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How do I save the recently opened programs list in VISTA/ 7?

I know how to clear the recently opened programs or the most commonly used programs list in the start menu in Windows Vista and Windows 7.

I was wondering if there is a way to save this history and reapply this to a new installation. I’m wondering if this is stored in the registry or in some kind of file.

My reason for this is some of my friends are real dumb, they have millions of viruses and loads of crapware and errors on their PC and they say; “I have it like I like it, NO TOCHIE!!!¡” oh, and their computers are slow as f***. Sorry for my French.

My friends bank account was accessed and money was stolen, luckily the bank returned his money but it happened again. My friend has a keylogger virus and we tried to remove it by scanning with four separate programs but it didn’t work. Two of the programs found the virus but failed to remove it. It said it would brick the computer if it tried to remove it or something because the virus was so deep in the computer that it cannot be fixed.

My friend finally agreed to let me re-install Windows on his computer, finally, I was relived. The only problem is he said the only condition is that I make his computer look exactly the way it does now. He wants it to look the same, exactly the way it was, same screen resolution, easy to check. The same wallpaper, and the recently used programs list in the start menu so it looks the same, among other things.

Please help out, all I found online when I search is how to clear recently opened programs and files, and that is not what I want. Thank you ¡,…..,¡

Keylogged then hacked how to get revenge?

I got key logged a few days a go. Took me a good day to get this rat out of my p.c.
I had Trojans, viewers, you name it. Not to mention the fact he hacked all of my online game accounts, which I have built up for the last 9 Years.
Has to be done over a pc as I’m from the uk
I managed to get he’s ip.
What can I do? This guy has basically completely mucked my p.c up and my game accounts.
I know this guy was 14 by he’s date of birth from the keylog also the ip wasn’t fake because I typed it into ip trackers and he is located in miami ip arrow was next t a park. How do I get this little sht?

How to check computer for keylogger?

My computer is running an operating system downloaded through a torrent site.
It is activated with my product key, I lost my CD.
I need to know how to detect any malware or a keylogger on my operating system,
or anything that could collect information.

What are the weird pop-ups on my computer?

Well, I’ve heard of spyware, and key-loggers. But I’m not sure what this is. It may be neither, or it might be both. Sometimes while I’m working on my computer a little black box will pop up and then disappear almost instantly. It’s been happening for a while, and I’m not sure what it is. I think it may be harmful, but I have no idea what it is. I could never read what it said because it usually disappeared too quickly. Today it happened again, and I actually got to read the words. It turns out that they said “Copying files”

Well, that can’t be good. Should I be concerned?

how can i find out if there is a keylogger on my computer?

i was browsing through a website looking through forums for an online game i play and they offered free in game money. now me being the stupid 3 year old i am clicked on it. later i saw people had commented all over the link saying how it was a keylogger and people who clicked it are going to get hacked. i ran a sweep with norton internet security and it found 26 tracking cookies but nothing else. all i want to know is how would i find out if my computer is infected with a keylogger? and if it is how would i go about getting rid of it?

What\’s the proper way to remove this virus(es)?

After I went into a website, I got what I thought was a (legit) Microsoft Security alert, it said that 9 viruses had been detected in my computer and they were the following (security alert level next to it in parentheses):

Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Small.dge (High)
Trojan Horse IRC/Backdoor.SdBot4.FRV (Critical)
AdvWare.Hotbar (High)
W32.Nimda.J@mm (Medium)
W32.Yaha.B@mm (Critical)
Trojan-PSW.Win32.LdPinch.abm (Critical)
Trojan.Qoologic – key logger (High)
Adware.Win32.Winad (Critical)
Magic DVD Ripper (High)

Anyways, I suspected that the whole warning is a fake, and haven’t ran anything. I just want to know how should I proceed into getting rid of it? Proper way? Thanks in advance.

Should I be worried here?

Two days ago I started recieving these emails in my inbox claiming to be from the Hotmail postmaster. They were the emails you get when you fail to deliver an email message to someone. They have the heading: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) and they are from postmaster.mail.hotmail.com.

Now the first thing I did was a test. I sent out an email to a fake Hotmail address I made up, just to see if the delivery failure address was the same. It was not. Look at these 2 screenshots:

Here is the first one:

This one is the real email I sent out, being returned to me.

Here is the second one:

This is one of the ones I keep getting in my email inbox.

