Recent content by 1oldman

Hello again, as the title suggests, this may be hopeless but I'd like to see if there is chance that this machine can be salvaged. First, a brief history of the computer in question. I was given the computer by an IT department, they were upgrading so the price was right. Since I first started...

Hi, I guess the Title sums things up pretty well. I've been having pretty good luck until recently at keeping my computer running at least nominal, that changed recently and I'm hoping you can help me by checking possible malware issues before I start trouble shooting hardware. I'll post the...

Hi, (again) I've recently picked up a redirect that I'd like some help with, hoping I haven't worn out your patience and I can get your opinion on these logs. I pulled this off the Wireshark, maybe useful, but this is probably a somewhat involved infection... [ds-global3.17.search.ystg1.b.yahoo...

I should have formatted and reinstalled the OS on this machine last summer but I've been playing around with it, trying to understand the connectivity issues that came up last summer when I posted about getting hacked, :sad: I'll post the FRST results showing some typical (for me) problems, but...

Well, here I am again. The story thus far, my twitter account was hacked recently. I'm sure of this because my Twit account says it was accessed from Greenwood Ind. and New York. when I go to my email account and change passwords etc. the change is also made in both cities mentioned. I was able...

I noticed today my computer running ridiculously slow in both loading and running programs. The Malwarebytes is particular affected, in that it wants to update but gets hung up and can't apply the update, thus no scan. I should add that the aswMBR won't even start up to try and run. I'm hoping...

Hi, oldman here, back on his daughters computer. I'll just post the FRST logs and see what you make of them. I'll fill in details or answer questions as they arise but I'm hoping this one isn't too messed up, Thanks. Scan result of Farbar Recovery Scan Tool (FRST) (x64) Version: 07-06-2017 01...

This may sound familiar but recently I allowed my granddaughter to use my laptop for playing minecraft, suddenly I have the slowest computer in town. The worst part of this story is that roughly one year ago I had a similar experience (I must be a slow learner) and I received some excellent...

Hi, my wife was hacked on her facebook account recently using the computer I'm posting on. Both Spybot and Norton scans come up clean although I haven't used the "power eraser" feature on Norton yet. Since the hacking I have noticed the computer acting very unusual at times however there doesn't...

hi, i'm having some issues with the browser settings on my firefox browser and would like your opinion as to what is going on. if i go into privacy in settings and select do not track then close and reopen it resets to tell nothing about tracking and always accept 3rd party cookies these are not...

hi ken, just a hypothetical case here but if a person (me) didn't get around to taking care of business before the thread was closed could you please go over the uninstall procedure so i am sure to get it right. the tools on the machine are frst, aswmbr, minitool box, jrt, and adwcleaner. the...

hello again ken, you helped me with a couple malware problems last june and one of my computers has recently come down with browser issues i'll let you take a look at the logs and wait to see what you think. thanks

hi, last month i posted threads on a couple of computers of mine in which ken helped clean them of some issues. that went well and i was going to start a new thread on my daughters computer however when i used your links for the DDS and aswmbr software my norton dumped the aswmbr from downloads...

hi i,m sending the things needed to get started looking into some issues that have been popping up with my computer. i'll let you have a look then see where we go from there, thank you very much DDS (Ver_2012-11-20.01) - NTFS_AMD64 Internet Explorer: 11.0.9600.17126 BrowserJavaVersion...

while going over my firefox browser history i came across several instances of traffic.outbrain.com, not recognizing it i googled it and it is mentioned as a rather malicious example of malware. im not sure of the source or if it is a legitimate site or not.for all i know i was reading an...