Window 98se fixes, tweaks, and cures...

by **cosmicB** on Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:46 pm

You probably don't want to play in this website...

I downloaded "AntiSpywareBot", and gave it a test... It found things that weren't in my PC's hd till I installed the program.. so I uninstalled it.. then ran Spybot S&D, which found the following file, and a shidtload of changes in just about everything...

--- Search result list ---

AntiSpywareBOT: Link (File, fixed)
C:\WINDOWS\Tasks\AntiSpywareBot Scheduled Scan.job

AntiSpywareBOT: Program directory (Directory, fixed)
C:\Program Files\AntiSpywareBot\

AntiSpywareBOT: Program directory (Directory, fixed)
C:\Program Files\AntiSpywareBot\Log\

AntiSpywareBOT: Program directory (Directory, fixed)
C:\Program Files\AntiSpywareBot\Quarantine\

AntiSpywareBOT: Program directory (Directory, fixed)
C:\Program Files\AntiSpywareBot\Registry Backups\

AntiSpywareBOT: Program directory (Directory, fixed)
C:\Program Files\AntiSpywareBot\Settings\

AntiSpywareBOT: Data (File, fixed)
C:\Program Files\AntiSpywareBot\Settings\CustomScan.stg

AntiSpywareBOT: Data (File, fixed)
C:\Program Files\AntiSpywareBot\Settings\IgnoreList.stg

AntiSpywareBOT: Data (File, fixed)
C:\Program Files\AntiSpywareBot\Settings\ScanInfo.stg

AntiSpywareBOT: Data (File, fixed)
C:\Program Files\AntiSpywareBot\Settings\ScanResults.stg

AntiSpywareBOT: Data (File, fixed)
C:\Program Files\AntiSpywareBot\Settings\SelectedFolders.stg

AntiSpywareBOT: Data (File, fixed)
C:\Program Files\AntiSpywareBot\Settings\Settings.stg

--- Spybot - Search & Destroy version: 1.4 (build: 20050523) ---

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I wonders what the H they expects to gain by messing up peoples computers..? Maybe they are insane..?

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This is their website... For myself, I'm gonna blacklist them permanent...

I'll surf their links, and blacklist all those too:
http://affiliates.2squared.com/

Why do you suppose Spybot lists them in their bad things lists..?

Safe RootKit.. (you hope)...

http://www.wireshark.org/download.html

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Or if you've got them, and don't want them...

http://www.gmer.net/index.php

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CAUTION!..

Note: "manual rootkit removal process is difficult and you run the risk of destroying your computer's OS."

http://2squared.com/glossary_details.php?ID=3152

If you want to play here, it's your call... If it destroys your PC's operating system.. You did it... But at least you had some fun doing it...

For W98: http://2squared.com/support.php

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Me thinks if you've installed anything from that site, you'll need to format-C, and pull the battery for a half hour before reloading the OS...
I've got it solved.. I simply pull the HD, and replace it with a clean one...

by **cosmicB** on Tue Feb 05, 2008 8:27 am

Everything about Bit Torrent...

http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/peersharing/a/torrenthandbook_4.htm

by **cosmicB** on Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:28 am

Hiding an image in text...

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#UIfragments

by **cosmicB** on Wed Feb 06, 2008 7:41 am

"SLAP!".. Say hello to people trying to access your computer...

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Slap_d2120.html

by **cosmicB** on Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:26 am

This technique seems to be the only way that works to create a bootable CD image of your W98se operating system, to make reinstalling your hard drive quick...

http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/#require

by **cosmicB** on Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:12 pm

If you run a firewall, and are totally fed-up with constant pop-up warnings, but want valid pop-up warnings to appear.. all you need do is add "Tiny Personal Firewall" from "Older versions", and set it to block: loopback, netb, ping, microsoft, system, setup, and updater...

