Quads
Malware Removalists
In New Zealand
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Post by Quads on Oct 24, 2014 9:54:26 GMT -8
You are free to go on your merry way. You are now fixed / Solved.
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Post by mfp2241 on Oct 24, 2014 14:56:32 GMT -8
Thank you!!!!
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Post by mfp2241 on Oct 25, 2014 6:13:02 GMT -8
Having a couple more issues, but I'm not sure if they are related to the original problem.
First - System seems to be running fine (the dllhost and COM Surrogate issues went away) but I've gotten a couple High Disk Usage Norton pop-ups for both "Modern Setup Host" & "Host Processes", also setuphost.exe & many instances of svchost.exe seem to be running a lot. Not sure if this is a problem or not.
Second - My C drive is now showing very full. Around the time of my first post I had a little less than 180GB free on my 440GB hard drive. Looked at it this morning and it shows up in red with only 35.3 GB available.
This is a list of everything that I did since my last post; - updated Windows, and turned on automatic updates - updated Firefox - installed "NoScript" and "AdBlockPlus" add-ons in Firefox - uninstalled Java - uninstalled Adobe Reader - installed Sumatra PDF - installed the free version of MalwareBytes Antimalware
When I select Analyze under Optimize Drives it says the disk isn't fragmented, and, what's on the C drive looks like it only adds up to about 280GB.
I'm not sure why it's showing so much extra data, is this something you can help me with?
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Quads
Malware Removalists
In New Zealand
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Post by Quads on Oct 25, 2014 10:13:09 GMT -8
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Post by mfp2241 on Oct 25, 2014 13:02:03 GMT -8
Ok thanks, I’ll let it go for a bit and see if it works itself out over the next few days. I just wanted to make sure it wasn’t something related to the malware issue.
Lastly, thank you for the quick and extremely professional repair of my machine!!!!
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Quads
Malware Removalists
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Post by Quads on Oct 25, 2014 14:11:11 GMT -8
Poweliks (or the variants I know of and have tried) does not cause this
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