BS: TECH: buggary bastards rant

Subject: RE: BS: TECH: buggary bastards rant
From: Nemesis
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 05:40 PM

TECH LOG: DAY 2/ 12 HOURS
Great! :) That's where all send the invoices! And the bill for post-n-case traumatic distress syndrome? And the claim for loss of earnings etc ...

Okay .. I have downloaded WS2_32.dll and Spybot (with the missing WS2_32.dll file) .. however, I have yet to work out out to get Spybot to "find" the file: have extracted WS2_32.dll via WINZIP and have been waving it under Spybot's nose by dropping it into the folder .. Spybot is yet to bite.

Any thoughts, you wonderful people :)
Nem
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Subject: RE: BS: TECH: buggary bastards rant
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 05:31 PM

just as a matter of interest..*grin*

Registrant:
180Solutions, Inc. (NCASE7-DOM)
18702 N CREEK PKWY STE 200
BOTHELL, WA 98011-8019
US

Domain Name: N-CASE.COM

Administrative Contact:
180Solutions, Inc. (I16134-OR) [e-mail]
18702 N CREEK PKWY STE 200
BOTHELL, WA 98011-8019
US
425-402-4130 fax: [phone]

Technical Contact:
Todd, Daniel (WINEIYXOMI) [e-mail]
18702 N CREEK PKWY STE 200
BOTHELL, WA 98011-8019
US
425-402-4130 fax: [phone]

Subject: RE: BS: TECH: buggary bastards rant
From: mooman
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 04:24 PM

Dear Nems,

Bassic's right. You'll be able to download WS2_32.DLL for free (I done that myself) and that should enable Spybot to work.

Peace and good luck (with everything!)

Richard

Subject: RE: BS: TECH: buggary bastards rant
From: Nemesis
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 03:27 PM

TECH LOG: DAY 2

Well, I've spent all day backing up 5 years work - halfway there ..

Apparently, when they were trying to establish a Hotmail account all that happened were pop-ups kept popping up .. (denial in other words) ...

I'll try Google search Bassic ..

and I'll get onto my Server provider and talk me through checking the numbers Nigel .. thanks for that .. get onto it straight away now ..

Bloody bloody bloody hell .. should have been seeing a News Editor today (thank god, this week is not next week)

Many thanks everyone so far ... the guilty party has gone off to make a "homeless" application (literally) .. apparently computers don't do things like this in Spain . where they've just arrived from .. :(

Ho hum ..
Nem
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Subject: RE: BS: TECH: buggary bastards rant
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 11:52 AM

Nemesis:

The other important thing to check (unless you're on Broadband)is that your "Dialler" software is still set as you want it.

When working for an ISP I found several occasions when downloading nasty files also recreated the dialler, with a number for an expensive dial-up (be it Porn or cross-border)
Depending on the platform you're using the dialler number can usually be found via Start>Control Panel>Network connections.
The fact that the connection still shows the correct ISP name does NOT mean that the number being dialled is theirs


Best of luck

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: TECH: buggary bastards rant
From: okthen
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 11:25 AM

Aha, ahahahahaha, I wonder if that's what got rid of Zonealarm, and winmx, and possibly Yahoo, there's been a lot of funny (peculiar) things going on just lately and I'd put it down to putting a new hard drive in and cleaning up the old one.
I'm going to try and reload that which I've lost and see if that works, it's a nasty little bugger wherever it came from, but I'm pretty sure your guests weren't 'round my house, maybe my kids were trying to download ringtones............ looks like a postmortem is called for.
Will keep an eye on this thread to see how things are going.

Subject: RE: BS: TECH: buggary bastards rant
From: Bassic
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 10:54 AM

Try putting "WS2_32.DLL" into google. You will probably find it available as a free download somewhere. That should then let Spybot do its job. Good luck!

Subject: RE: BS: TECH: buggary bastards rant
From: KateG
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 10:11 AM

Frankly, I would take the machine to your local gurus for a speedy fix and make the kid/mom pay -- no reason you should have to mess with this stuff and perhaps make things worse. You did not give the kid permission to play with your computer, you most certainly did not give it permission to download software...and your ability to earn a living is being compromised. It's called responsibility and accountability. No different than if the brat through a ball through your living room window. ....although I like the sound of castration, we don't need more kids like that :-)

Subject: RE: BS: TECH: buggary bastards rant
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 09:29 AM

will you be speaking to the parent of the boy?

Or would the kid even care about the trouble you have had? I've just found another thing that mildly annoys me, bad mannered thoughtless kids, maybe I'll add it to the thread

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: TECH: buggary bastards rant
From: s&r
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 08:41 AM

Good luck. The whole business cost me about twelve hours online. How about castration?

Subject: RE: BS: TECH: buggary bastards rant
From: Nemesis
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 06:57 AM

Okthen .. that is exactly it!!! I downloaded Spybot at 1am this morning and tried to run it and it said "WS2_32.DLL" file was missing ..

Tech support (Research Machines) reckon to reload Windows ...

S&R will go back to SpyBot and see if downloading the Spybot upgrades might kick start/ find this missing file.

