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What a piece of cr.. spyware is. I had a particular nasty one this weekend. "NextCoup".
it installs, it registers, it copies files, puts itself in the Chrome exentions, etc...
I had to run Spybot, unintall in Programs&Features, remove manually from disc, delete all occurances in the registry, uninstall Chrome and finally reinstall Chrome to get rid of it.
The uninstall is also very, very low, because it gives a popup:
Do you want to uninstall (large letters). Then a bunch of text and in that text: "Press Yes to uninstall and install another interesting program to help you, ...bla bla bla, click No to just uninstall, press Cancel to cancel the uninstall".
I mean I'm pretty good at this stuff (compared to the average user) and even I had trouble getting rid of it.
They should find out whoever develops this stuff, arrest them and execute them.
(not literally of course)
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V. wrote: (not literally of course)
I was with you until this bit.
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Publicly horse whipped would be to good for them.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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I watched a good Ted talk on this by Mike Hypponen[^] (I think that's the one, but would advise checking out all of his stuff), apparantly a lot of this stuff is written by professional devs in places like Russia/Asia who are hired by criminal gangs and paid a salary etc to sit and code malware all day!
Scary stuff!
--edit--
This is the one I was talking about[^]
--/edit--
modified 4-Aug-14 8:44am.
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That's the 800 lb gorilla (364kg) in the room that no one wants to mention. The identity theft and malware has gone to organized crime. It's just so easy. THE US banks, etc just don't give a damn unless (a) a penetration is made public and (b) it exceeds their fraud budget.
To make matters worse, I'm convinced that the US feds are involved as well.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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V. wrote: execute them
Never execute untrusted sources !
Oh, wait...
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Hello V.
That stuff can be quite annoying.
I haven't heard about "NextCoup" before. How did you find out or tracked it?
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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Experience.
The info on google didn´t work for me. 
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I find the Windows Sysinternals program 'AutoRuns[^]' invaluable for getting rid of those pesky, hard to reach malwares.
Make sure to right-click and 'Run as Administrator' and be careful what you delete in there...it takes a while to gain insight into what should be there and what shouldn't.
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Never seen this before, awesome tool 
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There are some other nifty utilities in there as well like Network Monitor, File Monitor, Process Monitor, etc....I use AutoRuns the most though.
SysInternals used to be independent...Microsoft bought them a while back.
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Nice one,
Thx for sharing
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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You're welcome! 
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V. wrote: not literally of course
Why not?
Consider:
The life you are born with is yours and yours alone, and you don't know how many hours of life you have. You invest the hours of your life to provide for yourself and others, to buy and to have things which make your life more enjoyable. Then along comes some perfect a**hole stranger to whom you have never caused any harm, but who installs a piece of malware on one of your PCs to make your life miserable. To eliminate this problem, you have invest countless more hours of your life purging it from your machine, hours you can never replace.
Anyone who will deprive you of part of your life has no respect for your life, and therefore can be assumed to be willing to steal all of your life. That person is a murderer, and you have no moral obligation to respect his desire to remain breathing. Execution is clearly deserved, and every victim has the inherent right to perform that duty on behalf of all mankind. Since such creatures are clearly subhuman, there is no need to be merciful, or swift in performing the execution.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Pow to the moon!
I'm up early, I need to format a floating point to text, I write:
wsprintf(... blah....);
Does NOT work, will not process floats, 
add coffee, still no joy. Post a quick question, CPallini slaps me upside the head, "Idiot, use swprintf."  Add more coffee.
What in God's name would allow MS to think of coding like this?
end rant, back to other dysfunctional code...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Out Of Bacon Error: **Redo From Start**
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Take heart, that's not too bad. Compared to my latest code FUBAR, having to do a VB.NET which Griff and regulars know is my pet hate I have this Jem
If ((Val(Smallest) * 1000) < QCLow) Or (Val(Smallest) > QCH) Then
I'm wondering why it's letting higher values past. Think, apply ![Java | [Coffee]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif) ask Question in Quick Answers suddenly realise I am not doing the conversion on the upper value properly to be
If ((Val(Smallest) * 1000) < QCL) Or ((Val(Smallest) * 1000) > QCH) Then
Add in that multiply it starts working!  how to delete the question before a grown up see's it...
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glennPattonPUB wrote: how to delete the question before a grown up see's it...
Too late - I already emailed it to yer boss!
You'll get the sack for this Patton!
Oh..hang on a moment...damn it! 
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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,  Demob Happy!!
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Not long now, I guess - hows the job hunt going?
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Not bad got a phone call this morning the company I had the interview for want to give a second...
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Excellent news!
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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<Offtopic>
Hi Glenn, maybe you said something and I missed it, but what are the results of that interview you went to? Any new opportunities ?
</Offtopic>
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Well first interview I went to, they've got back to me and want a second interview! (what?, last time I was in this position No one would talk to me...) Cheers!
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