billyblade Posted May 13, 2011 Member ID: 34 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 47 Topic Count: 182 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 2097 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 1003 Achievement Points: 14880 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 12, 2018 Birthday: 04/29/1966 Share Posted May 13, 2011 i recently downloaded an mp3 program and stupidly left the quick install checked. It made bing my homepage. After one day running it all of a sudden i get this error message 0xC004D401 an unauthorized change was made to your license to keep your system stable you must go online and validate that your software is genuine now, i got rid of it but the point is that after i got this message, my control panel would not come up at all. WHen i accessed it through "my computer" it had everything there but the internet options icon, making it hard to change my homepage. Then i read up online about how hard it is to get rid of bing. Now, i'm an idiot, of that there is no doubt, but i'm kinda scared of microsoft's intent with this "bing". It seemed to me to be an odd coincidence, especially the circumstances after making it my homepage as a condition (optional except for the retarded or impatient)of a program download. I have reloaded the program, as an IT guy I work with says he has never had trouble like this, so i'll give it another go, without bing attached and see what happens. As long as I can system restore and play my damn game i think i'll be alright. Thx for listening to my rant!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Cavey Posted May 13, 2011 Member ID: 92 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 97 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2241 Content Per Day: 0.42 Reputation: 606 Achievement Points: 13358 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Birthday: 06/09/1977 Share Posted May 13, 2011 Bing + Microsoft = FAIL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacobill Posted May 13, 2011 Member ID: 2366 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 14 Topic Count: 4 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 76 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 41 Achievement Points: 665 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/03/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 7 Birthday: 08/27/1976 Device: Windows Share Posted May 13, 2011 I would make sure the installer wasn't infected. Do a full scan with Malwarebytes and Super Antispyware (free versions). I've seen a couple computers that the control panel / task manager was disabled after infection. Try and get ur installers from cnet (theyre clean). I've seen bing toolbars / homepage installed several times without issues...not that i love it. You could also browse with firefox if ur internet explorer is acting strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Hunter1948 Posted May 13, 2011 Member ID: 1850 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 98 Topic Count: 328 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 8620 Content Per Day: 1.74 Reputation: 4222 Achievement Points: 55994 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 09/29/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 29, 2023 Birthday: 06/19/1948 Device: Windows Share Posted May 13, 2011 tacobill I would make sure the installer wasn't infected. Do a full scan with Malwarebytes and Super Antispyware (free versions). I've seen a couple computers that the control panel / task manager was disabled after infection. Try and get ur installers from cnet (theyre clean). I've seen bing toolbars / homepage installed several times without issues...not that i love it. You could also browse with firefox if ur internet explorer is acting strange. I agree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Merlin007 Posted May 13, 2011 Member ID: 2068 Group: +++ COD5 Head Admin Followers: 69 Topic Count: 1073 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 8434 Content Per Day: 1.73 Reputation: 7292 Achievement Points: 74916 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 64 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 05/23/1973 Device: Windows Share Posted May 13, 2011 Bad Bing, bad. Just google it... Don't know where Microsoft is going with Bing but it is not to good places, that is for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
billyblade Posted May 15, 2011 Member ID: 34 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 47 Topic Count: 182 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 2097 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 1003 Achievement Points: 14880 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 12, 2018 Birthday: 04/29/1966 Author Share Posted May 15, 2011 just a follow up, i think that bing was the cuplrit...when i did the first download i did the malwarebytes scan and avast, just to be safe. The second go round...after my system restore...my mp3 program runs just fine, no bing attached, no weird security message. Personally, i think microsoft is up to somethigng, just like EA games was when they released spore. For those who don't know Spore would load and atytach a hidden driver(trojan horse) or whatever you wanna call it. It made your computer only capable of running EA games after download. I read numerous complaints about it. If it was untrue, it was untrue in a lot of posts. My bet is microsoft is trying the same thing with bing, as if they dont have enough marketshare already..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Deranged Posted May 16, 2011 Member ID: 295 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 50 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1535 Content Per Day: 0.29 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 8175 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/07/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 01/01/1970 Share Posted May 16, 2011 crack was here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonovabich Posted May 16, 2011 Member ID: 82 Group: ** Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1534 Topics Per Day: 0.29 Content Count: 5020 Content Per Day: 0.94 Reputation: 5171 Achievement Points: 131490 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 116 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Yesterday at 09:38 AM Device: Windows Share Posted May 16, 2011 I always liked Bing, that Christmas song he sang with David Bowie is one of my favourites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobodygood>XI< Posted May 22, 2011 Member ID: 219 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 15 Topic Count: 24 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 492 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 108 Achievement Points: 2906 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 2, 2018 Birthday: 04/28/1957 Share Posted May 22, 2011 I had a problem with Vista, It clamed that I was using a bad copy, then the only thing that worked was my broswer ( no desk top) and it had a help box. you clicked on the box you had two choices 1. to buy the operating system 2. to report my copy!!! After an hour on the phone with a microsoft tech, the only way I could resolve the issue was to remove the 3rd party anti-virus I was running ( by the way this was a microsoft partners software) and install microsoft's this all happened after a windows update on re-boot.....hmmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
billyblade Posted May 23, 2011 Member ID: 34 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 47 Topic Count: 182 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 2097 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 1003 Achievement Points: 14880 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 12, 2018 Birthday: 04/29/1966 Author Share Posted May 23, 2011 so it's not just me being a conspirist type then????? microsoft is up to some shit and i cant imagine why. They have a monopoly and tons of guaranteed marketshare, why do they want to invade the internet even more via pc to pc? Its the illuminati/ mason thing..........................................or they work for the democrats....YOU DECIDE....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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