So, no luck yet Richard ... bloody bloody bloody Hell!!! It's conflicting the keyboard, the mouse, and trying to download stuff when I was typing Mudcat's URL to get here! (Just taken 10 minutes to type this :(

Just my luck the week I finally get a journalistic job breakthrough with the BBC and have umpteen print deadlines (like last Saturday) for folk club publicity ... feck feck feck feck feck feck ......

Kneecappers (or fingercrunchers) queue here to apply ....

Subject: RE: BS: TECH: buggary bastards rant
From: s&r
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 04:31 AM

Any luck yet Nemesis?

Subject: RE: BS: TECH: buggary bastards rant
From: okthen
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 03:52 AM

I found something similar in my "add/remove programmes", something called "Interstitial ad delivery by 180 search assistant" as it was a large file and I hadn't heard of it I decided to delete it, but got a message telling me to sign on to the internet. I was a bit wary of doing that, so I ran Spybot and hey presto it's gone! At least it appears to have gone.

Subject: RE: BS: TECH: buggary bastards rant
From: Gypsy
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 08:34 PM

Sounds to me like the beastie owes you some ducats for a techie to come in and fix...........I wouldn't fight with it! Not when I didn't create the mess. Surprised that the mother unit hasn't already made the offer.........

Subject: RE: BS: TECH: buggary bastards rant
From: mooman
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 07:20 PM

Dear Nemesis,

You can certainly try Spybot (which is free) but n-CASE is notoriously difficult to remove and I'm not sure Spybot yet fixes it.

One that will work if Spybot fails is Spy Sweeper (free). Another is Pest Patrol (not free I think). However, if you are confident....there are detailed removal instructions at this site.

Good luck and all the best!

Love

Richard

Subject: RE: BS: TECH: buggary bastards rant
From: GUEST,MCP
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 07:15 PM

If you do a web-search for "n-case removal" you'll find several sites given help on this, for example: n-case removal

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: TECH: buggary bastards rant
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 07:09 PM

It sounds like one of the "download managers" used by many of the "music sharing" sites. Most likely all that will be disabled is the download program itself, but some of them bury themselves pretty deep, so Spybot would be a good choice for a "cleaner." Spybot alone will not generally remove the program - it's only intended to remove the spyware components contained in the program.

Nearly all the "music sharing" download sites that require you to use their own program to download stuff incorporate some pretty invasive "spyware," and programs like Spybot are designed to take the spyware out. (Taking just the spyware out does usually disable the download program - they design it that way so you'll have to re-load the program if you want more downloads, and they get to put the spyware back.) They put the scary warnings on to make you think you "have to" leave it on the machine.

In many cases, using their uninstall will take the "program" out, but will leave their spyware on the machine - so that they can continue to track your surfing (or worse). If you're dealing with one of those sites, using Spybot after you've uninstalled their program by any available method is strongly recommended.

If the program shows in the Program Manager "Add/Remove software" you can probably uninstall it using Program Manager, although there's no guarantee that you'll get everything - since they usually go to some lengths to hide the "junk" components. You'll have to decide whether to try their uninstall, and hope it does a complete removal of the program. After uninstall, use Spybot or one of the other good programs to make sure the tracking junk gets removed.

John

Subject: RE: BS: TECH: buggary bastards rant
From: s&r
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 06:58 PM

Don't download anything else from an untrustworthy site. They've stuffed you once, and they're looking for a chance to stuff you again.

Stu

Subject: RE: BS: TECH: buggary bastards rant
From: Jim McCallan
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 06:57 PM

Maybe if you downloaded and ran the uninstaller, and then ran Spybot, or another programme called AdAware, it would remove any registry entries that the uninstaller failed to.
A virus scan afterwards may not be a bad idea, neither.

Subject: RE: BS: TECH: buggary bastards rant
From: Nemesis
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 06:50 PM

The Add and Delete programme .. it hacked that as well: "You have to go online to download Uninstaller"

Subject: RE: BS: TECH: buggary bastards rant
From: s&r
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 06:36 PM

it really works - free (or voluntary donation)

stu

Subject: RE: BS: TECH: buggary bastards rant
From: Jim McCallan
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 06:22 PM

Will 'Add/Remove Programs' not take it out?

Subject: RE: BS: TECH: buggary bastards rant
From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 06:21 PM

Can you do a rollback?????

If not, I'll volunteer ofr the knee-breaking squad!

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: TECH: buggary bastards rant
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 06:21 PM

download spybot - just had success with similar crap

Stu

Subject: BS: TECH: buggary bastards rant
From: Nemesis
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 06:17 PM

He-elp!
I knew it wasn't going to work - teenage house guest and within two hours he's stuffed me computer: gone on to some fecking Ring-tone download site that's downloaded a programme onto the computer that I now need to "download an online uninstall programme" for...and which kindly warns

"Removing n-CASE might remove or cripple software applications you like and use everyday."

and then "click here to download uninstaller"

Anyone techy-minded 'catter come across this site:
"http://www.n-case.com/ncaseaduninstall.html" and what happened when you clicked to "download installer"?

PS: the computer system is normally password protected, but I let his Mum on to set up a Hotmail account .... never, never turn your back on someone else's unhouse-trained kid (she said, bolting the stable door after the horse had bolted)
Nem
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