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stevejrc

also theres a few settings in advanced tab which are different to mccoffee's settings. mccoffee's speeded my connection up, whilst "optimal" appeared to slow it down.

stevejrc

Another bug? When I installed 5.1, it added ati....cli.exe "runtime" to HK_USERS and HK_LOCAL_MACHINE, which took ages for pc to startup. I disabled (using a startup manager) the one in HK_USERS as its the same "runtime" switch.

Starts up much quicker now, control centre works fine as well as ...

stevejrc

wanadoos authorization problems:
http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=172569

I set mine as follows (recommended by mccoffee :thumb: )
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select - cable
check - custom settings
check - modify all adapters
maxmtu -1500
TTL - 64
TCP Receive Window - 64240
MTU Discovery - yes
Black Hole ...

stevejrc

I have speedtouch (330) on Wanadoo 1MB and had drop outs yesterday, I used TCPoptimiser week ago so, its more likely as mccoffee said overheating or network problems.

I chose optimise, but changed TTL back to 128, is that more reliable than 64?

stevejrc

Im not bothered by its "hogness", it doesnt slow me down. You might as well take out half your RAM and sell it, if your not going to use it. lol

stevejrc

same here, no problems - its normal.

stevejrc

with sygate, unclicking "act as server" for every application (applications>advanced) stealths all ports. this is recommended on the sygate forums. worked for me.....

stevejrc

try snapfiles site, download express is very popular and easy to use,
freeware section below:

http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/downl ... wdown.html

stevejrc

Is Ad Muncher a popup stopper? try google toolbar (or msn toolbar etc) they have built in popup blocker, use no resources and are more accurate.

For spyware, I wouldnt use webroot aswell. Adaware and spybot are the usuall choice for scanning, for prevention spyware blaster is best, I would also use ...

stevejrc

the help says full system scan, scans whole computer with all options on. ads scan is for NTFS volumes, mines FAT32 so I guess I wont need that. the customise button (scan settings) only effect the custom scan, as the other scans use fixed options.

stevejrc

got mine, the file properties are 1.02, but the version in the adaware about box is 1.03, so Im guessing they just forgot to alter properties.

stevejrc

is avast still picking it up, the latest virus definitions should fix it, there was a discussion on their forums at http://forum.avast.com/?lang=ENG about this false positive, which they seem to have fixed, I also had the alert.

stevejrc

unticking "act as server" for IE6 in applications>advanced, stealthed port 80 on mine. thats only needed if your a website server, shouldnt really be open otherwise, for incomming connections (server).

stevejrc

I've got "move to folder", "copy to folder" and "notepad" options. I got them from regseeker, in tweaks section. Just another program for ya..

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/regseeker.html

stevejrc

before you click "start", a popup box should appear with sensitivity slide and archive files check box.

stevejrc

I saw a link below in the security forum about firewall access, might help:

http://www.blackviper.com/AskBV/tech4.htm

"A big one is "DNS Lookups" and HTTP. With DNS lookups disabled, you will no longer be able to type in "www.blackviper.com" but you will always be able to type in the IP address ...

stevejrc

Ive tried restoration, pc inspector and hand recovery and when recovering files, .doc .xls etc just give format errors and .txt just contains garbage, even with recently deleted files.

stevejrc

I use the below temp cleaner, it can be set to remove files older than x days ie 7. at startup or manually and which temp folders to scan. Easier than manually I think.

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/emptytemp.html

stevejrc

IESPYAD is also good and popular, it adds huge list of spyware sites to IE restricted sites zone. So it doesnt even need to known what spyware is currently out there, just the sites.

http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/resource.htm#IESPYAD

Go down to .exe download section, unzip to a folder and ...

stevejrc

If ad-aware detects them, then assume their spyware. Ive had cgi-bin and quarantining them did no harm, so I blocked it in IE6 privacy settings so dont get them anymore.

