Guest Renee59 Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 Hello dear members, When I installed my computer I found the standard Windows firewall in Vista premium. I trusted this and did not want to slow down the system by adding an other firewall. Besides, this policy also was discouraged by the helpfiles that came with the system. Virusprotection was not done by the system, so advisable to install a virusprotection tool. I read a lot on the net on that item and finally installed Avast antivirus. So far so good. Had no troubles from oktober 07 till a week ago. Than I decided to destall Avast and to install One Live one care. The critics did not take me to this. But I think it is a good policy to have the safety issues in the same hand as the system resources are. I take another step and expect the safety cause covered in the system itself. Sell a new car without safety features! I installed the One care, I did want to give it my support, I did not expect it to be bad at all. Microsoft also gave me a free trial for 90 days, fair enough, join the army than. Quite a difference in feel, that is because Avast alway gave me a kind of messenger report with a sliding window, which told me that an other part of the virus library was loded online, faithfully from as soon as I came on the internet. Beside of that it did its job silently, without a lot of noise. That is what we expect computers to do and specially tasks on it, dedicated to the system. Until a couple of days ago, I could not install the Adobe flashplayer. The loading routine caused the firewall problems, or the other way around. To be short on this, I investigated tasks, processes and services. Also investigated the ActiveX elements in the tasktray on the ie-browser. Also came on the installed program list on the controlpanel. The One Care green ball suits me, but I had expected deleted programs, realy being deleted from now, why does Vista still leave anything there in that list, yes it is a safety issue. Only when program does what it is asked to do, it will be trustfull, can you come around another way? Thought I realy had destalled the Itune software, when I found not, I could not trust the window tool and did some deleting and stopping on services and programs involved with those programs. It did not work. Now there still are tasks that are scheduled and updates are done, quite a world behind my computerscreen and keyboard that I thought was long gone. How can this be under One Care? Why isn't this cleaning more drasticly done. Why is this? I found this bonjour program and learned a bit of what it stands for, it might be no virus but it is quite stubburn to get lost. I deleted it several times, it still is there! Thought I only installed a player, seems to be part of a strategy to intrude on my computer and to have control over it. I think safety has a lot to do with policy. Do the certification, link back to threads and threadrates on a list, then automate to hit back on trespassing and hacking. I came upon the site ProcessScanner and scanned my files, after I had scanned it with the scanning tool that comes with One Care. One Care reported all fine. ProcessScanner gave me an allert on wininit.exe. It thougt me in its library and with me millions others, that it is a trojan horse, an evil virus. ProcesScanner comes under label Uniblue, it shows there to be a Microsoft certified partner (?) So I again, I just scanned this file by One Care. No warnings whatsoever! I roled back the system (fine feature!), but wininit.exe is still there. There are some tools offered on that Microsoft goldcertifed board, are they to be trusted. I read a lot of registry cleaning, it is offered there aswell, do you advise me to use it? I like the backup and restore part, but should that be this noisy. It is easy and should be integrated in the maintenance part. Why is this not? Enough for today, maby also for tomorrow. Questions: Does One Care do any virus scanning? Does it have a frequent update on the virus library? How? Is One Care right and isn't wininit.exe a trojan horse? How come I cannot delete wininit.exe? I know, by the accounts and ownership on the file, but who shuts me outoff permission on that file, though I have administrator rights? Who is cheating here? Should I destall One Care and go back to just the common firewall with a scanner like Avast? Does the maker of One care still do what is good for the product and the customers? -- Live gets better all the time! Quote
Guest Mick Murphy Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 Vista Firewall is fine! Uninstall one care. http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html Above is a link to Avast Free 4 Home Anti-Virus It is low resource using, free and Vista 32bit and 64bit compatible. http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html For Spyware removal, use the above link to “Spybot Search & Destroy 1.5.2†Download it, install it, update it, immunize your system and scan your System with it. http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/ For a non-scanning, but running in the background, Program to STOP Spyware being downloaded to your Computer, use SpywareBlaster 4, available at the above link. -- Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia "Renee59" wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > Hello dear members, > > When I installed my computer I found the standard Windows firewall in Vista > premium. I trusted this and did not want to slow down the system by adding an > other firewall. Besides, this policy also was discouraged by the helpfiles > that came with the system. Virusprotection was not done by the system, so > advisable to install a virusprotection tool. I read a lot on the net on that > item and finally installed Avast antivirus. > > So far so good. Had no troubles from oktober 07 till a week ago. Than I > decided to destall Avast and to install One Live one care. The critics did > not take me to this. But I think it is a good policy to have the safety > issues in the same hand as the system resources are. I take another step and > expect the safety cause covered in the system itself. Sell a new car without > safety features! > I installed the One care, I did want to give it my support, I did not expect > it to be bad at all. > > Microsoft also gave me a free trial for 90 days, fair enough, join the army > than. Quite a difference in feel, that is because Avast alway gave me a kind > of messenger report with a sliding window, which told me that an other part > of the virus library was loded online, faithfully from as soon as I came on > the internet. Beside of that it did its job silently, without a lot of noise. > That is what we expect computers to do and specially tasks on it, dedicated > to the system. > > Until a couple of days ago, I could not install the Adobe flashplayer. The > loading routine caused the firewall problems, or the other way around. To be > short on this, I investigated tasks, processes and services. Also > investigated the ActiveX elements in the tasktray on the ie-browser. Also > came on the installed program list on the controlpanel. > > The One Care green ball suits me, but I had expected deleted programs, realy > being deleted from now, why does Vista still leave anything there in that > list, yes it is a safety issue. Only when program does what it is asked to > do, it will be trustfull, can you come around another way? > Thought I realy had destalled the Itune software, when I found not, I could > not trust the window tool and did some deleting and stopping on services and > programs involved with those programs. > It did not work. Now there still are tasks that are scheduled and updates > are done, quite a world behind my computerscreen and keyboard that I thought > was long gone. How can this be under One Care? Why isn't this cleaning more > drasticly done. Why is this? I found this bonjour program and learned a bit > of what it stands for, it might be no virus but it is quite stubburn to get > lost. I deleted it several times, it still is