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  1. Allot of people badmouth him, everyone has an opinion and is intitled to. Visit just about any forum and mention something like "I tested my firewall with ShieldsUp!" or "test your firewall as http://grc.com using ShieldsUp!) or just mention anything related to GRC.com and soon after that some smartassed childish remarks and a link pointing to "grcsucks.com" will show up a few posts down. Exactly he was the reason why people learnt about spyware and the absolute need for a firewall, and from my perspective he gave Zone Labs a huge boost because I don't think allot of people would have used or known about ZoneAlarm with his praises of it, I surely wouldn't have at the time since I didn't even know what a firewall was, I had never heard of such a thing. He also made it common knowledge if a firewall failed which forced it/their publisher to fix the security holes. Back in 2000 before I knew what adware and spyware was since I only knew the generic term "virus" I was infected with TimeSync and some other crap from using adware programs (GoZilla, Flashget, etc.), etc., and found the Run commands in the registry I went onto Google and searched for it all because it was causing Internet Explorer and Netscape to constantly crash, and Win98 to constantly crash as well. I looked at what people had written on one of CNET's site's and quickly found a link to GRC.com that had a spyware remover, this was before I knew anything about Ad-Aware etc., (or it's when Ad-Aware was either not public yet or not even conceived) -- something like that, it's difficult to remember everything exactly from five years ago which is now rapidly approaching six years. To summarize, it was Steve Gibson's website http://grc.com that turned me into a security-super-psycho-madman and I haven't changed that philosophy since. ShieldsUp! is quick and easy, and there's no over-the-top technical jargon to confuse people -- it's dead simple either a firewall blocks something using it's default settings, or it doesn't. I don't use any other online firewall tests and haven't looked at any others for ages. The reason for this is because I've found in the past that some either take ages to complete and/or want you to purchase their firewall software or link to an affiliate to purchase one from.
  2. Try it in Safe Mode, there could be some software installed that's conflicting with the Issues scanner.
  3. Don't know, however it would be a good feature to have, or at the least a button to click that would order the files accordingly from what the track number is that's stored in the tag's, however it could also be said that you should be using at least the track number in the filename but that doesn't matter it's your individual choice. I suppose you could email the author (click the About button in Burrrn for the contact address) of the program and suggest such a feature.
  4. ShieldsUp! isn't the most thorough test, it's basic at most, however it's a very quick and easy way to evaluate how a firewall is performing. If a firewall can't past those quick tests I immediately uninstall it. Although allot of people bad-mouth Steve Gibson there'd be allot of computer users that wouldn't have known to use a firewall, myself included when I discovered GRC.com back in the year 2000.
  5. If you're talking about Check Disk I run it everyday before I make my daily backups. I run a surface scan about once every 1 to 3 months.
  6. Come on get the name correct if someone want to try it out, it's NetVeda - Safety.Net and it's free for personal use.
  7. There's two ways it can be installed. The default is for it to automatically allow a program access which is not completely secure. You must have used it in it's "prompt mode" which is more secure. Once you allow and create a rule for all of the programs you use online, and some other programs that call upon other programs it shouldn't bug you anymore unless a program has changed by either a new version being installed, or by a malware infection.
  8. I think you have to add all the tracks at once from an album, however I could be wrong. You may also have to have your tracks alphanumerically named (with leading zero), e.g.: Like this: Dimmu Borgir - 01 - Allegiance.wv Dimmu Borgir - 02 - Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse.wv Dimmu Borgir - 03 - Lepers Among Us.wv Dimmu Borgir - 04 - Vredesbyrd.wv Dimmu Borgir - 05 - For The World To Dictate Our Death.wv Dimmu Borgir - 06 - Blood Hunger Doctrine.wv Dimmu Borgir - 07 - Allehelgens Dod I Helveds Rike.wv Dimmu Borgir - 08 - Cataclysm Children.wv Dimmu Borgir - 09 - Eradication Instincts Defined.wv Dimmu Borgir - 10 - Unorthodox Manifesto.wv Dimmu Borgir - 11 - Heavenly Perverse.wv Or like this: 01 - Allegiance.wv 02 - Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse.wv 03 - Lepers Among Us.wv 04 - Vredesbyrd.wv 05 - For The World To Dictate Our Death.wv 06 - Blood Hunger Doctrine.wv 07 - Allehelgens Dod I Helveds Rike.wv 08 - Cataclysm Children.wv 09 - Eradication Instincts Defined.wv 10 - Unorthodox Manifesto.wv 11 - Heavenly Perverse.wv Not like this, there isn't any software I know of that can sort this: Dimmu Borgir - Allegiance.wv Dimmu Borgir - Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse.wv Dimmu Borgir - Lepers Among Us.wv Dimmu Borgir - Vredesbyrd.wv Dimmu Borgir - For The World To Dictate Our Death.wv Dimmu Borgir - Blood Hunger Doctrine.wv Dimmu Borgir - Allehelgens Dod I Helveds Rike.wv Dimmu Borgir - Cataclysm Children.wv Dimmu Borgir - Eradication Instincts Defined.wv Dimmu Borgir - Unorthodox Manifesto.wv Dimmu Borgir - Heavenly Perverse.wv If you need a freeware software that can quickly rename your files from the tag's stored in them give Tag Frontend a try. Make sure you click/enable 'Test mode' until you know exactly what you want! ----- Edit: Fixed typo's.
  9. I'd say before defragmentation you should really run a Check Disk, since to my knowledge Windows XP doesn't automatically scan the disk for errors before defragmentation. If you already know this just ignore it: Here's how to perform Check Disk:1. Open My Computer.2. Right click each hard disk(s) or hard disk partitions one at a time? ?and select 'Properties'3. Next click 'Tools' and under 'Error checking' click 'Check Now...'4. In 'Check disk options' select 'Automatically fix file system errors'5. Click StartRepeat steps 4 and 5 for each hard disk(s) or hard disk partitions.Since Check Disk will ask for a restart to scan drive C:\ I'd recommendyou have it scanned for errors last, and do restart Windows soon afterscheduling it to scan for errors.
