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The nasty is known variously as Navipromo, msclock32l, msplock32, wymigqzhr, and other aliases. It's been around for a while, but few anti-malware apps can detect it, and fewer still can remove it. It reports on URLs visited and displays pop-ups. The source of the infection is unknown to me...

Met my first rootkit detection and removal job earlier this week. Yuk! A seriously difficult thing to get rid of. It took me ~8 hours to figure it out and clean it up. (Would have been quicker to backup, format, and reinstall, of course, but I chalked that one up as a useful learning experience...

.... that would also explain why it takes a ridiculously long time to load then. Compare, for example, Quicktime with Windows Media Player startup times. And I don't think that is attributable to pre-loading on boot the way it is with the Internet Explorer cheat. And, for that matter, maybe...

I think it's likely to be the other way around: i.e., the PC version, like all Apple-written PC software, is appallingly bad. They seem to have a special gift for it.

I agree with Coug, Paugie. No bad effects should follow. Will, 60 is a little higher than I'd feel comfortable with. Be happier to see it in the mid to high 50s. Replace your heatsink goo, check your case temperatures and add fans if need be, and check your supply voltage - even a tiny...

Sad news, Coug. I believe I heard about someone drowning in Adelaide around that time, though I rarely listen to the news these days. I'll see if I can turn up a link to an Adelaide paper.

So how abut it, Storage Forum people, is Incredimail a menace, or is it as safe to use as any other email client? I see enough machines to state as a fact that more Incredimail users get virus and spyware infections than users of other email clients. (I'm not counting Outlook Express users...

If it would give me an extra 40GB in my laptop, I'd pay the money, Lunar, pay it without a second thought. But Im leery of buying any drive that isn't a Samsung. When you get right down to it, I just don't trust Western Digital, Maxtor, IBM, and Seagate with my data. Hell, I don't trust Samsung...

I have used a moderate number of the Samsung 40G and 80GB notebook drives LM, and had the usual excellent samsung reliability from them. Rigt now I run a pair of 80GB ones (one external) and I'm wondering whether I should buy the 120GB now or wait and see how long it takes them to release a 160...

doh!

Hi Hannah. My first thought was "what a waste of money for something that one can for oneself with very little effort and close enough to zero knowledge or cost. Then I thought about the number of otherwise intelligent people who come to me in near panic because their system has crashed and...

Is there any dowside to installing .NET? I've managed to avoid it thus far (a) because there hasn't been any tangible benefit to it (i.e., no software I want that needs it) and (b) because most of the other Microsoft add-ins you get off Windows Update are pox-ridden carriers for nasty stuff like...

Easy as that: Control panel, power options, hybernate, un-tick "enable hibernation support". You don't even have to reboot. Duh: I forgot to look under power options. For some reason, I looked in about three other places, then figured I'd rather ask here than buggerise around on Google. (You...

Wow! You guys are fast! I'll try those now.

PS: it takes forever to hibernate

My laptop boot partition is only 15GB. I rarely defrag, but the system clogged up pretty badly lately so I cleaned it up a little and it's much better now. The problem is HYBERFILE.SYS, a 2GB+ file that is in >1600 fragments spread all over the drive. (I must have hibernated at some point with...

An interesting response from Intel, Bozo. Where did Liam go? Now we need him to explain the theory behind it for us.

Wow! Aren't you the lucky one! Bet you ain't sorry you married her.

Yes! You know, I never realised that till you said it, JTR, and it's so bloody obvous. No wonder they don't turn me on.

Yes, what Merc said. Where are they? The market has gone stupid and everything is targetted at the home entertainment moron set, there is practically nothing for those of us who use computers a lot and want a serious, professinal grade product to do serious work on. I am so lucky I bought one of...

My car has never touched, or even seen snow. I hope to keep it that way.

Nice pictures Dave. I dislike cold intensely. I don't mind too much if it drops to something below zero (32f) overnight, so long as it warms up during the day to something sensible like 15 or 20 - anything under 15 as a daily max isn't a day, it's just a time that elapses in between getting out...

One thing I forgot to mention - back on the other CPU utilisation problem now, having been utterly confused by CityK and not having Tea around to translate it for me - is that one reasonably sure-fire way to trigger the CPU hogging is .... you guessed it ... Adobe Acrobat. Now you don't...

I can't believe you just said that. What an utterly ridiculous thing to say! This has absolutely nothing, repeat nothing, repeat nothing to do with piracy, and everything, repeat everything tp do with increasing their already obscene monopoly profits. Microsoft are simply looking for yet another...

I was about to try copying as per Merc's suggestion. But then I remembered that I don't have a working ME install to copy from - so I'd have to take a spare system and do an install to save doing an install, and on the whole, it seems more sensible just to do the install. Or something like that...

But that would result in the CPU utilisation being due to Thunderbird, wouldn't it, which is not what I see in the task manager. Or are there wheels within wheels here?

The trouble is, Sol, that WinME doesn't have the SYS command any more. So you can't "SYS C:" under ME. This, among many other good and sufficient reasons, is why we call it Moron Edition. sigh I could probably figure it out for myself in ... er ... about twice as long as it would take me to...

