computer resolved?
Feb. 12th, 2009 10:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amezriFor anyone who might be keeping track, I'm optimistic that I've cracked the problem with Hippaforalkus. *knocks on wood* After some random searching and head-scratching, it occurred to me that it was strange that the lock-ups happened near around the same time every day and/or after about the same about of uptime.
So... I used my google fu and looked for any sort of solution, stumbling on a few random article suggesting that late-night lock-ups were perhaps caused by System Restore. Huh. Well, couldn't hurt to try, right? In those same forum posts, it was suggested that one runs SuperAntiSpyware to clear out any junk. First thing I did was disable System Restore -- this supposedly is enough to clean out all previous restore points. Then I ran SuperAntiSpyware.
I freaked out a little at first because SuperAntiSpyware locked up during the first scan, but having a look on their forums, it seems this is a common occurrence and all that needed to be done was uncheck a scanning option. Once working, SuperAntiSpyware found nothing on my system, but while it was searching, it did trigger AVG's active scan to flag two items as infected with a Trojan. One was an exe file I didn't really care about, and the other was an exe in the System Restore folder. I had AVG dump the files and then I restarted.
Restarted. Ran SuperAntiSpyare again and it was all clean. No AVG triggers. Done.
One tiny hiccup - AVG ran a normal scan last night and returned three more Trojan infections - one in System Restore, one in an rar file, and one in a tracking cookie. I'm thinking at least one if not all are false positives, but better safe than sorry. Got rid of the lot and ran SuperAntiSpyware and AVG again and both came back clean.
The system has been online for 58 hours as of this post. Gonna let it run through the night and see if it freezes up again. Will do an endurance run when I get back from Farpoint on Monday.
Edit: Spoke too soon. At about 5am, the system locked again. This was, however, the longest uptime I've had in several months without a freeze (65 hours if my math is right). And though I think it's mere coincidence, I feel I have to point out that the system locked up about 3 minutes after I let Windows install some updates. So. I have no idea.
So... I used my google fu and looked for any sort of solution, stumbling on a few random article suggesting that late-night lock-ups were perhaps caused by System Restore. Huh. Well, couldn't hurt to try, right? In those same forum posts, it was suggested that one runs SuperAntiSpyware to clear out any junk. First thing I did was disable System Restore -- this supposedly is enough to clean out all previous restore points. Then I ran SuperAntiSpyware.
I freaked out a little at first because SuperAntiSpyware locked up during the first scan, but having a look on their forums, it seems this is a common occurrence and all that needed to be done was uncheck a scanning option. Once working, SuperAntiSpyware found nothing on my system, but while it was searching, it did trigger AVG's active scan to flag two items as infected with a Trojan. One was an exe file I didn't really care about, and the other was an exe in the System Restore folder. I had AVG dump the files and then I restarted.
Restarted. Ran SuperAntiSpyare again and it was all clean. No AVG triggers. Done.
One tiny hiccup - AVG ran a normal scan last night and returned three more Trojan infections - one in System Restore, one in an rar file, and one in a tracking cookie. I'm thinking at least one if not all are false positives, but better safe than sorry. Got rid of the lot and ran SuperAntiSpyware and AVG again and both came back clean.
The system has been online for 58 hours as of this post. Gonna let it run through the night and see if it freezes up again. Will do an endurance run when I get back from Farpoint on Monday.
Edit: Spoke too soon. At about 5am, the system locked again. This was, however, the longest uptime I've had in several months without a freeze (65 hours if my math is right). And though I think it's mere coincidence, I feel I have to point out that the system locked up about 3 minutes after I let Windows install some updates. So. I have no idea.
