Stalkerbook

    I hate it. No, I mean I HATE IT. However, an acquaintance of mine uses it so I’ve reactivated my account, and straight away got loads of requests for adding.

    Ack.

    So, how long until I give up on the horrible, horrible thing and deactivate the account again?

    [polldaddy poll=1995591]

    In other news: boss gave me his laptop this morning with a “Can you sort that out? it’s running really slow…”

    So I turn it on, and it’s like running through treacle. I finally get the desktop up, open taskmanager – and OMG.

    So, I reboot in safe mode (windows safe mode – now THERE’S an oxymoron…), run HijackThis and make a couple of changes, reboot back into safe mode and run a command line AV scan (which finds and deletes lots, but not all). Another reboot later and I’ve still got some problems (and guess where this all started? a downloaded ‘SpywareProtect2009’ – these bastards can be so difficult to get rid of). Check the services running and find a couple of rogues which I disabled.

    By now the computer is booting faster (let’s face it – my old 233mHz PC could boot Windows 2000 quicker than this loads XP), but still has some issues, so I wander into the System32 folder to use my 1337 skillz to find unwanted .dll and .exe files (I know I should use tools to recognise bad files, but I’ve got quite good at spotting the nasties myself 🙂 )

    Anyway, some 3.5 hours later, and god knows how many reboots, and the laptop is purring away like a kitten 🙂

    And I’ve saved the log – may come in useful next pay review 😉 – well, would YOU download a file called XXX_PORN_MOVIE.exe?

    Yeah, thought so…

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    0 thoughts on “Stalkerbook

    1. Now THAT depends on who the computer I would be borrowing belongs to. **innocent look**

    2. Ah yes, the ‘innocent’ look…

      o_O

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