Quake3World

i just bought a new HD, and before i even hit the net i installed zonealarm, how am i compromised...

something is on your computer that YOU didn't purposely install and is obviously giving you grief with popups and the like. how is your computer NOT compromised?

Windows XP SP2 blocking tool expires Tuesday

A special tool that blocks the download of Service Pack 2 (SP2) on Windows XP PCs will expire Tuesday, ending the last SP2 respite for users who rely on the Automatic Updates feature in Windows to keep their systems up to date.

http://tinyurl.com/6rncr

All you have to do is set it to ask first before downloading and installing anything.

§ìgñå wrote:Windows XP SP2 blocking tool expires Tuesday

A special tool that blocks the download of Service Pack 2 (SP2) on Windows XP PCs will expire Tuesday, ending the last SP2 respite for users who rely on the Automatic Updates feature in Windows to keep their systems up to date.

http://tinyurl.com/6rncr

But if you disable automatic updates/the services it won't bother you...

SoM if you want help on installing SP2 gimme a holler on IM/email...

SoM wrote:no i dont...

As Jugg said, the security centre is SP2 only. You also just had a ton of trojans and spyware on that system. It's been owned in every way a system can be.

Tormentius wrote:

SoM wrote:no i dont...

As Jugg said, the security centre is SP2 only. You also just had a ton of trojans and spyware on that system. It's been owned in every way a system can be.

you didn't answer my question yesterday

i was asking if your corporation had sp2 on their desktops yet.

is this the shield we're talking about ?

http://img11.echo.cx/my.php?image=shield6kz.jpg

Yup. That's a SP2 icon.

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:something is on your computer that YOU didn't purposely install and is obviously giving you grief with popups and the like. how is your computer NOT compromised?

but thats not possible..

first i installed ZA, then XP updates, Avast, then other programs that i know dont have any spyware/malware/u name it..

those are the ONLY 2 popups i get, and it gets annoying with the bigger one especially when playing Q3

I've seen the security centre icons on a non-sp2 machine as well.

I've not taken the time to investigate it further, either, but I've seen it.

System properties still reporting SP1.

did i miss it somewhere SOM? but did you actually click on the icon to see if it brings up SP2? i only see screenies of the shield, but you've not opened it yet?

left clicking / right clicking on the icon only makes the icon disappear, same goes for the other popup, clicking yes/no does nothing but close the popup.

yar, definitely not security center. i'm starting to think that your warezed copy of xp is borked. have you ever had a successful and proper working install using that particular disk?

always have, this is the first time i'm seeing this, and i've formated before without this happening.

SoM wrote:always have, this is the first time i'm seeing this, and i've formated before without this happening.

and loading the EXACT same programs those previous times too?

no, i've loaded 2-3 less programs this time..

the only thing i can say is to reinstall, get patched, slap your firewall/antivirus on, then let her sit and see if you get the "dreaded red shield" again. i'm at a loss bro.

+JuggerNaut+ wrote: you didn't answer my question yesterday

i was asking if your corporation had sp2 on their desktops yet.

Sorry man, I must have missed it. SP2 is on both the networks I run and there have been no issues. I rolled it out about a week after release. Also, 2003 Server SP1 got rolled out last week without incident. Are you still testing? PM me if you have any questions on it.

On another note this thread has become pretty blatant about the warezed OS. Sorry gents, its getting locked.