Merry Christmas to all

Merry Christmas to everyone in Storm Shadow! During the holiday season it's wonderful to be with family and friends, and I do consider the folks in the Guild as friends

Although we all only know each other in a limited fashion I wanted to take the opportunity to tell you all how much I enjoy experiencing this game with folks like you. I know that the people I play this game with are one of the main reasons I'm still playing after 3 years:)

I hope you all have a great holiday and am looking forward to another bright year for our Guild. I hope we can continue to grow as a Guild and remain a respected and visible part of the DDO community.

Thanks to all members old and new for being a part of this fantastic experience

... and thanks for all the festival twigs you bastages

Morrek wrote:Merry Christmas to everyone in Storm Shadow! During the holiday season it's wonderful to be with family and friends, and I do consider the folks in the Guild as friends

Although we all only know each other in a limited fashion I wanted to take the opportunity to tell you all how much I enjoy experiencing this game with folks like you. I know that the people I play this game with are one of the main reasons I'm still playing after 3 years:)

I hope you all have a great holiday and am looking forward to another bright year for our Guild. I hope we can continue to grow as a Guild and remain a respected and visible part of the DDO community.

Thanks to all members old and new for being a part of this fantastic experience

... and thanks for all the festival twigs you bastages

Thanks Morrek. Thats a biggie for me too. Playing DDO still cause of my extended mmo family. Miss ya guys been too busy lately and really wanna get back on!

More bad news my computer is sick. I was trying to rid it of a virus and AVG "vaulted" some major system files now I have the awesome log on/off loop perhaps more aggravating than the BSOD. I am hoping to not have to do a windows recovery my disc only has SP1 on it

In frustration tho I have resumed my lap top search. What do yall think of this lappy?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220635




Anyway happy holidays hope to see yall soon in storm reach. -pan

nice laptop. The specs should be sufficient for reasonable gamin expectations

What kind of desktop do you have? Are you still on Win XP? I might be able to send you a recovery disc depending on the manufacturer.

By the way the first thing you always want to do is turn of the automatic restart on error in the advanced system properties.

Right Click on My Compueter

Select Properties,

Select Advanced

Select Startup and Recovery - Settings

Uncheck Automatically Restart

its an old PC I built about 5 years ago. I use win XP and have AVG antivirus, firewall, and anti-spy ware. I was checking my mail on 12/24 when I got a warning from AVG that i had threats. I contained them or so I thought. Next thing you know im getting those pop ups that say "computer infected download antispy ware and check your computer' My desktop background was changed to "your computer has been infected" when I control alt delete the task manager was blocked. I tried to with the run command pull it up but it wouldn't open got "this file has been infected and cannot be opened warning".

I made a copy of the taskmgr.exe and moved it to a new folder renamed the file panstaskmgr.com and was able to access the task manager again. (Thats a great trick by the way most viruses go after .exe files) Anywho I unplugged the net after some file named "jfhhdgdfk tried to access the net which I blocked. I tried to find the virus in the processes in the taskmgr and stopped a few deleted them but I couldnt clear everything. I gave up waited a few days plugged the net back in updated AVG.

Ran a deep scan with AVG after the update and unplugged the net. AVG found several infected files and a bad reg key. I should have known better but AVG wanted to "vault" the files and restart the computer and I said sure lets do that. After that the computer is now in log on/off loop and will not boot in safe mode either. Too much snow to deal with this today gonna have to come back to it.

I downloaded ubcd4windows and let me tell you its awesome! This boot disc is full of utilities I cant even begin to understand. Anyways it looks like it cleaned my registry and I am now able to boot back into windows normally. I am still not connected to the net yet I am running AVG full scan now. My desktop background still has the "your computer is infected" banner but im not getting the pop up windows anymore. From the boot disc I ran reg cleaner and pcezfix which deleted all the temp files.

So that where I am at any advice? More to follow -pan

Pan,

I'll link some good programs to use when I get a chance.

Spybot SD works well to remove malware. You can either install and run just to clean up your system or you can leave it on and take advantage of some of it's pro-active features.

CCleaner is a nice program from cleaning up your temp files and fixing your registry.

Thanks Morreck i was able to clean everything up with UBCD4windows. I highly recommend this free download. You need a copy of windows installation/recovery disc to make the build but once you do this disc has everything.

www.ubcd4win.com

thats good to hear. I will ahve to check out that program.

See ya back in game.