my phone has been infected with a shortcut virus. when i plugged and mounted USB to a PC all of my files in SD are all in shortcut. I had fixed that and it returned to normal. now when i go to music app . the music in music apps are all duplicates and when i click the duplicates it doesnt play but when i look at my SD card all of my music are not duplicates and the space of my SD card is just normal.
now i think that the internal memory of the phone is where the virus is located, as what happens to the pc the virus placed itself on the pc and when i plug some external drives the files in it turns into a shortcut. but the virus has been removed now using combofix on the pc. and now my problem is i dont know how to remove the virus on my phone. when i explore the internal memory or the root directory of my phone i saw that the sdcard,d folders are all in shortcut. and theres a one file "vendor" in shortcut too. when i try to delete it it comes back after. please help me
Hmm... do you have any Anti Virus software installed? If you can, try installing Avast! Antivirus and scan.
Otherwise, try a factory/hard reset.
Sent from my super rare, old Scroll Excel running Android 2.3 using the offical app.
LoopingCreeper said:
Hmm... do you have any Anti Virus software installed? If you can, try installing Zoner Antivirus and scan.
Otherwise, try a factory/hard reset.
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i tried scanning with DR.WEB cause other and did not found anything. cause other antivirus software dont have the feature to scan the internal memory
The Problem is not on android
Hi trebla459,
The problem is not on your android device, so you have to clean your PC from virus first, try using PC Antivirus to clean them and make sure it is working to clean the shortcut in your PC. You can also try to clean them using 30-days free-trial antivirus if you don't have one.
After your PC all cleaned, plug your android on usb and scan it with your antivirus.
rsuresh agrees
There are several suggestions on beating it here: http://www.computing.net/answers/security/virus-shortcut-problems-on-my-flash-drive/39350.html
Seems like this is not the nastiest of viruses. Recent wave of cryptolocker is all around in the news. That has nothing to do with Android but I wonder if anything like this hits Android?
trebla459 said:
my phone has been infected with a shortcut virus. when i plugged and mounted USB to a PC all of my files in SD are all in shortcut. I had fixed that and it returned to normal. now when i go to music app . the music in music apps are all duplicates and when i click the duplicates it doesnt play but when i look at my SD card all of my music are not duplicates and the space of my SD card is just normal.
now i think that the internal memory of the phone is where the virus is located, as what happens to the pc the virus placed itself on the pc and when i plug some external drives the files in it turns into a shortcut. but the virus has been removed now using combofix on the pc. and now my problem is i dont know how to remove the virus on my phone. when i explore the internal memory or the root directory of my phone i saw that the sdcard,d folders are all in shortcut. and theres a one file "vendor" in shortcut too. when i try to delete it it comes back after. please help me
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use an antivirus to scan, if you want to be radical, to make sure that the phone is clean, full flash erase format the memory card, and the phone, install new fresh rom
done
I have a similar issue and that is that when I plug in a USB flashdrive or hdd, it makes a shortcut of the drive inside the drive and majority of files are hidden. I tested this three times with different flash drives. I also update CM overy two days and I have done full wipe before....
This is to inform everyone about a virus that known for almost a decades and still continue its threat to our PC's and past through USB Flash Drives... the Virus name are :
-krqvsfjxld.vbs
-mugen.vbs
This Virus are running through WSCRIPT.EXE... this is why that when we Use "Attrib -R -A -S -H [SourcePath]:\*.* /S /D" to our USB Flash Drive, Shortcuts is still remain...
HOW to Delete this Virus...
-Open TASK MANAGER and choose PROCESSES
-Look for WSCRIPT.EXE and Click END TASK(For WinXP/Win7)
-Look for MICROSOFT WINDOWS BASED SCRIPT HOST and Click END TASK(For Win8)
-Open REGEDIT
-Press CTRL+F and type in "krqvsfjxld.vbs" or "mugen.vbs"
-then press Delete
-continue to look for those Virus until you delete all..
NOTE
-You will need to perform this in both ADMINISTRATOR and USER ACCOUNTS
-Make sure that WSCRIPT.EXE is not running in your PROCESSES
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i tried scanning with DR.WEB cause other and did not found anything. cause other antivirus software dont have the feature to scan the internal memory
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First, Malwarebytes searches internal storage and Dr. WEB is pretty bad.
