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@blonde/blue wrote:
I reinstalled XP the other day Ellen and straight away had the same problem. I set mine to 286, following Owens instructions and I`ve had no probs since. May just be the OS and not neccessarily anything suspicious on your puter? :?
You reinstalled XP and had VM probs? A clean instal should work no probs with 256 mb of RAM combined with a 384 mb of VM RAM (default). Your clean instal was using more than 540 mb of combined RAM? Something on your system needs looking at because the most a clean instal of XP needs at any one point to run, is 256 mb of RAM.
You said you reset your VM volume to 286 mb and after this it was fine? If you were getting VM probs with the default setting of 384 mb resetting it to a lower volume of 286 mb would of surley made it even worse.
@Ow£n Ka$h wrote:
Hi Ellen,
try this…
>Start
>Control Panel
>System
>Advanced
Under ‘Performance’
> Settings
Here in ‘Visual Settings’ you can adjust the performance of your pc.
I have mine set to ‘Adjust for best performance’ but you might prefer to
use ‘Let Windows choose what’s best for my computer’.
If you Click ‘Advanced’ you can change your Virtual Memory settings.
It should tell you the minimum size and the recommended size for your
paging file.
The minimum size for my system is 2MB
The recommended size is 382MB
I have it set to 512MB
I hope this helps. :wink:Hmmmmmm
Distributed denial of service (Ddos) is when a collection of computers are owned by an attacker/zombie master who then runs stress testing tools or bots against the victim.
Zombies are normally found by block ip port scanning for systems infected with Trojans listening on there respective ports, these scanners are very powerful ad can scan a small country of all it’s computers in a couple of hours, once they exploit these back doors and gain root/admin status to the infected system they then remotely instal a stress testing tool/bot. A good Ddos attack will normally have around 400 – 1000 zombies which will all be used in synch, and the master will normally use IRC as the attack HQ with fellow masters also attacking you.
When the attack happens basically your being flooded with packets of either ICMP, SYN, UDP or SMURF from the zombies the master ‘owns’ and if the master has enough zombies say bye bye cause your connection is going loco. You only need five progs that are readily available on most ‘security sites’ to set up a basic but highly effective Ddos attack and it is very simple to do, hence why it’s one of the commonest attacks out there. Ddos attacks are not used for just killing bandwidth and taking websites offline, they can also be used to attack firewalls.You can get bandwith probs when alot ppl directly link to media on your website. You can try to rename the media to correct this problem.
There are hundreds of bots and alot of them are very highly configurable and theres bots that’ll eat bandwidth….. any type of distributed attack is an attack on bandwidth full stop.
However i find it highly unlikley your being attacked unless you either píssed someone of in IRC chat or you have a website that someone disagrees with.
Well Ellen it seems that Spybot removed this FunWeb for Poshcat so you now know how to get rid of it.
Now set your VM volume to the default setting (384 mb) and see if you still get the VM errors. If you do then theres something still on your system draining at your RAM.
Poshcat your system is fine, although i’d advise anyone to run a registry cleaner over there system after any type of infection.
In fact if Poshcat and Ellen download Adawarespy http://www.adwarespy.com/download.html and then check your pm’s i have sent you the license key to unlock this program.
It’s a very good peice of kit priced at 40$ and it’s on the house. Make sure you update the program and do a full system scan.
You have a small screen (14″) you may want to check if the game supports the resolution your screen is set to. If you know your comps, try setting the screen resolution to 960×600 instead of 768×1024 to see if the monitor displays the game properly.
It may be worth investigating the colour depth because old style monitors have problems running some games on a 32 bit colour depth when running at maximum resolutions.
If none of these work, try drop kicking it, and go buy yourself a 17″ monitor.
Always make a note of your current settings before changing them.
LMAO, Now i will post a smug grin!. :D
See Owen, you should’nt of instructed Ellen to increase the VM volume and turn off the performance and graphics of XP, as i said all the way along in this topic you need to hunt what is causing the problem and not hide it.
I read this article about the adware/malware Ellen has been infected with.
