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  1. PPS Buttons: as you will probably be coming back here for a look, want to say that if my computer manages to somehow survive my Brain Surgery on it, then will be wanting to ask you about Linux if that is okay. I know about the amazing Linus Torvaalds!!! Am right now using Firefox and T-Bird for the email and also have several other Open-Source programs that are the result of the Cyber-Revolution that Linus Torvaalds engineered with the help of, very soon, the resolute assistance of millions of Geeks not only in Europe, but nearly everywhere in the world also. But the BIG problem still is this, Buttons (outside of the massive governmental determination worldwide to educate their schoolchildren with Microsoft whilst simultaneously and with astonishing hypocrisy utilising Linux Technology for their military/spook communications systems!!!) for the tyro: User-Friendliness. I got a Linux "Mint" installation CD and pressed "Install" and it did not tell me anything about what was going on!!! Even William Gates got his Indian software Architects to make his Microsoft platforms more user-friendly than that!!! Am able to obtain an "Ubuntu" installation disk (the latest Ubuntu) but Buttons, you are are gonna have to convince me to buy and install it. So please convince me!!!
  2. Buttons: just a slight revision for the price given for new Kingston RAM (US $56.00) - was only going by memory (meaning the remaining booze-shattered neurons) , but have re-checked and it is actually US $64.00!!! Your hair is standing on end Buttons!!!
  3. Thanks very much you guys for your answers, but just one more question: when the alligator clamp of the anti-static-wristband is clamped onto the chassis of the PC, then where can the static electricity go to when the chassis is not Earthed? The dudes on the other websites who advocate having the PC plugged into the power-main (but as said, with the mains switch turned off) say that any static electricity will go to ground through the Earth wire. I live in a place that has got road-wheels on it, and the only route to Earth from it is through the mains Earth wire. I have not at the moment got the gear to make up a seperate Earthing system, and could do without the hassle of having to knock one up. Gooday Buttons, you are probably wondering why I am posting a question about RAM installation when I have already asked about this in another, earlier post. The reason is that back then I did'nt have any new RAM (as was said, it is infernally expensive in my country: a new 1GB stick of Kingston RAM is around US$56.00. That is in direct currency-exchange value. All digital stuff is like that here, if you saw the price of second-hand, years-old computers, you would absolutely Freak!!! Today I found a website from my country put up by Gamers, and they are spewing about the price of just a can of compressed-air: US$24.00!!! These guys are doing things like taking their (opened-up) computers to gas-stations and using the compressed-air tyre-inflating gear to air-blast the dust and crap out of the insides of their computers!!! Another guy uses a pump that is meant to be for inflating blow-up mattresses!!! They have to do this kind of thing, people are always having to improvise. There is a MASSIVE trade in second-hand computer PARTS: computers are always being torn apart and components pirated from them. Even the second-hand parts are NOT cheap!!! The RAM I only a few days ago obtained was a 1GB second-hand stick of Kingston RAM and was around US$32.00; this is why very few Geeks in my country ever buy even a single thing here, but instead get a member of their (large) community who is gong overseas, and especially Europe or the US, to buy their stuff there and bring it back: they can do all this for at most only half the price they would have to pay here for exactly the same equipment) and pretty soon was scouring the main auction website in this country for a decent second-hand PC as I did'nt know enough about RAM back then to be able to look for second-hand RAM - of which there is always an astronomical plethora - and the price of new RAM was extremely daunting, especially when I was so paranoid about trying to install any due to the stuff on the "Scare" websites about how "get one LEETLE thing wrong and yer computer will go straight to Digital Heaven". Exile360 also suggested that if confidence was lacking in being able to safely install RAM then it would be best to get a local Tech to do it. But Exile360 has not seen their Eye-Watering charges!!! So, spent just about forever on the auction website that I use trying to score a so-called "reasonably priced" PC that had plenty of grunt, but it was absolutely futile: anything that is any good gets huge numbers of people bidding for it (I strongly suspect that there is a lot of Dummy-Bidding going on as the relentless upbidding happens every time and there are s@%tloads of 2nd-hand computers always "up for grabs"). Ended up just having to find out more about precisely the kind of RAM needed for the PC I have got, and used this information to hunt and hunt and hunt for any 2nd-hand Kingston RAM of this exact type (there is always vast amounts of Asian generic RAM with strange names that no-one has ever heard of!!!) and it aint easy. Was lucky in this country to be able to eventually, after many days of searching, find a stick of Kingston for, as said, around US$32.00. So, now it has gotta be installed! And there is only me to do it!!! Thanks again everyone, your advice has been very helpful and is greatly appreciated.
