What the hell am I folding?!

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  • Josh-Josh- Royal Oak, MI
    edited October 2004
    profdlp wrote:
    Josh-

    You have a couple of funny (and unGoogleable) processes running there... :eek3:

    I noticed that too..but I doubt its anything too malicious. I will be looking into when I get home. Most likely is just some stupid spyware. :scratch:

    EDIT//Uh oh...Looks like I did get a trojan or two somehow. Removed by the time I get home from school. Thanks for pointing it out.

    (wonders why antivirus didnt pick them up)
  • Josh-Josh- Royal Oak, MI
    edited October 2004
    csimon wrote:
    :bawling: My unit isn't worth bragging about but it is worth 320 points which proves the point ...it's not the size of the unit that matters ...err nevermind. :scratch:

    csimon, I noticed you have spoolsv.exe running in your processes. I ran a search on it (I also had spoolsv.exe running) and it can be a number of trojans. You may want to look into it yourself. http://www.symantec.com/search/
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    Josh- wrote:
    csimon, I noticed you have spoolsv.exe running in your processes. I ran a search on it (I also had spoolsv.exe running) and it can be a number of trojans. You may want to look into it yourself. http://www.symantec.com/search/
    thanks ...so how do I know if it's legit or not?
    do I need it or do I disable it?

    The spooler service is responsible for managing spooled print/fax jobs.


    Note: The spoolsv.exe file is located in the c:\windows\System32 folder. In other cases, spoolsv.exe is a virus, spyware, trojan or worm! Check this with Security Task Manager.

    It's not using any processes.
  • Josh-Josh- Royal Oak, MI
    edited October 2004
    How do you disable the Printer Spooler Service?
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    redoulent wrote:
    If you don't print, you don't need it. If you turn off the printer spooler service and it goes away, no trojan.

    http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger is a good quick fix scanner

    I don't have a printer attached to my computer, so I turned it off. Why waste resources.
    I do print/plot ...I print/plot from all 26 computers that I have including the one at home ...but I don't have a printer/plotter attached to any one of them.
    I turned it off in task manager and it disappeared. So I guess no trojan. :thumbsup:

    edit:// I just printed something and now it's back again!!! ;D
  • Josh-Josh- Royal Oak, MI
    edited October 2004
    Hmm...O_o I guess its just a printing service. When I searched it on Symantec, it showed a ton of trojans though...lol. ;D
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    Josh- wrote:
    Hmm...O_o I guess its just a printing service. When I searched it on Symantec, it showed a ton of trojans though...lol. ;D

    Thatsa good thing!
    I'd like to think that my AV would catch a virus before I got infected but you never know. :thumbsup:
  • tcithtcith Sydney, Australia Member
    edited October 2004
    Think I'll take the plunge and get big ones for my two big main production machines

    Been avoiding them until I sort of knew what I was doing - guess I sort of know now ;D
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited October 2004
    Well guys, I think I have you all beat. I have not one, not two, not even three, but six Big Units :p
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited October 2004
    About time you started folding on those damn things.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited October 2004
    Enjoy it while you can. I expect to stop again by March, April at the latest.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited October 2004
    You will do hell of a lot more than your >9k you have done so far.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    Kevin, stop being a wuss. Fold in the summer time like the rest of us do.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited October 2004
    Thrax wrote:
    Kevin, stop being a wuss. Fold in the summer time like the rest of us do.

    No. :p
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited October 2004
    You have AC now.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited October 2004
    Well, yes and no. I go home during the summer. The only way I can keep my room cool enough as it is (without the comps. folding) is to go around the upstairs and close every AC vent except the one in my room most of the way and leave mine wide open. And even then sometimes it gets hotter than I'm comfortable with...
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited October 2004
    Geeky1 wrote:
    ...even then sometimes it gets hotter than I'm comfortable with...
    Comfortable shmomfortable - this is FOLDING!!!! :rant:

    ;D
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    Waaaah.

    I slept in 90* rooms in the summer for 18 years and 5 months of my life. I'm 18 years and 8 months. ;)
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited October 2004
    Damn Geeky, spend a little money and put a window ac in your room for the summer. That way you can still fold and be cool. My computer room stays between 68-75 with a 9500 btu window ac augmenting my central air and that's with 6-8 computers running. Of course you would have hell sleeping with all the noise from them ;)
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited November 2004
    It's not me that's preventing that from happening, mudd, it's my dad :( :shakehead :mad:
  • MedlockMedlock Miramar, Florida Member
    edited November 2004
    Geeky, watercool 'em! :thumbsup: Kickass, dude, kickass!
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited November 2004
    ...watercooling takes care of the cpu, not me. The CPU temperature isn't my concern. They run nice and cool as it is. But the room gets too hot for me to be comfortable.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited November 2004
    Ok do what I was thinking the other day, WC the PC but take the RAD outside that way very little heat is being dumped into your room.
  • witenoizwitenoiz 19,356 miles East of Kansas City, MO Member
    edited November 2004
    Geeky1 wrote:
    It's not me that's preventing that from happening, mudd, it's my dad :( :shakehead :mad:

    Well, I realize you can't get a new dad :rolleyes:
    Geeky1 wrote:
    Well, yes and no. I go home during the summer. The only way I can keep my room cool enough as it is (without the comps. folding) is to go around the upstairs and close every AC vent except the one in my room most of the way and leave mine wide open. And even then sometimes it gets hotter than I'm comfortable with...

    I think I have a soulution for you - PM me - I will give you my address and you can ship all of those puppies to me and I will see that they fold 24 hours a day 365/6 days a year and I don't care what the temperature is or how much noiz they make! ;D
    Perfect solution = Problem solved! Jack
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    I'll host your folding rigs too, Geeky! :D

    Marc, me and theSMJ talked about "central watercooling" one day too. Have a central wc radiator outside and have cool water hookups in your computer room. :eek:
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    Wow.. this thread is long :wow:

    Im so proud ;D
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited November 2004
    primesuspect wrote:
    I'll host your folding rigs too, Geeky! :D

    Marc, me and theSMJ talked about "central watercooling" one day too. Have a central wc radiator outside and have cool water hookups in your computer room. :eek:

    Exactly. I was thinking about WCing all my extra (4) computers that way. The biggest reason would be because we will most likely be getting a smaller Apt with no basement so heat will be a bigger problem. Plus ice cold water in the winter.:D
  • witenoizwitenoiz 19,356 miles East of Kansas City, MO Member
    edited November 2004
    Shorty wrote:
    Wow.. this thread is long :wow:

    Im so proud ;D

    I forgot what this thread was all about thud.gif Jack
  • TroganTrogan London, UK
    edited November 2004
    Sorry everyone to bring this thread back again but I have a little question.

    I saw some of you have more than 1 FahCore_78.exe running in Task Manager on one computer (I think), How is that? Also, most of your(s) FahCore_78.exe have 100,00+ mem usage, how do you get it that high? Mine only uses max 14,000+ and min 7,000+.


    Thanks
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited November 2004
    The ones that have the memory usage in the high range have enabled large work units when they went through the initial configuration. I wouldn't recommend it unless the computer is directly under your control and has a minimum of 256 megs of ram. Keep in mind that these large work units can have an impact on other programs running due to the large footprint it maintains in ram. They are worth more points per processor time due to the system requirements.

    KingFish
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