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    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by wrathofdeath, Nov 24, 2011.

  1. wrathofdeath

    wrathofdeath Notebook Evangelist

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    I walked away from my computer for a few minutes and when I came back it didnt want to open ANYTHING. I restarted and now it works. Should I do a virus check? And also, whats a good virus checker (not antivirus) and a good registry error remover?
     
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  2. wrathofdeath

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    I walked away from my computer for a few minutes and when I came back it didnt want to open ANYTHING. I restarted and now it works. Should I do a virus check? And also, whats a good virus checker (not antivirus) and a good registry error remover. One last question. Panda Antivirus says I have 51 cookies. How do I remove them?
     

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  3. Rypac

    Rypac Notebook Evangelist

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    CCleaner is good at removing these sort of things.
     
    Rypac, Nov 24, 2011
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    more likely related to power management than anything. I cannot think of any way a cookie would cause this.
     
    GNandGS, Nov 25, 2011
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  5. wrathofdeath

    wrathofdeath Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey guys,

    I just downloaded vlc player and got a trojan. How the hell do i delete it?
     
    wrathofdeath, Nov 27, 2011
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    DeeVu That Compsci/Psych Major

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    Anti virus. MalwareBytes
     
    DeeVu, Nov 27, 2011
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  7. wrathofdeath

    wrathofdeath Notebook Evangelist

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    Did a full trojan removal with nod32. It seems to be fine now, no threats detected
     
    wrathofdeath, Nov 28, 2011
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  8. Rypac

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    That's good you got it all sorted.

    Where did you download it from to get a virus?
     
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    The first result for vlc player. Some reason the trojans are still in the quarantine menu... It scanned and saw no viruses but they are still in quarantine... here is a screeny

    Edit: I just looked and there is hw monitor in there.... is that a virus too?
     

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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Weird, the first and official link for downloading VLC media player (not that I would recommend using it) is called: vlc-1.1.11-win32.exe
     
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  11. wrathofdeath

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    oh... i dont know then. I am running a last scan over whole hd. just to make sure that they are gone.
     
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    If it still isn't fully cleaning out the virus, give Avast! free antivirus a try. I find that it works really well.
     
    Rypac, Nov 28, 2011
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    Bitdefender and Kaspersky have online free scanners too, no download needed.
     
    katalin_2003, Nov 28, 2011
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    Reformat is always the best solution n_n
     
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    I just noticed the virus wasnt from vlc player but from EPIC PLAY that came with it. Just uninstalled it/.
     
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    Oh god here we go again.

    Before I downloaded vlc, I had a download speed of 2.25mbps and a low ping. Now my ping is 351ms and download speed 1.25mbs
     
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    Can someone explain why the M14x with the quad core i7 maxes out at 8GB of RAM, but the M11x with the dual core i7 maxes out at 12GB?

    I do a lot of 3D modeling and multitasking, extra RAM is always great.
     
    BWhite03, Dec 19, 2011
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    The m11x has the (expensive) option to upgrade to 16GB on dells website, The m14x doesn't have this option, but that doesn't mean its not supported (and even if its not technically supported some laptops will still read more ram than they say). I'd say that if you picked up 16GB from newegg (about $169) it would read just fine, if not return it.
     
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    When you say "not that I would recommend using it" do you mean that you wouldn't recommend using the link? Or that you wouldn't recommend using VLC Player? Or that you recommend that VLC Player is not used?

    I'm not being sarky, but as I rely on VLC for recording mms streams and playing FLV video I'd like to know any drawbacks :)
     
    clemenzina, Dec 20, 2011
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