PC Problems

Posted by biggoron on March 10, 2007, 12:17 p.m.

There are a number of things going awry with my PC lately…

1) A persistent virus has been repeatedly attacking my PC. It's called infostealer.bancos. Every time it appears, Norton tells me about it, tells me it's been deleted, but it keeps appearing over and over again, nonetheless. It's starting to get pretty annoying, especially if I'm playing a game when Norton tells me about it.

2) explorer.exe seems to go periodically crazy, by taking up ~100% cpu and twice the RAM it normally should. It doesn't happen for my brother but it's happened to me three times today. It's never happened before and I don't know what's causing it. I think it may be WindowBlinds, although i've never had this problem with it before. I'm changing my skin to the one my brother uses to see if it has any effect.

3) It's not exactly a PC problem, but it's in that general area. The postal code edit box in WoW's registration form isn't long enough to accommodate my entire post code. It seems I may have to register some other way, perhaps by phone, which is a little annoying.

I have two science GCSE's on Monday, and I'm not feeling very confident about it. I'll have to cram in some revision tonight and tomorrow night. I also have a fuck load of homework to complete by next week. Weekends just aren't long enough.

My work experience starts in a few weeks. I'm not sure exactly where I'll be going or even where I want to go. I'm thinking that I could maybe work in a shop. One that doesn't have many customers, like a computer shop or something. That would be handy considering there's one in the town centre, which is pretty much on my doorstep.

I got an assembler today, and I'm hoping to start learning assembly soon. I can't seem to find any good tutorials. If anyone has a good x86 assembly tutorial, please point me to it.

I'm thinking of creating a 3D modeller, mostly just as something to work on, not necessarily for it to be better than any others.

If anyone has any solutions to any of my PC problems or a tutorial for x86 assembly, please tell me.

Peace, y'all.

Comments

biggoron 17 years, 8 months ago

Oh ._. I just looked at the download list and saw 6.0 and got that. Oh well…

biggoron 17 years, 8 months ago

I've been wanting to switch to Linux for a long time, I just haven't found a distro that suits my needs, but I'm still looking. I have tried doing a full scan with Norton but with explorer.exe hogging most of the CPU it goes excruciatingly slowly.

After MEPIS booted I could only see a blank screen. When I switch it off I can see the boot down screen. I tried in normal mode and the one below it (can't remember what it was called. I assume it was XVesa). I'm going to have a better look at that website link.

shawn 17 years, 8 months ago

Uh-oh. This aint endin' well…

biggoron 17 years, 8 months ago

Nor is it ending well for the guy in your avatar, it would appear.

Rejected rocks. As do Genre and Ah, L'Amour.

melee-master 17 years, 8 months ago

Just do a reinstall of Windows if nothing else can fix the issue.

Pobble-Wobble 17 years, 8 months ago

@ 1

This further proves how useless Norton is.

Also, why are you trying to learn assembly? From what I know, it's next to useless. If you think GM without comments was hard, think of cryptic functions, (I believe) no actual variable names…everything's confusing. And a lot of the times, it's only a little bit better than normal programming languages.

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It appears I spoke to soon.
Read that sentence again. =) =(

biggoron 17 years, 8 months ago

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it's next to useless
Pah!

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Read that sentence again. =) =(
I will kill you some day.

biggoron 17 years, 8 months ago

I've installed SimplyMEPIS 6.5. It runs fine off the Live CD, but when I installed it and tried to login it gives me an error about DCOPServer, and tells me that I should check that it's running :S I'll find out about it tomorrow.

flashback 17 years, 8 months ago

biggoron, ask on mepislovers. Saist or someone will pounce on it and start troubleshooting with you.

biggoron 17 years, 8 months ago

Huh, I reinstalled it and it works fine now.

[edit]

winehq.com and winehq.org appear to be down. That's very annoying. I can only see myself really turning to Linux if I can use all those Windows-only apps that I'm so used to.