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blackdove83

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  1. Anyone who studies chaos theory or cellular automata knows where this is going. We live in an unthinking morally bankrupt society.
  2. I should have mentioned that the connection was labeled as "system process" which means it cant be inspected.
  3. I use TCPView to monitor whats connected to my PC and i noticed that there was an outgoing connection from my PC to the router. It closed by itself in a few seconds. I thought it was weird to see a connection like that since i have network discovery and netbios over tcp off. Is this a normal phenomenon?
  4. It should be booting to the windows defender disc and not into windows itself. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-defender-offline-faq Is i giving you the option to boot from the CD on restart?
  5. If you get stuck in the BIOS there should be a guide at the bottom of the screen describing what keys to use. Just use the keys to navigate out(usually esc) out of the BIOS. Exit without saving and it will continue booting.
  6. Sorry for the late reply. The reason to do offline scans is so that youre sure that any malware that could hide in the system files cant run with the operating system. Is there the option to boot from the CD in the boot screen?
  7. So its not overheating. Back to the software... Just out of curiousity i would try a Windows Defender Offline scan. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/what-is-windows-defender-offline
  8. Java is not malicious as John said. People do exploit vulnerabilities in java in order to compromise systems. But pretty much any software has vulnerabilities to exploit. There is no way to make java or office or firefox or any other program completely safe. You can make them more safe by keeping them updated and using exploit mitigation software. I have to use java and i use malwarebytes anti exploit and EMET to help protect against java exploits. You can also type java into the windows start menus search, go to the java configuration settings and disable it in the browser.
  9. Sorry i missed that you checked event viewer. If im not mistaken there will be an entry for every logon and logoff as well as the other processes and services thst begin and end at startup and shutdown. Theyd have a white circle with the letter i in it for information as well as a section below it with detailed information. If you look there it might have some clues. Also go to your control panel and windows update history. You can see if any updates were installed right before the shutdown occurred and it would also say in the update notes if it requires a restart. However you said it was a shutdown which windows update doesnt cause... so still a bit unusual. I could speculatd that maybe the CPUs thermal or voltage protection caused the shutdown. Im not sure if the HP BIOS has any feature that could cause a soft shutdown in it or not. Normally i believe it would simply throttle the CPU, sound a beep alarm or hard power off with no logoff in such an overheat or under/overvoltage situation. http://www.intel.com/support/processors/sb/CS-031726.htm I would personally run the IPDT(if you have an Intel CPU ONLY) and post the temperature test results. It includes a brief load test which would help determine if your CPU is even getting hot enough to enable its self protection shutdown. I think youve got a few people who want to solve this mystery now.
  10. Ok i did all of that(remote administration is always off for everything i use) and checked to make sure the DNS in the routers table are legit. Thanks again.
  11. Thank you for the info and ive got another question. Would the DNS changers' modifications show up when you look in the Windows' or the router's DNS tables? Like it would be fairly obvious?
  12. John: one ought to trust neither of us arbitrarily and seek out objective facts to determine what to purchase. That is true of anything. http://www.realhardtechx.com/index_archivos/Page541.htm That link has links to multiple independent review sites per model, including disassemblies to determine build quality and even what brand of capacitors are used, as well as who actually makes the PSU since they are mostly rebranded and few companies actually manufacture(seasonic and delta do manufacture). The logo sitcker on it means nothing since companies will often rebrand from several OEMs. Jonnyguru and PC Perspective have expert reviews utilizing extremely thorough techniques(and measurement instruments) so i consider theirs first. Thats why i ended up with a seasonic x650 gold and an APC BackUPS XS1000. However since it seems to be software related id say just go into event viewer and check the log to see what actually initiated the shutdown as john said and tell us what you discover. That will give us insight as to what is actually going on. Another question for Anne. Was windows installed already when you got it or did you do a clean install of it personally?
  13. True but the rated Wattage or even 80 Plus is pretty meanimgless unless the PSU is high quality. Personally i wont put anything nut Seasonic or Delta PSUs in PCs i build. Im still not quite sure if the computer in question made the windows shutdown sound and properly shut down or if it just went off like the power went out...
  14. My cellular data plan. Its not through my DSLs wifi. People on different ISPs could get the forum fine as well. If i set DNS to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 in my DSL modem DHCP will use that on everything that connects through it correct?
  15. Well now it works... Centurylink just being a POS I guess?
  16. Worked fine until last night. No modifications have been made to the router. DNS in the routers settings are confirmed to be Centurylinks. Running 7 Pro, 8.1 and Vista lol. Theyre all not working. Restarted router manually and through the routers web interface.
  17. Not on that pc but i will be later tonight. Im 99% sure its the device connect sound though.
  18. Well i would if i could access the forum from any of the computers in my house... But its not just one of them. None of them can access the forum but all can update mbam and see malwarebytes.org.
  19. Any idea why the hardware detected sound would play john? Think theres some kind of ring -1 hypervisor running on my machine and thats a clue since it plays with self protection on but not when its off? At least one other persin here got the realtime protection disabled after upgrade so that could be an issue not related to my pc. Some ideas about the windows "duh dun" would be appreciated. Im not sure how chameleon would cause that. Doesnt do it when self protection is disabled.
  20. Which system? My pc or the update? And does the new hardware sound with protection module indicate anything?
  21. I dust my PC with a compressed gas duster every month or two. Every few months should be fine as long as its not terribly dusty and the heatsinks arent clogged. And did it just instantly power off or go through the shutdown procedure making the shutdown sounds and showing the shutdown screen? If it mysteriously did it and it looks like software and not hardware caused the shut down or restart then you might not want to wait without at least running malwarebytes with rootkit detection enabled.
  22. Oh i also wanted to ask if its anomalous for the upgrade process to disable realtime protection and have to manually re enable them?
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