BigPapaDean Posted January 7, 2014 Member ID: 1128 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 78 Topic Count: 1210 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6553 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4430 Achievement Points: 63653 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 02/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18 Birthday: 10/21/1954 Device: Windows Posted January 7, 2014 First off I am getting very frustrated and not from lack of a good woman but from some very annoying issues with something going on with my pc! I had a virus called "search.conduit" and after finally getting rid of it and scanning my pc until I am blue in the face I want to try and resolve the problems with my computer! The mouse and until I bought a new keyboard will stop working and the pc freezes up for no reason! Most of the time it shows 0% of my cpu is being used and then sometimes it spikes which means something is def happening but not sure exactly what 7-8% usage really means! It's an 8core and really should not freeze up on me! One in a while when I try to play WaW it goes to the blue screen and I have to do a hard boot to get it to react! Sometimes I have to reboot 2-3 times to get it to start working properly! I have been getting a message lately that says "Windows mouse and keyboard have stopped working." I googled this and well the info I found was just not a lot of help! Can anyone please help me get this thing fixed where it stops giving me crap! BTW I can play WaW okay most of the time but afterward it will go to the blue screen every so often! If you need more info please ask so I can give you what you need to help me! Awards
Devildog4355 Posted January 7, 2014 Member ID: 15237 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 27 Topic Count: 93 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 958 Content Per Day: 0.22 Reputation: 580 Achievement Points: 6679 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 06/30/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 20, 2021 Birthday: 05/04/1992 Posted January 7, 2014 Most likley you have something more serious going on in your operating system. typicilly when something like this happens i start fresh. Put in a windows disk and start a new. Windows backs up everything so you can go back into the old fileing system "Windows.Old" and pull important information out. Awards
BigPapaDean Posted January 7, 2014 Member ID: 1128 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 78 Topic Count: 1210 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6553 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4430 Achievement Points: 63653 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 02/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18 Birthday: 10/21/1954 Device: Windows Author Posted January 7, 2014 Just now I had a videos driver stopped working and this happened a few days ago too! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Awards
TecHnOBoY Posted January 7, 2014 Member ID: 755 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 21 Topic Count: 120 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2191 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 961 Achievement Points: 14309 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/17/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 18, 2019 Birthday: 01/14/1982 Posted January 7, 2014 (edited) "search.conduit" is not a virus. Conduit provides Community Toolbars for Firefox, Chrome and so on. Yes they integrate their own search page, buy it can be deactivated or removed from the system. I built one for our radio station. There is something different going on within your OS or with your hardware especially the main board. More detail from your event log would be helpful Edited January 7, 2014 by TecHnOBoY Awards
eidolonFIRE Posted January 7, 2014 Member ID: 2759 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 17 Topic Count: 199 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3496 Content Per Day: 0.70 Reputation: 3021 Achievement Points: 26464 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 08/22/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 16, 2017 Birthday: 07/27/1990 Posted January 7, 2014 make sure you are looking at the processes "for all users"
BigPapaDean Posted January 7, 2014 Member ID: 1128 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 78 Topic Count: 1210 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6553 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4430 Achievement Points: 63653 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 02/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18 Birthday: 10/21/1954 Device: Windows Author Posted January 7, 2014 make sure you are looking at the processes "for all users" I am the only user! lol Awards
BigPapaDean Posted January 7, 2014 Member ID: 1128 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 78 Topic Count: 1210 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6553 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4430 Achievement Points: 63653 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 02/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18 Birthday: 10/21/1954 Device: Windows Author Posted January 7, 2014 (edited) "search.conduit" is not a virus. Conduit provides Community Toolbars for Firefox, Chrome and so on. Yes they integrate their own search page, buy it can be deactivated or removed from the system. I built one for our radio station. There is something different going on within your OS or with your hardware especially the main board. More detail from your event log would be helpful When I search for this it is called a virus! But you are telling me it's not? It has over taken my pc until I finally got it removed! Now it still is showing signs of it still there somewhere! It's acting pretty much like it did before I removed it! When I scanned my pc with malwarebites it called it a PuP! TechnoBoy maybe you can help me with this, I hope! Also I forgot there was also another one called sweet packs that does much what search.conduit does hijack your search bar and does nothing of their own just robs the host search program! Edited January 7, 2014 by BigPapaDean Awards
RIPZILLA Posted January 7, 2014 Member ID: 9 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 66 Topic Count: 245 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 1239 Content Per Day: 0.22 Reputation: 1230 Achievement Points: 11498 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 18, 2023 Posted January 7, 2014 Dude you need to reformat. Then spend the money on a good anti virus software that updates every day. After that don't mess around downloading or click on anything you aren't sure is safe. This will fix you up 100%. Awards
RIPZILLA Posted January 7, 2014 Member ID: 9 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 66 Topic Count: 245 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 1239 Content Per Day: 0.22 Reputation: 1230 Achievement Points: 11498 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 18, 2023 Posted January 7, 2014 Dude you need to reformat. Then spend the money on a good anti virus software that updates every day. After that don't mess around downloading or click on anything you aren't sure is safe. This will fix you up 100%. Awards
BigPapaDean Posted January 7, 2014 Member ID: 1128 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 78 Topic Count: 1210 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6553 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4430 Achievement Points: 63653 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 02/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18 Birthday: 10/21/1954 Device: Windows Author Posted January 7, 2014 as a last resort I will wipe my hard drives! If I reformat do I need to wipe them? Last time I reformated there were things that still showed up later that should have been gone but remained! I had a dual profile on WaW and CoD4! I don't want that! Awards
eidolonFIRE Posted January 7, 2014 Member ID: 2759 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 17 Topic Count: 199 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3496 Content Per Day: 0.70 Reputation: 3021 Achievement Points: 26464 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 08/22/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 16, 2017 Birthday: 07/27/1990 Posted January 7, 2014 I am the only user! lol Yes but with "all users" you get to see the hidden system processes. Some malware stuff likes to hide processes that way.
