ATTN ALL WINDOWS USERS! PLEASE LEAVE OR RISK VIRUS ASAP!

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Post by bicostp »

What matters is the updates. Norton does tend to update a bit more often than MacAffee.

But then again I've been with Norton since the old Macintosh System 7 days, when the core system was SAM (Symantec AntiVirus) It would scan every floppy you put in when you put it in the computer before anything else happened to it.

:lol: At school I have all the newer computers set to boot up at midnight on Saturday, scan and defragment the hard drives, and clear the Temporary Internet Settings, and then they shut off. It makes things easier for me, anyways.
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Post by cyco vision »

I got infected.

Reformated and now I'm going to go out and buy some anti-virus software for windows 98.

And I'll probably run linux on a spare pc and try to use that for webbrowsing.

My mac is too slow for this. 500 mhz G3 with 128 MB RAM running OSX.

Anyway, the main page is infected.

DONT GO ON THE MAIN PAGE
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Post by usbcd36 »

Wow, it's weird to see a person with a slower Mac than myself (600MHz, 256MB). At any rate, I would use Safari if you're on a Mac, it is just as secure (if not more) than Firefox and it looks better with the same functionality.
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Post by SpongeBuell »

cyco vision wrote:My mac is too slow for this. 500 mhz G3 with 128 MB RAM running OSX.
Try getting a RAM upgrade. My iBook is the same, but with 384MB, OS 10.4. Runs quite happily with the whole thing, not as good as a G5, but great for web :)
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Post by cyco vision »

Safari doesn't have adblock.

I'm going to upgrade to 512 this weekend and get an airport card.

I may take a broken powermac G4 from work. It just has a dead harddrive and no one wants to fix it.

This weekend I will:
Get a 1.5 PSP
Upgrade my iBook
Get my Zen Touch
Put a new PSU in my PC
Find a broken PC at work and get it to run linux
Persuade my dad to let me "borrow" the powermac.

Man. I have a full weekend.
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Post by usbcd36 »

No, Safari has a menu command that totally pwns adblock, it is called "Block Popup Windows" (command-K) and it doesn't allow any pop-up windows to open. This means all ads will not show.

I wish for Tiger, but I'm not interested in buying the system, no, I need a new computer too (we have a video camera and a digital camera and all that other multimedia stuff) and need the power (everyone in my family has some sort of musical background, audio editing is good). We are looking into a 2.3GHz G5 dualie. They aren't that expensive for what they are (especially with a 20" LCD, it adds 5" and widescreen to my computer now!) and are great computers for upgrades (video card, hard drives, PCI-X) and seem to be made for case mods. Plus, I need a PCI slot for my computer speakers, an M-Audio Revolution 5.1 will do nicely and has the exact outputs I need, nothing more and I save $30.

As for a RAM upgrade, we've already put over $500 into this computer to keep it running, (luckily all of that is transferrable to another computer) and frankly, the money would be better spent on a new computer with 1.5GB of RAM. I hear it is now possible to get 8GB of RAM for a G5 for only about $1,000 now…
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Post by Lucretius »

Thought I'd mention, parts of Ben's site have been shown to be infected to, specifically the Portable pages, also I was hit on my way in a few minutes ago...
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Post by wallydawg »

my norton blocked whatever it was on the main page, some wow[1].htm file (downloader.trojan). Hopefulle there wasn't more that slipped through.
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Post by cennar »

lolol wow this virus thing is no problem. i got firefox and i was using the crap ass Pc i have to look up benheck junk.
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Post by *o* »

hey cennar where has your subname gone?
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i never had one it was the top part of the image...
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Post by *o* »

ooohhh i thought luc gave it too you!
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no that would be sweet, that or micro mod. that would be nice too
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i wanna be "*o* so hot"
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Post by vb_master »

The homepage is safe now.

I have a problem with Symantic's Internet Security. Every time I put it on a computer. It cannot shutdown! It never will shut down! I always have to use the power button. Anyway to fix this?
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