  4. Hi All. Have acquired a 1GB stick of RAM, and am going to have to try installing it myself. Have been swotting up online about how to do it (in particular how to minimise the risk of something getting damaged from static electricity) but there are wildly contradictory articles about "correct procedures" and masses of warnings about the horrible things that can happen (the scariest being a couple of articles that say you can severely damage the PC without there being the slightest indication that anything is amiss, but that in reality the PC can be "slowly dying" from internal static damage and this will days, weeks, or even months later begin to manifest as increasingly sluggish performance and eventual lockups/freezes). Have got an Anti-Static Wristband and a couple of big rubber mats (I live in a "caravan" or what in America would probably be called a "trailer", and it has carpet throughout): one of the "anti-static" websites said if you have to work on the computer where the floor is carpeted then you should stand on a rubber mat, and also have a rubber mat on the table or surface that you are going to put the computer on to work on it. I wear rubber boots with bare feet in them too!!! Some websites say to keep the PC power-cord plugged into the PC and the power-socket on the wall,(but with the power switched off!!!)but others say do NOT do this!!! There are even people who say that anti-static wristbands, etc, are "overelaborate" overcautious paranoia and that no precautions except for what they call "common-sense" are necessary at all!!! I am not the only one who is confused: some of the websites are Tech Forums where bewildered newbies to upgrading computers are wanting instructions on how to safely install RAM, etc, and some of the badly-written replies they are getting cannot possibly be of any practical use. Surely installing RAM cannot be similar to brain-surgery (and as fraught with peril)??? Cheers Malwarebytes Forum.
  5. Thanks everyone, you guys are fantastically helpful. Will check out that Security Analyzer, Buttons. Cheers!!!
  6. Just a note embam1972: did not know how to send files to Comodo Analyses using the Firewall, but was messing around in the Firewall today trying to find out precisely what now was the Firewall doing with those files, and right-clicking on them revealed the option down in the Context Menu to submit files to Comodo. Did this, and the answer "SAFE" was quickly returned for each file. They are not listed anywhere in the Firewall as being Sandboxed, or "Blocked" but two entries for them do have "Partially Limited" [these now seem to have been removed: am writing this as an inserted Edit several hours later] written in the description-line. Other entries for them have got "Trusted File" in their description-line. Cheers embam1972, many thanks for your Posts.
  7. Hi Firefox: thank you for your Post; will go and start downloading IE8 immediately. Cheers!
  8. Sent those "extended files" that Comodo revealed to Julio at VT, and Julio very kindly wrote back again with this message (Quote): "Well, paths seems to be legit, but one can't discard that the files are infected. One possible way to see if that files are infected is checking that files 'hashes'. Hashes are 'identifiers' of the file content, some kind of 'dna' so to say. If you scan that files with virustotal, one of the things you'll see in the report are different types of hashes. MD5 is the most common. Probably, with that MD5 calculated, you can see if it is coherent with the MD5 of the files that Microsoft includes in the operating system Anyway, did you tried asking in the Comodo forums about it? If it is a 'glitch' with the firewall, it is quite probable that somebody else also spoke about it. In fact, given that are quite important files (WMI is a service that permits 'monitoring' certain things of the operative system), it is very probable that others had problems with it."
  9. Hi ksiemb: very much appreciate your answer, and am doing as you advise (will check out that updating program too). Just one more thing though - when XP3 Auto-Update is switched on, it keeps wanting to download IE8. I have no use for IE8 (am a Firefox fanatic)and so all it would be if downloaded, would be presumably pointless deadweight on my puny PC. Or would installing IE8 be of some other use, such as making the OS more secure? Cheers ksiemb.
  10. Hi. Have taken your advice and let XP3 update, but what now? Leave Automatic Updates turned on? Are MS still releasing more updates for an ancient OS such as XP3?
  11. Thank you very much indeed MAM and Mystery for your Posts: I actually managed to properly put the filenames on the VT Website using your Link, Mystery, and a VT dude named Julio wrote a very nice email as follows: (QUOTE): "Th(ose) filenames are associated with WMI stuff on Windows http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa389286(v=vs.85).aspx The problem is that a filename is not a trustful information, as the exes may not be the real ones from MS. I guess you should check if the paths and hashes of the files are the legit ones" After receiving this email from Julio, had a look at Comodo to see if there was a way to get Comodo to "say" more about these files, and Comodo revealed this: C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\wmiprvse.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\unsecapp.exe Am gonna have to investigate further on the Web, but in the meantime have instructed Comodo to "Block" these files (instead of letting Comodo "Partially Limit" them as the Firewall until now has been doing every Bootup). Thanks again MAM and Mystery.
  12. Mystery, yes there is one mis-spelling: here are again the exactly correct names of these files: wmiprvse.exe unsecapp.exe No one on the Web seems to know what these things are! Thank you for your reply Mystery.
  13. Hi MAM: was unable to answer your question as have never had any response from VT by posting questions on their website (there never is an answer)or by using what appears to be an "UpLoading" program they (appear) to have here: http://www.virustotal.com/advanced.html#uploader Also, have tried to post a message to them here: http://www.virustotal.com/support/contact.html In this message were included the filenames: wmiprvse.exe unsecapp.exe MAM, those are the names of the files that my (properly configured, and configured "Hard") Comodo Firewall has "Sandboxed". As well as this, have tried to research the names of these files on the Web pretty extensively but there is only debate about whether "wmiprvse.exe" is "good" or "bad" (some claim it is a legitimate Windows file, but others say it is not. Why has Comodo instantly been suspicious of it, if it is legitimate?)and as for unsecapp.exe, this one is definitely very bad!!! Nobody on the Web appears to have the faintest idea of what the heck it is! But, one thing is for sure: no other Geeks (and am presuming you are a Geek)on the Web seem to know what these files are. Am writing this to provide a response to your very generous Post before too much time has gone by, but unfortunately have not been able find any more information. Thank you very much for your Post.
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