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Other Stuff That Has Little To Do With PLA => Techinical Shit => Technical Support => Topic started by: M-26-7 on February 24, 2008, 10:07:01 AM
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Today it took me 30 minutes to boot up my computer. Normally this would seem outrageously long, but for about three weeks now it has been pretty much standard. Programs are slow to open and shortcuts are sometimes completely unresponsive. To fix this I need to delete MacAfee, but in a HAL-esque move it has fucked up remove programs, and stopped any shredding attempts by running. I cannot kill it using the three finger salute even by stopping it process trees. Just tell me how to get rid of this fucking thing and I will be able to figure the rest out.
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System Restore? If you have a saved point or disk restore point you may be able to go back to before you installed MacAfee.
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sometimes that works but system restore doesn't really mess with files - if this were me i would just backup my files and reinstall the operating system (only takes an hour and you have a fresh new copy)
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I seem to remember McAfee being a pretty good anti-virus program, at least I never had any such problems with it.
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I like Kaspersky
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http://www.pchell.com/virus/uninstallmcafee.shtml
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Get the "McAfee Product Removal Tool". It's worked for me.
http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?id=107083&lc=1033
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You should try Avast Anti-Virus.
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Avast always freaks out on my computer cause it detects Cain as malware
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I think it was AVG that majorly pissed me off last year. I tried to run Brutus and it deleted it immediately, for being a virus, with the classification 'hacktool'.
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OMG HACKTOOL~!!!11
I get that when I plug my flashdrive into a school PC, it keeps deleting my anti WPA crack!
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As I said before add and remove programs is not working. Thus negating any options given so far besides formating and system restore, which I don't think I have any save points for.
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You don't need add-remove-programs to use the removal tool. I'm a little confused, you can't even stop the services or kill the process? How are you trying? And how do you know that McAfee is definitely the source of your problem?
OMG HACKTOOL~!!!11
I get that when I plug my flashdrive into a school PC, it keeps deleting my anti WPA crack!
I have a million special ignore rules at work for my usb drive. A lot of them are legitimate tools! Psexec is bloody owned by microsoft now and its still a "remote hacking tool" according to McAfee
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Go into program files and delete that bitch. Then from start>run type msconfig.exe and stop it from starting. Run registry mechanic to delete the orphaned registry entries and voila.
Download the free trial of kaspersky
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Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but I'm going to try doc's method (and call him in ther morning).
(http://imageshack.us/?x=my6&myref=http://www.imageshack.us/)
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Put the hammer into the computer.
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Give him the boot. Medium style.
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Imma format my drivez.
What should I remember to put on proverbial ark? I've already got my music files, which are the most important things and unreplacable. That's about 40 gbs right there, but I think I can save all I want.
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Well in my case I'd probably save the music, but likely not the movies since I could re-download most of them in a few hours. Personally I'd save all my funny images, most of them are obscure photoshops that I've been collectining for years and don't remember where they came from anymore.
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I'd make sure you check everything to see if you wanna save it a few times. I know every time I've had to format I ALWAYS forget to save something after it's too late.
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Just delete everything. You weren't really ever going to watch all that pron.
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Music, important torrents, .rar everything you want to save,
Word Docs and pics. can be saved too
don't bother saving actual programs, they can be reinstalled later
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Why deal with backup/restore hassles if you don't have to? You don't need to format to get a clean install. Just choose not to reformat when you install windows. It'll wipe out C:\windows but all your other files will remain and the install will be just as fresh.
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You can get a five hundred gig external USB drive from WesternDigital for about a hundred and fifty bucks. Be damned if I can get mine to recognize more than two hundred and thirty gigs of it though.
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You can get a 500GB acomdata external drive for $99 or so
And if you reinstall windows in a different folder you start with a clean registry so you would have to install your programs again anyways. Might as well just format and do it cleanly
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Since this thread is now about externals:
Can I partition my external safely with all my stuff on it? If so, how? I checked out the instructions on WD's website but it said something about "making sure there is nothing of importance on the drive" before doing it. That would be about 200 gigs of movies, pr0n, images, etc. that I have no where else to put. in b4 g00gl3 muhfucka. (I did)
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And if you reinstall windows in a different folder you start with a clean registry so you would have to install your programs again anyways. Might as well just format and do it cleanly
It's not any cleaner, just easier for some people to think about. I guess it's OK to do if you are super-organized about your files and have an easy backup method and some extra time, but you'll just end up with exactly the same result anyway. If you're not that organized then you're likely to lose some stuff.
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Since this thread is now about externals:
Can I partition my external safely with all my stuff on it? If so, how? I checked out the instructions on WD's website but it said something about "making sure there is nothing of importance on the drive" before doing it. That would be about 200 gigs of movies, pr0n, images, etc. that I have no where else to put. in b4 g00gl3 muhfucka. (I did)
I actually did this yesterday. Rather than pirating partition magic or some B$ like that, you can use Gparted. It's completely open-source and boots into a live CD. You can partition any of your drives without losing any data. It's really awesome and easy to use. Here's the link:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
I actually have the most complicated Hard drive setup ever. I have all but 10 gigs of my internal dedicated to Linux, those last 10 are for the installation of Windows XP Pro, then I have an external drive with 40 Gigs dedicated to extra space for Windows XP Pro, 10 Gigs of NTFS partition for extracting files > 4 Gigs, and 10 Gigs of another installation of Linux. Whew. It's hard to keep up with.
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Just download the Hirus Boot cd. Its free, and it has a buttload of usefull stuff.
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If it requires a boot cd I can't use it. For some reason my computer doesn't support booting from anything but the master hard drive. It's supposed to be able to boot from the CD Drive and says that it can. But it doesn't. Whatever method would require me to do it from within windows. I should have been more specific. But it seems like your answer was yes, I can partition my drive without losing all my porn.
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You guys should switch to Linux, ie, ubuntu, freespire, ect... Or a mac. I prefer Macs, because they offer reliability, and a decent amount of software is compatible with them. Linux is super reliable, but nothing is compatible with them; like ipods, software, ect... Also linux is free.
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Linux is super reliable, but nothing is compatible with them; like ipods, software, ect... Also linux is free.
Anything I could do on Windows..I can do just fine with linux. So I don't agree when you say nothing is compatible...
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wine cannot reliably emulate windows... it doesn't crash and bluescreen :D