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Geek Culture / Scary computer message----HELP!!!

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 21st Oct 2008 20:44
OK, this happened yesterday at one point, and today the message flashed again so I took a screen shot of it. Can anyone tell me what it means?



Two years ago we got a similar message popping up, and we had to WIPE THE HARD DRIVE!!!

I really hope that's not the case here...

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Posted: 21st Oct 2008 20:47
I have no idea what that means, but I'd suggest:
Run a virus scan program
Defragment
make a backup of any important files
cross your fingers and hope your machine doesn't explode.

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Posted: 21st Oct 2008 20:52
List ALL the applcations you have, no butts, if its long who cares, just list them all and post.
One of them could be a rouge applacation of sorts.
Such as anti-virus-xp-2008.
Also run a virus scan and a malware-scan.
Also untill its finished, dont open up anyfiles, as looking at a virus will realease it.(as I heard.)


"Your greatest teacher is your harshest critic"-'Butterfingers'
Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 21st Oct 2008 21:04 Edited at: 21st Oct 2008 21:18
AHHH!!!


@omega:

Already backing up important videos onto external hard drive. Almost done.

@Matuka:

It will take a while to compile the list, but I'll get it done after I'm done transfering videos.

Thanks guys!

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Posted: 21st Oct 2008 21:31
before we all start yelling fire, do you know what dm.exe might be?

http://www.google.com/search?q=dm.exe

Er.. on second though, maybe now's the time to yell fire.


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Posted: 21st Oct 2008 21:41 Edited at: 21st Oct 2008 21:42
ahahaahaha, I didnt notice that...
xD search for DM.Exe and delete it nao NAO NAAAOOO!!

and if it doesnt let you delete it normally, use THIS!


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Posted: 21st Oct 2008 21:44
Quote: "Already backing up important videos onto external hard drive."

interesting combo... "important videos" and "trojan" ... makes one wonder what KIND of "imnportant videos"....


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Posted: 21st Oct 2008 21:46
Quote: "interesting combo... "important videos" and "trojan" ... makes one wonder what KIND of "imnportant videos"...."

>_> pr0- I mean... tutorials?... =)


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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 21st Oct 2008 21:47 Edited at: 21st Oct 2008 21:49
Quote: "interesting combo... "important videos" and "trojan" ... makes one wonder what KIND of "imnportant videos"...."



Family videos of us at the Renaissance Faire, at our house, visiting my Grandpa for the last time before he died, THOSE kinds of important videos.

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Yodaman Jer

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 21st Oct 2008 22:21
OK, here's my program list from the 'add or remove programs' in the control panel of Windows XP:

Abbyy FineReader 5.0 Plus Sprint
Ad-Aware 2007
Adobe Flash Player 9 ActiveX
Adobe Flash Player Plugin
Adobe Reader 8.1.0
Adobe Reader 8.1.2
Adobe Shockwave Player
Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.0
Age Of Mythology
Apple Software Update
Ask Toolbar
Audacity 1.2.6
Bink and Smacker
C-Dilla Licence Management System
Compact Wireless-G USB Adapter
Compatibility Pack for the 2007 Office system
Console Classix 4.04
Creative Driver
Dark Basic
DebugMode Wax 2.0
Digital Blue(tm)QX3(tm)Computer Microscope
Diner Dash 2
Dino And Aliens
Direct Show Ogg Vorbis Filter
Dorling Kindersley XP Update
DVD Solution
Easy CD Creator 5 Basic
Ezonics VGA camera
Family Keylogger v3.02
Finding Nemo: Nemo's Underwater World Of Fun Special Edition
FitDay PC Version 1.0
FoxyTunes For Firefox
Game Maker 7.0
Gateway Drivers and Applications Recovery
Gateway IE Customizations
GIMP 2.4.5
GTW V.92 Voicemodem
Harry Potter
Harry Potter II
HP Imaging Device Functions 6.0
HP Photosmart Cameras 6.0
HP Photosmart Premier Software 6.0
HP Software Update
HP Solution Center and Imaging Support Tools 6.0
hyy_0307b_calendar Wallpaper
Indeo XP Software
Insaniquarium! Deluxe
Intel PRO Ethernet Adapter and Software
Intel PROSet II
InterVideo Device Service
J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 10
Java 6 Update 3
Java 6 Update 7
Java Environment 6 Update 1
Juggle Saver
Kodak EasyShare software
Lavasoft VX2 Cleaner
Lernout & Hauspie TruVoice American English TTS Engine
Lexmark 4200 Series
Lexmark 4200 Series Fax Solutions
LimeWire 4.18.3
Macromedia Flash Player 8
Mahjongg Platinum 2
Maplet
Mario Forever 4.0
Mario Forever Toolbar
McAffe SecurityCenter
Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1
Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Hotfix (KB928366)
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1
Microsoft Compression Client Pack 1.0 For Windows XP
Microsoft Creative Writer 2
Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003
Microsoft Office XP Professional with FrontPage

Oh heck, here's a screen shot of the rest!