Merlin007 Posted January 7, 2014 Member ID: 2068 Group: +++ COD5 Head Admin Followers: 71 Topic Count: 1129 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 8587 Content Per Day: 1.64 Reputation: 7551 Achievement Points: 76611 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 67 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 58 minutes ago Birthday: 05/23/1973 Device: Windows Posted January 7, 2014 Wipe it only if it's dusty on top. JK. No, just format. The easy way is just to put your windows disk in and boot from the disk. When it asks which partition you want to put windows onto, you can can first delete the old partition, create and format a new using the entire allowable volume, then install on the new partition. Before you format though, make sure you back up all the files you want to keep including any COD profiles. From reading what you are saying about your issues, I believe formatting and starting clean is the right way to go. It's always a bit of a headache to reinstall all the windows updates and software again but you at least start fresh with no extra shit. Once you have windows on your PC and up to date, put MSE on it for antivirus and something like Malwarebtyes for antimalware. I use that combination and have no issues. More importantly, just stay away for all that porn. PS: BACK UP ALL FILES YOU WANT TO KEEP BEFORE YOU FORMAT. Post back if you need help with COD profile locations although I believe the XI downloader does a decent job with that. Awards
Merlin007 Posted January 7, 2014 Member ID: 2068 Group: +++ COD5 Head Admin Followers: 71 Topic Count: 1129 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 8587 Content Per Day: 1.64 Reputation: 7551 Achievement Points: 76611 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 67 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 58 minutes ago Birthday: 05/23/1973 Device: Windows Posted January 7, 2014 Wipe it only if it's dusty on top. JK. No, just format. The easy way is just to put your windows disk in and boot from the disk. When it asks which partition you want to put windows onto, you can can first delete the old partition, create and format a new using the entire allowable volume, then install on the new partition. Before you format though, make sure you back up all the files you want to keep including any COD profiles. From reading what you are saying about your issues, I believe formatting and starting clean is the right way to go. It's always a bit of a headache to reinstall all the windows updates and software again but you at least start fresh with no extra shit. Once you have windows on your PC and up to date, put MSE on it for antivirus and something like Malwarebtyes for antimalware. I use that combination and have no issues. More importantly, just stay away for all that porn. PS: BACK UP ALL FILES YOU WANT TO KEEP BEFORE YOU FORMAT. Post back if you need help with COD profile locations although I believe the XI downloader does a decent job with that. Awards
Merlin007 Posted January 7, 2014 Member ID: 2068 Group: +++ COD5 Head Admin Followers: 71 Topic Count: 1129 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 8587 Content Per Day: 1.64 Reputation: 7551 Achievement Points: 76611 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 67 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 58 minutes ago Birthday: 05/23/1973 Device: Windows Posted January 7, 2014 Oops. Must have hit the post button twice. Oh well, +3 on the post count. LOL BigPapaDean 1 Awards
RIPZILLA Posted January 7, 2014 Member ID: 9 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 66 Topic Count: 245 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 1239 Content Per Day: 0.22 Reputation: 1230 Achievement Points: 11498 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 18, 2023 Posted January 7, 2014 Dean if you have additional drives they need to be wiped too. That is why the virus returns. Awards
Nobodygood>XI< Posted January 8, 2014 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 Posted January 8, 2014 As flakey as it seems, I would look at your power supply and see if it is in spec, you can download a hardware monitor here http://download.cnet.com/windows/3055-2094_4-10793486.html?&tag=pdl-redir when you install it be sure and decline the weather app, or you will have another piece of crap running on your system. but run the monitor and you can view information about your hardware real time, you can look at your cpu core voltages and temp and see if something funky is going on. do you have access to a spare power supply you could swap out for testing? Awards
TecHnOBoY Posted January 8, 2014 Member ID: 755 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 21 Topic Count: 120 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2191 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 961 Achievement Points: 14309 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/17/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 18, 2019 Birthday: 01/14/1982 Posted January 8, 2014 When I search for this it is called a virus! But you are telling me it's not? It has over taken my pc until I finally got it removed! Now it still is showing signs of it still there somewhere! It's acting pretty much like it did before I removed it! When I scanned my pc with malwarebites it called it a PuP! TechnoBoy maybe you can help me with this, I hope! Also I forgot there was also another one called sweet packs that does much what search.conduit does hijack your search bar and does nothing of their own just robs the host search program! Yep, there are a few things that conduit does which have a malicious behavior. But it isn't. For example, there is an option to paste marked text automatically into the search field of a conduit toolbar. But you can deactivate it in the settings. I created a conduit toolbar about two years ago and use it.Iit's fine. I see no need to reformat your PC for now. Most blue screens are caused by hardware failures. As I said: detailed information from the event log might be useful. Or write down the stop message ( (or take a photo) of the blue screen. I can have a look via Yeamviewer on Saturday evening at the earliest. BigPapaDean 1 Awards
