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Loz

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  1. Get a hotmail (now called outlook.com) or a Gmail account and they throw in 15gb of cloud storage. I use the hotmail one and the associated OneDrive software makes it very easy - it is visible to Windows as a folder and there is an iPhone and Android app.
  2. As I said, Sue, that partition is just to reinstall the operating system. You can't delete an individual file from it, as it's all packaged up into one big file.


    And deleting the corresponding file from the C drive would almost certainly cause other issues, and not solve this one.

  3. DulwichFox Wrote:

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    > Yes .. you get a letter.. You put it in the drawer

    > and it goes out of your mind..

    >

    > ... with no Tax Disc to remind you.. people are

    > getting caught out... 1000's of them..


    Direct debit is your friend, Foxy.

  4. Ah, sorry - misread your OP.


    The reason you can't quarantine/remove it properly is that is is one HUUUGE zip-like file (mine is 10Gb), so the AV can't get to the one little bit it doesn't like.


    Can you actually see your D drive from explorer? On my Dell, I can only see the C drive and the E drive (my dvd drive). The recovery partition is not actually mounted, so it's not accessible (and therefore my AV doesn't scan it).


    I think you have two options.


    1) Sit on your hands a bit, and see if it stops. If it is a false positive, then MS might release an update sometime soon that stops it being picked up. Updates for AV are released every few days. In the meantime, be careful what you use your computer for.


    2) Take it into an expert.


    If you want to go for 1, but sleep a bit easier, I usually run the free version of Malwarebytes (www.malwarebytes.org). There is a free version and a trial version - and even though you download the free version it will keep trying to get you to take the trial. Don't take the trial - it's really not worth it. But for one-off scans, Malwarebytes is probably the best around.

  5. Sue,


    The factory.wim file on the D drive is the Dell factory restore area. Rather than give you a CD/DVD with the OS on it, these days they put it onto a separate partition on your hard drive. You can do a few button presses on startup and reinstall the OS Basically, you don't ever read that file, unless you do a complete OS restore.


    Looking around, you aren't the first to report this, and no one has ever seemed to have come to a conclusion one way or another as to if it just a false positive.


    What was the process you said you stopped in Task Manager?


    PS MSE is one of the better AVs around, if not currently the best.

  6. That surprised me. I thought the Kiwis were going to win the lot. Stokes and Jordan's bowling in the last 4 was a major factor.


    Mind you, Stokes must have thought his luck was in when he got two in two balls, both with dreadful full tosses.

  7. Blah Blah Wrote:

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    > What is the point of AV, firewalls, malware defenders etc if they don't stop these things?

    >

    > I had something get through that turned windows updater into a massive CPU leak and ended up

    > having to completely reinstall my laptop.


    It's a compromise between security and usability. Unfortunately, people do like visiting dodgy websites, downloading iffy files and installing programs of questionable origin. Your security could stop you doing those things, but people tend to complain when they do.


    It's a bit like having a burglar alarm, but not locking your doors and windows. At that point, the best it can do is tell you when people have got in.

  8. A bit more info...


    TrojanDropper:Win32/Dunik!rts is a name used for trojan detections that have been added to our signatures after advanced automated analysis.


    A form of trojan that installs other malicious files to the infected computer either by downloading them from a remote computer or by dropping them directly from a copy contained in its own code.


    The reason it is only partially removed is because it is packaged(usually a .zip file) with other files that may or may not be malicious in nature and it may be a valid file that displays charaterisics of aTrojan Dropper and to err on the side of caution only that specific file has been removed. Sometimes an error may also be displayed statng the file is too large to remove.


    In other words, it may (or may not) have done anything yet. And it also sounds like this is what they call heuristic detection, in that it looks like it could be a Trojan, but they haven't actually identified it as such. (i.e. it has some code it deems suspicious).


    Anyway, until it is sorted, the normal warnings apply - don't do any banking, emailing, ebaying, paypalling etc where the password getting out could do serious damage.


    I'm guessing you have a dirty great big ZIP or EXE file it doesn't like the look of.

  9. Woah - it might not be that simple and you might be hiding it. Most trojans aren't that easy.


    Sue. Did MSE (Microsoft Security Essentials) identify which file it thought was infected?


    Also, if you bring up MSE (that set of icons in the bottom right hand side of your screen, it looks like a tent), is there anything in history->quarantined?


    Which version of Windows are you running?

  10. Growlybear Wrote:

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    > Perhaps some of these parents at Fairlawn and Horniman Schools who supposedly support what has

    > now become a 'campaign' rather than a petition should have voiced their views more strongly at

    > the consultation meetings in January and put forward viable suggestions for keeping the nursery

    > open. Or was it the case that the other parents understood and accepted the reasons for closing

    > the nursery and the process that was followed?


    It sounds more like that if more of these people in favour of keeping the nursery open actually enrolled kids there, then it wouldn't be in this mess. After all, it is closing it due to lack of numbers.

  11. If you aren't on the road, I think you have an extra 14 days. If you are currently parked on the road, you are quite possibly stuffed (though I imagine you have to be caught, first). It's an ?80 fine.


    You could try ringing the DVLA (0300 123 4321) - they might be able to help.

  12. yas Wrote:

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    > So by your argument petition to save lewisham libraries is a waste of time?


    No, putting a petition to save Lewisham libraries that is directed to Fairlawn Nursery governors would be a waste of time. Much like putting a petition to save Fairlawn Nursery to the council is a waste of time.

  13. Blah Blah Wrote:

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    > Female downhill skiers tend to be very tall though. I don't know the physics of it all but all

    > things being equal there has to be more to it, otherwise every skier would achieve the same speed.


    Well, yes, but it's not a straight-line course. Like F1 it's how you take the turn, line of entry, etc. Competitions are often decided by fractions of a second. And height is important to help you turn, like any lever/fulcrum.


    But for straight line speed, I can always pass the missus as I have longer skis and more body weight.


    > Om half pipe etc, I wonder if it's just a case of less girls snowboarding.


    I think that is a lot of it. It just surprises me that women are so far behind men in this discipline, though they are narrowing the difference a little of late.

  14. adonirum Wrote:

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    > Louisa, when you state "must follow a similar route to Primark", do you mean they must now get

    > their customers to throw the clothes/merchandise onto the floor after looking at them/it ?


    I always thought Primarks motto was "pile it high and watch it fall over".

  15. yas Wrote:

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    > well i have reported the trolls to admin now. so hopefully they can carry out their character

    > assassinations elsewhere!


    I think, given their previous post, paulino was saying that you, yas, are the troll.


    Anyway, admin seems a sensible person, so I am happy that he/she will read the thread and see your complaints have little basis in fact.

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