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Hey Everyone,
Last night all my programs that Installed on my storage cards just stopped working. I had this happen to me before but all I had to do is restart the phone or just pull the microsd out and put it back in. But this time isn't the case. The message I am getting is " The file "what ever program i am opening" cannot be opened. Either it is not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of its components cannot be found. If the problem persist, try reinstalling or restoring this file." I have tried to reinstall the programs but it just says unsuccessful. Or when I install a program it would open until I soft rest and the program wont work again. I looked in my storage cards program files and there aren't any files in the folder.
Anyone have any ideas?
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Hey Everyone,
Last night all my programs that Installed on my storage cards just stopped working. I had this happen to me before but all I had to do is restart the phone or just pull the microsd out and put it back in. But this time isn't the case. The message I am getting is " The file "what ever program i am opening" cannot be opened. Either it is not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of its components cannot be found. If the problem persist, try reinstalling or restoring this file." I have tried to reinstall the programs but it just says unsuccessful. Or when I install a program it would open until I soft rest and the program wont work again. I looked in my storage cards program files and there aren't any files in the folder.
Anyone have any ideas?
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Have you tried saving everything from your SD card and then reformatting the card and reinstall the programs?
torint said:
Hey Everyone,
Last night all my programs that Installed on my storage cards just stopped working. I had this happen to me before but all I had to do is restart the phone or just pull the microsd out and put it back in. But this time isn't the case. The message I am getting is " The file "what ever program i am opening" cannot be opened. Either it is not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of its components cannot be found. If the problem persist, try reinstalling or restoring this file." I have tried to reinstall the programs but it just says unsuccessful. Or when I install a program it would open until I soft rest and the program wont work again. I looked in my storage cards program files and there aren't any files in the folder.
Anyone have any ideas?
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Is there an "application data" folder at the root of your storage card? Anything in there now? It has identical function to the one on your phone in the /Windows folder, just for apps installed on the card. If that's empty too, you can try backing up the card and reformatting, but it's sounding like your SD card is corrupt. This can happen if you accidentally unplug the USB cable from the phone when it's in the middle of a write cycle with the card.
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Is there an "application data" folder at the root of your storage card? Anything in there now? It has identical function to the one on your phone in the /Windows folder, just for apps installed on the card. If that's empty too, you can try backing up the card and reformatting, but it's sounding like your SD card is corrupt. This can happen if you accidentally unplug the USB cable from the phone when it's in the middle of a write cycle with the card.
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only thing there is google maps but my google maps doesn't even open up. I will try backing up my data and and reformatting it. I'll post the results.
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only thing there is google maps but my google maps doesn't even open up. I will try backing up my data and and reformatting it. I'll post the results.
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Google Maps has application data on your SD card? Had you intentionally moved it over there? I didn't even realize you could
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Google Maps has application data on your SD card? Had you intentionally moved it over there? I didn't even realize you could
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no i installed it to my storage card.
But either way I can't installl google maps it wont let me and some other apps so i guess ill have to do a hard reset. I reinstalled some programs just not all.
torint said:
no i installed it to my storage card.
But either way I can't installl google maps it wont let me and some other apps so i guess ill have to do a hard reset. I reinstalled some programs just not all.
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Hmmm, I thought google maps was preloaded on my (tmo US) stock 6.1 rom, but since I see it in my "remove programs" list, I guess I must have installed it when I first got the phone back in Nov.
Yeah, it's sounding like a hard reset is in your immediate future, let us know if that clears it up for you
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Hmmm, I thought google maps was preloaded on my (tmo US) stock 6.1 rom, but since I see it in my "remove programs" list, I guess I must have installed it when I first got the phone back in Nov.
Yeah, it's sounding like a hard reset is in your immediate future, let us know if that clears it up for you
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oh it was preloaded but i downloaded it again from google. i installed it from google so i can get latitude.
torint said:
oh it was preloaded but i downloaded it again from google. i installed it from google so i can get latitude.
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Ahh gotcha. Is that when this problem started, or did it work running off the SD card for a while?
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Ahh gotcha. Is that when this problem started, or did it work running off the SD card for a while?
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oh its been working. google had nothing to do with it. i guess it was when i switched batteries and charged it. i didnt even plug it into my computer at all so i guess when i pulled the batter it corrupted the microsd some how
hey, op. It could be that the storage card folder somehow got renamed. That would cause all those links to be invalid. Check to see if the applications run if you click on the executables stored on the sd card.
