4 responses to “CES keynote – Ballmer’s on tap”

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   Maghullyback January 7th, 2010 at 18:15

   Woody,

   Yesterday I done a Google search looking for the instruction manual for an old drum machine I own, a Boss DR-660. I clicked a link purporting to have this manual but suddenly for no reason I ended up at antyvirusbaxblog.com where I was faced with multiple pop-ups telling me my Vista machine was “displaying signs of virus activity” and I should run their “My Computer Online Scan” which seemed to be already running. I clicked cancel but it wouldn’t. After several attempts I managed to X out of IE8 and then run a full hour-long Kaspersky scan which didn’t find anything wrong. Then I tried to do a system restore back to the previous day’s restore point but I got the same message I always get when attempting a restore: “System Restore failed due to an unknown problem”. Never once has ba$t@r& System Restore worked for me in the 5 or 6 times I’ve tried it. My computer seems okay at the moment, but is there anything else I should or shouldn’t do? Have you heard of these particular scumbags?

   Cheers Woody.

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   woody January 8th, 2010 at 08:35

   Maghullyback -

   This is a good one for the Lounge. Click on the link in the upper right corner to Ask a Windows or Office Question.

   The short answer is that you must’ve hit a bad link – and you probably don’t have anything to worry about. But there are a million reasons why System Restore may not work. The folks in the Lounge should be able to help.

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   john January 11th, 2010 at 22:02

   Maghullyback i had what you are talking about and yes it is hard to catch but i was able to catch the bugger with deffender spaywar scan it took me a couple scans to catch it so i would suggest you do multi scans intill you catch the spyware it really is hard to catch just keep scanning with all your scanners you have avaliable intill it catches it hope that helps

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   maghullyback January 12th, 2010 at 18:24

   Thanks Woody and John for responding.

   I’ve had murder with the fu£%ing thing.

   A blue screen, then a scary black chkdsc screen, now and flaky laptop performance.

   A full Kaspersky scan(1 hour)found nothing.

   A full Defender scan (1′000′000 items, 3 hours) found nothing.

   Most of the advice at The Lounge and at Bleepingcomputer and other forums was scan with this, scan with that. 19 different scanning recommendations! And most of them sound as dodgy as this baxblog c”^t.

   To be honest, I’m undecided as to what to do next. I suppose I’d better hurry up and make my mind up . . .