>>84
Aggron recently got a virus called "NetSky".

It's already too late......

>>86
fixed. the solution?
Shut.
Down.
Everything.

http://www.ie6countdown.com/champions.aspx

Well I hear there's this great thing called Gravity which can do the job for you. I seem to recall you have a bit of experience with incapacitating drives using this. XD

In all seriousness, if there's ever something I feel the need to bleach off of my hard drive, I use this tool called "ultrashredder" to kill it. Don't know much about it though since Kakama gave it to me as a standalone exe but I figure, with all the shit he does, if he trusts it, then I have no reason not to.

>>97
dd and /dev/random

I'm really tempted to delete this... Can't tell if it's spam or actually legit.

I don't want to take my chances though.

>>140
I saw this same anon post in a few other legitimate threads, and the site itself does appear to be real and legit. It's at least partially on-topic in this board, so the general consensus was 'leave it' I think.

What now? Well, first order of business is to go to a webpage with flash, load it up, find someone with an iPhone, then rub it in.

You should download a terminal emulator, a task manager so you can kill superfluous processes (programs aren't killed when you leave them), communication software, such as Skype, AIM, the like, and possibly some barcode software. Other things depend upon personal preference, like Psx4droid, Pokedex, SNES emulators....

gameboid -gba emulator
rom gripper -has roms and gba bios file

I wasn't aware anyone still used this board. Well I give you "The Rossco Method":
1) Backup all of your important files right now both on optical media and cloud storage if possible.
2) Consider if Windows is still worth the hassle.
3) If yes, reformat+reinstall weekly or monthly, depending on how lucky you are and how self-destructive your Windows install is feeling.

These steps have never failed me.

>>125
Dude, I don't know what horrible things you do to your Windows installs to make them fail that hard, but I can promise you it's never been that bad for anyone else I know... XD

Yeah, my windows installs last for about 2 years if I try. I usually reinstall once a year, or whenever I feel exceptionally bored

Oh yes, and considering that none of us on IRC know what the fuck zfnnrfamf7.sys is for, and nor does google, yahoo nor bing (plus, no one with XP SP3 has it on their system on IRC either), it's safe to say that you should probably do a virus check on your backed up documents when you plug the old HDD in from an external case.

I recommend this as starting in safe mode and doing a virus check rarely seems to work these days, considering they tend to infect other system files, leave thousands upon thousands of entries in the registry to prevent their removal, and those entries help keep the virus in tact by redownloading or recovering said deleted virus.

Do you want to nuke the site from orbit, Aliens?
Do you want to have a massive land war, a la Vietnam?

Worse comes to worse on the getting a new HDD and installing then running a virus scan on the old HDD is that everything may be infected and you will have to nuke everything from orbit all your files are lost. However, it rarely is ever that bad. The scanning from a seperate operating system ensures that things aren't being masked by your own, and removing such viruses this way tends to keep spreading down. However, I wouldn't try running that old HDD again after using this method as chances are it may pop up again on the old HDD.

Just random thoughts.

>>112
>reinstall windows about every 6 months.

Are you kidding? I'm lucky if my Windows installs last a month, heavy tweaking or not.

solution my dad and i (mostly my dad) came up with was to reformat and partition so i have one with Windows and one with Linux. kinda start weening me off of Windows. more than likely, it was some virus that caused the whole problem but wiping and reinstalling fixed it enough to work on it. thanks, i will more than likely start backing up with image files soon.

pic added just for completion

Great idea, stop ACTA. Now how do you propose to do this? With masked protests organized in some backwater IRC channel? This isn't CoS you're talking about taking on here, this is a treaty between some of the largest and most powerful nations on the face of the earth. If the best anonymous can muster is a sea of Guy Fawkes expies rallying outside Capitol Hall, then count me out of this grassroots movement. I'll do my part and send letters to representatives and newspaper editors, but I seriously doubt that Chanology-style bullshit is going to do anything but hurt our cause in this fight.

>>103

I'm fine with linux. In fact, I used it a lot as a kid. Just, it's almost like the '80s UNIX wars: so many distros with different incompatible shit. Now it's nowhere near as bad as it was back then... maybe it's not even directly comparable if at all. But all the different distros running off of the same damn kernal base are still a bit annoying to me. Just a personal eccentricity, I guess.

Also, OSX's task manager is Meta+Opt+Shift+Escape. It's been this for a while. Apple doesn't like advertising this, however.

Heh, killall isn't the only thing that doesn't work. At least there is a major similarity on the OS. The OpenPROM on Apple's PPC computers is unlike every other OpenPROM device out there. I was trying to change the output and input devices on one of my macs so I could use it headlessly (who the fuck still uses dumb-terminals?!), and that turned into the biggest pain imaginable. None of the commands I used on my Sun machines worked. None. And Apple kept horrible documentation on them and buried even that under a huge pile of rubble. At least setenv still worked. T_T

I probably sound really stupid right now.

>>104
>I probably sound really stupid right now.
Not at all, don't think I created this board without realising there'd be some OS arguments.

I agree with you on the but about too many distros, there must be about 3 dozen forks of Ubuntu right now, each with it's own little aesthetic modification or custom repository and I can't imagine how tough it is to test software on all of them.

Oh, and thanks for the task manager command, noted next to `rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone` for when I ever need an admin account.

>>105

>I can't imagine how tough it is to test software on all of them.

Simple: you don't.