geekysteve

Just an update on the rlumkaus.exe file: It was a variant of the Sub7 trojan program. This trojan is similar to the now infamous "Back Orifice" program that the Cult of the Dead Cow released back in 98. We were able to clean it from JvoBiker's PC without much trouble. ------------------ The ability to speak does not make you intelligent. -- Qui Gon Jinn, Star Wars: Episode One Try the world's greatest search engine: www.google.com

Jv, check your private messages.

Hmmmm...I've spent a lot of time cleaning viruses, but I've never heard of that one...so, I searched the top 3 AV people (Datafellows, McAfee, Norton) for that term "rlumkaus" and found nothing. So, I checked using all sorts of combinations of that word- "rumkaus", "lumkaus", contains "aus" and found nothing. My guess is that if ZoneAlarm is saying it's trying to access the internet, it's either some sort of auto-update feature, or it's a trojan of some sort. I would make sure that ZoneAlarm does not allow it to access the internet and see what happens with your system. If all continues to work well, then we'll delete it and clean it out from your Registry. Let us know what happens after a while. ------------------ The ability to speak does not make you intelligent. -- Qui Gon Jinn, Star Wars: Episode One Try the world's greatest search engine: www.google.com

He does. GRC is the 'author' of zonealarm from zonelab. ------------------ The ability to speak does not make you intelligent. -- Qui Gon Jinn, Star Wars: Episode One Try the world's greatest search engine: www.google.com

Oh yeah. I love the grc website. I own SpinRite 5.0, and I test my 'firewall' there occasionally. I always send friends to his website- it's well done, and grc makes some awesome, awesome products. ------------------ The ability to speak does not make you intelligent. -- Qui Gon Jinn, Star Wars: Episode One Try the world's greatest search engine: www.google.com

I knew there was a reason I didn't like Norton products that much...read this: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2220668.html ------------------ The ability to speak does not make you intelligent. -- Qui Gon Jinn, Star Wars: Episode One Try the world's greatest search engine: www.google.com

Thanks for everyone's input so far. I was really hoping that someone would have some info on the McAfee firewall program... For some reason, I'm not a huge fan of Norton products- I use what I "must", but otherwise I prefer McAfee. So far, Zone Alarm has been working great- it's defended over 20 probes so far (1 day)... ------------------ The ability to speak does not make you intelligent. -- Qui Gon Jinn, Star Wars: Episode One Try the world's greatest search engine: www.google.com

I'm so mad at BlackICE Defender right now, I've decided to start looking for different firewall programs for my home PC. What type of personal firewall are you using? Like I just mentioned, I've been using BlackICE for almost a year. Never had any problems with it. Then, I upgraded to version 2.1 (BugTraq had been listing a lot of vulnerabilities for 1.9), and ever since the upgrade I get the dreaded blue screen everytime I turn on my PC. I uninstalled 2.1 and installed 1.9- works great... So, I contacted BlackICE- talk about jerks. Per their request, I sent them .dll files, .ini files, .log files, .sys files, and no response. I waited a week and wrote them again- no response. I waited another week and wrote them. They said nothing looked odd to them and that I should just use version 1.9...ahem? 1.9 is vulnerable! So, I started using Zonealarm, but I'm exploring other firewalls...any ideas? ------------------ The ability to speak does not make you intelligent. -- Qui Gon Jinn, Star Wars: Episode One Try the world's greatest search engine: www.google.com

Agreed. The environment/user probably has a lot to do with this. Klipsch has obviously sold thosands of these speakers, and I could probably count the # of people on my hands and feet that have had problems (as posted on this board). Spewing garbage like you are serves no place here- show some maturity and intelligence. ------------------ The ability to speak does not make you intelligent. -- Qui Gon Jinn, Star Wars: Episode One Try the world's greatest search engine: www.google.com

...salivating... Oh, those look a lot nicer than the Sunfire amp I've been oggling lately.