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#1 Jan 19 2004 at 2:51 AM Rating: Decent
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Okay, so just now I tried to log into POL and a window came up that said I needed to register POL at www.yourproduct.com. And at www.yourproduct.com I find absolutely nothing having to do with POL registration. It told me my 30 days was up, but my 30 day free trial ended January 10, over a week ago. Earlier tonight, while it was still January 18 in my time zone, I logged in fine. But now, early on January 19, I can't get into POL at all. I went to the official website and can't seem to find anything. Does anyone have any idea what to do? Thanks!
#2 Jan 19 2004 at 7:47 AM Rating: Default
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Second time in two days...

FFXI doesn't need to be registered. It's a virus.

Run Norton Antivirus, McAfeeViruscan, etc. Make sure your virus definitions are up to date.

Then go get yourself a copy of Spybot Search & Destroy (search on Google) and if you want, Ad-aware (again, search on Google).
#3 Jan 19 2004 at 7:53 AM Rating: Decent
yes, its the win32.pinfi virus. Run Norton and it'll fix it, though, some exes, and just about all of them will be infected in the time you've gottten the virus, will be damaged. With POL you're going to have to reinstall it so have fun redownloading the patches, but make sure you run norton and go to this link http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.pinfi.html and follow the instructions. Theres a registry entry that the virus will add to that you need to get rid of through regedit. Keep in mind I hold no responsability if you ***** up your registry, so uh... if yer a youngin get mom and dads permission first ;p
#4 Jan 19 2004 at 8:01 AM Rating: Good
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How come so many people are getting this virus? Is it attached to mail?
#5 Jan 19 2004 at 8:07 AM Rating: Decent
Kazaa, I'm sure of it. Lots of fake key gens and crack.exes use this virus. It also likes to ***** itself around on networks so if you're in school or at work or in the dorms and you have a ***** for brains sys admin, kiss your *** goodbye ;)
#6 Jan 19 2004 at 8:10 AM Rating: Good
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I dont use Kazaa and Im protected every which way from Tuesday so have never had any problems. Just curious as to how people are getting infected.
#7 Jan 19 2004 at 8:20 AM Rating: Default
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Blame canada
#8 Jan 19 2004 at 8:39 AM Rating: Decent
If you have Norton running you'll be just fine =) The "your" in my reply was a general your, not you specifically: Mr Depends =)

Edited, Mon Jan 19 08:39:06 2004 by JPbishi
#9 Jan 19 2004 at 8:43 AM Rating: Good
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JPbishi wrote:
If you have Norton running you'll be just fine =) The "your" in my reply was a general your, not you specifically: Mr Depends =)

Edited, Mon Jan 19 08:39:06 2004 by JPbishi


Didnt think you were talking to me. Was just commenting. And my Depends is just another example of how well protected I am :P
#10 Jan 19 2004 at 8:48 AM Rating: Decent
I'll buy that for a dollar!

I coulda used the depends back in college when I got the .cih virus in '98 >_< Well not literally... honest...
#11 Jan 19 2004 at 10:42 AM Rating: Decent
I dont know why you keep thinking its a virus that spread thru all your exe's. I had this the other day and have it 100% fixed. What I had, and now 5-10 other people ive help it all has to do with a few Java Files being infected in the Users directory. And it has to do with Byte Veryify files.
#12 Jan 19 2004 at 1:18 PM Rating: Decent
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Ohh...man. How the crap did I get this thing? Officially, I never use Kazaa, and unofficially I haven't used it in days, and I never run an .exe without scanning it first. I did run Ad-aware after it happened (love that thing!) and it picked up a few things, so hopefully that helped.

Anyway, thanks for all your help. I'm not a total computer n00b, but I hadn't run any other .exe's and gotten that, so I didn't know. And yeah, I'm pretty familiar with registrys, so no problem there. Thanks!
#13 Jan 19 2004 at 7:09 PM Rating: Decent
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I want to know why someone decided my post was worth rating down. Obviously Houk took the advice and it worked. I have never personally gotten the virus but other people I know have and that process cleans it up. Generally you rate a post up if it's good, informative, sensible, etc., and down if it's non-constructive, unreadable rants, etc.
#14 Jan 20 2004 at 5:47 AM Rating: Good
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TheFunch wrote:
I want to know why someone decided my post was worth rating down. Obviously Houk took the advice and it worked. I have never personally gotten the virus but other people I know have and that process cleans it up. Generally you rate a post up if it's good, informative, sensible, etc., and down if it's non-constructive, unreadable rants, etc.


The whole rating system is fubar. There are those who will rate down someone no matter the content because they are petty. I have at least one stalker myself that simply rates down just because its a post by me. And then on the other side people tend not to rate up even if they like the post. If you really want to make it a more honest system then make who rates posts public. Saying something like so and so has rated this down. But with the annonimity certain individuals can continue to practice probably the only power they really have in life by running around rating everything down as revenge.
#15 Jan 20 2004 at 6:27 AM Rating: Decent
Someone could rate you down for the simple reason you posted
Quote:
"Canada? Why should we leave America to see America Jr.?" Homer Simpson
or on the other hand rate me down for the nice quote I write... Maybe the person rating you down is simply upset because you didn't post to his/her liking to his/her thread and wants revenge. Notcoach says it best
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I have at least one stalker myself that simply rates down just because its a post by me.
I know it happened to me once or twice.... oh well, let's all post our views and disregard rating, because ultimatly you can't please everyone, and the only person you should really please is YOURSELF..... here YOU is also general :)
#16 Jan 20 2004 at 10:36 AM Rating: Decent
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so then how did you fix it? if its just some files in the registry and not a virus?


Edited, Tue Jan 20 10:37:11 2004 by Ashmus
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