Hello, I have noticed recently that my pc has been contacting russia but it is not blocked on my pi-hole ad blocking dns server. I do have agnitum fw still installed but it still tries to update sadly even though i have switched to manual update. Is there any other software that might be doing this or is there something else bad going on? Martin
Try my hosts file 0.0.0.0 www.google-analytics.com 0.0.0.0 google-analytics.com 0.0.0.0 ssl.google-analytics.com 0.0.0.0 safebrowsing.googleapis.com 0.0.0.0 crl.pki.goog 0.0.0.0 clientservices.googleapis.com 0.0.0.0 sb-ssl.google.com 0.0.0.0 www.googleapis.com 0.0.0.0 apis.google.com 0.0.0.0 www.gstatic.com 0.0.0.0 ogs.google.com 0.0.0.0 accounts.google.com 0.0.0.0 fonts.gstatic.com 0.0.0.0 update.googleapis.com 0.0.0.0 content-autofill.googleapis.com
google.ru is legit, check your computer for adware https://www.malwarebytes.com/adwcleaner/ and have a look into autostart https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns for your xp - dont search any further - could be any bug of 1600++ flaws. no smart list, sorry to say so. it will destroy several web pages or make them no longer functional.
had a look into autoruns and nothing out of the normal. Does adwcleaner give the option to remove nowadays? I remember in the past it used to do its thing (without warning) and reset some system settings to the default which i then had to change again.
what means "nowadays"? clothes? at least adwcleaner dont delete anything you dont like to, ofc you need to check options, thats why it called "options" ^^
ok thanks. glad to know it has improved. nowadays means today. just slang which isn't wise on a international forum
Over the years I've found sneaky crap showing up in Task Scheduler. A good app to ferret out this stuff is: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/task_scheduler_view.html Column sorting is its greatest forensic asset. Don't know if this is where you'll find your solution, but ya never know. Good luck.
had a go with adwcleaner and task scheduler nothing obvious to me. surt: thanks for task scheduler there was a lot more scheduled than i expected
thats why i linked to autoruns above - it also show up any task or autostart, services and more. (nirsoft is limited) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns before you start disabling you'd better ask about. if you disable the wrong task you wont be able to work with windows. compared to windows 7 or 8 there are not much options left - win10 is very sensible to this.
I am on win 7 not win10 thanks for the thought though. HAving set google.ru in outpost FW ipblocklist i have figured it out. it was an ad on a website that i had left in a tab. I have previous tabs restored on startup with FF.
No. This misinformation shouldn't go unchallenged and is herein limited to the discussion of Autoruns elements under the Scheduled Tasks tab. Per the Autoruns Help (and otherwise self-evident), "Scheduled Tasks: Task scheduler tasks configured to start at boot or logon." Nirsoft's TaskSchedulerView displays all scheduled tasks, including the hidden ones that may or may not show up as configured to start at boot or logon in Autoruns. Those sneaky crap ones I mentioned above in #9. Autoruns displays 6 static columns of right-click>properties like data where TaskSchedulerView displays 34 sortable columns of elemental and critical data. As the ol' colloquialism expresses, like night and day. To avoid any distractions to my intentions in this dialogue, as for all Sysinternals offerings, Autoruns is a superb tool and a testament to the inventiveness of the Russinovich and Cogsberg team. I still might have some Winternals Administrators Pak distros lying around somewhere. Back in the day, ERD Commander made heroes of us lowly, misunderstood desktop support laborers. And then there is Mr. Nir Sofer of NirSoft to hold in high regard as well. Cheers.
autoruns show mit 170 entries, nirsoft 175. due the different view of data its not easy to compare, done. difference: BrokerInfrastructure - here only as service!? LanguageComponentsInstaller ReconcileLanguageResources - missing Servicing StartComponentCleanup - missing User Profile Service HiveUploadTask - missing WaaSMedic PerformRemediation - seems very hidden and resets services to perform updates the problem for me is to know about its usage. i have 88 working tasks (of that shown 170) and i have several tasks disabled. but i have to admit the amount of settings in nirsoft tool is impressive, any how this is the only reason for me not to change tool, this is too much either i can reduce the columns or more. but i still would say that the issue here is not depending of the amount of tasks. thanks you for having me a different view.
