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How to enable shortcuts for 'Run as administrator' in Windows 8?
George:
Thank you, this should work. Let me ask you one more question please.
The only cause for this pain in the neck could be Baidu PC Faster. I've never installed or let it install (I trust and use AVG PC Tuneup, not this), yet it appeared. When noticed, I uninstalled it immediately with Your Uninstaller, still a number of files and registry items remained. I deleted all leftover that I could but I only could search for 'Baidu', don't have the faintest idea what under other names stayed or what damage in my system have been done.
Once I get a clean system again, how can I block everything from Baidu for once and all? I have both Bitdefender and Malwarebytes, yet it sneaked in. Should I possibly write something in the Hosts file? What, or what else?
Thank you so much for all.
George
Shane:
I never heard of it, but the trick with keeping infections off a machine is keeping java and flash up to date. You would be surprised how many viruses I clean up because the customers java was out of date.
And those holes in java allow a virus to install simply by viewing a normal page that has a infected advertisement.
So as soon as updates come out make sure to get them!
Just had to cleaned 5 machines today, all got hit with the same virus that killed their print spooler and all on the same day (They view the same sites for work and a infected ad got them). All 5 machines had an outdated java. Updated everyone to v7 update 40 and no one else got hit. (This was at my biggest customers that has 30+ computers)
Shane
George:
Thanks a lot, I understand this is the best way in general, I’ll keep my eyes peeled for any updates of Flash and Java. At this moment though I’m oversensitive to Baidu. I’m not sure it’s an infection per se, but it’s sure a hazard. Please tell me, if I follow this
http://www.pcworld.com/article/249077/how_to_block_websites.html
and add to my hosts file this:
127.0.0.1 www.baidu.com
will it prevent baidu from making any change on my pc? If not, how can I achieve that?
Thanks again,
George
Shane:
127.0.0.1 www.baidu.com
That would simply keep anything on your system from accessing that site, so it would only really block it if something tried down download it from their site. But it can still be downloaded from other sites.
But having 127.0.0.1 www.baidu.com wont hurt :-)
Shane
George:
I’m embarrassed indeed to go on, this is a forum not a charity; just reporting back something rather weird.
I was too optimistic to say about that restoring reinstallation that ‘should work’. It took some customization, e.g. the background picture, but didn’t fix the shortcuts. Then I wiped, not merely formatted, the system drive and put on an old recovery image. The shortcuts worked for a few hours, then went. I didn’t use but the usual programs. Anyway, the issue is not so tragic, I can run programs as admin from the exe files. I’ll try to find out but that’s just curiosity from now on.
Thanks,
George
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