there! > Thought I only installed a player, seems to be part of a strategy to intrude > on my computer and to have control over it. I think safety has a lot to do > with policy. Do the certification, link back to threads and threadrates on a > list, then automate to hit back on trespassing and hacking. > > I came upon the site ProcessScanner and scanned my files, after I had > scanned it with the scanning tool that comes with One Care. One Care reported > all fine. ProcessScanner gave me an allert on > > wininit.exe. It thougt me in its library and with me millions others, that > it is a trojan horse, an evil virus. ProcesScanner comes under label Uniblue, > it shows there to be a Microsoft certified partner (?) > So I again, I just scanned this file by One Care. No warnings whatsoever! > I roled back the system (fine feature!), but wininit.exe is still there. > There are some tools > offered on that Microsoft goldcertifed board, are they to be trusted. I read > a lot of registry cleaning, it is offered there aswell, do you advise me to > use it? I like the backup and restore part, but should that be this noisy. It > is easy and should be integrated in the maintenance part. Why is this not? > > Enough for today, maby also for tomorrow. > > Questions: > Does One Care do any virus scanning? > Does it have a frequent update on the virus library? How? > Is One Care right and isn't wininit.exe a trojan horse? > How come I cannot delete wininit.exe? I know, by the accounts and ownership > on the file, but who shuts me outoff permission on that file, though I have > administrator rights? Who is cheating here? > Should I destall One Care and go back to just the common firewall with a > scanner like Avast? > Does the maker of One care still do what is good for the product and the > customers? > -- > Live gets better all the time!</span> Quote
Guest Renee59 Posted April 2, 2008 Posted April 2, 2008 Hello Nick and other Members, I did a part of what you told me. I scanned my system with Spybot S&D. Ofcourse I immunized first. And ran the scan then. The Spybot destroyed 3 cookies about tracking my system by mailsending my internet experience. (Not to bad.) Furthermore it found three entries from ErrorSmart which were also fixed. A month or so ago I tried to get rid of that program, did not download, just ran the routine to report me the anomalies. (I had some mediaplayer problems.) The program also reported an abnormal entry in the registry for an IE feature about a lockdown.The registry content showed false, I decided to leave that.(?) So no spy reported. Than I searched through the log files from OneCare. I found a lot of blocked computer IP's. And on march 24, I found a lot of removed infected files. Several viruses were reported, all trojan horses. The reported ones were removed. After this I scanned in two more ways, but no viruses were found anymore. I reacted on the file wininit.exe to be a trojan horse, it is still in my directory. Strange enough Spybot S&D responds like OneCare: No thread. I had not yet gone this deep in OneCare, although I have big problems now (comes more), I won on confidence about OneCare. It also has these features for controling on backups and buildin restore. Optimalisation schedule-settings, total control on malware. You notice, I still want to give it a try. My system is easy now, the green ball is there, and in the auto-updatelist are these newly downloaded packages on the defender-library. Quite confidential. There is a tray in OneCare that shows me the defender, it is inactive, not needed by OneCare. Switched off whenever I come back there. Also in that tray I found the resident Spybot R&D, I switched his both protection routines to off on startup. OneCare excepts it there set active, but I switched it off there aswell. So OneCare has to do the job. To save my system, stopped some ActiveX controls, specially those that are reported not to be certified. ('Certified' maybe troubled by translation. I am dutch, see.) There are a triple ActiveX on Apple Inc. These support Quicktime. Coming to the third to switch to inactive, did not believe my eyes when I saw one of the others being switched to on again! It left me to choose two outof three to switch off. After a restart the triple is inactive now. I doubt about the state of the others I switched off: XML DOM Document 4.0 - Microsoft Corporation ? XML HTTP 4.0 - Microsoft Corporation ? XSL Template 4.0 - Microsoft Corporation ? isInstalled Class - (Sun Microsystems Inc.) ? MusicManagerPlugin.MediaBar On - Demand Distribution ltd. Free Threaded XML DOM Document - Microsoft Corporation CLVistaGenie Control - Cyberlink Sorry, to me they are all spy candidates, get that certificat! Now the problem I came upon, mentioned already, but it became worse: I cannot remove a program. None at all! In my user directory I come on maps that were always mine. Not anymore! Went to the account program and found my account set to common user. No administrator rights anymore! Tricked it, saved! Came back: Common again! I once had my appartment door destroyed comming home. I met the junk before in front of the building. That feeling! Troubles apeared to be bad when I tried to remove Bonjour and Quicktime out of the programlist. When I start the routine Vista comes telling me that it gathers information and installs(!) the program. It persistendly ends with a defender warning that an unknown program is to be executed. The program is called 'remover' (in dutch). The defender offered me to execute, or to cancel. In both ways the program is still there! Vista now tells me I have to start the program as an administrator, remove doesn't start up at all! Is there some help? I went through the helpfiles on accounts, all I get is a headache! I get a bit of that stuff, but it is to scarey and tricky to be sure I make good changes. What should I do now? Realy need a professional now. Oh, I should be doing fotographs and other lovely things. Mick, you like this, please? Gratefull for your attention! -- Live gets better all the time! "Mick Murphy" wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > Vista Firewall is fine! Uninstall one care. > > http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html > > Above is a link to Avast Free 4 Home Anti-Virus > It is low resource using, free and Vista 32bit and 64bit compatible. > > http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html > > For Spyware removal, use the above link to “Spybot Search & Destroy 1.5.2†> Download it, install it, update it, immunize your system and scan your > System with it. > > http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/ > > For a non-scanning, but running in the background, Program to STOP Spyware > being downloaded to your Computer, use SpywareBlaster 4, available at the > above link. > > -- > Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia > > > "Renee59" wrote: > <span style="color:green"> > > Hello dear members, > > > > When I installed my computer I found the standard Windows firewall in Vista > > premium. I trusted this and did not want to slow down the system by adding an > > other firewall. Besides, this policy also was discouraged by the helpfiles > > that came with the system. Virusprotection was not done by the system, so > > advisable to install a virusprotection tool. I read a lot on the net on that > > item and finally installed Avast antivirus. > > > > So far so good. Had no troubles from oktober 07 till a week ago. Than I > > decided to destall Avast and to install One Live one care. The critics did > > not take me to this. But I think it is a good policy to have the safety > > issues in the same hand as the system resources are. I take another step and > > expect the safety cause covered in the system itself. Sell a new car without > > safety features! > > I installed the One care, I did want to give it my support, I did not expect > > it to be bad at all. > > > > Microsoft also gave me a free trial for 90 days, fair enough, join the army > > than. Quite a difference in feel, that is because Avast alway gave me a