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When I get this kind of problem, I run AutoRuns[^] ...it's a utility from Microsoft SysInternals...you can almost always find the problem in there...delete the offending files, discover the browser hijacks, etc., and stop them from reloading. Takes a while to be familiar but it does point out stuff it hasn't seen before.
You need to be a bit careful with this, just FYI
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Yes, I agree that AutoRuns is very useful in identifying offending files. I also keep a good image of my C:\ drive (known to be free from malware) and in extreme cases I re-image the systems drive. It takes less than 15 minutes in my case. I run a separate drive for my data, so data does not bloat up the image. The C:\ drive is only for the system and applications.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Yes they can be hard to find even with autoruns,
I had a system to work on at the beginning of the year where the malware left the display name of the antivirus software but changed the exe launched for the entry.
On the surface it appeared to be a normal entry for the said antivirus.
I also had to boot to safemode with command propmt to just start autoruns.
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...and still going about 2 hours after I started it.
Still, it is much farther along than it would be on my Sony Vaio laptop, which took around 8-16 hours to build it, depending on what the computer decided to throttle at the time. (God that was annoying, impossible-to-remove software-based hardware throttling that worked in a seemingly random fashion. One minute it would make the CPU work at 50% speed for a while, and the next the RAM would slow to a crawl. And yes, there was code built into the firmware to reinstall the program if it was removed. At least it seemed that way... Remove it, and it would be back a few minutes later. No UAC prompts or anything...)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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And this is happening where? on a Windows box?
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Yup.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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for all the folks who are going to watch Carlo's authentic marathon[^] instad of your boring duel, on Sunday...
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Good luck, Carlo!
Software Zen: delete this;
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Thank you, Gary!
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Can the Greeks afford bronze medals, let alone silver and gold ones?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well, anyway they aren't going to get poor in order to give me a prize.
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I just renamed someone's identifier that was called 'data' to be more self documenting:
'listOfThreeListsOfByteArrayRowThenColumnOfOneScaledColorChannel'
I should either be promoted or fired for that. I'm not sure which.
Can anyone top that for self-documenting identifier names?
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Thank god for autocomplete!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Will be nice to name another variable within the same file as:
listOfThreeListsOfByteArrayRowThenColumnOfOneUnscaledColorChannel
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Proposed return value for the method; an enum and an object, with the enum identifying the object.
public enum Result
{
Yes,
No,
listOfThreeListsOfByteArrayRowThenColumnOfOneUnscaledColorChannel
}
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I hate camelCase.
... and then the fight started.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Makes me wonder what camelCase has done to you. Do you want to talk about it?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Nah. It'll just accuse me of going behind its back.
Software Zen: delete this;
modified 6-Nov-15 13:22pm.
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Oooh, dirty.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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..is often a variable name too, if not a property
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Gary Wheeler wrote: I hate camelCase. And somehow I read that as I hate camelToe .
It's Friday alright.
Jeremy Falcon
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In an odd way that works too, as I have arthritis in my big toes from 20 years of running, and that joint no longer bends beyond about 10°.
Software Zen: delete this;
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That's ... ... sad & lonely.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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That assumption says more about you than me.
Jeremy Falcon
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I make no assumptions, just responding to the post as-is.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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