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3 solid
Joined: Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:02 pm
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 Re: HUGE EMERGENCY! Father Venn wrote: so now all you have to do is tell me why firefox won't work no matter what I do. Um.... to be honest. I have no idea. Search to see if anyone else has had a problem like this. Perhaps googling "firefox not starting up" or something like that.
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| Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:36 pm |
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venn177
Joined: Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:35 am
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Re: HUGE EMERGENCY! 3 solid wrote: Father Venn wrote: so now all you have to do is tell me why firefox won't work no matter what I do. Um.... to be honest. I have no idea. Search to see if anyone else has had a problem like this. Perhaps googling "firefox not starting up" or something like that. Already looked....no such luck for me...
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| Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:37 pm |
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3 solid
Joined: Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:02 pm
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Re: HUGE EMERGENCY! Strange... Try emailing whatever company made firefox.
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venn177
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Re: HUGE EMERGENCY! 3 solid wrote: Strange... Try emailing whatever company made firefox. You mean mozilla?
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| Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:42 pm |
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3 solid
Joined: Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:02 pm
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Re: HUGE EMERGENCY! Yeah. That one.
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venn177
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Re: HUGE EMERGENCY! 3 solid wrote: Yeah. That one. They'll tell me it's an .exe problem adn to reinstall it, then they'll tell me it's a virus...-.-
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MaximDude
Joined: Wed Nov 22, 2006 3:19 pm
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Re: HUGE EMERGENCY! Tell your computer that if he wont be good and start firefox you will buttsecks him XD
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venn177
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Re: HUGE EMERGENCY! MaximDude (NOT SPAM) wrote: Tell your computer that if he wont be good and start firefox you will buttsecks him XD It's a laptop, I can't buttsex him. But it is a good idea.
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Linongion
Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 6:06 pm
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Re: HUGE EMERGENCY! End the process tree of explorer.exe, it will give you a pop up window saying it cant shut down part of the tree. Thats fine.
Now go to "file" select a new task, and in the slot type in Firefox's application name...
EG.: Firefox.exe , FF.exe , Randommovie.exe whatever its called, with its program extension.
If it doesnt work... just type in explorer.exe and you will be back to square 1.
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venn177
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Re: HUGE EMERGENCY! linongion wrote: End the process tree of explorer.exe, it will give you a pop up window saying it cant shut down part of the tree. Thats fine.
Now go to "file" select a new task, and in the slot type in Firefox's application name...
EG.: Firefox.exe , FF.exe , Randommovie.exe whatever its called, with its program extension.
If it doesnt work... just type in explorer.exe and you will be back to square 1. When I did end it it just restored itself, but now it's back to only taking up 10000kb of memory and the only problem is firefox not starting...
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Pyrorex
Joined: Sun Jun 24, 2007 6:13 am
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Re: HUGE EMERGENCY! Venn, none of your electronics work do they? About 90% of these topics are yours.
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venn177
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Re: HUGE EMERGENCY! Pyrorex wrote: Venn, none of your electronics work do they? About 90% of these topics are yours. No, my computer is just a piece of crap and I have occasional internet problems with my wii, that seems to be all.
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Nfsjunkie91
Joined: Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:21 am
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Re: HUGE EMERGENCY! You've probably got a backdoor program. They use an internet browser to bypass any firewalls. You need to end the internet process, and end the process that starts and injects itself into IE. You need to find where that .exe is, close the process, and delete that .exe. The .exe is probably located in the system32 or Windows folder, probably looks like a legit process. Worse comes to worst, reformat. Unfortunately, many backdoors are designed to survive a reformat.
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cambiogris
Joined: Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:32 pm
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Re: HUGE EMERGENCY! Nfsjunkie91 wrote: Worse comes to worst, reformat. Unfortunately, many backdoors are designed to survive a reformat. Wow, I had never heard of that, and that sent me googling. Interesting stuff, but it could probably be taken care of for good with a utility like Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) which completely erases everything on the drive to DoD specifications.
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Nfsjunkie91
Joined: Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:21 am
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Re: HUGE EMERGENCY! cambiogris wrote: Nfsjunkie91 wrote: Worse comes to worst, reformat. Unfortunately, many backdoors are designed to survive a reformat. Wow, I had never heard of that, and that sent me googling. Interesting stuff, but it could probably be taken care of for good with a utility like Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) which completely erases everything on the drive to DoD specifications. Of course, you could always do a hard reformat. Magnet magnet magnet!
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