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The general rule is, if you have posts we don't delete your account. Why? The missing user account messes up the flow of messages in old posts, which since we're not one of these forums which prunes threads and locks old topics, can cause issues. So, if you don't want to come here any more, then the best option is remove the personal information from your profile, and request a ban from a mod. As for the hack, it happens, this is a hacking forum for newbies (generally) so we do kinda have a big target on our heads. You would be a fool to re-use any login details anyway.

I didn't expect to like this, but I did. Pronobozo should listen to some ILS before his next album.

I appear to have lost my hat collection and rule book.

Digip your a complete cunt, you realize that? LearnToHack, I strongly recommend you look before you leap.

If you want a technical solution, setup a torrent box at home, on your own network, with a web interface and some form of remote access. Torrent to this. If you happen to be in the position of not having an internet connection at home, I would talk to your network admins and see, and this is a *looong* shot, if they can sort out something for you. I know very well that the helpdesk people I work with have an "arrangement" with the network team for a similar situation.

School, learning, network abuse, AUP, blocked for a reason and so forth.

Your disabling DHCP? Why? As for not having an internet connection when your setting up networking on W7, never had an issue with this myself, even in non-routeable subnets. As for the original poster, I'm going to mark this down as "fuck knows", you've done everything anyone here would do, the only thing is to setup a fresh install and do a change log, just in case its some weird little problem caused by a completely unrelated thing. Because personally if I'd had this level of issue, I'd have gotten Dell to send one of its magic gnomes round with a new motherboard by now. (I've seen a laptop that would boot and run Ubuntu without issue, but XP would BSOD at the login screen no matter how many times or ways it was installed, turned out to be a issue with the mobo).

Turn of Aero and see if it still happens.

With Windows 7 this is actually untrue. All the drivers I have used from WU with W7 work perfectly, which is why its surprising that in this case he is having problems. My only conclusion for in this case is that the heatsink on the GPU is not as effective as the reference heatsink, and the WU drivers run the chip hotter than the manufacturers W7 drivers, resulting in corruption.

Nah, windows and linux drivers are different. In this case, I would try a different driver as the one your using from WU is most likely broken.

It could be a watchdog process, for example TrendMicro office scan runs a randomly named process which automatically restarts the AV services if they are killed. If its not this, then I'd archive the machine, then reinstall. Once it has been archived you can play with it some more.

Get a local SIM with a data plan and use a US SIP service to call US numbers. Otherwise your either paying roaming chargers or international call charges, which depending on the length of time you want to spend on the phone might be expensive. You can also get Skype for WinMob, but you will have to track down the relevant cab files as the download is no longer available on there site, try XDA Developers or similar.

I have to ask, just out of curiosity, why your blocking the search term "gay"?

Always max it out, makes the machine more viable in years to come. But don't buy fancy pants overclockers RAM.

AMD quad cores are cheap, the entire line supports VT (only select Intel models do) and the performance is quite nice. Just get 8GB+ of RAM and a 1TB WD Black Edition and your sorted.

Try smoking half an ounce a week, for several years, then talk to me about tolerance levels.

1 contract phone, 2 company phones, all SIM free and you can get PAYG SIMs for free these days (although Orange only do 3G SIM cards by request if your PAYG).

I love smoking weed, but unfortunately the thing about smoking weed is that I would be happy doing nothing else for the rest of my life.

An internet connection. Seriously, I have 3 phones, and SIMs for all the UK networks.

Buy a laptop based on your needs for VM's etc, and then get a Ubiquiti or Alfa adaptor for your wireless cracking needs. Your not going to be able to find a decent adaptor otherwise, as most firms will use either broadcom or intel wireless as standard.

I've never heard of this, so I will hazard a guess and say no, currently its not. However, I see it supports Android and these iPhone thingys seem quite popular, I will set it up as and when. Edit: "IPB (Invision Power Board) will also be supported in Februray 2010 time-frame" - We use IPB here, so when this is supported, I will look into enabling it. This is reliant on the Tapatalk team however.

You miss my point entirely, and trust me I'm not offended. If you like hanging around here, then yes, you do belong here. My point about cell phones and computers is just that some people might have a laptop (and its the first computer they have owned, and others, like me, have been playing with computers since a 386 was considered to be the best money could buy and have access to more computing power than a small 3rd world nation. Yet we all have a part in the conversation. As for the thing about the knife, its just a rant about people going out of there way to insist they are only interested in whitehat stuff. Frankly I find this annoying. Its just stuff you can learn, what you do with the knowledge is more important than pretending you only want to learn the nice stuff.

OK, to play devils advocate here, why bother going to the trouble of replacing a wireless AP, using WEP over WPA2, then cracking that WEP connection and doing a MITM attack on this connection if you control the upstream portion of the network anyway? If it was me I would just enable a mirror port on the switch your hooked into and tap that or a similar method of tapping your connection beyond the point you aware of. Far more transparent. Either they are amateur or we're missing something. As for a solution, which is what you need, I would recommend that you invest in a paid for VPN service and use that while on site. Obviously you can't trust that so much, but this is where your involvement ends and your company starts. If your dealing with sensitive information, then they need to provide you with a secure solution as you can only be excepted to do so much. Installing Linux really isn't a start here as a correctly setup Windows install is just as secure (sorry kids, this is true).

Its a forum, if you like the types of conversations we have here then join in, if you don't, go else where. Some of the people here have only ever owned one computer, and some of us have cell phones that are orders of magnitudes more powerful than our first computers. One of the things you need to ditch is the distinction between good things and bad things, a knife is not inherently malicious, its a device you can use for a multitude of different things, some of which are bad, some of which are good.

I know that the client I am contracted to support has multiple levels of TPA (third party access). The ones that apply here relate to our wireless. Some contractors are issued a domain account so they can access the network in the same fashion as a regular employee, either from one of our machines, there own machine (in the case of some of the clients partners) or just the communicator and outlook web access clients via there own machine. If this is not the case, contractors are provided with internet access via wireless which is run on a seperate VLAN with no access to our network at all (not even VPN). In your case, you are using your own machine to do whatever it is your doing, so I would assume that you have been provided with access to the internet which is separated from the company network in some fashion. What I don't get is why you think you have been hacked. In my mind the chain of events is as follows, you're assigned a desk which has a wired network port nearby, and some form of linksys WAP you connected to for internet access. I don't know if these to were connected. At a later point the linksys is replaced with a buffalo and the wired connection is removed. The admin who did this wanted to access your machine to connect to the new WAP, which you declined. If this is wrong, you need to be clearer. As I've said, I'm not sure of the nature of your work, the reason for you being on a client site and the relationship between yourself, your company and the client your contracted to. The fact that your concerned about being hacked points to a trust issue, but we can leave that unless you want to clarify this. But from a purely technical POV, yes, if you are connecting to the internet via a network you do not control it is possible to intercept and monitor all communication which is not encrypted, so the safest thing you can do in this situation is simply VPN to your company, which would then mean that all traffic would be secure until it hits your employers network. As for your own machine, if it is patched, you have your network settings in Public mode and your not running any network services which are insecure or do not require authentication then you are probally safe. As for what happened, I suspect that the clients IT team setup an interim solution for you, and later replaced this with one that they are happier with. Usually in this case one of the finance monkeys forgot to process the required PO and someone just hacked something together so you could work. If your curious, just ask one of the local IT guys and see what they say.