF all virus protection/spyware protection and cruise the net...scary what is happening out there. You will get infected with some of the most hideous stuff within days - then just kill the VM machine and restart the VM and you are trouble-free.

Install Sandboxie, start Sandboxie, then have it start your browser...any browser. Your browser will then be running within a VM environment. It is that simple!

Feb 13, 2012 | 10:47 AM

#18

tjc transport

i ain't rite

Joined: Mar 2005

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From: Marlboro Mental Hospital.

this is a hacker thing. FTE has blocked the IP, and they come back with another IP.

Feb 13, 2012 | 07:27 PM

#19

Swimholm

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From: League City, TX

Quote:

Originally Posted by nlemerise

I run Norton, MicroTend, and aVast. I figured one of them would work. I mean they are constantly trying to block each other. This is the first problem I've had in 3 years. I also usually only go to reputable websites, like FTE.

I tried Sandboxie and it noticeably slows down my browser. If Windows 7 has a virtual environment built in I'll start using it.

Feb 13, 2012 | 08:25 PM

#20

nlemerise

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Joined: Jun 2005

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From: AZ

Quote:

Originally Posted by Swimholm

What browser are you running...I have used Firefox and Chrome in the VM of Sandboxie and have seen no slowdown. It should not cause a slowdown because all it is doing is creating the VM in a designated area of the hard drive that can't replicate or change anything else on the machine.

Feb 13, 2012 | 09:20 PM

#21

tdpower

Postmaster

Joined: Dec 2008

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Reps sent to Neal! I downloaded it and computer seems to be running better and faster. Kinda like installing a new mod on your truck..lol..

I'm also running Mozilla ad blocker and downloaded a subscription for it. Basically filters out a lot of junk when you are trying to load a page. You can mess with the filters yourself and even block images and stuff trying to load when you open a page but found the subscription filter works good.

Feb 13, 2012 | 09:42 PM

#22

bulla

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Joined: Jun 2010

Posts: 2,771

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From: Louisiana

Probly a dumb question but does this affect smart phones?

Feb 13, 2012 | 09:46 PM

#23

shorebird

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Joined: Feb 2003

Posts: 11,537

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From: Long Beach, Ms.

I'm running Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes Anti Malware
With Firefox for my browser.
Ad block plus with Element Hiding helper
I saw some notifications as things were blocked