-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Help with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware locking up......

  • From: "Arty Fogel" <artyfogel@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:17:05 -0400

thanks for the info

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EddieB" <fasteddieb216@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 10:17 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Help with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware locking 
up......


> Arty,  He didn't actually shorten the path to the recycle bin.  What he 
> did
> was not type in the whole path into the email.  In other words, he typed 
> in
> "C:\Recycler\S-1-5\" when it was really at something like
> "C:\Recycler\S-1-5-21-xxxxxxxxx-yyyyyyyyy-zzzzzzzzzz-uuuu\" with numbers 
> in
> place of the x, y, z, and u letters.
>
> Ed
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Arty Fogel
> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 3:04 PM
> To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Help with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware locking
> up......
>
> hi,        how do you shorten the path to the recycle bin
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "rudy" <rudylopeznc@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 4:54 PM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Help with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware locking
> up......
>
>
>> Thanks Eddie and you are correct, it is the recycle bin and I shortened
>> the
>> path to it. I had deleted the recycle bin and I only log into this system
>> from non Administrator privileges but I will try again. If it locks up as
>> I
>> fully uninstalled the app and used regedit to clean the remaining files.
>> If
>> it does freeze up I will take note of the file and log in as
>> administrator.
>> I doubt it is a virus but it may well be, thanks much and I'll report
>> back......
>> Rudy
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "EddieB" <fasteddieb216@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 9:50 PM
>> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Help with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware locking
>> up......
>>
>>
>>> Well first of all, I'm hoping that you abbreviated the path, because it
>>> should be more like
>>> "C:\Recycler\S-1-5-21-xxxxxxxxx-yyyyyyyyy-zzzzzzzzzz-uuuu\" where uuuu 
>>> is
>>> either 500 for administrator or 1001 or higher for regular user.  This 
>>> is
>>> the Recycle Bin, but you would have to empty the recycle bin from the
>>> user
>>> account that the file was deleted from.  Maybe the file was deleted from
>>> the
>>> Administrator account, which you would need to log into the 
>>> Administrator
>>> account in order to empty it from the Recycle Bin.  If that fails, then
>>> you
>>> should be able to delete it using HijackThis.  I hope you have some kind
>>> of
>>> Boot DVD with recovery utilities on it handy (like Hiren's).  Sometimes
>>> getting rid of a virus makes your PC unbootable (especially the hard to
>>> remove viruses).
>>>
>>> If you still can't delete it, then I would suspect an active virus is to
>>> blame (probably a rootkit).
>>>
>>
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