Its only really some registry settings thats worth quarantining incase you need them, cookies can easily be re-created by a ...

stevejrc

tested it on Start Page (which can be recreated anyway) and it backs it up fine. odd

stevejrc

I unzipped it into a folder "c:\program files\hijack this"
Checked backup option was on
Ran it.

But it didnt create a backup after removing an obselete menu item (fastnet99, old host manager I uninstalled) from IE Tools menu.

The path "c:\program files\hijack this" is in the registry so its ...

stevejrc

yeah, I did a quick search in Google and it came up with loads of people saying magicsearch hijacked them, theres details on how to remove it.

stevejrc

I play DVDs using RealPlayer, which I think comes with the decoder/software as it plays ok.

But my WMP9 won't play dvds and the WMP9 help says it doesnt come with decoder/software and you must use your own. I'm not sure how to do that..

Both are latest versions.

stevejrc

It worked today, but still briefly shows that redirect url before the update url in the status bar. Maybe its normal and if I had broadband it would be so quick you wouldn't see it?

stevejrc

my "Tools>Windows Update" doesnt work, it goes to this url and says cant reach server:

http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=ie&clcid=0x0809&pver=6.0&ar=ienews&os=N5

I have to get the updates by typing windowsupdate.com in address bar. Thats works fine.

I have IE6 sp4 and latest updates ...

stevejrc

I think this link has a workaround for the username/password problem once the update is installed:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -us;834489

stevejrc

I checked the sygate forums and they said the update button doesnt always work with new builds. New build 2525 is available in free and pro versions and can be downloaded in full from there site.

stevejrc

Is this still beta? My auto update and button dont pick up a new version, Im still build 2516. (free personal version)

http://smb.sygate.com/news/nwsdownload.htm

stevejrc

I got rid of mine through the "networking" tab of connection properties. I only needed the component "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)". I uninstalled the other components LAN and something else. I heard this here on one of the tweaks threads that there not needed (unless your on a network!).

I think ...

stevejrc

heres the sygate comparison (if you havent seen it before):

http://smb.sygate.com/products/pspf/summary_pspf.htm

stevejrc

adaware detects trojans.. I didnt know that. cool

stevejrc

Just make sure you have the resident protection set to High (or customise settings), to scan created/modifed files and not just opened files.

Normal setting doesnt do this! (Thats where reviewers get it wrong and complain of downloaded viruses being missed)

stevejrc

An article about Analogx Script Defender (anyone know this or is it just me that didnt know lol):

It does nothing to disable or manage the execution of scripts embedded in web pages or HTML Email messages unless the particular exploit of some vulnerability creates local "script files" of the types ...

stevejrc

True. I had testicular cancer last year and got through it thanks to modern chemo to reduce chance of recurrence (still have checkups).

So helping in anyway to provide a cure for all cancers would be great.

stevejrc

Thanks, I hadn't heard of this sort of thing before, so I didn't think to look anywhere else for it.

stevejrc

Sounds cool, might try it (saw it on the tv in UK):

SETI@home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data.

http ...

stevejrc

Im running avast (free version) seems quite good. Gets good reviews similar to AVG and both often beat Norton etc at detection.

I like the option to scan during screen saver and boot scan (pre-windows start if/when needed)
Auto updates 1-3 days
And the audio speech in addition to alert boxers.

I ...

stevejrc

Could it be RapidBlaster spyware? just a guess..............

General Info: RapidBlaster runs as a task at Windows startup. It downloads advertising from the Internet and displays it periodically.

this scans for it, also download spyware blaster to prevent it:

http://www.wilderssecurity.net ...

stevejrc

Originally posted by Paft
http://www.avast.com

Avast 4! Antivirus. I happen to love this because it's fast, unobtrusive, and has an extremely small footprint for all that it does.

Im using free Avast too, it often comes ahead of AVG in reviews, but some prefer AVG. Some complain Avast uses to ...

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