kind > > of messenger report with a sliding window, which told me that an other part > > of the virus library was loded online, faithfully from as soon as I came on > > the internet. Beside of that it did its job silently, without a lot of noise. > > That is what we expect computers to do and specially tasks on it, dedicated > > to the system. > > > > Until a couple of days ago, I could not install the Adobe flashplayer. The > > loading routine caused the firewall problems, or the other way around. To be > > short on this, I investigated tasks, processes and services. Also > > investigated the ActiveX elements in the tasktray on the ie-browser. Also > > came on the installed program list on the controlpanel. > > > > The One Care green ball suits me, but I had expected deleted programs, realy > > being deleted from now, why does Vista still leave anything there in that > > list, yes it is a safety issue. Only when program does what it is asked to > > do, it will be trustfull, can you come around another way? > > Thought I realy had destalled the Itune software, when I found not, I could > > not trust the window tool and did some deleting and stopping on services and > > programs involved with those programs. > > It did not work. Now there still are tasks that are scheduled and updates > > are done, quite a world behind my computerscreen and keyboard that I thought > > was long gone. How can this be under One Care? Why isn't this cleaning more > > drasticly done. Why is this? I found this bonjour program and learned a bit > > of what it stands for, it might be no virus but it is quite stubburn to get > > lost. I deleted it several times, it still is there! > > Thought I only installed a player, seems to be part of a strategy to intrude > > on my computer and to have control over it. I think safety has a lot to do > > with policy. Do the certification, link back to threads and threadrates on a > > list, then automate to hit back on trespassing and hacking. > > > > I came upon the site ProcessScanner and scanned my files, after I had > > scanned it with the scanning tool that comes with One Care. One Care reported > > all fine. ProcessScanner gave me an allert on > > > > wininit.exe. It thougt me in its library and with me millions others, that > > it is a trojan horse, an evil virus. ProcesScanner comes under label Uniblue, > > it shows there to be a Microsoft certified partner (?) > > So I again, I just scanned this file by One Care. No warnings whatsoever! > > I roled back the system (fine feature!), but wininit.exe is still there. > > There are some tools > > offered on that Microsoft goldcertifed board, are they to be trusted. I read > > a lot of registry cleaning, it is offered there aswell, do you advise me to > > use it? I like the backup and restore part, but should that be this noisy. It > > is easy and should be integrated in the maintenance part. Why is this not? > > > > Enough for today, maby also for tomorrow. > > > > Questions: > > Does One Care do any virus scanning? > > Does it have a frequent update on the virus library? How? > > Is One Care right and isn't wininit.exe a trojan horse? > > How come I cannot delete wininit.exe? I know, by the accounts and ownership > > on the file, but who shuts me outoff permission on that file, though I have > > administrator rights? Who is cheating here? > > Should I destall One Care and go back to just the common firewall with a > > scanner like Avast? > > Does the maker of One care still do what is good for the product and the > > customers? > > -- > > Live gets better all the time!</span></span> Quote
Guest Renee59 Posted April 3, 2008 Posted April 3, 2008 Hello Nick and other Members, I did a part of what you told me. I scanned my system with Spybot S&D. Ofcourse I immunized first. And ran the scan then. The Spybot destroyed 3 cookies about tracking my system by mailsending my internet experience. (Not to bad.) Furthermore it found three entries from ErrorSmart which were also fixed. A month or so ago I tried to get rid of that program, did not download, just ran the routine to report me the anomalies. (I had some mediaplayer problems.) The program also reported an abnormal entry in the registry for an IE feature about a lockdown.The registry content showed false, I decided to leave that.(?) So no spy reported. Than I searched through the log files from OneCare. I found a lot of blocked computer IP's. And on march 24, I found a lot of removed infected files. Several viruses were reported, all trojan horses. The reported ones were removed. After this I scanned in two more ways, but no viruses were found anymore. I reacted on the file wininit.exe to be a trojan horse, it is still in my directory. Strange enough Spybot S&D responds like OneCare: No thread. I had not yet gone this deep in OneCare, although I have big problems now (comes more), I won on confidence about OneCare. It also has these features for controling on backups and buildin restore. Optimalisation schedule-settings, total control on malware. You notice, I still want to give it a try. My system is easy now, the green ball is there, and in the auto-updatelist are these newly downloaded packages on the defender-library. Quite confidential. There is a tray in OneCare that shows me the defender, it is inactive, not needed by OneCare. Switched off whenever I come back there. Also in that tray I found the resident Spybot R&D, I switched his both protection routines to off on startup. OneCare excepts it there set active, but I switched it off there aswell. So OneCare has to do the job. To save my system, stopped some ActiveX controls, specially those that are reported not to be certified. ('Certified' maybe troubled by translation. I am dutch, see.) There are a triple ActiveX on Apple Inc. These support Quicktime. Coming to the third to switch to inactive, did not believe my eyes when I saw one of the others being switched to on again! It left me to choose two outof three to switch off. After a restart the triple is inactive now. I doubt about the state of the others I switched off: XML DOM Document 4.0 - Microsoft Corporation ? XML HTTP 4.0 - Microsoft Corporation ? XSL Template 4.0 - Microsoft Corporation ? isInstalled Class - (Sun Microsystems Inc.) ? MusicManagerPlugin.MediaBar On - Demand Distribution ltd. Free Threaded XML DOM Document - Microsoft Corporation CLVistaGenie Control - Cyberlink Sorry, to me they are all spy candidates, get that certificat! Now the problem I came upon, mentioned already, but it became worse: I cannot remove a program. None at all! In my user directory I come on maps that were always mine. Not anymore! Went to the account program and found my account set to common user. No administrator rights anymore! Tricked it, saved! Came back: Common again! I once had my appartment door destroyed comming home. I met the junk before in front of the building. That feeling! Troubles apeared to be bad when I tried to remove Bonjour and Quicktime out of the programlist. When I start the routine Vista comes telling me that it gathers information and installs(!) the program. It persistendly ends with a defender warning that an unknown program is to be executed. The program is called 'remover' (in dutch). The defender offered me to execute, or to cancel. In both ways the program is still there! Vista now tells me I have to start the program as an administrator, remove doesn't start up at all! Is there some help? I went through the helpfiles on accounts, all I get is a headache! I get a bit of that stuff, but it is to scarey and tricky to be sure I make good changes. What should I do now? Realy need a professional now. Oh, I should be doing fotographs and other lovely things. Mick, you like this, please? Gratefull for your attention! -- Live gets better all the time! Quote
