h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

FileZilla looks interesting but how do you use it. Had a look at tutorials but they show a different interface. In instructions for installation, (I thought I already had) it states 3 M$ programs needed including MS Visual C++ costing £300 for the standard version, second hand in Amazon.

The other 2 are free but require 1 gigabyte of space, I can't believe this is required, I can get Admin and settings with port 21 set to server 127.0.0.1 and 1 user. I don't know how to point my files to my web server.

Nowhere to insert my files in a queue, and noway to do it

It'll be wanting the Visual C++ *runtimes*, which are free. There's a very good chance you already have them installed, which is why they don't bother supplying a copy. If you don't have them, you can download them from the Micro$oft website.

I know absolutely nothing about servers, according to one site I can set up my own URI with the help of DYNDNS and display my webpage on my own pc. Also found out I need an FTP client such as are free from firefox.

Did you know Windows are giving advice to major business to upgrade their sites to be web standards compliant, or face them not working when IE8 comes out.

Does that mean IE8 will accept CSS generated content, as in
p:before {content:URI,attX,text...ect.

Allegedly, IE7 is CSS3 compliant, but only if you add the relevant "Doctype" declaration in your HTML. IE8 will *assume* that Doctype unless told otherwise, which is the preferred method.

Nothing is compliant without <!DOCTYPE
and IE7 does not do generated content or opacity prefering non-compliant filter:alpha(opactity=x)

That is why I use coditional comments to choose between IE and Gecko.

IE8 will not be compliant except in M$ eyes, everybody else is wrong.

They downloaded something on my computer that has completely changed the way it works, what gives them the right to do that.

Now I have to click on my name on startup, just in case I forget who I am

Do you know what UNWISE.exe does, because a program was stopped from loading it by my security.

I have vague recollections it's part of an uninstaller; I certainly used to have it on my Windows 2000 system. Try Googling it and see what you find...?

Your right, it's an uninstaller. Many programs have it but I found it breeding in my Open University C++ folder. All created when I re-installed windows. I haven't re-installed Borland C++ but nevertheless got an unwise in every folder and one external? all the same size created on the same day. I did put the folders back though, because they are folders of my work.

They are now deleted and I await any errors.

I got my server working as a server today, using a free name from dyndns. I'm a bit batty brained and not at all organised but somehow I was able to view my web page over a https connection on my computer.

I can't remember how I did the https thing, but it was definitely real because windows shield tried to warn me my site wasn't registered.

I also did the ftp thing, but can't see the use in that since I can only upload ftp to a public_ftp folder. I then have to log on to move it to the viewing area.



Beats being ripped off , some chappie robbed me of £5.98 for trimmer line he aint got and never intended sending

Can you adam & eve it. My security issued a critical notice on its website about how to disable it when updating to sp3. No email.

Apparently it can wreck your system.

IE is doing my head in, I keep having to shut it down from task manager when using other browsers. I don't know why it keeps trying to uninstall something or reboot when it isn't even supposed to be running.

The problem is that "File Manager" uses the DLLs from IE as its rendering engine, to allow those pretty customised "folder views". (Which are really just hidden folders with a CSS file in them...)

Well, all I get is an option to accept or deny loading a process from security, and if it's not supposed to be running I always deny.

It then gets more aggressive and tries to load uninstall or reboot, which I set security to deny as a rule.

I didn't have to bother with all this before SP3. Since then I get 1GB event reports of denials of service which I have to delete. But I don't know if it's windows or the security at fault.

I've got a dongle and it uses gprs or something like that. I found my IP changes when the modem changes between 3g 3 HSDPA 3r or something like that. I think.

Do you need ftpserver running to access your computer over a SSL connection. Because I couldn't get in with Apache running alone.

In fact I can't get in with a http connection, and I don't know how to configure Apache further than it already is.

SpyNet tell me my web page is very dangerous and might be tricking me to give private details.

You can't "access your computer" in that way using Apache - it's specifically designed to prevent you from seeing anything outside the directories you have configured for http://, https:// etc.

If you want to remotely access your computer, I suggest you have a play with TightVNC or one of the more secure VNC variants.

Can't access my computer remotely because my IP address keeps changing to often. I've been locked out of my host for changing my IP every minute.

More interestingly, Kasperski have again taken an interest in my computer, their anti-spy died on me, corrupted and useless. They downloaded a lot of programs with names like hijackthis, and a list of potential hijackers was sent to them.

It was a big list, I've had a look at the progress they are making and it has been referred up to head office.

Cor blimey.

I keep having to shut down already shut down IE, using 100% processor power.

I don't know anything about operating systems but some crooks do. A new scam just out targeting bank employees who use two stage log in.
That is they log in with id and password then use an electronic device to give an extra number generated by a number sent from the server.

The crooks managed a very professional job of hacking their pc's to give a message that the server is slow and logon could take some time, be patient.

While they are waiting their accounts are emptied, one lost $188,000.

Is anybody safe, well I believe these were using M$ products

And I forgot, Safari's download destination should be changed from desktop.

"a list of potential hijackers was sent to them."

Specifically, HijackThis! produces a list of *all* running processes. upwards of 99% of them will be completely innocent, and the 1% they're interested in will need a degree of analysis to find out what application launched them.

Got up.Oh what a lovely day it is. Then find my council bin unemptied, have a , think today I will finish page one. Startup, and corrupted or missing dll, access is denied. It starts anyway and I get microsoft critical update for defender install aborted, not valid windows apparently. Looks like that page is never going to get done.

So it looks like someone can operate my pc remotely, good job I never use my main bank account on the internet.

What is the best way to install windows, when this lot all goes pear shaped as I'm pretty sure it will?