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The Ready Room => Off Topic => Topic started by: ThoraX on April 27, 2004, 12:16:37 AM

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Post by: ThoraX on April 27, 2004, 12:16:37 AM
I am a nub at things. keeping my computer at top shape is one of those things. i just recently figured out that the globe icon at the top of Ad-Aware updates it... well I did a scan this morning prior to updating and then one just a few mins ago... GG Thornub.
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Post by: Clashen on April 27, 2004, 12:20:13 AM
GG
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Post by: JHunz on April 27, 2004, 12:58:45 AM
Did you manage to accumulate all that yourself?  Or do you have computernub idiots running around using your computer?
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Post by: ThoraX on April 27, 2004, 02:31:02 AM
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Did you manage to accumulate all that yourself?  Or do you have computernub idiots running around using your computer?
all mine... *puts on dunce cap*
"It wouldnt have been as bad if i had bothered to look for the updater, I swear! I use it regularly!"
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Post by: Sustained on April 27, 2004, 04:52:16 AM
Holeeeey moley. That's a lotta spyware. Reminds me of my brother's computer.  I pray that he never gains access to mine...¬_¬  :help:
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Post by: lolfighter on April 27, 2004, 06:32:09 AM
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Holeeeey moley. That's a lotta spyware. Reminds me of my brother's computer.  I pray that he never gains access to mine...¬_¬  :help:
The way to keep people away from your computer is knowing more about it than they do. If I'd put a BIOS password on mine, for example, and set it to require it at startup, I'm confident that my family would NOT be able to get at it without intentionally doing damage to it. And if they wanted to do damage to it, a sledgehammer would do the trick, so I can't really prevent that, can I? So do an inconspicious check of your bro's knowledge of BIOS.
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Post by: BobTheJanitor on April 27, 2004, 08:17:27 AM
1. Stop going to ALL those porn sites.

2. The popup that says 'Do you want to instally horrible spyware which will rape your computer into submission as if it were a blubbering little schooligirl -- Click here to continue! {Yes} {No}' is NOT something you click yes on.

3. Download, install, love: Mozilla (http://www.mozilla.org)

4. STOP going to ALL those porn sites!!!!!!

5. Really!
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Post by: Dark on April 27, 2004, 08:22:51 AM
mozilla (http://www.mozilla.org) is a good browser as is avant (http://www.avantbrowser.com) they both have built in pop up blockers which as bob mentioned the pr0n site popups you see with IE won't be seen with either of those two

if you like ie a lot use avant since it is an IE kernel browser but far superior to IE
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Post by: Black Mage on April 27, 2004, 08:31:52 AM
bms nub brother managed to break his spyware-free record (2 months) with the sudden appearance of 40 items (someone also decided to put purityscan on it ... NUKED)
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Post by: Niteowl on April 27, 2004, 09:16:38 AM
firefox is where it's at. tabbed browsing for forum goodness....
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Post by: Jefe on April 27, 2004, 10:25:17 AM
my brother had something around 800 on his

he clicked 'yes' a lot
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Post by: X-S-Z on April 27, 2004, 10:41:16 AM
725 on my fathers comp the first time I scanned it.

God what a difference it makes when all that ^^ is gone!
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Post by: Dark on April 27, 2004, 12:19:44 PM
my room mate had over 3000 items earlier this semester and after i was able to update it he had 3000 again :blink:
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Post by: Satiagraha on April 27, 2004, 02:21:58 PM
Wow, I scan once in a while and I get rid of everything, through quarintining or manually. I've learned a bunch of the registry niches that some adware hangs out in ^_^
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Post by: Fewlio on April 27, 2004, 02:46:15 PM
You beat my record :(.
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Post by: Torque2k7 on April 28, 2004, 01:11:16 PM
Dark wins, even though my roommate Kenny  finished a close second with 6 virii and 1800 spyware items on his comp b4 i saved the day ;)   Geez, he didn't even have the blaster patch lol ><
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Post by: Black Mage on April 28, 2004, 01:27:35 PM
my chem teacher had ~30,000 copies of mydoom.f and ~1,300 pieces of spyware >.<




i made $10.00!!! \o/ yay for capitalism!
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Post by: Grillkohle on April 28, 2004, 01:58:23 PM
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1. Stop going to ALL those porn sites.
Yeah, PM me for some clean ones.  ^_^

I almost never scan my computer, because I generally keep it clean. I don't download random stuff all the time, and the only time I had some virii that I can think of is when I clicked that IRC link that Evangelion posted  :angry:
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Post by: Ulatoh on April 28, 2004, 02:37:11 PM
i'm gonna back my comp up, and see how much spyware i can get on it,