  10. Not only that it set a cookie into Internet Explorer, but I was using Opera when I visited the site.
  11. You're welcome! Not everyone knows some of the in's and out's of burnatonce, however once someone get's use to its functionality it can easily make commercial pay-for-it cd/dvd burning applications seem bland and not worth the money spent on them. Also some of the backend programs in 'burnatonce\external' can be updated with more current versions (just leave cdrdao.exe as-is hence it has special extensions for usage with burnatonce.) I only wish Jamie would at the least release a new version that had verification of the written discs, as that's the only feature I think is a necessity, and is the only reason why I still use Sonic RecordNow for critical backups.
  12. The only three programs with built-in registry cleaners that I ever intend to use from now and into the future are CCleaner, EasyCleaner w/current Blacklist, and RegSeeker w/an exlude.ini file a mile long.
  13. The last time I tested "this free firewall" which is Comodo Personal Firewall it had some open ports when I used the ShieldsUp! test on http://grc.com, needless to say it only lasted a few minutes after that test.
  14. If those are in C:\Windows\Internet Logs it's directly related to using ZoneAlarm. The winapp2.ini add-on has a routine built into it to remove .tmp files etc., from the ZoneAlarm C:\Windows\Internet Logs folder. If the winapp2.ini add-on doesn't remove them you could try Unlocker to see if it will remove them, if it doesn't work and it may not because ZoneAlarm does protect some of it's files you'd instead have to uninstall ZoneAlarm (preferrably in Safe Mode) to have those files unlocked so they could be deleted.
  15. I'm starting to think the disappearing drive issue may actually be a problem in Windows or some commonly installed software that many people are using, and not completely related to the Sony Rootkit. The reason I'm thinking this way is because my first OEM install of WinXP had no detected malware, didn't have the Sony Rootkit, etc., and my floppy drive just vanished one day, and my ERUNT backup and System Restore backup from the day before didn't fix the problem.
  16. Burn4Free is out of the question! The first screen on the installer states it will install an IE toolbar just to use the program, which means I won't be using Burn4Free no matter how good it is.
  17. On my WinXP system I think I'll continue using my old copy of RecordNow 6 and burnatonce. On my Win98 system I uninstalled Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum because it was always loosing my preferred configuration choices which was getting very annoying, however I do miss the verification of the written disc to make sure there's no errors. Thanks to rridgely for posting a link to DeepBurner Free I'm now using it on my Win98 system which has worked flawlessly, at least it did with the four backup CD-RW's I've created so far, and that's all I need it for on my old system is to just create those four backup CD-RW's. I just wish burnatonce work on my Win98 system, but it doesn't and never has. I'm going to give that one a try as well, and see if I like it any better than DeepBurner Free. Although I like DeepBurner Free the GUI is a bit of a jumbled mess, but hey it's free and does the job.
  18. burnatonce can do all of that and it can also later burn the .ISO it created since it is after all a full featured program. Here's how: 1. Run burnatonce 2. Click Mastering -> Data CD... 3. Either click Add Files, or Add Folders, or optionally just Drag N' Drop whatever you wish to be in the .ISO onto the Data CD Mastering window 4. Click Image File so the small box is selected, this tells burnatonce to create an .ISO image files instead of a disc (see screenshot) 5. Click Compile, and then select a title if you wish to in Volume Label:, then click OK. 6. Now save the .ISO image file to a location of your choice, such as the Desktop, etc., and burnatonce will create the .ISO for you Here's how to burn the .ISO (or any .ISO) with burnatonce: 1. Run burnatonce, if burnatonce is set to open when you click an .ISO you won't have to manually do this! 2. Click File -> Load New Image... and of course select the .ISO file you created, if burnatonce is set to open when you click an .ISO you won't have to manually do this! 3. Click Write, and you're done
  19. If you want to make sure you are "safely" removing ZoneAlarm I suggest you remove it in Safe Mode. Then after the system restarts keep running CCleaner's Issues scanner multiple times until no more ZaMailSafe entries are found, and then open RegEdit and manually delete Zone Labs entries found in: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Zone Labs HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Zone Labs You may or will also have to manually delete the left over C:\Windows\Internet Logs folder as well. Give Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall a try. The 30 day trial period allows you to use all of it's paid features, and after the 30 day trial period ends some of those paid features will be disabled as it morphs into freeware mode. It's also very easy to backup the configuration, and doesn't seem to cause as many problems as ZoneAlarm Free and it's a more current version (currently just rebranded) versus using ZoneAlarm Free v5.5.
  20. I can understand your frustration and know you're probably upset about loosing so many audio files, however the answer is very simple and has been recently dicussed: DO NOT store any important files in the Temp folders on any Windows-based computer. It's not a CCleaner bug, the program was doing what it's designed to do, remove temporary files. CCleaner deletes the contents of the mapped Temp folder on a system, you can find out via a Command Prompt where your mapped Temp folder is by typing in CD %TEMP% however storing any important files in any Temp folder is very high-risk since many disk cleaning utilities will empty out Temp folders, even the built-in Windows Disk Cleanup can delete those contents. In the future it's important to utilize safer locations for your important files and documents, such as the My Documents folder and regularly create backups of your important files when you've made additions or changes and backup those files onto removable media such as CD-R/-RW, DVD-R/+R/-RW/+RW, Memory Stick, or even another hard disk or hard disk partition.
  21. Andavari