I have a machine here that runs Windows ME. (Yeah, yeah, I know. ME is the worst of all possible Windows versions. But that's the version the customer owns, and the machine is too old and crap-ridden to run 2K or XP.) The customer has deleted all the files in the root directory. Now, on a Win...

Firefox has a worse problem than the memory usage (which, as I see it, is maybe not perfect but no big deal). This is its bad habit of grabbing a massive slice of the CPU and never giving it back. I meet this problem regularly. It appears to be, however, not a Firefox issue per se, but a Gecko...

I switched my TV on last week. Yes, me. First time since, oh I don't know, when were the AFL finals? September. It burped, farted, made a horrible and expensive-sounding crack-crack noise, then switched itself off again, smelling of hot insulation. Three minutes later it started up again all...

Ahh, to hell with it. Maybe it gets better, maybe it doesn't. I got bored and stopped reading already. Errr ... but 5400 RPM Seagate beats a 7200 RPM Hitachi? Seek times near enough to the same, same cache, same interface ..... sounds pretty suss to me. Either we have a chipset problem (well...

The 5,400-RPM drives obviously have much lower seek times due to their slower spindle speeds Oh dear......... I can sense a complete vomit job lurking somewhere in the back of my mind - or is it just a false alarm?. Was that howler just a slip of the pen? Or could this review get worse as it...

... 2.5" Serial ATA hard drives actually use the same connectors as their desktop counterparts. These drives plug into standard SATA data and power cables .... Unfortunately, the connector compatibility enjoyed by 2.5" SATA hard drives doesn't extend to mobile ATA drives. Those drives require...

I agree about acts of piracy, Sol. Indeed, I think it would be a very good thing to stamp the piracy out, using whatever resources seem to be the most effective. This is why I suggested using the navy to stop the pirates that are killing endangered creatures that do not belong to them (they are...

Yes. That is a quite ridiculous thing to do. I mean, what the hell? We've got a navy haven't we?

Thanks Handy. I figured it had to be something of that general nature, but the picture makes it clear. Hard for me to imagine as I sit out in the shade at the back of the house surfing on the laptop (long network cable), wearing shorts and wondering if it has cooled off enough for me to move ver...

What is a snow blower?

You will probably want something more high-tech than this, but the fast and practical method is to strip the ends of the wires, twist them together, and seal it up with heat shrink tube. (Of course, you have to remember to slide the tube on before you join the wires! I always forget if I'm in a...

Many I/O shields have two layers, Mubs, usually those from the better quality cases; yours is probably the same. The usual method is to give it a sharp backhanded blow with a screwdriver handle. (From the outside, of course.) It should just pop inwards. (Err .. that wasn't very clear. Having...

Will seems to be doing fine. It's Friday. I'm stonkered. Not sure if my brain is in shape to code a "hello world" page right now. (Tannin sees fragment of Javascript, promptly hides head under blankets and turns the light out.)

I am having difficulty ridding myself of the mental picture of Merc walking down the street with a sort of large vine thing over his shoulder, long trailing leads everywhere and clusters of several dozen 500GB hard drives dangling from then like bunches of grapes from a vine. Of course, so as...

Crash investigations are like that, Bill. As you know, my father (now retired) was an aviation safety consultant with an extensive knowledge of the factors that lead to accidents, a little of which has rubbed off on me over the years. Blanket statement: TV shows are crap. How can I say that...

Gahhh ..... In general, you are making excellent points LiamC, but I thought we were supposed to be comparing a modern car with an old one. And for this you choose a Falcon? New Falcon: the new car you buy when you really want an instant veteran clunker. (Sorry: I have always disliked...

Actually, ATI hired me. I just though it was a bit unethical of them and carefully misunderstood my instructions. (shhhh! no tellin)

Thanks guys. Looks as though there are several workable methods to pick from. Great! I remember back in the old days, dual displays used to be a horrorshow to set up. I have a Leadtek 6600GT AGP in stock, and these do dual output, so if I get time tommorow I'll try setting it up with a PCI...

I have a customer that wants to use three (yes three) screens at once. No games, just spreadsheets and similar. Two screens is easy enough, but what's the go for three screens? Anyone done this recently?

The problem with our school systems - whether we mean USA or Australia or any of the many other broadly similar places - is, in my view, very simple. Oh, sure, there is room for enormous debate and change and improvement in education and in education systems, but the key problem, the problem...

That's the same as the R Series, Merc. (At least as I understand it.) You can hot-swap, but only if you sacrifice the optical drive (or, of course, plug it into the mains for as few moments, which sort of defeats the purpose). Ultrabase? I am not familiar with the Ultrabase. (Pause while Tannin...

Sorry Merc, I don't follow you. You say T-series Thinkpads" * have 4:3 screens (i.e., same as the R Series I wrote about) * swappable batteries (I take it you don't mean hot swappable?) * two USB ports (i.e., same as the R Series) i.e., all exactly the same as the existing R Series Thinkpads...

No doubt about it.