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It's been cracked already: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5038330.stm The 30-digit password locking the files is "mf2lro8sw03ufvnsq034jfowr18f3cszc20vmw". Using the password should restore all the hijacked files. "Now the password has been uncovered, there should be no reason for anyone hit by this ransomware attack to have to make any payments to the criminals behind it," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant f

Reply to PC Freezes up in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

You have mail, yrag.

Reply to PC Freezes up in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I've tried to post a detailed message three times, and WC has errored out each time. I'll try later (did discover that nvidia 6.85 are very bad for my system.....)

Reply to PC Freezes up in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

nvraid is disabled in bios. CPU temp: 39c MB temp: 38c (these were the only temps listed.) I installed the drivers you linked to. I'll see how it goes and post back tomorrow. Time for some shut-eye tonight. *a couple other things maybe worth noting: with the nvidia drivers installed I run the speed test and get a burst speed of about 139 and a sustained speed in the low 70s, so it's not coming anywhere to it's advertised tran

Reply to PC Freezes up in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Bios version is A8NE1013. Chipset is V665_winXP32. I rolled back the CPU drivers to the MS ones (version5.1.2600.0) I still had two lock-ups while posting this, with nothing running but Firefox (two tabs open) and Task Mgr. (Thanks for stopping by, yrag. This one's been a tough one so far.)

Reply to PC Freezes up in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Cool & Quiet is already disabled, Computer is set to "ACPI Multiprocessor PC" in Device Mgr. I have the IDE ATA/ATAPI drivers rolled back to the MS drivers (disabled NCQ through the nVidia controls before rolling back drivers.) I followed the instructions from here: http://forum.tweaks.com/forum/Topic194253-4-1.aspx to correct Windows process handling on multi-processor systems. I have also tried new sata cables, and plugg

Reply to PC Freezes up in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Personally, I'd be hanging out till yrag comes along... I'm hoping he's still lurking around here somewhere.

Reply to PC Freezes up in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I've also run CHKDSK /R all came back with no errors. Also ran SFC \Scannow, AV and spyware scans all clean. I've run the Disk check utility from within the Windows Logical Disk Manager, all with no change. I haven't tried seeing if the problem duplicates with a Linux-live CD. If that works, I'd be tempted to back up my data, and install Suse at this point. Edit: two live Linux cds (Suse 9.1 and Knoppix 3.8) neither one

PC Freezes up in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Long story short: I built a new PC a few weeks ago. Now it randomly freezes up, or drastically slows down, usually resulting in a hard shutdown. I have watched CPU cycles spike to almost 100% while nothing is running except a couple browser windows and WMP playing an MP3, sometimes with nothing but a single browser window open. Specs: Asus A8N-E mobo (nVidia N-force4 chipset) AMD 64 X2 4200+ Dual Core CPU 1GB (2 x

Reply to Shortcut object help without dozens of !!!'s in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Switched rendering engines (to IE from within FF) and it renders normally.

Reply to Windowblinds 5.01 not skinning firefox in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Try clicking the Maximize button on the FF window and see if that fixes it.

Reply to If it's free... in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Filezilla (FTP client) WinLAME (MP3 encoder) What Is Transferring (Packet sniffer) ISO Buster DVD Shrink Firefox HTML Kit Ultra VNC Guess that's more than one...

Reply to Need help with portable drives. in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

The hard drive has no name brand That should be a deal-breaker right there. $75 is way too much to be paying for a used, 10GB drive of dubious origins and condition. Though you didn't say it specifically, it sounds like you want an external USB drive. There are seve

Reply to Brand new high-speed puppy... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Nice rig, Fuzzy! I just built my new one about 3 weeks ago. I went with the Asus A8N-E (I don't game much, so the SLI didn't mean that much to me.) AMD 4200+ X2, GB of RAM, Radeon X550 graphics card (again, not much of a gamer, so I saved a few bucks here.) 250GB SATA2 hard drive, all in a Raidmax Sagitta case. No nice pictures to show. Spent all my $$ on PC parts instead of a camera. <img src="ht

Reply to My computer is making Teletubbies noises! in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Wow, I didn't even catch that.

Reply to My computer is making Teletubbies noises! in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

There was probably some kind of sound theme package that installed from the teletubby site. Unfortunately a lot of children's sites will install stuff you don't want on your PC, beecause they know that kids will generally click on anything. I would run a spyware scan to make sure nothing else installed. You could also set up a user account with limited rights, so that if your son is playing on a website again, it won't be able to i

Reply to Bored..? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Very nice presentation on the PS tutorials. As you can tell from my avatar, I could use some tutorials.

Reply to Motherboard was the problem... I am back with my PC in Motherboards WinCustomize Forums

A razor blade and a lot of caution will usually get it off.

Reply to Please help need to use fixmbr in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

The user account called "Administrator" is not showing up in the user accounts list. WW, has the local administrator account name been changed? (It's actually a good security practice.) If you follow the Computer Management\Local Users and Groups\Users path, one of the accounts should have a de

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How do I change the admin account password? Can I even get to it from my account with full privileges? 2nd question first: yes. 1st question: you can go to Alt-click on "My Computer" select "Manage" then "Local Users and Groups" select "Users" locate the administrator account, alt-click on it an

Reply to Replacement of dying Harddrive in PC Hardware WinCustomize Forums

Another way to transfer all of your Firefox settings over: Browse to C:\Documents and settings\username\application data\mozilla Copy the whole Mozilla folder to you external drive, and on your new install just copy your old Mozilla folder over top of your new one, and everything will be there like you have it now. You will still have to install plug-ins (Flash, Shockwave, etc...) but all of your extensions, themes, and bookmarks will

Reply to More movie lines in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Do you know what nemesis means? A righteous inflictin of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by a horrible c***....Me.

Reply to Process Explorer has been updated in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I highly recommend this app. I had a server at work (a domain controller, at that) that I needed to kill a service on to restart a locked up backup device. It was the middle of the workday, and shutting down the server was not really an option, so I tried Process Explorer, and it let me shut down and restart the necessary services. Additionally, the guy who wrote this is the same guy who developed the Rootkit Revealer that uncove

Reply to Flash drive not so 'flash' in PC Hardware WinCustomize Forums

Drive still won't light up and is not recognized by the system. Maybe one beer wasn't enough.

Reply to Flash drive not so 'flash' in PC Hardware WinCustomize Forums

I'll give that a try. So far I've tried the drive in 4 different PCs, and it wasn't "seen" bey any of them. (I plan to pay special attention to the beer part. I'm a stickler for accuracy, you know )