Windows 7
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I got a virus last night on a fresh install of Win7 64bit? Must have sneaked on to a memory stick in work and carried it home. At least that is the only option i can think of?
nuaha.exe was the name
Avast caught before it did anything but i'm still not convinced it's totally gone. But that's just paranoia creeping out!
Anyone got suggestions on making sure its gone and how to sort out the stick?
I know i've gone off topic but didn't want to create new thread for this
I'm lovong Win7 by the way, although XP i feel is still King
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Some viruses can respawn when you boot Windows again. To make sure it's gone, try booting Ubuntu from a Live CD, look for the virus location and kill it.
After my last nasty encounter with a virus that came in a cousin's USB stick (I was using no antivirus at the time... Duh!), I bought ESET antivirus and have had no more problems. The worst a virus can do now is freeze the PC, but ESET will block it before it leaves "spores" behind.
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@remus said:
Couple of other really cool things about windows 7: it opens zip files natively, it can burn .iso files to disc natively and it doesnt blank out the screen when your watching a full screen video. Small things but all very useful to me.
Again, another set of features that us Mac users have enjoyed (with a right mouse or contextual click) for years.
In order to run W7 I'm going to have to upgrade both my PC and my Mac, because both my machines won't support it.
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Im willing to bet they were supported on a linux distro long before they were part of a mac os, although its somewhat beside the point. Theyre improvements over xp and vista and thus an improvement in the OS i use, and to be honest thats all i really care about
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Remus, XP came with native zip support, called "compressed folder". ZIP archives are treated as any other folder but have a special icon.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306531
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/vz_ovrvw.mspx?mfr=true
This is the very reason why Chris Fullmer hates RAR and loves ZIP.XP also had native "drag and drop" CD burning.
@unknownuser said:
Saving critical information to a CD is as easy as saving to a floppy disk or hard disk. By selecting a folder of software, photos, or even music and dragging it to the CD-R device icon, you can create your own CDs.
http://www.microsoft.com/hk/windowsxp/home/features.mspx
ISO burning seems to be new, however.
Back to Windows 7, another feature I'm really liking is its ability to become "suspended" and not lose that state even if you completely cut the power from the computer. It will even continue rendering after you re-plug and wake up the machine. This has come as a lifesaver right now that there are frequent blackouts here; my UPS gives me enough time to set the PC in suspended state and then I can turn everything off, even the UPS itself, knowing that nothing will be lost. Perhaps this feature was present in previous Windows versions and I'm about to receive a big "Duh!" here. As I almost never "suspended" XP and never used Vista, I'm not sure.
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Suspend has been a part of windows features since Windows 95. Early days it had some serious limitations, but it did work with suitable hardware.
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I'm curious as to what versions of Windows can be suspended and still continue rendering after wakeup as if nothing happened.
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@ecuadorian said:
Hey, SOAP is now working in my Windows 7 installation.
Short story
Go here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/resultsForProduct.aspx?displaylang=en&productID=9C954C37-1ED1-4846-8A7D-85FC422D1388
Download and run the "DirectX End-User Runtime". It will download and install some "additional components".I downloaded and installed "DirectX End-User Runtime", but SOAP still does not run on my Windows 7 Home Premium setup. Any suggestions? Did you also install Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5?
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Yeah, after running some times I noticed that there was a problem and tried re-installing. Now it doesn't run in my machine, either.
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I upgraded to Windows 7 Professional, but SOAP still does not work.
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