Hemps Posted January 8, 2014 Member ID: 1482 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 37 Topic Count: 120 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2018 Content Per Day: 0.37 Reputation: 1440 Achievement Points: 15303 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/05/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 3, 2024 Birthday: 07/13/1967 Device: Windows Posted January 8, 2014 useless your HD is new or is a SSD, i would think on getting a new one, the price of regular HDs are low this days and it is a moving part that bound to wear out at one point. maybe it already is? Awards
Hemps Posted January 8, 2014 Member ID: 1482 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 37 Topic Count: 120 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2018 Content Per Day: 0.37 Reputation: 1440 Achievement Points: 15303 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/05/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 3, 2024 Birthday: 07/13/1967 Device: Windows Posted January 8, 2014 (edited) useless your HD is new or is a SSD, i would think on getting a new one, the price of regular HDs are low this days and it is a moving part that bound to wear out at one point. maybe it already is? doh a double post....think its the web site being so slow lately, hit the post button and nothing happens then pushed it again and bam! double post! Edited January 8, 2014 by Hemps Awards
BigPapaDean Posted January 8, 2014 Member ID: 1128 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 78 Topic Count: 1210 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6553 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4430 Achievement Points: 63653 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 02/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18 Birthday: 10/21/1954 Device: Windows Author Posted January 8, 2014 useless your HD is new or is a SSD, i would think on getting a new one, the price of regular HDs are low this days and it is a moving part that bound to wear out at one point. maybe it already is? One of them is new! I bought it to clean up the old one so my down time would be minimal then when I logged ibnto chrome because it is synched it spread it to the new one! Can anyone tell me how to fix that when Chrome won't even open to the settings page? That is why I can't get rid of this thing it has hijacked Chrome and spread to the other two browsers and effects them all in different ways! Things were happening that should not be happening like it would always open in a new tab when I had it set to just go to the new page! I finally got that fixed on Firefox but going into the windows settings and just looked around it worked kind of like refreshing the damned settings! Now if only I can get the rest of this fixed I would be so happy! and here is a sample of the event viewer! Awards
Damage_inc- Posted January 8, 2014 Member ID: 2048 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 294 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 6689 Content Per Day: 1.27 Reputation: 4709 Achievement Points: 48999 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 12/15/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 29, 2023 Birthday: 05/30/1967 Posted January 8, 2014 (edited) http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-sweetpacks-toolbar its a pup browser hijacker - another usefulhttp://www.malwareremovalguides.info/pup-webcake-removal-guide/ link whats going on? Edited January 9, 2014 by Damage_inc- Awards
KaptCrunch Posted January 8, 2014 Member ID: 389 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 48 Topic Count: 317 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4902 Content Per Day: 0.86 Reputation: 4088 Achievement Points: 39630 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 52 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 01/01/1970 Device: Windows Posted January 8, 2014 dean in dos box type "netstat" do not post any IP #'s results here to keep hackers out this command will tell you what's using internet (Active Connections), if see any strange app/programs, dig them out and see what it is, then determine keep or remove Awards
BigPapaDean Posted January 8, 2014 Member ID: 1128 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 78 Topic Count: 1210 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6553 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4430 Achievement Points: 63653 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 02/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18 Birthday: 10/21/1954 Device: Windows Author Posted January 8, 2014 Awards
KaptCrunch Posted January 8, 2014 Member ID: 389 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 48 Topic Count: 317 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4902 Content Per Day: 0.86 Reputation: 4088 Achievement Points: 39630 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 52 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 01/01/1970 Device: Windows Posted January 8, 2014 For edge-star-shv-06-sea1. is facebook.com In Ireland looks to be face book tracer app running 13 streams Awards
BigPapaDean Posted January 9, 2014 Member ID: 1128 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 78 Topic Count: 1210 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6553 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4430 Achievement Points: 63653 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 02/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18 Birthday: 10/21/1954 Device: Windows Author Posted January 9, 2014 For edge-star-shv-06-sea1. is facebook.com In Ireland looks to be face book tracer app running 13 streams so what do I do about it? Awards
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