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I also hate “name space” but i cant think of a better word. If you want to explain it a bit it’s like you cant have two files with the same name in a directory. The directory is the name space.

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I do recomend the books to the terninally nosey though. Lots of good stuff.

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I know my interpritation is over symplistic in general but the use of “hip” words in this book is extreme.

I wouldnt be surprised if these guys enumerated their shopping requirements before parsing them in the shop.

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<p style=”text-align: left;”>The US has form when it comes to wepons of mass destruction and I cant see Trump letting North Korea develop an ICBM that could hit the USA. If testing continues then I fear that some form of action is likely.</p>

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I have been looking into Sage 2.2 ransomware and im afraid its a nasty one.

Sage 2.2 is based on Crylocker and it was built using the RIG exploit Kit.

Sage can get on your computer via an infected website but its more likely it arrived in an email attatchment. The attatchment will be a zip file and the email will be about something tempting or just blank. Once extracted the zip contains an MS Word file with a VB Script macro and a JS script file. If either file is opened then your PC gets infected.

Sage installs in the user\App Data\Roaming directory with a random file name and adds its self as a scheduled task so it always starts when you log in.

Once running sage encrypts random files of many types using the Chacha20 cipher and adds .sage to the file name. Sage also deletes shadow copy’s of files it encrypts and can access files over a network too.

So can you get your files back ? The answer appears to be er no. Without the encryption key it can’t be done. Sorry  🙁 .

It is important to stop using the infected computer until it is cleaned too or sage will encrypt more files both local and remote.

Malwarebytes claims to clear this infection but it can’t get your files back. They also have a Beta for an anti-ransomware product but I haven’t tried it.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news  😥

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As always a backup is a good idea but the question was how to prevent ransomeware. On that note there is evidence to sudgest that some ransomware that actually dose encrypt your discs in the background uses Windows own Bitlocker service to do it. I wonder if that would work on home versions of windows that dont have Bitlocker activated ?

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A lot of malware that claims to have encrypted your discs has actually done nothing of the sort. This type of thing is often little more than a login script so its a good idea to keep a copy of Malwarebytes on your system that you can run (in safe mode if need be) to clear these things up.

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I think it is a good idea to at least try to keep ransomware off your PC so as was mentioned earlier give everyone a limited user account (including yourself) and only use the admin account when installing software and the like. Malware finds it harder to install its self when it just dosnt have the permissions to do so.

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<p style=”text-align: left;”>Run the tool and get W10 ms will not let you stay as you are</p>

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Thats the one. Media creationtool ?

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Have transfered to computer shopper from micro mart. Have a look at this weeks issue if you have.

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Should be able to get the latest image with the Windows image tool and install it ?

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The upgrad IS tied to a PC

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I am pretty sure that if his PC was registered with MS for the upgrade to W10 then he can get the latest edition .

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Microsoft keeps telling us that contra is a complete replacement for the old search tool but in that role it is rubbish. Even when I enter the exact file name of a program I know exists it’s first thought is to direct me to a web page where I can down load it. Its next thought is to point me at a web page that tells me about it. If I tell contra to do a local search it stops thinking and tells me it cant find it ! It sometimes dose this even with microsoft programs like MSCONFIG.EXE

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<p style=”text-align: left;”>Intel touted the i7 930 as a direct replacement for the i7 920 with just a few manufacturing improvements. They sold it at an advertised speed of 2.9 GHz but in reality they will all hit at least 4 GHz. My example will run at 4.2 GHz with a large air cooler just buy selecting the performance profile in the Gigabyte BIOS and then upping the base clock. Unfortunatly my memory will not go above its rated speed of 1800 so if I raise the base clock above 180 then I have to drop the memory mltiplyer from X10 to X8 which is not ideal. As a compromise I run the CPU at 3.9 GHz but leave turbo boost enabled so it boosts to 4.1 GHz under load. On a side note if I enable the XMP memory profile it assumes the default base clock and so tries to run the memory at silly speeds causing the system to hang during boot.</p>

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Just a thought thoug. Do you have any integrated video ?

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Think you may well be right there Les. Looks like you are just loosing video some how. I dont think the PC is actually crashing. In your last test you were playing video so when you briefly pressed the power button the PC was probably asking if you wanted to end the task but of couse you couldn’t see it. The video card is my bet too.

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Glad to be of service 🙂

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<p style=”text-align: left;”>I know from a previous post that you ran something to remove the arrows from your desktop icons. What was that again ?</p>

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