Guest Renee59 Posted April 6, 2008 Posted April 6, 2008 Dear members, (Sorry for the double post before, took a log time to come up.) Maby help comes soon, but in the meantime this post. Welcome for reading! There are more posts in this area and on User safety issues, under Windows, that shows the problem on permissions. All of them lost the administrations rights. I also notice there is a lack of help on that issue. Can there please be done some more help? I suggest to open a new tread just on this subject. Maby a MS MVP can do so. One comment on that more: I subscribed to the open system on Microsoft experience share. Maby Mircrosoft expects us then to behave in a sertain way. For example I moved some file, that was not on mine and I changed on some file the permission settings. But if Microsoft expects me to don't things on my own computer, I might expect them to say so. I also changed my mapsettings from default: no system files shown to: standard shown. I once got a warning on this, maby standard system, one realy gets paranoia by these. Can somebody tell us a bit more on this and explain on behavior of Microsoft in these matters. If you cannot find similar posts I refered for, feel obliged to make you a list. Hope to get some answers. -- Live gets better all the time! Quote
Guest Malke Posted April 6, 2008 Posted April 6, 2008 Renee59 wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > Dear members, (Sorry for the double post before, took a log time to come > up.) Maby help comes soon, but in the meantime this post. Welcome for > reading! There are more posts in this area and on User safety issues, > under Windows, that shows the problem on permissions. > All of them lost the administrations rights. I also notice there is a lack > of help on that issue. > Can there please be done some more help? > I suggest to open a new tread just on this subject. Maby a MS MVP can do > so. One comment on that more: > I subscribed to the open system on Microsoft experience share. Maby > Mircrosoft expects us then to behave in a sertain way. For example I moved > some file, that was not on mine and I changed on some file the permission > settings. But if Microsoft expects me to don't things on my own computer, > I might expect them to say so. > I also changed my mapsettings from default: no system files shown to: > standard shown. I once got a warning on this, maby standard system, one > realy > gets paranoia by these. Can somebody tell us a bit more on this and > explain on behavior of Microsoft in these matters. > If you cannot find similar posts I refered for, feel obliged to make you a > list.</span> Your various posts are difficult to read/follow. This is not a discussion board; it is a newsgroup and therefore aimed at answering specific questions. While this resource is excellent for end users getting help, if you want a forum experience you should post to a forum. I suggest www.computerhaven.info or one of the forums on www.aumha.net. See Section C below for a full explanation of why you think this is a forum and it isn't. In the meantime, here are some suggestions to help you: A. I don't believe English is your first language. If you want to use newsgroups, you may find it more efficient to post in a newsgroup in your native language (French perhaps?). It is difficult enough to get/give technical support in writing about unseen computers without adding in a language barrier. See the link to a list of MS newsgroups in Section C below so you can find the right one for your language. B. As much as I can determine from reading your various posts, you don't really know what you are looking at and are therefore having a hard time communicating your system's details (also refer to Section A above). It would probably be wisest for you to take your machine to a local computer professional and have them straighten everything out for you. This will not be your local equivalent of BigComputerStore/GeekSquad. I do not say this to hurt your feelings in any way; I'm just being practical. C. Newsgroups - general Since you are using the web interface, you may not realize that this is really a newsgroup. You will get far more out of this resource if you learn to use a newsreader. There are many good newsreaders for Windows, but you can use Outlook Express (XP) or Windows Mail (Vista) since you already have it. Here are some links to information about newsgroups: About Usenet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ - Usenet FAQs from the Internet FAQ Archives http://www.usenetmonster.com/infocenter/ http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Usenet - a brief explanation of newsgroups Outlook Express/Windows Mail as Newsreader: http://michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm http://rickrogers.org/setupoe.htm http://vistasupport.mvps.org/accessing_new...indows_mail.htm How to Post: http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Usenet http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375 - How to Ask a Question http://users.tpg.com.au/bzyhjr/liszt.htm - How Not to Get Technical Help on Usenet http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://aumha.org/nntp.htm - list of MS newsgroups microsoft.public.test.here - MS group to test if your newsreader is working properly http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/munad.htm - how to munge email address http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting - crossposting http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm - multiposting Other Newsreaders for Windows: http://www.forteinc.com/main/homepage.php - Forte http://www.mozilla.org - Thunderbird http://gravity.tbates.org/ http://www.40tude.com/dialog/ http://xnews.newsguy.com/ Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com Don't Panic! Quote
Guest FromTheRafters Posted April 6, 2008 Posted April 6, 2008 "Renee59" <Renee59@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:80BC6A5E-B8D3-4D91-96C6-24CB013A2754@microsoft.com...<span style="color:blue"> > Hello dear members, > > When I installed my computer I found the standard Windows firewall in > Vista > premium. I trusted this and did not want to slow down the system by adding > an > other firewall. Besides, this policy also was discouraged by the helpfiles > that came with the system. Virusprotection was not done by the system, so > advisable to install a virusprotection tool. I read a lot on the net on > that > item and finally installed Avast antivirus. > > So far so good. Had no troubles from oktober 07 till a week ago. Than I > decided to destall Avast and to install One Live one care.</span> No reason to uninstall Avast! unless there is an "on-access" scanner in 'One Live one care' - whatever that is. As a matter of choice, I probably would have stayed with Avast! <span style="color:blue"> > The critics did > not take me to this. But I think it is a good policy to have the safety > issues in the same hand as the system resources are.</span> I disagree. I think it is better to have AV from an experienced AV company, Anti-Malware "suites" seldom have the "best" of each malware category. It's a matter of choice again - I also preferred "component" stereo systems as compared to integrated systems by the same reasoning. I'm sure Microsoft is fully capable of buying into this arena and making good choices of what technology to buy into. Still, I would rather make use of the many years of experience the outside vendors have and choose from their offerings. <span style="color:blue"> > I take another step and > expect the safety cause covered in the system itself. Sell a new car > without > safety features! > I installed the One care, I did want to give it my support, I did not > expect > it to be bad at all.