    Spam

    Ahh, now I completely remember eDexter after viewing its homepage. I'm using a clear .gif in CookieCop therefore I don't see any broken ad images at all.
  22. Andavari

    Spam

    I remember reading some info about eDexter many years ago on some security site and it's the main reason I started using the HOSTS file to block stuff. But as a proxy filtering software nothing that's currently available will replace CookieCop on my two systems.
  23. A major problem with a limited-user account is not being able to remove some stuff, especially things related to spyware infestation in the registry, however changing the account type to an admin account can alleviate that problem. The only thing I don't like about multiple user accounts is the utter pain when cleaning up an infected system since each account has to be cleaned individually due to spyware registry keys, etc. Although I was bitten just a couple of months ago using an admin account, and then decided after a full format and OS reinstall to strickly use a limited-user account when online I quickly found after a few days that I absolutely couldn't stand the limited-user account and thus deleted it with much joy.
  24. It's laggy all the time for me. Part of the problem I think was ZoneAlarm, which I think I'll leave uninstalled this time. No since badmouthing ZoneAlarm as everyone probably already knows what I think of it by now.
  25. Andavari

    MP3 Players

    I probably wouldn't have any luck finding a new one that didn't cache audio, which is evil when attempting to rip audio securely, well at least EAC can disable the caching but I'd still prefer drives without audio caching. I know all about creating more than one backup, when it comes to my audio collection you're talking to Mr. Paranoid. I have all files backed up on CD-R, and duplicates backed up on DVD+R, whatsmore I don't even touch those discs so as to not introduce dust, fingerprints, scratches, etc. For now I still listen to the original audio CD's and some of which are over twenty years old but still look brand new because I take care of them and store them properly. At some point if money permits me to do so I want all those encoded audio files to permanently live on a Windows driven music system operated via a laptop using probably external hard disks, and of course a remote control, with the sound coming out of some good Altec Lansing speakers or Bose Speakers (or whatever I can afford). Until then I can only dream about it -- but that's my goal.
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