I tried to do it from the hidden partition but it seems that my repartitioning had somehow messed it up so I ended up borrowing an external DVD drive from a friend and using the DVD that accompanied the netbook (Imagine: Sony didn't bother to give a DVD along with my other laptop which costs 1000euros, Asus gave one with a 300euros netbook which doesn't even have a DVD drive, just in case you need it). I tried many, if not all, rootkit removers by many different companies but none could find anything. Except for SpyDLLRemover which reported a rootkit process! The only way for SpyDLLRemover to detect this process was by brute-forcing openprocess over all possible process ids.
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I scanned the pc with many tools which reported nothing suspicious.
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I moved it somewhere else and then did a full system scan which found nothing more. I scanned the file with Avira and yeaaap it was a virus.
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That task would run an executable in the system32 directory named cmmmon32.exe (which has one more "m" than cmmon32.exe an actual Windows application. At some point, for some reason, I opened the Scheduled Tasks and, apart from CleanMem's task I saw another task named A which after viewing it's properties, I saw that it was scheduled to run every first of the month. CleanMem runs on specified intervals (usually every 30 minutes) using a Scheduled Task. One of the many small programs I tried is CleanMem which empties the cache memory among other things. I tried some other antiviruses too, like Comodo, but still the laptop was much slow so I disabled Avira's permanent protection. The only thing that made it crawl was the Antivirus. But still the netbook ran quite fast for my taste.
"Coincidentally" both are Java applications. Over the days I installed many different programs some of which were quite stressful for it's 1.60GHz Atom CPU and the 1GB of RAM. I could finally copy my Music which filled a 70GB partition. I used an Ubuntu live USB and everything went absolutely fine. In the next days I repartitioned the drive to reclaim the space used by Linux (which I didn't use) and to consolidate the pointlessly numerous partitions. It covers the whole width of the netbook width and the only problem you will probably encounter is that it has tiny cross (the arrow keys), especially the up and down arrows which occupy the space of one normal key together. The screen surface is matte so you won't have any problems using it in the sunny outdoors. Its native resolution is 1024圆00 at 10.1 inches but you can go up to 1024x768 (scaled or panned) if you applications require it. The screen on the other hand is fantastic. You can't even get the sound over 50% without completely destroying the sound (and perhaps you ears). Secondly the loudspeakers are worst than the one on my mobile phone ( Nokia E71). It has no visible limits but I quickly got used to it. The touchpad responds nicely and supports double-touch for zooming in and out. The only laptop related programs were to control the CPU frequency, LCD resolution and LCD orientation as well as a program for auto updating these few tools.
That was great, for the first time I had a laptop in my hands that didn't suffer from useless programs. After uninstalling Panda Antivirus (I replaced it with Avira Antivir) and the MS Office trials (I installed OpenOffice instead) I saw how few tools Asus had placed in the netbook. It had Windows XP Home Greek preinstalled and a version of Linux which I didn't really fancy so I only checked their main features and never used them again. In any case I trust Plaisio more than eshop.
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I wouldn't buy the USB stick otherwise but Plaisio had an additional offer for buying their combo: free broadband internet until July. I could buy it form eshop, another online Greek store for 300euros but Plaisio sold it with a USB prepaid (Vodafone on Demand) broadband stick from Vodafone which costs 50euros on it's own. I bought it from Plaisio, a Greek store for 350euros. Now I can safely write my opinion about it and my experiences with it. I bought this little netbook a couple of months ago (it was February I think).
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