There...thanks for your help guys!

Yodaman Jer

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 21st Oct 2008 22:34
OK all...

It seems to have existed in Light Map Maker. Weird...
I un-installed it from the advice from a computer friend of mine, and it disappeared ( I think.)

I'll keep an eye out for now...if I get any more warning messages I'll contact him.

Thanks everyone!

Yodaman Jer

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Posted: 21st Oct 2008 22:38
Uninstalling it wont do, the virus can re-install itself, and it seems to by dynamic, as it appeared in light map maker which seems to be a odd place to be.
You may want to use malware bytes-anti malware scanner as it will search for malware and delete the malware.
just to be on the safe side.


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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 21st Oct 2008 22:40
Yeah, my mom is about to run scanning software. If it's still on here, I'm glad I spent an hour backing up files. But man, that's annoying....GRR!

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Posted: 21st Oct 2008 22:48
A friend of mine does have an similar virus that he cant get rid of.
but this one does also switch the windows wallpaper to an fake virus error message .

weird
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Posted: 21st Oct 2008 23:16
It doesn't switch the background, it adds a web window embedded into the background so clicking it causes IE to pop up. It's red with a black nuclear symbol right?

My brother got it onto the desktop downstairs and it took about an hour of gruesome Command Prompt commands to kill it but I managed it without any tutorials, antivirus or antispyware. When both were installed later on, my attempts were proven sucessful.

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Posted: 22nd Oct 2008 00:17
Makes me wonder why do people even bother to make Viruses. I mean it proves nothing, so whats the point?


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Posted: 22nd Oct 2008 01:31
Quote: "Makes me wonder why do people even bother to make Viruses. I mean it proves nothing, so whats the point?
"


It's doesn't prove anything. I'm pretty sure someone invented it in a competition to see who can be a bigger dick.

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Posted: 22nd Oct 2008 01:35
Or maybe they wanted to steal your passwords and credit card info, or possibly use your computer as a proxy to attack other systems.


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Posted: 22nd Oct 2008 01:37
Quote: "Or maybe they wanted to steal your passwords and credit card info, or possibly use your computer as a proxy to attack other systems."


Exactly. Who can be a bigger dick.

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Posted: 22nd Oct 2008 02:49 Edited at: 22nd Oct 2008 02:50
... Am I the only one here that sees the clear simplicity in this?

The program CRASHED. It's most likely a memory leak from within the program causing it to execute code at an unallocated region of memory - which causes the processor to generate an interrupt which Windows will catch and handle by displaying the message dialog to you.

If you want to figure out what process it's coming from - there's a nifty feature in the task manager that lets you right click a process and a menu pops up. On that menu you should find "Open File Location." This will let you see which program the app is coming from. If you have Vista.

I skipped most the posts when I saw nobody was mentioning this... :/

EDIT - Time saver. Hold the ALT key then press the PRINT SCR key (Or PRNSCR or whatever it's called on your keyboard) then paste that in paint. That will capture a screenshot of ONLY the window currently in focus.

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2008 02:54
Thanks all!

I agree with Aaron, that makes the most sense. It had been a while since I used Light Map Maker, but I recall that happening before, but not that error message. Or maybe it was. I don't remember.

I just thought it was a bad sign seeing as I got another error message yesterday...hmm...

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Posted: 22nd Oct 2008 06:33
Quote: "EDIT - Time saver. Hold the ALT key then press the PRINT SCR key (Or PRNSCR or whatever it's called on your keyboard) then paste that in paint. That will capture a screenshot of ONLY the window currently in focus."


Ooh, I'll have to remember that.
I'd just run your virus scan and not worry about it too much.
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2008 07:00
That happens on my computer all the time, I just click OK, havent had a problem with it yet, just keeps popping up. I wouldnt care about it that much. That is if you're consistently backing up your files just in case.

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Posted: 22nd Oct 2008 10:02
Should use linux, this would never happen. Haha

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Maybe so, but you wouldn't haven't support for any modern games and programs. Sounds great! I think I'll have fun, uhhh, browsing the web on Linux.

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Posted: 22nd Oct 2008 10:30
Had this problem everytime I closed IE7... lol, I closed it and got an error .

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Posted: 22nd Oct 2008 16:41
DM.exe, isn't that a handling program for Maxtor external harddrives?


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Posted: 22nd Oct 2008 16:47
Quote: "It's most likely a memory leak from within the program causing it to execute code at an unallocated region of memory"

And how exactly would a memory leak do that?

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Quote: "And how exactly would a memory leak do that?"


Err durr, not deallocating memory causes a new thread to be spawned which happens to execute this memory. Didn't you know this?