This happens to me, but it's because the card is being used. So if this happens to you it probably only happens when you have it plugged in for Sync or File transfer. So just soft reset it any time you're done conecting it to the CPU
DId the Desire come with a CD, in the excitement i may have over looked and misplaced it, if s can i download the software?
Nope it didn't come with a CD, it's on the MicroSD card Plug the Desire into your computer in Hard Disk mode and you can install it. I'm sure it should be available online though
hmmm i remember the option of things to choose comming up on pc before, dosnt come up anymore :S, jsut charges and i cant do anything else
If you swipe down the status bar and press charging you should be able to change it?
hmmm doesnt say charging on the notifications bar, :S , its definatly charging, this is strange, i was def getting it before lol
That's quite odd! I'm not sure what to suggest then.. but if you do manage to change it you'll be sorted
wen i go to the bottom right the drive comes up, and in my computer, but i cant access it
am i ment to format my sd card 1st or sommin?
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am i ment to format my sd card 1st or sommin?
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Do not format the SD Card, it will wipe the HTC Sync executable installation file.
Do you have USB debugging enabled?
1. From the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Settings > Applications > Development.
2. Make sure the USB debugging check box is selected.
You can always download HTC Sync from http://www.htc.com/www/SupportDownloadList.aspx?p_id=312&act=sd&cat=3
ok iv installed htc sync from that link, and i done the usb debug option, it now connects, installs a load of stuff, but i cnt access the drive through My Comp and on HTC sync it says "disconnected"
TurkzZ said:
ok iv installed htc sync from that link, and i done the usb debug option, it now connects, installs a load of stuff, but i cnt access the drive through My Comp and on HTC sync it says "disconnected"
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Try turning off the phone and turn it back on again while connected to the PC via the USB cable, and then select the Disk Drive option.
What version of Windows are you running? Is it 32/64 bit?
thanks a bunch guys, the restart got it working,
one last thing, how do i go about putting music and video onto the device, at the moment theres 3 folders, footprints, backup and lost dir, also does this HTC sync auto transfer photos and videos you take to the pc like the nokia programs did?
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thanks a bunch guys, the restart got it working,
one last thing, how do i go about putting music and video onto the device, at the moment theres 3 folders, footprints, backup and lost dir
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No problem Bud, glad that worked.
If I remember correctly, just create a Music folder in the root of your SD card and create folders within that folder.
e.g. Storage Card\Music\Chris Brown\[the mp3 file]
To store video files, create a new folder called DCIM, and then create another folder within that called 100MEDIA, and place picture files and video files within that.
The structure will be Storage Card\DCIM\100MEDIA\[picture file] for pictures, and Storage Card\DCIM\100MEDIA\[video file] for videos.
thanks again boss, , move from symbian to android is like from the stone age to modern day
TurkzZ said:
thanks again boss, , move from symbian to android is like from the stone age to modern day
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No problem Bud, I had a Symbian phone once... it was the Sony Ericsson P990i.
How times change...
I have also recently moved over to Android OS, used to have an HD and HD2 before that using Windows Mobile OS. Loving the Desire
Hello Guys, I have a really big problem which I can't solve it.
Recently I bought a 2GB Micro SD card from someone and I attempt to format it but i'm receiving a message: "Windows was unable to complete the format".
Tryed to delete them but an error is occurring.
I did an AVG Antivirus, SuperAntiSpyware, Trojan Remover and STOPzilla! scan but i find three viruses:
-Worm/AutoRun.MB
-Worm/Brontok.EZ
-Klif Trojan
but its pointless since after I remove them, they reapear.
I've attempted to delete them with Unlocker but it requires to restart and after that they reapear again.
I've even Booted a Partition Manager an wipe/delete the partition on the card using all the 35 steps format it and it took me 4 hrs. but no use. They are still there.
And even formating my card on my other friend's phones/digital cameras and is no use. The files are still there.
The card contains 220MB of corrupted, cross-linked and virused files. I tried to scandisk it but after the scan and repair, the same exact files remained there. Its like the card has a secret reservoir which replaces back all the "bad" files.
Table of files:
Folders: GFS_TMP, IMF090~1, IMF090~2, IMF090~2, IMF090~3, WA1D5E~3, WA1D5E~2(these folders contain files with weird names like random characters and various sizes like 3,5GB), WapTemp, sryk, Videos, Imsifolder, nane, Images.