</span> Some "safety features" are actually just "fluff" (perhaps nice, but not really necessary features). Fluff becomes bloat when there's too much of it. Not bundling it with the OS was a good thing IMO. <span style="color:blue"> > Microsoft also gave me a free trial for 90 days, fair enough, join the > army > than. Quite a difference in feel, that is because Avast alway gave me a > kind > of messenger report with a sliding window, which told me that an other > part > of the virus library was loded online, faithfully from as soon as I came > on > the internet. Beside of that it did its job silently, without a lot of > noise. > That is what we expect computers to do and specially tasks on it, > dedicated > to the system. > > Until a couple of days ago, I could not install the Adobe flashplayer. The > loading routine caused the firewall problems, or the other way around. To > be > short on this, I investigated tasks, processes and services. Also > investigated the ActiveX elements in the tasktray on the ie-browser. Also > came on the installed program list on the controlpanel. > > The One Care green ball suits me, but I had expected deleted programs, > realy > being deleted from now, why does Vista still leave anything there in that > list, yes it is a safety issue. Only when program does what it is asked to > do, it will be trustfull, can you come around another way? > Thought I realy had destalled the Itune software, when I found not, I > could > not trust the window tool and did some deleting and stopping on services > and > programs involved with those programs. > It did not work. Now there still are tasks that are scheduled and updates > are done, quite a world behind my computerscreen and keyboard that I > thought > was long gone. How can this be under One Care? Why isn't this cleaning > more > drasticly done. Why is this? I found this bonjour program and learned a > bit > of what it stands for, it might be no virus but it is quite stubburn to > get > lost. I deleted it several times, it still is there!</span> Sorry, I didn't understand a lot of the above, but it seems you missed an important thing about these types of anti-malware programs. The simple fact is that they don't work the way most people think they do. They work - imperfectly! None of them will protect you - completely. They all will miss something sometime. As to the imperfect cleaning (deleting?) - that depends on many factors. <span style="color:blue"> > Thought I only installed a player, seems to be part of a strategy to > intrude > on my computer and to have control over it. I think safety has a lot to do > with policy.</span> Absolutely! Policy is very important. <span style="color:blue"> > Do the certification, link back to threads and threadrates on a > list, then automate to hit back on trespassing and hacking. > > I came upon the site ProcessScanner and scanned my files, after I had > scanned it with the scanning tool that comes with One Care. One Care > reported > all fine. ProcessScanner gave me an allert on > > wininit.exe. It thougt me in its library and with me millions others, that > it is a trojan horse, an evil virus. ProcesScanner comes under label > Uniblue, > it shows there to be a Microsoft certified partner (?) > So I again, I just scanned this file by One Care. No warnings > whatsoever! > I roled back the system (fine feature!), but wininit.exe is still there.</span> Sorry, you lost me again. <span style="color:blue"> > There are some tools > offered on that Microsoft goldcertifed board, are they to be trusted.</span> Don't know. <span style="color:blue"> > I read > a lot of registry cleaning, it is offered there aswell, do you advise me > to > use it?</span> No. Your "policy" should be to not try out programs you don't actually need - especially if you are unsure about the source. <span style="color:blue"> > I like the backup and restore part, but should that be this noisy. It > is easy and should be integrated in the maintenance part. Why is this not?</span> Lost me again. <span style="color:blue"> > Enough for today, maby also for tomorrow.</span> <span style="color:blue"> > Questions: > Does One Care do any virus scanning? > Does it have a frequent update on the virus library? How?</span> Don't know. <span style="color:blue"> > Is One Care right and isn't wininit.exe a trojan horse?</span> Probably not. Submit suspect file to many online scanners to get a feel for the "false positive" possibility. <span style="color:blue"> > How come I cannot delete wininit.exe? I know, by the accounts and > ownership > on the file, but who shuts me outoff permission on that file, though I > have > administrator rights? Who is cheating here?</span> The system will always have more power than the user - unless it's broken. <span style="color:blue"> > Should I destall One Care and go back to just the common firewall with a > scanner like Avast?</span> If you want to - your choice. <span style="color:blue"> > Does the maker of One care still do what is good for the product and the > customers?</span> What do you mean by "still". style_emoticons/) Quote
Guest Mick Murphy Posted April 6, 2008 Posted April 6, 2008 If you are having problems getting rid of viruses, spyware, etc, when you are scanning; reboot and use the programs in Safe Mode. Reboot, tap F8, and then select Safe Mode using the UP and DOWN arrows when the list comes up. Then select ENTER The reason for this is that you can not delete a file that is being used. Safe mode means that there is the bare, basics running in Windows I don't know how far you got with things, so below is orig advice. http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html Above is a link to Avast Free 4 Home Anti-Virus It is low resource using, free and Vista 32bit and 64bit compatible. Only have one (1) anti-virus installed; more than 1 can cause conflicts. http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html For Spyware removal, use the above link to “Spybot Search & Destroy 1.5.2†Download it, install it, update it, immunize your system and scan your System with it. http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/ For a non-scanning, but running in the background, Program to STOP Spyware being downloaded to your Computer, use SpywareBlaster 4, available at the above link. -- Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia -- Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia "Renee59" wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > Hello dear members, > > When I installed my computer I found the standard Windows firewall in Vista > premium. I trusted this and did not want to slow down the system by adding an > other firewall. Besides, this policy also was discouraged by the helpfiles > that came with the system. Virusprotection was not done by the system, so > advisable to install a virusprotection tool. I read a lot on the net on that > item and finally installed Avast antivirus. > > So far so good. Had no troubles from oktober 07 till a week ago. Than I > decided to destall Avast and to install One Live one care. The critics did > not take me to this. But I think it is a good policy to have the safety > issues in the same hand as the system resources are. I take another step and > expect the safety cause covered in the system itself. Sell a new car without > safety features! > I installed the One care, I did want to give it my support, I did not expect > it to be bad at all. > > Microsoft also gave me a free trial for 90 days, fair enough, join the army > than. Quite a difference in feel, that is because Avast alway gave me a kind > of messenger report with a sliding window, which told me that an other part > of the virus library was loded online, faithfully from as soon as I came on > the internet. Beside of that it did its job silently, without a lot of noise. > That is what we expect computers to do and specially tasks on it, dedicated > to the system. > > Until a couple of days ago, I could not install the Adobe flashplayer. The > loading routine caused the firewall problems, or the other way around. To be > short on this, I investigated tasks, processes and services. Also > investigated the ActiveX elements in the tasktray on the ie-browser. Also > came on the installed program list on the controlpanel. > > The One Care green ball suits me, but I had expected deleted programs, realy > being deleted from now, why does Vista still leave anything there in that > list, yes it is a safety issue. Only when program does what it is asked to > do, it will be trustfull, can you come around another way? > Thought I realy had destalled the Itune software, when I found not, I could > not trust the window tool and