iR500 - Coming Soon!

[astral]

Wow I didn't finish last at least! 

Awesome.

[Sgt. Dick]

Foc,

There was a reference to ping and also to joining late and still finishing in the top 5.  Packet loss and shitty map choice are still to come.

[Krlll Mule]

Thanks iR for hosting the match.  I, and apparently many others, had a fun time.  I was reading some of the discussion about which map to select prior to the start and have a couple of suggestions.  thegym and stadium would be great for a large crowd. The spawn campers (if there are any  ) would be obvious and immediately targeted by the rest of the combatants. There are multiple levels and yet even a keyboarder could compete.     Do it again soon?     

[Slayer :D]

Fun!

[astral]

 

When is the next ir500?

Soon??  Been working on my railz. Maybe this time I could be in the
 top 15.  rotf.

[Whirlingdervish]

prolly in a couple months. depends mostly on when I'll have time again.

 

I can kick up the frequency if it's wanted, and enough people show interest.

[|iR|Focalor]

I sat out of the last one. Looks like I'm out of Quake2 altogether... (everyone says, "Looks like I'm out of Quake2.") ...until I can get this rootkit/malware/whatever eradicated. Whatever the hell it is won't let anticheat load, makes me pause every one second, and just makes playing totally annoying. Whatever this is living on my system seems to be getting worse and worse every day. Takes longer and longer to startup, takes longer to open a browser, sometimes locks up the browser mid-browsing, etc etc. AVG and MalwareBytes won't kill it. Looks like I'll have to try to backup anything important, nuke the drive (reformat), and start fresh.

Life sucks.

[fdrjk]

I sat out of the last one. Looks like I'm out of Quake2 altogether... (everyone says, "Looks like I'm out of Quake2.") ...until I can get this rootkit/malware/whatever eradicated. Whatever the hell it is won't let anticheat load, makes me pause every one second, and just makes playing totally annoying. Whatever this is living on my system seems to be getting worse and worse every day. Takes longer and longer to startup, takes longer to open a browser, sometimes locks up the browser mid-browsing, etc etc. AVG and MalwareBytes won't kill it. Looks like I'll have to try to backup anything important, nuke the drive (reformat), and start fresh.

Life sucks.

Thats

Hope you get that shit out soon

PS- Hopefully you can be on the forum for your 4000th post

[Whirlingdervish]

you might want to try using msconfig to clean up your start up list, and run rootkit revealer to see what's what before you wipe the whole thing.

If you find a bunch of stuff that it tells you is hidden from the windows API, you can boot in safe mode or from the recovery console and manually delete that stuff out and you may be able to save the setup.

If that doesn't find anything or make a dent in the virii, then its definitely time to reformat/install.

[VaeVictis]

you might want to try using msconfig to clean up your start up list, and run rootkit revealer to see what's what before you wipe the whole thing.

If you find a bunch of stuff that it tells you is hidden from the windows API, you can boot in safe mode or from the recovery console and manually delete that stuff out and you may be able to save the setup.

If that doesn't find anything or make a dent in the virii, then its definitely time to reformat/install.

honestly these days its just easier to wipe a system and start over :/ as long as you can replace all your files or have them backed up its probably even faster lol

[astral]

honestly these days its just easier to wipe a system and start over :/ as long as you can replace all your files or have them backed up its probably even faster lol

Definitely easier to reformat and whip than platter clean!

Anyway, I llok forward to the next round of 500. I'll just need to keep my eye out for the Vigi guy.  LOL

[Barton]

Definitely easier to reformat and whip than platter clean!

Anyway, I llok forward to the next round of 500. I'll just need to keep my eye out for the Vigi guy.  LOL

It sort of doesn't matter who kills you and/or how many times, also long as you can get multiple frags before you die, very quickly. Looking at your stats, Reflex gave you more problems then Vigilante did.

[|iR|Focalor]

you might want to try using msconfig to clean up your start up list, and run rootkit revealer to see what's what before you wipe the whole thing.

If you find a bunch of stuff that it tells you is hidden from the windows API, you can boot in safe mode or from the recovery console and manually delete that stuff out and you may be able to save the setup.

If that doesn't find anything or make a dent in the virii, then its definitely time to reformat/install.

Whatever this shit is, it's hiding itself VERY well. Rootkit Revealer doesn't really show anything I can truly identify as the culprit. I've run numerous anti-rootkit and anti-virus programs and none of them can get rid of it. AVG finds a hidden .SYS driver with some random name, it supposedly removes it, then to finish the process you have to reboot the system. After rebooting, it seems as though the same hidden "unknown" driver comes back with a completely different name. Even if it were to completely kill that file off, I'm sure there are other bad files tucked away here and there that I'll never be able to find and delete all at the same time in order to completely uproot this garbage. I've already broke out the CD-R's and backed up my photos and stuff that I don't want to lose. Unfortunately I'll lose all these wonderful torrented games, a few of them I more than likely won't be able to find again. I'm pretty sure I got it from a bad installer worked into the Cabelas Big Game Hunter ISO torrent I downloaded from piratebay. I guess that's just the risk you willingly take when e-thievin' games. Oh well, shit happens. I can still run Q2 and connect to servers, but the connection and gameplay is so herky-jerky that it's pointless. So until I can get this format and re-install and everything else squared away with this pile of slow flowing turtle shit, looks like I'll be MIA.

[l0ckp1ck]

can i recommend a-squared. it is free and the most thorough malware scanner around. also if you have a shitty virus scanner go download avira. its the best anti virus scanner around

[console]

Whatever this shit is, it's hiding itself VERY well. Rootkit Revealer doesn't really show anything I can truly identify as the culprit. I've run numerous anti-rootkit and anti-virus programs and none of them can get rid of it. AVG finds a hidden .SYS driver with some random name, it supposedly removes it, then to finish the process you have to reboot the system. After rebooting, it seems as though the same hidden "unknown" driver comes back with a completely different name. Even if it were to completely kill that file off, I'm sure there are other bad files tucked away here and there that I'll never be able to find and delete all at the same time in order to completely uproot this garbage. I've already broke out the CD-R's and backed up my photos and stuff that I don't want to lose. Unfortunately I'll lose all these wonderful torrented games, a few of them I more than likely won't be able to find again. I'm pretty sure I got it from a bad installer worked into the Cabelas Big Game Hunter ISO torrent I downloaded from piratebay. I guess that's just the risk you willingly take when e-thievin' games.

Do you have a spare partition on your HDD?  Depending on the OS version you'll only need around 10 gigs...

If so, you might try creating a fresh OS install in the spare partition, and booting off that.  (And let it install updates.)

Then install and run an anti-virus/rootkit-remover from the fresh install, but tell it to scan your main pwned partition.

Finally (all without yet booting back onto your pwned partition), boot off the Windows OS CD/DVD and select "Repair", so that it copies pristine files back onto your pwned partition.

It's possible those two steps in combination might have a chance of eradicating the thing.