The consequences of FunWebProducts in Windows systems are serious. These programs can cause browsers to perform slowly, can degrade overall system performance, and can damage Windows configurations. They can also cause other applications to misbehave.
Thanks for proving it once again Owen.
WOW, no way like, did you really get all six for less than thirty quid? Man i wish i was that lucky.
AVG found a virus in Norton SystemWorksNorton AntivirusQuarantineIncomingAPO.htm
LMAO, Next time try emptying the quarantine file in Norton AV, :lol: you’ll find it’s alot easier than a clean instal. :lol: Follow the directory path above which i have highlighted in red, and you will see why i’m laughing.
Norton had already found this worm and had quarantined it successfully, all you needed to do was to empty your Norton quarantine file and the worm would of been deleted.
Oh, and dont bother trying to use Norton in safe mode, try using Norton in diagnostic mode. Safe mode is good for removing nasties manually.
If you want to start your computer in safe mode, try logging on as system admin first.
Owen fixed it Ellen?.
Anyone who knows there comps would tell ya Owen has not fixed your RAM drainage, more like just hidden what ever is causing the drainage on the RAM in the first place by increasing you VM volume and getting you to turn off your graphics for XP.
I will always point out when bad advise is given, as i would expect someone to say if i was giving out bad advice. But im trying to advise you too find out where your RAM resources are going.
Ellen you really should find out what is causing so much drainage on your RAM.
@Ow£n Ka$h wrote:
@superanubistype wrote:
Owen i take it as you did’nt know that XP makes the default setting of the paging file is 1 and 1/2 times the physical RAM installed on the comp and this would make the default paging file exactly 376 mb on Ellens machine with 256mb of physical RAM instaled.
If you dont believe me Google it like you normally do.It’s exactly 384 MB actually.
What’s wrong with using Google?@superanubistype wrote:
So now Ellen has a combined RAM of 906 mb, 256 mb of physical RAM, and a 650 mb of (VM) and heavy usage of HDD not to mention changing the settings and performance to Windows 98, and the problems still there LMAO.
The recommended minimum size is equivalent to 1.5 times the RAM
on your computer, and 3 times that figure for the maximum size. For
example, if you have 256 MB of RAM, the minimum size is 384 MB, and
the maximum size is 1152 MB.
For best performance, do not set the initial size to less than the minimum
recommended size under Total paging file size for all drives. The
recommended size is equivalent to 1.5 times the RAM on your computer.
It is good practice to leave the paging file at its recommended size.
However, you may increase its size if you frequently use programs that
use much memory.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308417/I didn’t advise Ellen to increase her VM, I told her where she could find
the recommended paging file size for her pc.
My post regarding performance settings merely turns off the fancy
graphics of XP. It does increase performance, it does not make XP
perform like 98!@superanubistype wrote:
Thanks Owen for proving you really dont know a thing.
How arrogant you are!
LMAO, sorry its not 376 its 386mb my mistake!!, but im glad you read up on that, you might of learned something. You did’nt know it was 1.5 times the RAM instaled. I did shut you up though, lmao you thought i would’nt know that.
Owen you can increase the paging file volume to max of 1152mb as i have already stated on this topic (see last page) but i guess you dont know what effects this has on the HDD (google it) and turning off the performance settings does make it look nasty and feel like Win98.
I can argue this with you all night but your trying to get someone to feed more VM RAM to an application on a system thats eating way too much RAM as it is, and you did’nt even stop to think what is eating at Ellens RAM.
In laymans terms your saying fúck what ever is causing the RAM drainage just increase the paging file and turn off your perfomance and setttings to Xp, and hopefully the errors will disappear.
BTW if you want to turn your paging file up x3 it’s highly advisable that you instal the paging file on a seperate partition on your HDD and the paging file must be kept away from the same partition your program files are instaled on , bet you did’nt know that (Google that one). Remeber when the paging file is in use a 1152mb VM is going to be constantly reading, deleting and writing 1152mb of info as quick as the transfer rate will allow, causing massive HDD usage.