did some deleting and stopping on services and > programs involved with those programs. > It did not work. Now there still are tasks that are scheduled and updates > are done, quite a world behind my computerscreen and keyboard that I thought > was long gone. How can this be under One Care? Why isn't this cleaning more > drasticly done. Why is this? I found this bonjour program and learned a bit > of what it stands for, it might be no virus but it is quite stubburn to get > lost. I deleted it several times, it still is there! > Thought I only installed a player, seems to be part of a strategy to intrude > on my computer and to have control over it. I think safety has a lot to do > with policy. Do the certification, link back to threads and threadrates on a > list, then automate to hit back on trespassing and hacking. > > I came upon the site ProcessScanner and scanned my files, after I had > scanned it with the scanning tool that comes with One Care. One Care reported > all fine. ProcessScanner gave me an allert on > > wininit.exe. It thougt me in its library and with me millions others, that > it is a trojan horse, an evil virus. ProcesScanner comes under label Uniblue, > it shows there to be a Microsoft certified partner (?) > So I again, I just scanned this file by One Care. No warnings whatsoever! > I roled back the system (fine feature!), but wininit.exe is still there. > There are some tools > offered on that Microsoft goldcertifed board, are they to be trusted. I read > a lot of registry cleaning, it is offered there aswell, do you advise me to > use it? I like the backup and restore part, but should that be this noisy. It > is easy and should be integrated in the maintenance part. Why is this not? > > Enough for today, maby also for tomorrow. > > Questions: > Does One Care do any virus scanning? > Does it have a frequent update on the virus library? How? > Is One Care right and isn't wininit.exe a trojan horse? > How come I cannot delete wininit.exe? I know, by the accounts and ownership > on the file, but who shuts me outoff permission on that file, though I have > administrator rights? Who is cheating here? > Should I destall One Care and go back to just the common firewall with a > scanner like Avast? > Does the maker of One care still do what is good for the product and the > customers? > -- > Live gets better all the time!</span> Quote
Guest Mick Murphy Posted April 6, 2008 Posted April 6, 2008 If you are having problems getting rid of viruses, spyware, etc, when you are scanning; reboot and use the programs in Safe Mode. Reboot, tap F8, and then select Safe Mode by using the UP and DOWN Arrows when the list comes up. then select ENTER. The reason for this is that you can not delete a file that is being used. Safe mode means that there is the bare, basics running in Windows I don't know how far you got with things, so below is orig advice. http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html Above is a link to Avast Free 4 Home Anti-Virus It is low resource using, free and Vista 32bit and 64bit compatible. Only have one (1) anti-virus installed; more than 1 can cause conflicts. http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html For Spyware removal, use the above link to “Spybot Search & Destroy 1.5.2†Download it, install it, update it, immunize your system and scan your System with it. http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/ For a non-scanning, but running in the background, Program to STOP Spyware being downloaded to your Computer, use SpywareBlaster 4, available at the above link. -- Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia -- Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia "Renee59" wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > Hello dear members, > > When I installed my computer I found the standard Windows firewall in Vista > premium. I trusted this and did not want to slow down the system by adding an > other firewall. Besides, this policy also was discouraged by the helpfiles > that came with the system. Virusprotection was not done by the system, so > advisable to install a virusprotection tool. I read a lot on the net on that > item and finally installed Avast antivirus. > > So far so good. Had no troubles from oktober 07 till a week ago. Than I > decided to destall Avast and to install One Live one care. The critics did > not take me to this. But I think it is a good policy to have the safety > issues in the same hand as the system resources are. I take another step and > expect the safety cause covered in the system itself. Sell a new car without > safety features! > I installed the One care, I did want to give it my support, I did not expect > it to be bad at all. > > Microsoft also gave me a free trial for 90 days, fair enough, join the army > than. Quite a difference in feel, that is because Avast alway gave me a kind > of messenger report with a sliding window, which told me that an other part > of the virus library was loded online, faithfully from as soon as I came on > the internet. Beside of that it did its job silently, without a lot of noise. > That is what we expect computers to do and specially tasks on it, dedicated > to the system. > > Until a couple of days ago, I could not install the Adobe flashplayer. The > loading routine caused the firewall problems, or the other way around. To be > short on this, I investigated tasks, processes and services. Also > investigated the ActiveX elements in the tasktray on the ie-browser. Also > came on the installed program list on the controlpanel. > > The One Care green ball suits me, but I had expected deleted programs, realy > being deleted from now, why does Vista still leave anything there in that > list, yes it is a safety issue. Only when program does what it is asked to > do, it will be trustfull, can you come around another way? > Thought I realy had destalled the Itune software, when I found not, I could > not trust the window tool and did some deleting and stopping on services and > programs involved with those programs. > It did not work. Now there still are tasks that are scheduled and updates > are done, quite a world behind my computerscreen and keyboard that I thought > was long gone. How can this be under One Care? Why isn't this cleaning more > drasticly done. Why is this? I found this bonjour program and learned a bit > of what it stands for, it might be no virus but it is quite stubburn to get > lost. I deleted it several times, it still is there! > Thought I only installed a player, seems to be part of a strategy to intrude > on my computer and to have control over it. I think safety has a lot to do > with policy. Do the certification, link back to threads and threadrates on a > list, then automate to hit back on trespassing and hacking. > > I came upon the site ProcessScanner and scanned my files, after I had > scanned it with the scanning tool that comes with One Care. One Care reported > all fine. ProcessScanner gave me an allert on > > wininit.exe. It thougt me in its library and with me millions others, that > it is a trojan horse, an evil virus. ProcesScanner comes under label Uniblue, > it shows there to be a Microsoft certified partner (?) > So I again, I just scanned this file by One Care. No warnings whatsoever! > I roled back the system (fine feature!), but wininit.exe is still there. > There are some tools > offered on that Microsoft goldcertifed board, are they to be trusted. I read > a lot of registry cleaning, it is offered there aswell, do you advise me to > use it? I like the backup and restore part, but should that be this noisy. It > is easy and should be integrated in the maintenance part. Why is this not? > > Enough for today, maby also for tomorrow. > > Questions: > Does One Care do any virus scanning? > Does it have a frequent update on the virus library? How? > Is One Care right and isn't wininit.exe a trojan horse? > How come I cannot delete wininit.exe? I know, by the accounts and ownership > on the file, but who shuts me outoff permission on that file, though I have > administrator rights? Who is cheating here? > Should I destall One Care and go back to just the common firewall with a > scanner like Avast? > Does the maker of One care still do what is good for the product and the > customers? > -- > Live gets better all the time!</span> Quote