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Posted: 22nd Oct 2008 17:15 Edited at: 22nd Oct 2008 17:16
Quote: "It's most likely a memory leak from within the program causing it to execute code at an unallocated region of memory"


Well, according to that warning, it's an instruction accessing its own space in memory.

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2008 20:07
Our computer seems perfectly fine.

I am still not sure what the heck dm.exe is, but I got rid of it. We did scans and everything, and the only things on the computer were adware and the like. Mostly Harmless...

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Posted: 22nd Oct 2008 22:31
Yes there is so little viruses on linux because its there users making the windows viruses
Yust a joke
but the people they catch for making viruses does almost always run linux .
will try to find that article again
something about the war against microsoft or something ?
But i have to say that my self and my friends that run vista and have all the embedded protection and virus prg on it.
No one of us have so far bin infected by any viruses that we know about

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Posted: 22nd Oct 2008 23:17
Quote: "Should use linux, this would never happen. Haha"


It's the programs fault, not Windows. Don't drag your silly arguments into every thread.

Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 23rd Oct 2008 05:02
Hmm...just got the message again, this time from an Adobe Flash Update...



This time it was on my sister's account...we have 5 on the computer. This is the third time in three days that it has happened...I'm going to look into buying a new hard drive.

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Quote: "This time it was on my sister's account...we have 5 on the computer. This is the third time in three days that it has happened...I'm going to look into buying a new hard drive."


I don't think it's the hard drive. Possibly RAM or old CPU.

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Posted: 23rd Oct 2008 08:22
I have had this problem when my computer was trying to access files on a flash drive that was no longer plugged in. Could that be your problem?


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i belive DB PROgrammer is righ here
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Quote: "Family videos of us at the Renaissance Faire, at our house, visiting my Grandpa for the last time before he died, THOSE kinds of important videos."

Good! I was just teasing anyway...


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JoelJ's a jerk. With a capital 'J.'

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 23rd Oct 2008 23:21
Quote: "JoelJ's a jerk. With a capital 'J.'"


No need to start a flame war.

Anyway, my mom looked it up, and it seems people have been complaining about this new 'Adobe Flash Update'. No matter what program you run, sometimes the error message will pop up. Interesting...

@DB PROgrammer:

Nope, don't use a flash drive at all. Don't even own one. Good idea though.

@Mahoney:
Old CPU, eh? Hmm...might as well look into buying a new computer then. With a gig or two of RAM, an uber-nice graphics card, *drools* and plenty 'o hard drive space!

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Posted: 23rd Oct 2008 23:52 Edited at: 24th Oct 2008 00:00
Quote: "Yes there is so little viruses on linux because its there users making the windows viruses
Yust a joke
but the people they catch for making viruses does almost always run linux .
will try to find that article again
something about the war against microsoft or something ?
But i have to say that my self and my friends that run vista and have all the embedded protection and virus prg on it.
No one of us have so far bin infected by any viruses that we know about

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Yes thats the one he have "


What I have learned it is an entire industry. Doubt it is just a war against MS... do not undertstand why you make viruses anyway. I am a Linux user, I love Linux, but I do not understand why I would ruin it for others that way.

But honestly, how can you develop windows viruses on Linux? Wine?

Quote: "It's the programs fault, not Windows. Don't drag your silly arguments into every thread."


No, its not the programs fault. Its teletubbies fault!

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Posted: 24th Oct 2008 00:30 Edited at: 24th Oct 2008 00:31
Perhaps try a memory test. On the other hand perhaps it is a trojan that is injecting code into all of your executables, injecting code that quite clearly fails. Which antivirus software are you using?

Either way, I wouldn't replace your HDD or CPU just yet. It's unlikely that it's your CPU (although maybe not impossible), and even more unlikely that it could be your HDD.

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Benjamin, not a failure-to-deallocate memory leak. A "I deallocated but forgot to null the pointer" or "use of invalid pointer" memory leak which can cause THOSE kinds of errors, or cause an error anywhere else within the program - even at a line like "int x = 2 * 7;" I'm aware of these kinds of "memory leaks" as I call them, they happen quite frequently if you can't manage your data right.

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Quote: "A "I deallocated but forgot to null the pointer" or "use of invalid pointer" memory leak"

Yes, thus not a memory leak at all.

Still doesn't make sense though, the instruction is referencing itself. It's more likely a buffer overrun. Not that it really matters.

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I prefer to call it a memory leak. Yes, I know that's not what it's called.

Cheers,

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Quote: "Still doesn't make sense though, the instruction is referencing itself."


That's what I'm saying. Doesn't make sense.

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 24th Oct 2008 04:16
Hmm.....well, I'm not sure what software we use. As soon as I find out I'll post. However, recent posts show that it isn't that serious of a problem. I've stopped freaking out about it so much, but it's still un-nerving as I don't know what the problem is. Hmm.

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