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[The Ken]

use winamp or even the free version of divx

[romster]

Thanks Ken. I did as you said, rebooted and so far haven't seen anything. I guess my next step will be to go one by one and see if I can ferret out the bastard app.

[Darl McrBride]

I built a dual boot hackintosh.

I'm pretty close to buying a commodity laptop and creating a multi-boot hackintosh machine (son wants to write ipod/iphone apps). Any advice other than the FAQ on the osx86 site?

Rom: Real has reformed some of their evil ways over the past couple of years. If troubles return you may find answers on their site.

[LWC]

Thanks Ken. I did as you said, rebooted and so far haven't seen anything. I guess my next step will be to go one by one and see if I can ferret out the bastard app.

In my best Gary Coleman voice; "Who You Calling A Ferret".:D

[Coop]

Darl - let me know a good way to contact you regarding the Hackintosh...

[King Cole]

I built a dual boot hackintosh.

I'm pretty close to buying a commodity laptop and creating a multi-boot hackintosh machine (son wants to write ipod/iphone apps). Any advice other than the FAQ on the osx86 site?

Rom: Real has reformed some of their evil ways over the past couple of years. If troubles return you may find answers on their site.

Never been much into mac's so I'm not sure this applies?
I had a lengthly conversation with a retired intel engineer, from then on all I ever use or buy is AMD processors. The biggest part of it. He told me how if they failed quality control tests they they would just downgrade the chip say a 2.0 ghz was only testing out to a 1.5 then they would just mark it as a 1.5ghz. Never ever did they scrap a run or repair them. So basically what ever you buy from intel (unless it's the newest lastest top of line) more then likely your buying one that failed quality tests.

[Darl McrBride]

Coop, ckdupont@gmail.com is good, thanks.

[romster]

Well I think I have some nasty malware. I continued to receive the popups after disabling all startup apps so I used the Trend Micro housecall service. Ran it once and all it came up with was cookies but said to run again so I did and it came up with MAL-HIFRM-2 which it removed. Ran it a third time and came up clean. No pop ups for awhile then they returned. Ran housecall again and got same results - only cookies first time then got the MAL-HIFRM-2 on the second run. Deleted it. Went a long time with no pop ups but they just returned. Holy crap why won't this thing go away?!

Btw, I went to the Real Player forums and this has happened to another person but no one paid the poster any attention other than one person who said it was probably something they did and not Real Player. I haven't found much on the net about it.

I find it disappointing that with all the protection I have stuff like this can still get through.

[DeanUK]

Well I think I have some nasty malware. I continued to receive the popups after disabling all startup apps so I used the Trend Micro housecall service. Ran it once and all it came up with was cookies but said to run again so I did and it came up with MAL-HIFRM-2 which it removed. Ran it a third time and came up clean. No pop ups for awhile then they returned. Ran housecall again and got same results - only cookies first time then got the MAL-HIFRM-2 on the second run. Deleted it. Went a long time with no pop ups but they just returned. Holy crap why won't this thing go away?!

Btw, I went to the Real Player forums and this has happened to another person but no one paid the poster any attention other than one person who said it was probably something they did and not Real Player. I haven't found much on the net about it.

I find it disappointing that with all the protection I have stuff like this can still get through.

What AV/Anti Spyware are you running?

[romster]

I use McAfee for antivirus and firewall and use Lavasoft's free adware which I used to run every week but had gotten remiss and it found a Trojan the last time I ran it. Why doesn't McAfee catch this stuff?

[SeattleLionsFan]

Did you reset the restore points and clear your temp files? I know I had to do that when I had something similar

[romster]

How do you do that? The only temp files I clear are my internet ones which I do almost daily.

[King Cole]

I had issue with my laptop After loaning it out. I spent close to 30 hours trying to get back working properly. I finally gave up and just reformated. took about 3 hrs total (reloading other stuff too) and it's working great now.

Anything you want saved just burn it a disk beforehand then reload it.

I did each program I wanted to keep on a separte disk and re loaded them one at a time just to be sure it wasn't something wormed into one of my other programs that was messing it up.

[romster]

I remember you said your daughter really screwed up your laptop. I was surprised over how much damage one person could do.

I've deleted the malware 3 times now and I think it may be back already. Fer crissake. I wish I could make it go away permanently. I don't like the prospect of having to reformat as I've never done that before.

[King Cole]

I remember you said your daughter really screwed up your laptop. I was surprised over how much damage one person could do.

I've deleted the malware 3 times now and I think it may be back already. Fer crissake. I wish I could make it go away permanently. I don't like the prospect of having to reformat as I've never done that before.

It can be a pain, but sometimes you spend more effort and time trying not to reformat then just doing it ;)