Whoever <whoever@wherever.invalid> wrote in
news:3nOep.4465$yR1.651@newsfe03.iad:

> On 3/12/2011 11:53 AM, Li'l Abner wrote:
>>
>> This morning when I got up the download had completed. When I went to
>> close the torrent, it wanted to know if I wanted to install it as my
>> torrent client. I said NO, but it was still running in my system
>> tray. I closed it. Then I turned the IP blocking back on in MBAM and
>> right away it starts blocking IP's again. Then I look in Rask Manager
>> I see a file called "T2E.exe" running. I killed that and hunted it
>> down. It was in my Local Settings/temp folder. I deleleted it. I went
>> into msconfig and sure enough it had added itself to my startup
>> group. Got rid of that!
>>
>> And now MBAM is *still* popping up blocked IP's. so apparently it has
>> installed something rlse that's phoning home... or somewhere. And
>> whatever the 3.2Gb file that it was supposed to be downloading (the
>> one with the drivers) is nowhere to be found. I'm not sure what the
>> name of it was supposed to be so that makes it kind of hard to search
>> for. But I do remember choosing a place for it to download to, and it
>> isn't there.
>
>
>
> While MBAM did want to block a number of IP addresses here as well,
> the rest of my experience was different. The torrent downloaded into a
> DRPSu10.6 Final folder in My Documents. When it finished, I shut it
> down, told it not to be the default torrent client, exited using the
> tray icon, deleted the T2E exceptions in the Windows Firewall and
> deleted the initial program. I scanned the downloaded files in My Docs
> with MBAM and NOD32, burned them to DVD and then deleted them as well.
> Everything went fairly smoothly. Nothing still hanging on here, no
> blocked IP's from MBAM, nothing extra running in Task Manager and
> nothing added to the Startup menu.

OK, I did find the files. It made the folder DRPSu10.6 Final you
mentioned. Actually it installed that folder in the folder I originally
picked, so that was my bad. And the IP blocking has slowed down
considerably so I think I'll stop panicking now... :-)

Thanks for the reply.

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