Dammaged decompressing exe's?

[Munchables]

Man o man like 95% (only the small ones >20meg are fine) of ever self decompressing exe I get from kazaa are dammaged. I think I have a problem. I am running xp pro.

peace

[PornMaster]

What was the error message exactly? but a word of advice, Don't get any exe's under 100MB's from kazaa, better yet, don't get any exe's from kazaa!

[Munchables]

The problem is even with immages (which I perfer) when I try and install after they have been burnd or put into a file. The error with the exe's is that the file is dammaged probably becase of a transfer error. The message varries between exe's but that is the jist.

peace

[Munchables]

What not even allmighty KRELL can solve my prob?

Yeah I am just refreshing my thred sry if I piss anyone off but this problem is making me verry angry!

[wonderboy2005]

do you get from alot of sources? do you shut down kazaa abruptly? things like these can corrupt files, especially bigger ones. though kazaa is the most popular p2p sytem, its not perfect(obviously)

or it could be that your just prone to getting crappy files. try another net like dc++ or irc

[Theinfamousone]

Who's your ISP? You've probably got a packet loss problem if even images and stuff is messed up.

[almanzo]

I had a really similar problem not too long ago. What I would do is first download winace and/or winrar if you don't have them already. If you run into a self-extracting exe that is messed up, open it manually with one of these two programs and try to repair the archive. If the guy who compressed it added a recovery record, you should be able to repair with no problems. Unfortunately, most on Kazaa don't add a recovery record and in that case you are screwed as far as a repair goes.

Next, make sure you're CD burner is doing okay. I bring this up because you said you burn these files and images to CD. In my case, the cd burner was the culprit. It took awhile before I realized that the archive had few if any errors when I first downloaded, but after I put them on cd they had errors all over the place. Reducing the burning speed helped at first, but eventually I just had to get a new burner. Check it out, the burner might be the perpetrator in your situation as well.

Also, as PornMaster said, watch out for under 100 MB exe's (or any file smaller than you would expect it to be) from Kazaa as they are usually BS and/or the guy who did the compressing of the files did a shitty job so there are tons of errors or "invalid archive" or whatever else. Also, if there is any way you can tell before you download, try to get a file compressed with winrar or winace, instead of winzip - there are tons of files out there people have compressed with old versions of winzip self extractor that just do not hold up when you are transferring hundreds of MBs over p2p.

[Munchables]

Well hmmm I am dling win ace now but I allready have winzip and winrar and yes I have tried opening them manuly. I have downladed a lot of movies some immages, but the only thing problem I have is with CD immages and compressed files over 100 meg, some times the decompression will go though but when I install the program there will be a error saying the cd is scrached or some shit(even if it is not a immage, it is just an error saying that the files it needs to install are dammaged, the installer(s) where once on a cd).

I had a wicked virus that Mcafee and Norton couldn't tuch and it came back after I reformated my dive. Right now windows thinks the drive is a 76 gig even though it is a 82. I don't know how much of that is Win XP restore, but I am not sure how that could be causing the problem. I don't know if I still have the virius but svchost.exe is lisining on 19 different ports ntoskrnl.exe is lisning on 5 different ports, there is also somthing called Lsass.exe (Probably a virius but norton and mcafee don't think it is) opening one port and alg.exe(nessus which is a nice prog I mean norton and mcafee don't scan for it, he he it opens a port). I blocked them all and i have had no problems.

What is a good virius scanner?

Peace

(ps I am using sygate and I unchecked hide windows services, I don't trust windows or sygate.)

[Theinfamousone]

Originally posted by Munchables
I had a wicked virus that Mcafee and Norton couldn't tuch and it came back after I reformated my dive. Right now windows thinks the drive is a 76 gig even though it is a 82.

What is a good virius scanner?

Peace

(ps I am using sygate and I unchecked hide windows services, I don't trust windows or sygate.)

I don't know, you can try pc cillan or whatever. I've never heard of a virus that comes back after you reformat, I guess it's possible for it to stay in the RAM, but uhh, not very likely.

Umm, that hard drive thing is because Microsoft uses a different way of counting KB, they say it is 1024 bytes to a kilobyte whereas your hard drive manufacturer says taht 1000 bytes is a kilobyte

For instance, I have an 80 Gig, it's a little over 80,000,0000,000 bytes, but Windows says it's only 74.5 gigs.

[Rahwgwar]

Personally I like the Ontrack virus scanner. The whole SystemSuite kicks ass, however.

[Munchables]

Originally posted by Theinfamousone
I don't know, you can try pc cillan or whatever. I've never heard of a virus that comes back after you reformat, I guess it's possible for it to stay in the RAM, but uhh, not very likely.

Umm, that hard drive thing is because Microsoft uses a different way of counting KB, they say it is 1024 bytes to a kilobyte whereas your hard drive manufacturer says taht 1000 bytes is a kilobyte

For instance, I have an 80 Gig, it's a little over 80,000,0000,000 bytes, but Windows says it's only 74.5 gigs.

All I know is I installed WinMe then I dled somthing from kazaa (go figure) and then there was a wired connection in sygate, it was some backdoor that affected kernel32.dll I can't rember what it was called any way I wen't though the precedure that mcafee told me to go though to remove it and when I booted up my computer it restarted. So I reinstalled WinMe agin reformaing the dirve and it was still there. So I installed Xp and well I think it is gone but I don't know. Is svchost.exe suposed to open 19 ports?

The only thing I can figure is if it some how made a partition on my drive. Even though what you said made perfict sence but the partition would could be less than a meg to house a virius.

oo I use cox cable

peace