The next files are hidden and can be found in the parent folder(SD card). Files marked with invisible cannot be displayed when selecting to show hidden folders but the can be detected by antiviruses and winrar.
Files: EXPLORER.EXE, gptvqp.exe, m0vnonh.bat(invisible), jmyua.exe(invisible), pwia.exe(invisible), SPOOLSV.EXE, tfs4_160.ess, THUMBS.DB and some music files.
Please provide some links with good solutions and thank you.
P.S. Sorry if my English is bad. I'm a Romanian.
Have you tried booting from a Live CD and formatting and partitioning that way?
Its simple theory!
Your computer has virus. They aren't allowing to format your SD Card since they are running. Even if you format, they will again copy to SD Card. Virus intensity is to spread were ever possible.
First clean up your PC and then attempt to format SD Card. There are 99% possibility for virus to spread, even though you clean your pc and anti virus software are useless.
If viruses on your pc has covered totally all folders and drives, linux is the only way to clear them. If you fresh install Windows and then enter into some folders on other drives or SD Card and if it does contain virus, It gets active again and within sec its spread out (First to startup).
1. Fresh install windows and when it finishes, install good anti virus and start to scan all the other drives. DON'T ATTEMPT TO ENTER ANY OTHER DRIVES OR SD CARD. Good to disable autorun of drives.
2. Use live linux OS and enter to each and every folders and remove the unknown files which you guess as virus.
3. Same as above but in windows using dos (Not explorer).
Thats my experience.
Softwares are good unless the virus aren't on your PC. They stop viruses to enter your pc but cannot if its already exists in your pc. Cancer is the another name of virus.
Thanks...
Best Regards
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Have you tried booting from a Live CD and formatting and partitioning that way?
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yes, i tried, but linux says that my files are marked as locked, read-only, or write-protrected. and i don't know how to remove them.
CRACING said:
Its simple theory!
Your computer has virus. They aren't allowing to format your SD Card since they are running. Even if you format, they will again copy to SD Card. Virus intensity is to spread were ever possible.
First clean up your PC and then attempt to format SD Card. There are 99% possibility for virus to spread, even though you clean your pc and anti virus software are useless.
If viruses on your pc has covered totally all folders and drives, linux is the only way to clear them. If you fresh install Windows and then enter into some folders on other drives or SD Card and if it does contain virus, It gets active again and within sec its spread out (First to startup).
1. Fresh install windows and when it finishes, install good anti virus and start to scan all the other drives. DON'T ATTEMPT TO ENTER ANY OTHER DRIVES OR SD CARD. Good to disable autorun of drives.
2. Use live linux OS and enter to each and every folders and remove the unknown files which you guess as virus.
3. Same as above but in windows using dos (Not explorer).
Thats my experience.
Softwares are good unless the virus aren't on your PC. They stop viruses to enter your pc but cannot if its already exists in your pc. Cancer is the another name of virus.
Thanks...
Best Regards
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i don't think is a virus sneaking in my pc since i tried formating it on other mobile phones and failed and if a virus was doing that, msconfig would surely notify me.
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i don't think is a virus sneaking in my pc since i tried formating it on other mobile phones and failed and if a virus was doing that, msconfig would surely notify me.
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Oh, As you said on first post. I though you are able to format.
If it doesn't format on mobile phone also, then probably the card is damaged. Either due to virus has made your card as readonly.
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Either due to virus has made your card as readonly.
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Maybe, but could you come with a solution ?
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Maybe, but could you come with a solution ?
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If you can successfully format the cab and viruses reappear, then its coming from pc itself.
Try formatting on safe mode or live linux or mac.
believe me, i've tryed, but everything i did was like nothing happened(delete partition, format, wipe...) and someone in 'tech support guy' forum said it might be a virus hidding in the nand sector.
P.S. Sorry for the spam.
Hello,
Today I was trying to copy some files to my Xperia S via USB from my WinXP PC. When trying to copy the files, I got the message "the device has either stopped responding or has been disconnected" with the option to skip or cancel. This happened several times, and I plugged and unplugged the cable between tries.
After giving it up, I went to the phone and found out that all my files were gone. The folders disappeared and I can't find any pictures or media files (as well as any of the files that existed before - and I have show hidden files enabled in Android File Manager app). In Settings > Storage > Internal it says that I have 25 GB free (when I should have only 2 or 3 GBs left). The current folder structure viewable in the app is probably the folders for apps that after restart, recreated the folders.