Generally the big firewalls don't detect TPF working in the background...
It's said that you shouldn't run two firewalls, but TPF is so tiny that it fits on a floppy, and it mostly only blocks outgoing Net connections that you have blocked.. plus it watches for major changes in softwares, but not enough to really be classed as a firewall.. more like a "splashguard"...

by **cosmicB** on Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:52 pm

SeaMonkey 1.1.8 is out... I'm running it on W98se... It seems to be stable with W98se.. and it is full of new features... Check-out the addons...

http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

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Oh Joy!.. This new SeaMonkey's "No-Script Addon" blocks out freebie email account irritating pop-ups, like the ones that ask if you are sure you want to do what you just did... What a relief!.. like a painful pimple that finally popped...

by **cosmicB** on Thu Feb 28, 2008 4:07 pm

World Fractal Gallery...

http://www.enchgallery.com/fractals/fracthumbs.htm

by **cosmicB** on Fri Mar 07, 2008 10:09 am

Yikers!.. I just downloaded the latest SeaMonkey 1.1.8, and their newest no-script... I already had their 1.1.8 from a week ago.. but for some reason this latest install made my W98se PC run faster...
I don't think it's a dream.. now it seems everything is going that little bit faster..?

by **minigirl** on Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:01 pm

cosmicB wrote:Yikers!.. I just downloaded the latest SeaMonkey 1.1.8, and their newest no-script... I already had their 1.1.8 from a week ago.. but for some reason this latest install made my W98se PC run faster...
I don't think it's a dream.. now it seems everything is going that little bit faster..?

sounds like it's a dream to me.....

by **cosmicB** on Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:44 pm

If anyone is experiencing troubles with their cable-internet connection falling off, and reboot is the only way to re-establish the connection.. Try this: Go to Start>Run>type-in: "winipcfg">Enter>OK>change PP to Ethernet>Renew>OK...
Seems the providers are updating their systems too much too fast too new.. which is progressively meticulously obsoleting old operating systems... I'm bets that very soon W98se PC's won't be able to connect to the Net... Best you all start saving for a real computer, before the shids hit your fans...

Update on this little glitch that was causing my cable Internet cinnection to be unstable... I ran Spybot S&D.. It found a registry key change:

Microsoft.Windows.ActiveDesktop: [SBI $377029D9] User settings (Registry change)
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Policies\ActiveDesktop\NoHTMLWallPaper

That fixed it in one hd, but not in the other, bigger hd.. so I ran Find for "PPP", and deleted its drivers.. and it hasn't happened since.. but now Run>"winipcfg" can't read the IP... Maybe that's a good thing..? maybe it's not..? It was a h of a lot better than having to format C...

by **cosmicB** on Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:52 pm

Miniperson.. Please stop posting ridiculous stuff in this computer help thread, for novices to learn the rough parts of running a computer... This thread is for the kiddies who are just starting out... If you think you can do it better, then by all means start your own precious computer advice thread...

Please just go away... This is a basics reference thread for serious novice people, who can't figure it out themselves... This is about Windows 98.. for us poor folk who can't afford new PC's... Please stop pissing in our sandbox!.. Kindly delete your peepee posts...

by **minigirl** on Sat Mar 15, 2008 12:13 pm

but i do think you're dreaming - you suggest that downloading seamonkey has made everything run faster on your computer - ok, seamonkey itself is faster than most other comparable applications, but i can't think of any way it could make everything on your pc run faster.....

by **cosmicB** on Sat Mar 22, 2008 6:34 am

I just got this email from a supposed download center, suggesting that my PC's firewall is out of date, "Please update your firewall" it read in the subject line... I get this same email every two weeks... Now how would they know the condition of my firewall, given that this PC doesn't have a firewall..? So I Google-searched, "Firewall Gold Message Center, Virus Scam", and found this mess:

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=Firewall+Gold+Message+Center+virus+scam&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

I suspect this particular scam is American Intel data collecting, as are several download sites... Load their softwares, and you've installed their permanent trojans... You know you've got into a bad website when it locks you out of your mouse and keyboard while it downloads the contents of your private files, in the same amount of time it would take for you to copy those files to your computer from a CD...
Make a CD copy of all your pix and notes files.. then time how long it takes to load that CD to the desktop... Next time a government hacker gets into your computer, and momentarily locks out your buttons, time its activity, and compare it to how long it took to download that CD to the desktop... The moment my PC locks out my controls, while visiting a website, I pull the PC's power cord, or its internet connection cable, which ever is quicker, if the little disconnect icon at the lower right of the SeaMonkey screen didn't work... Then I uninstall SeaMonkey, and reinstall it.. then run "EasyCleaner's Start Cleaner", to see of there's a new bug there waiting to install itself during the next reboot...

Every strange email you get, before opening it search their title with the words "virus scam" attached to it...

by **minigirl** on Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:25 pm

better still, if you receive an unsolicited e-mail from someone you've never heard of and there are links or attachments that they tell you to click on, just delete the message there and then.

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