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Since wiping the drive, my AV scans have shown no threats found. The scans are also going a lot faster than before, since now they aren't scanning a nearly full 2TB drive. One thing that has been a little bit weird is that sometimes when I computer comes out of sleep the Wi-fi is disconnected. I can reconnect easily, and it doesn't appear to be doing it all the time, but still odd. I haven't noticed anything like it trying to connect to any other networks or anything like that, so I'm hoping that everything is fine now.

I thought about making this a new topic, but decided against it. I recently had an issue where I got a captcha error while trying to google something, and after looking it up saw that it could be a sign of malware. I did a "Full scan" with my Trend Micro AV, and it found nothing. I was still feeling uneasy about it, so I decided to to the same thing with my Webroot AV, and it found 61 threats. I noticed every threat had something to do with a program I used to use for Diablo 2 back in the day called ATMA V. I let the software do its thing, and it said the threats were removed. I tried doing a scan of just the drive where that backup was, since I wanted to double check that things were gone. Lo and behold, they weren't, so I went ahead and scanned anything on the drive that I wanted to keep storing them on a fresh drive after no threats were found. After that I disconnected from the internet, and gave the drive a full format (that drive had a backup from my old computer from years ago on it, so I figured better safe than sorry). Since doing these things I've done another full scan with Webroot, and no threats were found. Instead of taking more than 8 hours like the other time, this one only took around one hour. Does anyone here have any advice of things I need to do going forward from this? Also wondering if the SSD that I formatted would now be safe to reuse in the future? I also have an external SSD that I use for backups, and I can't remember if I backed up that bad drive to it or not. If I had done that, would plugging it in to look at it possibly cause more problems? I don't want to reinfect if I can avoid it. I haven't noticed my computer acting strangely other than the captcha screen that time, and really don't want to take it somewhere like Geek Squad again. They really lost my trust with how poorly they helped me previously. Sorry if this was too long and rambling on, but I am a little tired.

I've been playing a lot of Diablo 2 Resurrected lately. Just got the new "Expansion/Update" Reign of the Warlock. That class is being really fun so far as a fire build. Having a loot filter, stackable gems & runes, as well as a tracker for the Holy Grail (progress of finding all unique and set items) is awesome. One downside I'm seeing is that it looks like once you convert a previous Expansion character over to the new update, your Holy Grail essentially restarts from zero items found. Not too bad for some of the more common things, but having to get lucky for other drops all over again is lame. There are still some items I've never found in 20+ years of playing this game.

I had to work Friday, but Saturday sounds like a good day for that as well.

I think I may have gotten my sound working properly on my headset now. I tried plugging it into one of the rear usb ports, and so far at least I haven't noticed the sound cutting out anymore this way. Now I need to get my new 140mm fan installed in the rear of the case, and then all my fans will match aesthetics.

I have been noticing that the sound to my headset has been cutting in and out, but comes back usually with reseating the usb connection. What's weird is that I've only noticed this while playing Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal. I haven't had any issues with other games or while watching youtube or other videoes I have on the pc. Another question I have is if there is a program that I can use to control the RGB of all my fans, even though they are 2 different manufacturers? I googled a bit before work, and saw a program called SignalRGB. I went to download it, but it was blocked by my anti-virus, saying that it could be malicious. Do anyone here know if this program is safe to use? I told a couple co-workers about it, and they both said they have it on their pcs, but the fact that it got blocked has me worried to use it.

I don't think so, since my ram came bundled with my mobo. I did get an upgrade today at best buy though. I wound up getting a Gigabyte Geforce Rtx 5070 Ti 16GB card and an LG Ultragear G6 27G610A 200Hz monitor. Installing that Gpu was nerve wracking, since it's so huge, and I even needed to get additional gpu cables for the psu.Thankfully it did come with its own anti-sag bracket which was easy to install. If anyone was interested, I've updated the original post with the newer components so that it is easier to find.