Guest Renee59 Posted April 6, 2008 Posted April 6, 2008 -- Live gets better all the time! "Malke" wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > > Your various posts are difficult to read/follow. This is not a discussion > board; it is a newsgroup and therefore aimed at answering specific > questions. While this resource is excellent for end users getting help, if > you want a forum experience you should post to a forum. I suggest > www.computerhaven.info or one of the forums on www.aumha.net. See Section C > below for a full explanation of why you think this is a forum and it isn't. > > In the meantime, here are some suggestions to help you: > > A. I don't believe English is your first language. If you want to use > newsgroups, you may find it more efficient to post in a newsgroup in your > native language (French perhaps?). It is difficult enough to get/give > technical support in writing about unseen computers without adding in a > language barrier. See the link to a list of MS newsgroups in Section C > below so you can find the right one for your language. > > B. As much as I can determine from reading your various posts, you don't > really know what you are looking at and are therefore having a hard time > communicating your system's details (also refer to Section A above). It > would probably be wisest for you to take your machine to a local computer > professional and have them straighten everything out for you. This will not > be your local equivalent of BigComputerStore/GeekSquad. I do not say this > to hurt your feelings in any way; I'm just being practical. > > C. Newsgroups - general > > Since you are using the web interface, you may not realize that this is > really a newsgroup. You will get far more out of this resource if you learn > to use a newsreader. There are many good newsreaders for Windows, but you > can use Outlook Express (XP) or Windows Mail (Vista) since you already have > it. Here are some links to information about newsgroups: > > About Usenet: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet > http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ - Usenet FAQs from the Internet FAQ Archives > http://www.usenetmonster.com/infocenter/ > http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Usenet - a brief explanation > of newsgroups > > Outlook Express/Windows Mail as Newsreader: > http://michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm > http://rickrogers.org/setupoe.htm > http://vistasupport.mvps.org/accessing_new...indows_mail.htm > > How to Post: > http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Usenet > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375 - How to Ask a Question > http://users.tpg.com.au/bzyhjr/liszt.htm - How Not to Get Technical Help on > Usenet > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > http://aumha.org/nntp.htm - list of MS newsgroups > microsoft.public.test.here - MS group to test if your newsreader is working > properly > http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/munad.htm - how to munge email address > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting - crossposting > http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm - multiposting > > Other Newsreaders for Windows: > http://www.forteinc.com/main/homepage.php - Forte > http://www.mozilla.org - Thunderbird > http://gravity.tbates.org/ > http://www.40tude.com/dialog/ > http://xnews.newsguy.com/ > > Malke > -- > MS-MVP > Elephant Boy Computers > www.elephantboycomputers.com > Don't Panic! > </span> Quote
Guest Renee59 Posted April 6, 2008 Posted April 6, 2008 Member Malke, Thank you very much for all your advice, it is quite clear. I have a lot to do now on my computer study, to be more selfsupporting in this case. Maybe I also underestimated more systematicly writing down my questions. I will pay more attention to this. It also took me to many words to say what I mean, I will take also more control of that from now on. As you may expect, I only partly agree to the language problem. I thank you for carefuly saying so. There may be minor faults, but reading this board, I see pretty worse examples. My style is somewhat wide spread, that is more a matter of working around missing words. You might come onto this also, in one way or another, with your natives. If you take some more time to read, you can hardly miss the common issue of my problem. By exemple: Mister Mick Murphy from Australia did not miss it, he came with usefull answers too. Thanks also for the links to (other) discussion boards, I realy appriciate your effort, they may be usefull. But I do not agree that this is not a discussionboard. You say this is for newsgroups, you did not convince me and you want ever, because this board is titled to be on Windows Vista Discussion Groups. If you do not believe me, please go there and search for your posts, you will find them all. I went there and searched for my items and found them all. If this is not what you expect, complaint on that to the managers on this board please. I also made a selection on your posts and found some badly written questions and nice patient answers there, also from you! I suggest you to be specific to my questions and tell me what you do not understand. We can go on then and come to a better discussion. You are used to hacker style answers, so you will take this with a smile and you will understand that I already started to carefully follow your advised links. -- Live gets better all the time! Quote
Guest Paul Adare Posted April 7, 2008 Posted April 7, 2008 On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 16:51:00 -0700, Renee59 wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > Live gets better all the time!</span> Just to help you out with the language issue, unless you're talking about the Windows Live services with your .sig, the word you want is Life, not Live. -- Paul Adare http://www.identit.ca APL is a write-only language. -- Roy Keir Quote
Guest Renee59 Posted April 7, 2008 Posted April 7, 2008 Thank you FromTheRafters, Thanks for your comments in genarally. You said I cannot delete the program because it is in use. But that is not the case, I searched for that in the taskcontrol program. I happened to have that on an other program, but the error message then makes clear that the file is in use. However when your not allowed to delete the program because of the account settings, it says so. But more on the account issue is in my third post. -- Live gets better all the time! Quote
Guest Renee59 Posted April 7, 2008 Posted April 7, 2008 "Paul Adare" wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 16:51:00 -0700, Renee59 wrote: > <span style="color:green"> > > Live gets better all the time!</span> > > Just to help you out with the language issue, unless you're talking about > the Windows Live services with your .sig, the word you want is Life, not > Live. > > -- > Paul Adare > http://www.identit.ca > APL is a write-only language. -- Roy Keir > </span> Answer from Renee59: I talk about the services there, but thanks anyway. I changed it. To difficcult a joke. And that is worse! -- Live services get better and better! Quote
