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    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

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    Persistent Browser Hijack

    Thanks for your help. I cleaned up those entries and re-ran all the spwyare/malware/virus software. I'll let you know if I see any more problems.
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    Persistent Browser Hijack

    I have a strange malware infection of my browser that I can't seem to shake. I have used every single anti-malware/spyware/virus software available (spybot, malwarebytes, superantispyware, avira, spyware terminator, spyware blaster) in both regular and safe mode and they show that I have no...
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    Strange problem with dual display setup

    Hi guys, I've got two matching ACER AL1916 19" LCDs (yeah, I know, they are like 3 years old) powered by a Nvidia GeForce 6200 and the other by a GeForce 6600GT. I am having problems on startup. One LCD (the one powered by the 6600GT) will take a long time to come on. The little light at...
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    Strange new program "Downloads" running on my computer

    I finally figured this problem out. I first isolated the program, brought it into focus and then it up as the entire desktop within a window. I could literally drag and move my entire desktop with wallpaper and taskbar and all as a single windows, with nothing but black behind it. But...
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    Strange new program "Downloads" running on my computer

    I've turned off system restore, so that won't work. I will try CCleaner. Thanks for the link to the HiJackThis Analyzer, but that did not yield anything bad. I am starting to seriously believe that this is just a case of a corrupted task manager. Edit: CCleaned everything, but no...
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    Strange new program "Downloads" running on my computer

    Did a dir /a /s downloads*. Nothing out of the ordinay and no programs called Downloads.exe. I think this is a task manager corruption. How should I go about replacing that program? Recopy it over from the install CD?
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    Strange new program "Downloads" running on my computer

    Okay, I ran sfc /scannow through the command line and also once on reboot and it did not show any information of a file being corrupted. I also downloaded another process viewer called "System Explorer". The interesting thing with this process viewer is that in it's applications tab, there...
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    Strange new program "Downloads" running on my computer

    I have gone through multiple reboots and this is persistent. How do I select 'image path filename' and 'command line' in the process tab? When I do "Select Columns" these two are not there. Edit: These two options are not available in Windows XP it seems, only in Vista.
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    Strange new program "Downloads" running on my computer

    Yeah, I thought of that too since I have a dual monitor setup. There is a folder called "Downloads" on my computer. It looks like explorer has that folder open, but it is not. In the applications tab in task manager, there is no icon next to the word "Downloads" but just a generic blank...
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    Strange new program "Downloads" running on my computer

    Process Explorer shows no program running under the explorer.exe tree that has the word "Downloads" in it. I killed all the processes running under it and this "Downloads" application is still showing up in task manager as running. I also tried Process Monitor. I filtered for explorer.exe...
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    Strange new program "Downloads" running on my computer

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    Strange new program "Downloads" running on my computer

    I tried a few more antispyware programs, etc. but to no avail. Here is my HiJackThis file, can someone take a look and see if anything is obviously wrong? Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 12:28:53 AM, on 5/22/2009 Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE...
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    Strange new program "Downloads" running on my computer

    sfc /scannow did not seem to do anything. It just ran and closed on its own.
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    Strange new program "Downloads" running on my computer

    Thanks, I'll try the sfc command and run a few more spyware/antivirus programs and see if I can't figure out what is going on.
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    Strange new program "Downloads" running on my computer

    I am running Windows XP SP3. I see a new program called "Downloads" running in the Applications tab in Windows Task Manager. This is new. explorer.exe is the associated process with this. Avira, MalwareBytes, or Spybot shows no spyware, etc.? The process seems to control the...
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