However, if I connect to PC again, I can see the old folder structure in Internal Storage and the listing of the files inside it (the photos, etc). If I try to copy inside the SDCARD or to the PC I get the same message "the device has either stopped responding or has been disconnected" and I can't open any kind of file.
I think the data is still in the SD Card, but not accessible anymore. Has anyone experienced this before and can help me?
Thanks,
andré
is your phone rooted?
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is your phone rooted?
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No, mharckk
Me Too
nariz said:
Hello,
After giving it up, I went to the phone and found out that all my files were gone. The folders disappeared
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I too have this problem with my Game ROMs folder with my SNES and Genesis games. I'll run the emulator and then when I go to find a game the folder has disappeared. I have them saved on my PC so I just copy it over but an actual solution would be nice. My phone is rooted and ROMed.
Oh and I tried Titanium Backups but they sometimes disappear as well. I've never had that app work for me anyways always freezes and the backup is never restored.
It seems to me large folders and files not involved in the phones dedicated folder structure seem to disappear.
The best thing for you to do would be to root your phone and try the SD card mounting app which mounts the SD card in mass storage mode. MTP mode always gives such problem so and is unreliable..
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The best thing for you to do would be to root your phone and try the SD card mounting app which mounts the SD card in mass storage mode. MTP mode always gives such problem so and is unreliable..
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Exactly. MTP has lots of problem.
I don't understand why Android use it.
Hi people
It seems that I can't get to certain folders in the Internal Storage folder when browsing the phone from the PC via USB. HTC Sync Manager can access it (one of the folders are the DCIM folder), but it doesn't allow me to browse there outside of HTC Sync Manager (does anybody even use that?). I've tried a few things in the past and didn't have time to struggle too much, so moved on with my life and worked around it, but it's really getting irritating. Unfortunately I can't remember what all I tried.
I'm pretty sure I've seen it working and I definitely didn't have that problem with my M7. Anybody have any suggestions? I'll provide specs below, but will provide whatever additional information is required.
Phone
HTC One M9 (stock)
Android version 5.1
Software number 2.10.401.1
Laptop
Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 x64
Hey guys. Please, this is driving me out the walls.
Since the original post, I have had it once where all the folders were visible in explorer, but I can't see that I did anything different, except perhaps lingered longer before browsing to the phone. I've tried 'replicating' it, but to no avail.
Tried turning on USB Debugging for good measure and off again, no difference. Any hints whatsoever will be appreciated. Also, if there are any further details required, let me know and I'll post it.
Thanks
Try Xender,solid explorer or es explorer from playstore
The above apps provide you with option to browse your internal storage over Wi-Fi
If that didn't work..flash the latest TWRP for device
While boot in recovery try accessing your phone Storage
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Hi ujere, thanks for the reply.
I really don't feel like I should need third party apps to access my DCIM folder on my phone. I use File Manager HD (have been for years) and can FTP and cloud and LAN and whatever, but it's not what I want to do in this instance. I really just want to quickly plug in a USB cable, since there's a ton laying around my desk plugged in at any given moment, browse my phone like a 'flash disk' and copy stuff. And it's possible, only, almost always my Internal Storage doesn't completely 'populate' on Windows Explorer. SD Card works 100%.
Do you have a .nomedia file on the sdcard between its root and the dcim folder?
Do you have htc sync installed?
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Good day shivadow
I don't see any .nomedia files or folders in the root or the DCIM folder on either the internal memory or the SD card. I'm not entirely sure where you meant, so I checked all. I checked on the phone, not on Windows, as Windows doesn't show everything.
I have HTC Sync Manager installed. It always bugged me to want to install it when I plug in my phone if I don't have it. Annoying crappy bloatware!
Remove the htc sync manager as that causes all sorts of issues. If no joy then try "show hidden files" in folder options on your pc (vista +).
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So, first time I plugged it in after uninstalling it works! Thanks! Man, I freaking hate bloatware and crap like that.
I'm just going to try it a few more times to make sure it's not a fluke, then come confirm and all that jazz.
And so, indeed, I've not had any problems as yet. Oddly enough, in the past it always hassled me to install Sync if it's not, but it has stopped doing it.
Thanks again and have a good one!