Guest FromTheRafters Posted April 7, 2008 Posted April 7, 2008 "Renee59" <Renee59@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:5DED675D-090A-4E43-9F83-01889EE9BECE@microsoft.com...<span style="color:blue"> > Thank you FromTheRafters, > > Thanks for your comments in genarally. You said I cannot delete the > program > because it is in use.</span> No, I was much more vague than that. style_emoticons/) "The system will always have more power than the user - unless it's broken." The system is capable of hiding things from the user and automatically restoring some deteted items as a means of protecting the system from the user's actions. Yes, the OS also protects files whos image is in use, but I can't assume the file you mention is in use or is a system file. The capability to do these things falls in the hands of the system usurper - hence the "unless it's broken" comment. Sticky malware can use and abuse this capability - hiding even from admin tools. <span style="color:blue"> > But that is not the case, I searched for that in the > taskcontrol program. I happened to have that on an other program, but the > error message then makes clear that the file is in use. However when your > not > allowed to delete the program because of the account settings, it says so.</span> I understand, and it sounds like a permissions problem. Quote
Guest Donald McDaniel Posted April 7, 2008 Posted April 7, 2008 "Renee59" <Renee59@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E40A53B0-2A1D-4BC4-BCE0-B1E975C6E59F@microsoft.com...<span style="color:blue"> > Member Malke, > > Thank you very much for all your advice, it is quite clear. I have a > lot to > do now on my computer study, to be more selfsupporting in this case. > Maybe I > also underestimated more systematicly writing down my questions. I > will pay > more attention to this. It also took me to many words to say what I > mean, I > will take also more control of that from now on. > > As you may expect, I only partly agree to the language problem. I > thank you > for carefuly saying so. There may be minor faults, but reading this > board, I > see pretty worse examples. My style is somewhat wide spread, that is > more a > matter of working around missing words. You might come onto this also, > in one > way or another, with your natives. If you take some more time to read, > you > can hardly miss the common issue of my problem. By exemple: Mister > Mick > Murphy from Australia did not miss it, he came with usefull answers > too. > > Thanks also for the links to (other) discussion boards, I realy > appriciate > your effort, they may be usefull. But I do not agree that this is not > a > discussionboard. You say this is for newsgroups, you did not convince > me and > you want ever, because this board is titled to be on Windows Vista > Discussion > Groups. If you do not believe me, please go there and search for your > posts, > you will find them all. I went there and searched for my items and > found them > all. If this is not what you expect, complaint on that to the managers > on > this board please. I also made a selection on your posts and found > some badly > written questions and nice patient answers there, also from you! > > I suggest you to be specific to my questions and tell me what you do > not > understand. We can go on then and come to a better discussion. You are > used > to hacker style answers, so you will take this with a smile and you > will > understand that I already started to carefully follow your advised > links. > -- > Live gets better all the time! > > ></span> Renee, I just finished doing a study of "WinInit.exe". Apparently, from what I've read, this is NOT a Virus or Trojan of any kind: It is a SYSTEM-CRITICAL file in Vista. I really don't advise attempting to delete this file. Just plug "wininit.exe" into a Google Search. There seems to be a controversy as to whether the file is a Trojan or not, with the consensus being that it is a legitimate Windows file, and is necessary to the operation of the System. PLEASE, get rid of Windows Defender, or ANY home-grown Microsoft security software, EXCEPT the Firewall. Replace them with good-quality (i.e., "NOT FREE") third-party security tools. After all, which would you rather pay: $49-$99US for a decent third-party set of security options, or beau-coup $$$ for recovery of your data? -- Donald L McDaniel Please respond to the correct message. ============================== Quote
Guest Renee59 Posted April 10, 2008 Posted April 10, 2008 Thank yoy very much Donald, an answer like this takes me further. I left the program there because of the controverse in advices. I am certain now to keap it there. My firewall program is OneCare, I agree to spent money, actualy I like to have the best I can get for this important job also for the other safety tasks. -- Live services get better and better! "Donald McDaniel" wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > "Renee59" <Renee59@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:E40A53B0-2A1D-4BC4-BCE0-B1E975C6E59F@microsoft.com...<span style="color:green"> > > Member Malke, > > > > Thank you very much for all your advice, it is quite clear. I have a > > lot to > > do now on my computer study, to be more selfsupporting in this case. > > Maybe I > > also underestimated more systematicly writing down my questions. I > > will pay > > more attention to this. It also took me to many words to say what I > > mean, I > > will take also more control of that from now on. > > > > As you may expect, I only partly agree to the language problem. I > > thank you > > for carefuly saying so. There may be minor faults, but reading this > > board, I > > see pretty worse examples. My style is somewhat wide spread, that is > > more a > > matter of working around missing words. You might come onto this also, > > in one > > way or another, with your natives. If you take some more time to read, > > you > > can hardly miss the common issue of my problem. By exemple: Mister > > Mick > > Murphy from Australia did not miss it, he came with usefull answers > > too. > > > > Thanks also for the links to (other) discussion boards, I realy > > appriciate > > your effort, they may be usefull. But I do not agree that this is not > > a > > discussionboard. You say this is for newsgroups, you did not convince > > me and > > you want ever, because this board is titled to be on Windows Vista > > Discussion > > Groups. If you do not believe me, please go there and search for your > > posts, > > you will find them all. I went there and searched for my items and > > found them > > all. If this is not what you expect, complaint on that to the managers > > on > > this board please. I also made a selection on your posts and found > > some badly > > written questions and nice patient answers there, also from you! > > > > I suggest you to be specific to my questions and tell me what you do > > not > > understand. We can go on then and come to a better discussion. You are > > used > > to hacker style answers, so you will take this with a smile and you > > will > > understand that I already started to carefully follow your advised > > links. > > -- > > Live gets better all the time! > > > > > ></span> > > > Renee, I just finished doing a study of "WinInit.exe". Apparently, from > what I've read, this is NOT a Virus or Trojan of any kind: It is a > SYSTEM-CRITICAL file in Vista. > > I really don't advise attempting to delete this file. > > Just plug "wininit.exe" into a Google Search. There seems to be a > controversy as to whether the file is a Trojan or not, with the > consensus being that it is a legitimate Windows file, and is necessary > to the operation of the System. > > PLEASE, get rid of Windows Defender, or ANY home-grown Microsoft > security software, EXCEPT the Firewall. Replace them with good-quality > (i.e., "NOT FREE") third-party security tools. > > After all, which would you rather pay: $49-$99US for a decent > third-party set of security options, or beau-coup $$$ for recovery of > your data? > > -- > > Donald L McDaniel > Please respond to the correct message. > ============================== > > </span> Quote
Guest Renee59 Posted April 10, 2008 Posted April 10, 2008 Thanks Mick, in fact I already answered your advise. I only have this to ad: I read about javacoolsoftware and found there the newest filescanner from april 2002... Though these are blackboxes, the latest one from OneCare seems more trustfull to me. Maybe you will adjust your advise on that. Last but not least, please read my third post on this item about lost map permissions. I don't realy know yet what to do about it. -- Live services get better and better! Quote
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