Notice the difference? On the first one, the real one, the return address was postmaster@hotmail.com. On the other email, it was postmaster.mail.hotmail.com. So going by that you’d think I am in the clear and they are fake right? Wrong. I next looked at the actual full header for the email. Here it is:

From postmaster@mail.hotmail.com Fri Jan 13 19:38:41 2012
X-Apparently-To: ————— via 98.139.220.145; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:38:41 -0800
Return-Path:
Received-SPF: none (domain of bay0-omc1-s23.bay0.hotmail.com does not designate permitted sender hosts)
X-Originating-IP: [65.54.190.34]
Received: from 127.0.0.1 (EHLO bay0-omc1-s23.bay0.hotmail.com) (65.54.190.34)
by mta1002.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:38:41 -0800

Now, after checking up on both those IP addresses, they are both in fact registered to Microsoft. Hotmail to be exact. So while the messages have different delivery messages, they are coming from the same place. Now here is the thing, I am not an expert on email. I don’t know even close to as much about it as I do about other things pc related, so i don;t know if this is genuine or not. if it is,someone either has access to my account(which I doubt), or is somehow spoofing my email address as a way to get around spam filters. I heard of this happening, and I have no idea how it is done, but I know it has nothing to do with your account being compromised.

Ordinarily in a situation like this I would simply cancel the account right from the get go. However, this is my main email account and the though of going through and redoing everhting is just….wow. I thought about contacting Microsoft and finding out what the deal is but I can;t even find a phone number to contact them. The only thing they have for Customer Support is pretty much their forums and I refuse to go on there and be told the same old change your password and scan your computer crap like I am a child.

I know 100% certain that my pc is bug free. I have been building pcs for close to 20 years and I am not lax in my antivirus or firewall. I have never even had a virus in my entire time on the internet, throughout my I think 11 different pc’s I have built since the mid 90s. Probably because I don’t really use the internet other than on sites I know are safe. So to reiterate, this is not something virus related where my account was hacked. There are no keyloggers or anything like that on my system. I open task manager everytime I turn my pc on to check for any unknown processes or anything, and I make sure my performance stays within a limited margin on various testing programs. So again, this is not a situation where someone got a hold of my password and has hacked my email account. I also do not throw away anything with passwords written on them, they get burned, as does all my mail when I am through with it.

I also change all online passwords using a random password generating program that generates random series of letters, numbers etc at least once a month. The point of all this is I am a security freak, so please don’t give me the usual answers like check your pc for viruses etc, as I can assure you, it is clean. I even manually went in and checked both the entire file system and for registry entries that seemed out of place. It took me the better part of the day but I could find nothing out of the ordinary.

Now aside from completely freaking out about this, what should I do here? And I swear to if someone says scan my pc and change my password I will hunt you down and kill you. Thank you!
@J

Wow you must feel really good about yourself huh! Real classy guy you are! Upset that a girl knows more about pc issues than you? More than likely you just didn’t know the answer so you posted the first thing that came to mind. Typical ignorant people who know nothing about pc’s.

Trojan/Keylogger Problem?

Recently I got a worm Lsas.Blaster.key logger. and Trojan bnkwin32 key logger. My question is: Do these worms/Trojans steal account information like Facebook/msn/Forex/aim, credit card stuff… etc. I use Mozilla as my browser. My other question is how can I get rid of them, I now they’re trojans trying to trick into buying the security,so someone help me please, I really need to know if they really do steal info.

A virus called win 7 is attacking my computer?

It popped up while i was browsing a website and itsays that it is an antivirus program that i have to install. i dont believe it. it keeps popping up saying that i am infecting with keyloggers and stuff. i tried setting my clock forward seven days b/c some website said to do that. it didnt help either. What is going on? how do i get rid of it?

What "genious" made it legal to put Communist Chinese made parts in USA weapons systems?

Some say a “back door” in some part, made i possible for Iran to take control of the most advanced pilot-less drone. A few weeks ago it came out in the news that the drones had a key logger virus that the Air Force could not remove, and yet. they kept flying them. Money, cutting costs and increasing profits, puts us and out Airmen, Marines, Soldiers, Sailors at high unpredictable risks.
WHO ALLOWS THIS BUYING OF ELECTRONICS FROM ONE OF OUR ARCH ENEMYS AND PUTTING THEM IN UNITED STATES WEAPONS SYSTEMS?