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Prof would be playing WIPE OUT!!!

Good grief, ST, I feel somewhat responsible for that now.

Hope you'll get it all sorted.

I daresay I'll sort it, that's why I use the XP machine for 'experimenting', just have to remember now which disc has the drivers for the ethernet card, seems the restore process has forgotten to install the drivers for that so no internet on the spare pc as yet. It's all good fun.



*mutters, now where'd I put that sledge 'ammer?*

Good.

Should keep you busy for a while.

just found out why it didn't install the drivers. Both pc's are HP but there's about 4 years difference in age and the recovery discs I used were for the earlier one which didn't have the right ethernet driver anyway. Back to the drawing board.
Time for a break me thinks, I'll have another bash at it later.

Shall I ask the Prof for his sledge hammer??

Good luck with it.

I've tried six browsers, kept four of them with one left uninstalled on my HD.

At first Chrome looked good, but the my security told me that it was making outbound tcp connections on every page, the update program kept trying to gain a list of start up items and alter them. It kept trying various techniques such as wilcarding to connect to omniture.112.2o7.net, probably innocent but I got rid of it.

It is incompatible with my security.

The best browser is Safari, very much like Chrome using the same core engine, but looks more sophisticated and doesn't raise a murmer out of my security.

[The best browser is Safari]

So almost everyone seems to say, but it doesn't do it for me (on XP or Vista). For me, Firefox 3.01 does it better and faster.

Jab

hi all
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i remember an old saying, if it not broke, dont touch it,lol
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but where a pc is concerned it doent apply.
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everytime something new appears, someone as to jump in an try it.
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im glad i dont have a home pc anymore, with the upgrades, and viruses it sent me batty, the times i had to reformat.
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there are loads of old outofdate things still on the google, but till you download, and find, no updates, not secure, now cost a pretty penny. and the list goes on ,dragon> jim

I don't think I've ever had a virus on my PC, and so far, I only got very few warnings that there might be one. But then I usually don't browse the web a lot, I have my sites where I go. The only danger is that you never know what will be lurking on any link you click on google.

hi bel
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there are hidden things you never see, download, spybot search and distroy, and you might find things like shopping, casino,s
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they are adawre, they try to sell you something you dont want.
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trogans as in viruses are the one you never want, as the name inplies, trogan horse, troy, they can watch you, and send to the one that added the nasty.
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worms are not nice either jim

I used to have spybot and adaware on my former PC. My son has something else on this PC, it seems to do the same job.

hi bel
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im not fully up on the things now
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acronis, is suposed to be good,
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the latest, updated avg 8, as the full protection now, the personal edition.
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one thing you want to stay away from, is a wirelss one, called brontok. its a pain for the cyber boss, many a time he as to do a reformat, as it also affects the other pcs in the shop, jim xx

Don't worry, I don't intend to install any software.

hi bel
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when i had a home pc, and went from windows 98, to xp pro, i didnt have a lot of space or memeory, and the sevice pack to did a good job crashing the pc.
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it totalled my hard drive, and my memeory wouldnt reset, had to redo the lot, grr,
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im staying with the cyber when i can, any probs they arnt mine, and i get to bed earlier, sometimes it was 3 and 4am,never again lol, time for tea i think. jim xx

Just a flying visit, have now sorted the XP machine. I did a full clean re-install in the end, it's just finished downloading and installing all updates, the only thing I've left in terms of new browsers is I've left the Beta version of IE8 but am using the compatability mode to prevent any hassles with existing web pages etc.
All good fun, I'll leave testing of other 'Open Source' software to others, I'm sticking to the I know, that's MS with all it's idiosyncrasies.

Glad you got there in the end.

So you don't want the Prof's sledge hammer?

You must be lucky, or I am unlucky. I got 3 virus's now on my brand new pc less than 12 hours old