I finally have an update for anyone that's interested. I just got my new pc version 2 built this week, and it posted without issue as far as I can tell. Cpu temps at Bios were showing 28 degrees C. Below are the specs of the components. Mobo: ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming Wifi Cpu: AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core 4.7Ghz Cooler: Arctic Freezer 3 360 Liquid Cooler Ram: Corsair Vengeange RGB DDR5 32GB 6400Mhz (was only showing 4800Mhz on Bios screen) Ram was bundled with Mobo Storage: 1TB Samsung 990 Pro NVMe, 2TB Samsung Sata SSD (x2), 4TB Crucial Sata SSD Gpu: Geforce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB (would like to possibly upgrade this to something with at least 12-16GB) Os: Windows 11 Home

I have recently developed a boil in my diaper area that is becoming painful, and was wondering if anyone else here has had this issue before. I have never had one before, and don't know why this suddenly appeared. I shower pretty much every day, only missing getting cleaned up occasionally. The boil got painful enough that one night after work I took a safety pin and punctured it to relieve pressure on it. It drained pus and blood, going down in size quite a bit though not completely gone. It has now started to come back, but it's not as big yet. I looked up treatments for them on youtube (I punctured it after learning that I shouldn't have done it), and what I'm seeing are things like: -warm compress -tea tree oil mixed with coconut oil -turmeric paste -drawing salve I have tried to refrain from diapering up while this issue is there, and am hopeful that I can go back to it once it goes away. I usually sweat a lot down there even when not diapered, and wonder if that could have been part of while this boil showed up.

I probably am, but I'm never signed in while on the computer. I use an ad blocker on the pc, but don't have one on the phone though.

I don't know if this is where this needs to go, but I've been noticing lately that I'll get a lot of ads for LL Medico on my phone while watching youtube. Sometimes it is just for walkers and canes and the like, but many times it is for Abena diapers. I don't look at anything like this on my phone, so I was surprised when I saw these ads popping up. Any ideas why they have started showing up on my phone? I kinda don't want to watch youtube in public anymore since I don't want one of these ads to pop up and be questioned about it.

I had a thought the other day about applying baby powder without getting it on my hands before sticking the tapes of my diaper. I've noticed a lot of times in videos from Asia, most likely Japan that the caregiver would apply baby powder using a little hand mitt or something that was kept in a container of the powder. I was wondering if anyone knows what this is called, and if they are available in the US? I wasn't sure where to post this, so feel free to correct me if this is in the wrong place.

I have gotten a new cpu for my test build, an AMD Ryzen 5 5500. I have it installed now, and it appears to be the fix for getting this thing running again. It has been running great so far since putting it in, and it is also running a lot quieter as well. I'm kinda glad to have gone through this hassle (sort of), since it is teaching me some things about troubleshooting. Now I just need to put the actual pc together and I'll be able to play games and stuff again too.

I think there are stress test programs for the cpu, but I can't get the pc to run long enough to do anything. I had tried to do a fresh install of windows11 to my C drive to see if that would do anything, but it never got all the way through the install without crashing. Now it is acting like there sin't an OS on the disk at all. I'm not convinced that this isn't geek squad's fault to some extent now. When they first built the pc back in april of 24 they never removed the film from the cpu cooler when putting it on. I never realized this until I went to swap it into the case I'm using for the test rig. I have removed the film, but I wonder if the damage is already done.

The MSI B450 mobo isn't in this test rig that I'm running at the moment, and it is using a different psu as well as gpu too. The test rig is running a Gigabyte B550M K mobo, a Gigabyte Nvidia Geforce GT710 gpu, a Thermaltake Toughpower GX2 600W psu. It is still using the same ram from before (Corsair DDR4 or Crucial DDR4), and the same cpu and cooler (Ryzen 7 5800X and a Thermalright Peerless Assissin 120mm air cooler). All of the parts in the test rig other than cpu, ram, and cooler are brand new pieces. I have also tested out 2 different disks, one of them being hdd and the other being an ssd. The hdd I had gotten Windows11 to install to, and the ssd had Windows8.1 on it already. Neither showed any improvement of the blue screen problem. I have all of my components to build my main pc again, but I was wanting to try and figure this issue out first. If desired I can post all the new components in another post later. Getting tired.