> As an added bonus you will truly demonstrate your hatred for the evil MS buy buying one of their products only to throw it in the garbage. That'll show them:-)
No... You would be a dream customer for them if you purchased a license only to throw the software out. Not only would they have collected your license fee, they also get away with not having to pay the potential cost of providing support for the product. Heck, if everyone bought their product and decided not to use it, they could fire their entire support staff.
Makes me wonder -- since you only purchse a license to use the software -- shouldn't they be required to replace the actual medium the software came on, in the event it was unrecoverably damaged or lost somehow?
I just tried it in Phoenix.5 (build 20021228), and did not have the same problem... though I notice that you've got a full "file:\\\"-type path pointing to a local D: drive on many of your image tags (I think it's all of the pixel-trans.gif instances)... perhaps that has something to do with this behavior..
I don't know if anyone's even gonna see this, since this has already been modded down, but can anyone confirm that there is no virus attached to that site? Norton popped up saying that it contained the "JS.Winbomb.d" virus.. of course, Norton also said it couldn't access the file to do anything about it... some help!
I couldn't access the html document that was supposedly infected, though it was still sitting in my cache -- I eventually gave up trying to view the source to this to see what it contained and decided to just delete the group of files that came in from that site.
A subsequent Norton scan (2002, latest defs) found no virus.. and a trip to the sarc.com site for more info on the virus only said that it was rare and effects.COM files.
I'm thinking (and hoping) that Norton just saw the script and took a best guess and was wrong... any ideas/suggestions?
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I agree. I received a box from Wired magazine, opened it up.. there it was, a CueCat. I didn't ask for it, and I'm certainly not gonna pay to send it back. Would it be wrong for me to just throw this thing in the trash, if they are claiming they still hold ownership of it?
And what then, if they decide to ask for it back?
I wish there were some way to convince everyone to mail these damn things back to DC and see how they like *that*. Here, take them back.. make *NOTHING* on our information.
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> As an added bonus you will truly demonstrate your hatred for the evil MS buy buying one of their products only to throw it in the garbage. That'll show them :-)
No... You would be a dream customer for them if you purchased a license only to throw the software out. Not only would they have collected your license fee, they also get away with not having to pay the potential cost of providing support for the product. Heck, if everyone bought their product and decided not to use it, they could fire their entire support staff.
Makes me wonder -- since you only purchse a license to use the software -- shouldn't they be required to replace the actual medium the software
came on, in the event it was unrecoverably damaged or lost somehow?
I just tried it in Phoenix .5 (build 20021228), and did not have the same problem... though I notice that you've got a full "file:\\\"-type path pointing to a local D: drive on many of your image tags (I think it's all of the pixel-trans.gif instances)... perhaps that has something to do with this behavior..
I don't know if anyone's even gonna see this, since this has already been modded down, but can anyone confirm that there is no virus attached to that site? Norton popped up saying that it contained the "JS.Winbomb.d" virus.. of course, Norton also said it couldn't access the file to do anything about it... some help!
.COM files.
I couldn't access the html document that was supposedly infected, though it was still sitting in my cache -- I eventually gave up trying to view the source to this to see what it contained and decided to just delete the group of files that came in from that site.
A subsequent Norton scan (2002, latest defs) found no virus.. and a trip to the sarc.com site for more info on the virus only said that it was rare and effects
I'm thinking (and hoping) that Norton just saw the script and took a best guess and was wrong...
any ideas/suggestions?
Didn't this come out a LONG time ago?
I agree. I received a box from Wired magazine, opened it up.. there it was, a CueCat. I didn't ask for it, and I'm certainly not gonna pay to send it back. Would it be wrong for me to just throw this thing in the trash, if they are claiming they still hold ownership of it?
And what then, if they decide to ask for it back?
I wish there were some way to convince everyone to mail these damn things back to DC and see how they like *that*. Here, take them back.. make *NOTHING* on our information.