John Palmer4, I’ll write exactly how I want, and if my style bothers you so much, maybe you should just go find a different forum because we aren't sitting in some middle school classroom anymore. Is that clear? If not, feel free to call your parents or your high school teachers for help, since this constant bickering on a tech forum probably isn't going to solve anything for you. We're all here to actually get some help, not to dig holes for each other in whatever suburb you happen to live in just because you care more about perfect punctuation and grammar than actually helping people fix their computers so they stop crashing and breaking. If this hasn't made it obvious enough, let me know if you're more interested in getting things done or just obsessing over a period at the end of a sentence. If you're down to actually be useful, maybe we can plan a trip, but if you only care about terminal punctuation, then I guess you should just head back to school and play teacher.
LOL, give me a break. You guys are honestly hilarious. Is "format C:" really the only thing you people can talk about? It’s kind of pathetic how many folks have wasted their time nuking their entire hard drive when the actual solution was sitting right in front of them this whole time, though I guess you wouldn't notice that if it hit you in the face. It’s like if a doctor decided that instead of just giving you some basic antibiotics for a common cold, they just threw you on the operating table and started cutting you open to achieve the exact same result. Maybe try using a little bit of brainpower once in a while instead of just blindly suggesting a total wipeout. That's only useful when the OS is completely dead, not for clearing out a virus. Have any of you even heard of viruses that hide in the FAT table? In those cases, you actually need to repartition—essentially destroying the FAT table and building a new one from scratch. Anyway, that's my two cents. You haven't exactly convinced me that anyone here is smarter than I am, you "Format C:" specialists.
I might be talking nonsense here, but it’s the truth—every time I have some crazy talk playing on the radio, that one Trojan seems to pop up, though nothing actually happens since McAfee just shuts it down immediately.
I have a question for everyone on here—is anyone else dealing with ADSL connection issues or getting hit by those Blue Screen of Death errors citing a buffer overflow? If you are, I guess you might be dealing with a Trojan that somehow manages to slip right past standard antivirus software. I’ve been using the AVG software provided by Comcast along with McAfee Desktop Firewall, and McAfee keeps flagging this "sqlslammer:buffer overflow" thing. It seems to be blocking incoming traffic to my machine, though I suppose it might be stopping outgoing data too. I can't find any decent info online about what this specific Trojan actually does or how to scrub it from a system once it's already settled in. My PC hasn't crashed yet thanks to the McAfee firewall, but who knows how long that will last. I can see some tracers, so I have a vague idea of who might be trying to knock me offline. I don't think I'm infected yet, luckily, but I'm not sure how much longer I can stay ahead of them before they find a way in. Otherwise, everything is fine; I use Firefox and spend all day surfing on my high-speed fiber connection from AT&T, which works great. Cheers.