wtf is going on ?

Post by **SoM** » Mon May 09, 2005 3:04 am

i've got a shit load of files that are 0 kb's in my c:\windows dir...

http://img16.echo.cx/my.php?image=wtf2hz.jpg

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Mon May 09, 2005 3:10 am

i love warez.

Post by **SoM** » Mon May 09, 2005 3:19 am

i got none installed...

only game i have installed is q3a, and all my apps are legal...

Post by **SOAPboy** » Mon May 09, 2005 3:26 am

Unidentifed Virii FTW!

Post by **Survivor** » Mon May 09, 2005 5:32 am

SOAPboy wrote:Unidentifed Virii FTW!

Post by **Bacon** » Mon May 09, 2005 12:57 pm

Those are all installed by "home search assistant" lol

Post by **SoM** » Mon May 09, 2005 2:41 pm

just checked add/remove and i got that damn home assistant but i cant remove it

can i manually del those files ? theres over 14k of em

Post by **SOAPboy** » Mon May 09, 2005 3:16 pm

SoM wrote:just checked add/remove and i got that damn home assistant but i cant remove it

can i manually del those files ? theres over 14k of em

Holy.. SHIT

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Mon May 09, 2005 5:30 pm

WTF SOM. tell me you share your pc with someone else...

Post by **SoM** » Mon May 09, 2005 5:54 pm

my dad uses it sometimes to read 2 news sites, and i'm very positive thats its those 2 sites doing it cause when he doesnt touch it everything is fine..

i take it all of em are 0 kb's is because zonealarm blocked em.

Post by **Tormentius** » Tue May 10, 2005 5:49 am

SoM wrote:just checked add/remove and i got that damn home assistant but i cant remove it

can i manually del those files ? theres over 14k of em

MS Antispyware with real time protection enabled :icon10:

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Tue May 10, 2005 7:29 am

SoM wrote:my dad uses it sometimes to read 2 news sites, and i'm very positive thats its those 2 sites doing it cause when he doesnt touch it everything is fine..

i take it all of em are 0 kb's is because zonealarm blocked em.

you have the worst luck.

Post by **SoM** » Tue May 10, 2005 3:58 pm

Tormentius wrote:
SoM wrote:just checked add/remove and i got that damn home assistant but i cant remove it

can i manually del those files ? theres over 14k of em
MS Antispyware with real time protection enabled :icon10:

its done :icon14:

also ran a deep scan and found 9, removed 7 quarantined 2

c:\windows still has 14.811 files

Post by **Tormentius** » Tue May 10, 2005 4:35 pm

SoM wrote: its done :icon14:

also ran a deep scan and found 9, removed 7 quarantined 2

c:\windows still has 14.811 files

My two week old install has 12,800 files in C:\Windows. If yours has been around for any length of time then it stands to reason. Make sure System Restore is disabled then scan again.

Post by **SoM** » Tue May 10, 2005 4:38 pm

Tormentius wrote:
SoM wrote: its done :icon14:

also ran a deep scan and found 9, removed 7 quarantined 2

c:\windows still has 14.811 files
My two week old install has 12,800 files in C:\Windows. If yours has been around for any length of time then it stands to reason. Make sure System Restore is disabled then scan again.

sys restore is off since install

are your files at 0 bytes also ?

Post by **Survivor** » Tue May 10, 2005 5:03 pm

Check out tuneup utilities link in the link thread. install, tuneup diskcleaner, check remove zerobyte files and let her rip

Post by **Tormentius** » Tue May 10, 2005 5:12 pm

SoM wrote:sys restore is off since install

are your files at 0 bytes also ?

No because I don't make a habit of getting infected

Post by **SoM** » Tue May 10, 2005 6:10 pm

c:\windows = 251 files :icon14:

also had 16k in system32 dir lol

Post by **SOAPboy** » Tue May 10, 2005 7:33 pm

Tormentius wrote:
SoM wrote: its done :icon14:

also ran a deep scan and found 9, removed 7 quarantined 2

c:\windows still has 14.811 files
My two week old install has 12,800 files in C:\Windows. If yours has been around for any length of time then it stands to reason. Make sure System Restore is disabled then scan again.

Thanks for reminding me..

Post by **SoM** » Tue May 10, 2005 8:11 pm

re-ran and 0 infected

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Tue May 10, 2005 8:35 pm

*claps*

stay uninfected please.