i've got skills that amaze many people and yet i know i am so far from knowing how a computer actually works that i am an ameoba on an evolutionary scale when compared to actual computer tech (a term that runs the gamat from what i can do to someone who can do it all, whatever all might be... in any case, i am always hope, whenever my computers act up (and that is a term that ranges from processing slower than i want to shutting down unexpectedly) that i'd meet someone with knowledge well beyond that of mine to explain to me what stuff like this means... or HKLM system controlset dcomlaunch for that matter... reading this discussion provided valuable clues, the trouble is, i am not sure what to do with the clues... at least i am not clueless, which does provide a chuckle even though the majority of my brain is dissatisfied with my ignorance...
so anyway, the computer is shutting down unexpectedly and i am wondering if that is an overheating issue or a battery issue (since the battery is near death due to age and my habit of leaving the laptop plugged in all the time) or if there is some sort of malware buring deeper than my deep scans from kaspersky and spybot can find... it would help if i understood all that kaspersky and spybot might be telling me too... for instance i am reunning a deep rootkit scan and spybot has found seven rootkits so far and the details have a little red flag for all seven with five saying no admin in acl and one saying zero char in key name and one saying invisible to Win32... each have limited information for my ignorant brain... four of the objects Emun, two are LicCtrl (with a whole lot more characters following), and one is NOS... a relative blank is drawn in my brain... in fact, rather than ramble in detail (or in peices, for that matter) as if some clarity might come from typing information that makes little or no sense to me, here is the list of rootkits listed during spybot's deep rootkit scan... any understanding you might share as to what the following means would bring much appreciation and praise for you which might be worth your time if you are into appreciation and praise...
Type: Key
Object: Enum
Location: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RpcSs\
Details: No admin in ACL
Type: Key
Object: Enum
Location: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\DcomLaunch\
Details: No admin in ACL
Type: Key
Object: Enum
Location: HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\RpcSs\
Details: No admin in ACL
Type: Key
Object: Enum
Location: HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\DcomLaunch\
Details: No admin in ACL
Type: Key
Object: NOS
Location: HKLM\SOFTWARE\
Details: No admin in ACL
Type: Key
Object: LicCtrl<0x00>lkzs$i&#&y@^t! #^$ g9^$&pgb SDB36o
Location: HKLM\SOFTWARE\LicCtrl\LicCtrl\LicCtrl\
Details: Zero char in key name
Type: Key
Object: LicCtrl<0x00>lkzs$i&#&y@^t! #^$ g9^$&pgb SDB36o
Location: HKLM\SOFTWARE\LicCtrl\LicCtrl\LicCtrl\
Details: Invisible to Win32
if you are ambivolent about appreciation and praise and feel more motivated to respond for money, feel free to offer up your knowledge or services with a price tag and i will calculate the value of the potential information you might offer against the potential that you might over-value your ability to communicate your knowledge and understanding in a way that my tech-ignorant brain could actually process and understand and maybe i would send you money for information... either way, if i actually understood what you said, you'd get much appreciation and praise...
here is an example of a simple question what is HKLM? that provided a distantly recognizable answer... apparently i assumed someone asking a similar question HKLM where and what is it? might get the answer i sought, but the responders seemed to ignore the what? and answered the where?...
it doesn't help that in my search for knowledg, i find this answer way too many times:
SSL connection error
Unable to make a secure connection to the server. This may be a problem with the server, or it may be requiring a client authentication certificate that you don't have.
and i have no clue why my various browsers are blocked (i routinely try using IE, Firefox, Chrome, and Opera and sometimes the SSL message comes up on one and not on another, rather randomly, from my limited perspective)... anyway, all i wanted was to reach this link which asked the question what does HKLM in MS stand for? which seems close enough to my question, what is HKLM? to bring hope of an answer, but the SSL issue prevented me from seeing that page... same thing happened when trying to reach this one... i wonder why and whether you might see those pages when you click on those links... it seems to happen for all the google search links suddenly just now... that is in Opera... I started this search in IE but it was blocking my search as well... ultimately, i believe i've discovered that HKLM is the name of a registry hive...
so what is a registry hive?... seems to be just a term to mean file or folder in basic information organization and yet that simplest of changing the language creates walls for those who don't have the basic translation tool that turns geek-speak into the same words that have been used for years to describe simple information organizationing systems... of course understanding the language is a far cry from knowing what to do with it...
meanwhile, almost an hour later, the deep root scan continues and still there are just the seven keys listed above in the report spybot appears to be preparing for me... which brings us to the point of this entry, or at least to one of the succinct questions, what do i do with this information? (especially the details? referring to the seven four-line intented items listed above each starting with "key")...
the deep root scan finished in 59:55 minutes and spybot provided no further information beyond that listed above... i can right click and see properties, but that tells me little i can use to make any sort of logical or educated (or safe) decisions... i could deleted these keys, but would that cause more damage than good?... in all the help information spybot provides, it does not suggest what to do with the information, the help only describes the process which is pretty obvious, a scan scans...
i am left with this useless feeling of time wasted and ignorance and frustration that the shut downs will continue at what seem to be semi-random intervals that may or may not involved overheating or battery failure...
i suppose all that is left for me to do is to keep several computers and use system restore repeatedly with one to see what happens when i delete registry keys or other files spybot or kaspersky show in their lists when they do their scans... seems like a foolish way to learn, but perhaps that is the secret to techie geekdom, the fact that nobody knows the answer and everybody relies on trial and error... and luck...
narf :)
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