Black Window

[NickfromWI]

I keep getting this window popping up on my screen whenever I start up my computer.

Any guesses as to what it is?

love
nick

 

[jimmyq]

run your virus scan and ad awares etc Nick. run it all till it finds something. that sounds like a hijacking thing of some sort.

 

[glens]

Browse to http://www.google.com/ and enter "runsrv32.exe" as the search query.

Then go to http://www.ubuntu.com/ and download the free operating system CD image or go to https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ and give them your mailing address and they'll send you a minimum of 5 pressed CDs at no cost to you, which you should then share with your friends.

If you just can't do that, then at least to go http://www.firefox.com/ and get a safe browser to use within Windows.

If you can't do that, then buy more antivirus/antispyware software and hope it works for at least a couple of days...

 

[Colin]

Send me a 120' spliced end climbing rope (Hi-Vee) and I'll make it all go away...

 

[NickfromWI]

I use firefox. I like it. I like the tabbed browsing thing.

I found where the file is. I really want to just delete it. I'll google it first, and follow the rest of glens's directions.

HiVee MB? Don't you mean Fire?

love
nick

 

[Mike_Cantolina]

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Browse to http://www.google.com/ and enter "runsrv32.exe" as the search query.

Then go to http://www.ubuntu.com/ and download the free operating system CD image or go to https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ and give them your mailing address and they'll send you a minimum of 5 pressed CDs at no cost to you, which you should then share with your friends.

If you just can't do that, then at least to go http://www.firefox.com/ and get a safe browser to use within Windows.

If you can't do that, then buy more antivirus/antispyware software and hope it works for at least a couple of days...

[/ QUOTE ]

Wow! That's something. I wish I'd have known about that before I installed Mandriva. I see it mentions gnome but is kde available? I'm a linux newbie but I've been very impressed with it so far.


Mike

 

[Mike_Cantolina]

ahhh.......nevermind, I see kubuntu now.



Mike

 

[glens]

Mandriva is evolved from Red Hat, {K,X,}ubuntu from Debian. Of the two, the latter is the better heredity in my opinion. But also in my opinion, they both make things more complicated than does Slackware.

If you learn either of the first two systems you're not really learning "Linux" so much as either the Red Hat or Debian ways of wrapping it into a system. If one is curious about what's actually going on underneath the hood then Slackware is my first recommendation. It's probably not good for the faint of heart.

The beauty of it all is that it's all good and you can mix and match quite nicely.

Holler if you need a hand. I might be able to help.

 

[glens]

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I found where the file is. I really want to just delete it.

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There's probably reference to it in your registry hierarchy, too, which you'll want to also remove if you can.

Good luck putting the pin back in that grenade!

 

[Mike_Cantolina]

I intend to start another thread on Linux but first:

I'm the type that likes to know what is going on under the hood but will I need a background in programming first? My programming knowlegde is very limited and outdated. If so I'll have to stick with Mandriva or Kubuntu for a while.



Mike

 

[glens]

Mike, you'll not need any more background than perhaps some familiarity with "batch files". The comparable equivalents (using the term loosely) in Linux are "shell scripts". Both are merely plain text files containing series of otherwise-interactive shell ("command prompt") commands.

Back when I first started with Linux I'd picked up a six-CD box set containing among other things Debian, Red Hat, and Slackware installation discs. I installed all three to different hard drives / partitions and played with them. The first two made extensive use of convoluted shell scripts and/or graphical programs to configure the system in what could be described as a "Windows wizard-like" fashion. Slackware used a much more straightforward (to me) filesystem layout, and packaging/configuration mechanisms. In order to determine what the first two were doing I'd first have to spend time learning the "wizards" (front ends) and what they were doing to the underlying configuration stuff. I was impatient (still am...) so just went with Slackware where I'd only have to learn the one layer.

I never have given the other systems a real chance, so my viewpoint could definitely be considered biased against them. A lot of folks prefer them, but that's the beauty of Linux. There are many ways to skin the cat and they all work (eventually).

I will say that prior to Ubuntu my recommendations to less-than-savvy computer users was Mandrake (now Mandriva). Spend some time with several flavors and let me know which you prefer and why.