What is the name of the Honda dealer that you deal with?

I just picked up a new Honda at Gillman Honda (no problems with them honoring their internet quote, but their finance guy was a unintelligible jerk who took WAY too long to paper the entire deal: when I'm paying cash for a car, I don't particularly like having to wait for anyone to take my check). Russell & Smith were very friendly and polite, but just wouldn't deal at all and their internet quote was well above what other Houston dealers were offering. I guess that the Cash for Clunkers program has given dealers the sense that they are in a better negotiating position than a potential buyer.

Worms ... I hate worms ...
 

Good Afternoon, Box.


I had a very :rolleyes: evening last night, and this morning. I have discovered that my laptop has a worm.

OMG. You guys know what a bimbo I am with IT stuff.

Anyway, I figured out I have a koobworm or something similar. And, I know where I darned well got it from - facebook.

I clicked on a link, which, yes I know I probably shouldn't have done, but what can I tell ya!

Anyway, Mr. Brit and I spent most of last evening trying to remove the darned thing, and thought we had succeeded.

Alas, no!

So, do any of you guys know what I should do next? Should I take it to someone who knows what they are doing? It's an old laptop, but it's got all my work on it.

I think I should buy a new laptop, really, but now I'm worried that if I transfer my work files over, then I'll just carry the little bugger over to my new machine.

Darned worms.... bugger, bugger, bugger.

Yeah, it was amazing. Everything was running fine yesterday until I installed that, and immediately, the computer froze. I rebooted, went into safe mode, removed it, and that was 23 hours ago. Haven't had a problem since, and have reinstalled everything else, so I'm convinced it was that software that caused this. Anyway, it's great to have a blazing fast computer at home once again. Now hopefully I can get caught up on editing and posting photos from the last few months, as well as a few other things that I had been putting off until I had the new computer.

That's good to know. My desktop is going on 4 years, knock on wood (only needed a new video card in that time).

It doesn't reflect well on Dell (or whoever) to ship a computer with that crap on there. :td::rolleyes: I'm almost to the point that if I need to install custom software on a computer to use a piece of hardware (other than drivers) that I'd rather not bother with it. :-:

I'm kinda annoyed at Apple for doing this with the Airport. It needs client software to configure it and doesn't have a simple web interface for anything. And reboots every time you change a setting. :rolleyes::rolleyes: Other that that it's great.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

also which anti virus do you utilize, and is it up to date?

personally I'd go extreme techie and use handle, filemon, regmon, process explorer and hand fix it :D
If you will be in the FLL/MIA or SFO area this week or next and still having problems....let me know.

I have firewire on this computer too, and it's on my work laptop as well — but I don't seem to own anything that will connect to it.

I have a DV cam, but my laptop is the small 'ilink' type port and I don't have that kind of cable. :td: My desktop has 2 full sized ports, but isn't running right now(no need for it using power now, will use it during the winter to make heat!)

Yeah, I learned a long time ago to install just what's needed. Hardware works fine with just the drivers. The extra crap doesn't really add anything most of the time; it usually seems to just give you a somewhat friendly interface to use features that are already accessible through the OS.

I use McAfee and it said that I was up to date and protected. It also said it had quarantined the websrvcx.exe thing. but, I still get those stupid pop up adverts and when I try to go to certain websites it rolls me over to ads.

Grrrr.

I will be in SAT next week, unfortunately.

oh, and I think Mr. Brit installed something called Ad-Aware of something like that last night.

When I run a scan it says there are no problems. But, there obviously are!

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7A341 Safari/528.16)

Heh I just went to get coffee at a place called hot coffee girls. Apparently their schtick is women in bikinis making the coffee there.







Win.

I have just confirmed malwarebytes will remove koobface fully. Go this route ^

Koobface is dangerous, it makes your machine able to be controlled by attacks, spammers, etc as a member of a botnet.

what's a botnet?

Do you think I should just say bugger it and buy a new laptop?

Mine is about 4 years old and is getting really cranky. Maybe I should just get a new one?

It's like Seattle was built just for you. :)