ThexDarksider

Aw that's super cute, I love cats. My cats prefer cheese but they'll eat anything.

I'm almost completely sure he won't need the license key. The service pack shouldn't matter too much either. You're welcome, I'm glad I can help.

I think there's an ISO image of the recovery console but I don't think it's official, and I wouldn't trust it if it's not. So yeah, without a disk, it's going be difficult. Again, using someone else's disk, as long as it's the same OS, should also work, so if your friend can borrow someone's XP disk, it should also work. He's just going to fix the bad sectors anyway, not install anything from it. A live Linux distro to run fsck would be even better for this if he knows how to use Linux, but this is safer if he doesn't. He might want to check the cables first, though, as that might be the issue as well.

A program like Firefox wouldn't cause a BSOD like that. UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME indicates that the file system is probably broken. I've posted about this in the other thread though. Hope your friend fixes it!

Alright, tell me how it went or if you need any help. You are welcome.

Any copy should work. What I'm worried about more is, if the file system got corrupted, as that's one of the causes of this issue, the data might be lost by using the default Windows disk scan program (because it, well, sucks). If you have a copy of SpinRite laying around somewhere, you might want to use that. If you don't care much or don't want to do that, go with whatever solution you deem appropriate. If you're unsure about what to do, please ask.

In my opinion, the only vital addon is NoScript. After that comes ABP, and then everything else. Just my opinion though.

I'm glad I could help. Are you still experiencing some problems or everything is working now?

I love these. LOL (Edited for formatting.)

Sorry to see you go... Goodbye and take care...

Congrats all!

Happy birthday!

Same here, with version 3.6.16. It lags a bit for about 1 second upon loading the page but it's barely noticeable and it only lasts for so long. I have to say though, I've been experiencing the same thing as 1PW

Hehehe. I used Firebug btw, the reason it might look a bit different (the font?) is because I'm on Ubuntu.

April Fools Day!

lol Well basically when you're coding, and mess up a pointer (for example, introduce a null pointer somewhere inside your program), the program will crash upon trying to access the referenced memory, and the crash is called a `segfault' on *nix systems. Xkcd is awesome.

Hi Shauna, and welcome to Malwarebytes. MajorGeeks is an official mirror and a safe site. If you think your computer is infected, please read this topic and then start a new topic here and wait until an expert arrives to help. Regards, ThexDarksider

From xkcd.

This thread already exists here: http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=80012 Nevermind, I'm not gonna interfere...

Hi. It looks like a firewall or an antivirus application is blocking Malwarebytes from updating. Please add the following files to the ignore/exclusion list of your firewall and antivirus applications: If you are using Windows XP: C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\mbam.exe C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\mbamgui.exe C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\mbamservice.exe C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\mbam.dll C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\mbamext.dll C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Malwarebytes\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\rules.ref C:\Windows\System32\drivers\mbam.sys C:\Windows\System32\drivers\mbamswissarmy.sys If you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7: C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\mbam.exe C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\mbamgui.exe C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\mbamservice.exe C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\mbam.dll C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\mbamext.dll C:\ProgramData\Malwarebytes\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\rules.ref C:\Windows\System32\drivers\mbam.sys C:\Windows\System32\drivers\mbamswissarmy.sys If you are using 64-bit Windows Vista or Windows 7: C:\Program Files (x86)\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\mbam.exe C:\Program Files (x86)\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\mbamgui.exe C:\Program Files (x86)\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\mbamservice.exe C:\Program Files (x86)\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\mbam.dll C:\Program Files (x86)\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\mbamext.dll C:\ProgramData\Malwarebytes\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\rules.ref C:\Windows\System32\drivers\mbam.sys C:\Windows\SysWoW64\drivers\mbamswissarmy.sys Also, if either of the programs has some kind of web filter, add the following domain to the list of trusted sites: data-cdn.mbamupdates.com See this FAQ for more information. Good luck, and please post back the results. Hope this helps. ThexDarksider

I could swear I had a dial-up modem laying around somewhere but I can't find it...

Where did the good old days of dial-up go...

I do kinda regret I wasn't a part of the first computer era... I remember some of the '90s though. I was born in '94 and got my first computer before Win98 came out. x64? Naw. USB? No way. DSL? Not a chance! Lent a floppy? They'd better return it! Sweet days...

lol .net