Quake3World

Posted: **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

Posted: **Mon May 09, 2005 3:10 am**

i love warez.

Posted: **Mon May 09, 2005 3:19 am**

i got none installed...

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

Posted: **Mon May 09, 2005 3:26 am**

Unidentifed Virii FTW!

Posted: **Mon May 09, 2005 5:32 am**

SOAPboy wrote:Unidentifed Virii FTW!

Posted: **Mon May 09, 2005 12:57 pm**

Those are all installed by "home search assistant" lol

Posted: **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

Posted: **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

Posted: **Mon May 09, 2005 5:30 pm**

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

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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:

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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 ?

Posted: **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

Posted: **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

Posted: **Tue May 10, 2005 6:10 pm**

c:\windows = 251 files :icon14:

also had 16k in system32 dir lol

Posted: **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..

Posted: **Tue May 10, 2005 8:11 pm**

re-ran and 0 infected

Posted: **Tue May 10, 2005 8:35 pm**

*claps*

stay uninfected please.

Quake3World

wtf is going on ?

wtf is going on ?