AGD Issues

[Guard Dog]

We are working to resolve the issues as quickly as possible... I know the forums have been messing up recently and that is due to some new improvements coming.

My apologies... since my PC that I use to work on sites is pretty much toast (Thanks Hackers!!!!), it has taken me awhile to fix the problems.

[Engineer]

Sorry to hear about your computer. That sucks! Any idea how they got in?

[Guard Dog]

Tough call. I'm not so sure my PC was hacked. That's what the server team told me.

I ran NOD32, Kaspersky, MalwareBytes, and several others which found nothing. However - My server team was adamant that it was the only way.

So - I loaded Kaspersky Internet Security software on my PC to eliminate future break ins..... it completely STOPPED the internet from working unless I disabled it, so I uninstalled.

Kaspersky seems to install something either at a kernel level or somewhere pretty low... because as soon as I uninstalled, it is a crap-shoot whether the OS will even boot now.

I either get:

1. No booting at all
2. Booting, then blue screen 'of death'
3. booting, takes a while, might blue screen
4. It works

Those are now my options while I rebuild a new machine. NOD32 Internet Security is on the new machine.

I guess I have gone my rounds since I have had (in this order)

1. AVG Internet Security
2. Symantec 360
3. Kaspersky (however short period of time that was)
4. NOD32

I've paid for them all So - anyone need one of those licenses? haha

[bonustreak]

Sick bastards!! No worries we can hold down the fort!

[Tower-Adrian]

hmmm, not booting properly, blue screen... maybe a re-format is in order? Also I would do a disk check to make sure that your Windows drive is working properly and doesn't have bad sectors. I do quiet a bit tinkering around with my machines (more damage then good) but that sounds like what was happening when I tried to use a burnt out old HD. Just a thought, hope everything goes well for you.

Cheers
Adrian

[Guard Dog]

hmmm, not booting properly, blue screen... maybe a re-format is in order? Also I would do a disk check to make sure that your Windows drive is working properly and doesn't have bad sectors. I do quiet a bit tinkering around with my machines (more damage then good) but that sounds like what was happening when I tried to use a burnt out old HD. Just a thought, hope everything goes well for you.

Cheers
Adrian

I wish it were I have quite a bit of experience with windows machines, but I run virtual machines. My host OS is perfectly fine

The drives are good - but Kaspersky changes the kernel and the uninstall (in safe mode, which was my only option) did not quite put everything back in place perfectly.

That's ok - I'll have a fresh machine to f*** up.

[dominique]

Well, there is a lot of bad stuff to be said about macafee - but their virus protection has worked for me for years. And it's no problem to install/uninstall.

[Mark]

The site was down for me completely about 10 minutes ago, but looks like it's back up again now.

Mark