That would have been so much better, but I was only visiting for the weekend and he didn't have his Windows CDs or any way to back stuff up.:(
I'm reasonably sure that I cleaned it off 100%. I gave him some training on email viruses, and ActiveX installs on the web, so hopefully he'll be able to go awhile before getting into the same situation.
BTW, his PC is running SO much better now. It actually performs like a clean install of windows.
I forgot to mention HijackThis. It's another great tool for getting rid of spyware, but it's definitely for the more advanced user. It'll show you both good and bad items, so discretion is important.
You can easily track down spyware by googling for the different exes and get tips on removing them.
Wonderful Anti-Virus software, but what does it have to do with spyware/malware?
So many people don't run Anti-virus software, and many of these people are the same that open up email attachments they weren't expecting.
There are TONS of trojans out now with the simple payload of installing spyware on your PC.
The PC that I mentioned I worked on recently had over 500 dll/registry keys/executables and bookmarks (not counting another 300 cookies) that were found as spyware. I removed them all with Ad-Aware, and after a reboot, another 150 files were immediately put back by about 15 different trojans.
I consider anti-virus to be a huge deterrent to spyware.
Is it really necessary to run both? I've been fine with just Adaware for a while now.
They both find different things. So yeah, it's good to run both. Spybot also has some nice features to automatically setup your hosts file and other things to block even more spyware.
The more spyware/malware laws we get the better. It's so frustrating trying to use a computer with tons of spyware and spyware trojans. Ugh. And they say the average PC has 28 spyware programs running on it! This needs to stop.
It took me about 8 hours to clean out a friends computer the other day. He had about 15 viruses all installing spyware daily.
Here's some suggestions for cleaning your computer:
I just want to put in my two cents as well. I'm sad that they cancelled it, I was definitely lined up to pick up the game as soon as it came out.
When Full Throttle 2 was cancelled I wasn't as disappointed, because I got the feeling the game was going in the wrong direction. But Sam and Max 2 seems to be heading in the right one.
Of course, now we'll never know./tips one to the old days of adventure games.:(
... just make sure you save the game before you've gotten to far and then decide to see what happens if you try typing curse words too many times in a row.:(
i've had almost the same exact experience, but much more rarely. sometimes i'll look at a license plate that says A49B69 or whatever, and in my head i read it as AFNBSN... always found that weird
You can find a couple of demonstrations of how mesh networks can actually work and be implemented in cities and companies on MeshNetworks' homepage. Very cool how the p2p works....
There is at least one TV with Built-In PVR on the market that I know of. The Panasonic PV-SS2710. It's got a 10 Hour ReplayTV in it. My friends bought one over a year ago. They're around $800 I think. Here's some reviews.
I'm a TiVo fan though, so of course I would never recommend this television to anyone!
Come to think of it, this would be either really good or really bad for auto insurance. Red cars cost more to insure. So turn it blue, or silver, or some other (cheaper) color. But if they ever found out about your nano-paint... maybe they'd charge you for having a red, black, and all the colors of the rainbow.... argh
It's also the dream of every Grand Theft Auto III geek out there! How nice it would be to get those cops off your tail by being able to change the color of the paint on your jacked car instead of driving all the way over to the Paint Shop!
Let's say people walk about 5 feet per second on average. 802.11b is effective up to 300 feet. Assuming you and another person carrying these devices are walking directly towards each other at the same speed, that gives you about 2 minutes to transfer data. 802.11b, assuming PEAK performance, which is never really achieved, is 11Mbps. That's fast enough to transfer 165MBs of data. That's about 40 songs or so, depending on bitrate. Not bad.
It would be nice if these had a vibrating alert to let you know when data was being transferred to/from another device. You could hang around or follow whoever you think is carrying the other one, and stalk them until you've download all 20gigs off their Rio PocketRocket(tm)
How could this work? The article said that Yahoo uses a "web-based content control system." That would imply that each and every story is served up dynamically. If this is so, then an MD5/PGP signature would have to be calculated on the fly as well, and then included as part of the final html returned to the browser. That would mean that after the hacker changed the contents of the article, the signature would change as well to reflect the updates.
What am I missing here? I know I'm missing something and I'll feel really stupid when somebody tells me how it would really work.
I much prefer to name my mp3s in this format: Artist - Track # - Title.mp3.
The hyphens are just more aesthetically pleasing to me, but the Track # makes it possible to play an album back in the original order of the songs on the CD. I hate getting mp3s with no track defined...
Why not just use MultiProxy? You set it up as a proxy, and it connects and routes your TCP/IP traffic through other publicly available proxies on the 'net. You can have it cycle through (non)anonymous proxies at specified intervals, or for every connection. This is essentially the same idea, but without a centralized server. Right? Or am I way off? BTW, this program is great for circumventing blocked AIM or ICQ ports if you're behind a transparent firewall.
I used to be a 3 day employee, part-time, but have since become a full-time 4 day employee. I'm supposed to work 4 nine hour days, but I usually work more like 8 hours a day. That works out to be a 32 hour week. I do work the fifth day if I'm needed, and that ends up being about once a month. And every once in a while I work till 8 or 9 at night to finish something up if a deadline is tight. I'd say on average, I work 35 hours a week. I'm a Web Applications Developer in Northern New Jersey.
Of course, that's just time actually _spent_ at work. I probably spend more like 20 hours actually working every week. Man, that's pretty sad. I have a really bad habit of surfing between slashdot, shacknews, geeknews, tech-report, and betanews, as well as actually writing code for my own _personal_ website. That's _really_ bad. Technically, my company probly owns about 20% of the code used on my website because I wrote it on company time. I've seriously got to work on my self-discipline and whip myself into shape.
When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. And that one sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, and then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Son, the strongest castle in all of England.
This color is the first color of the rainbow. It inspires feelings of love and romance, or war and hate, depending on context. The color Red can be reproduced in many forms, such as crayon, marker, colored pencil, oil paint, dye, water color, pastel.
From the American Heritage Dictionary: "The hue of the long-wave end of the visible spectrum, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 630 to 750 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation and whose hue resembles that of blood; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues."
This color can also be expressed digitally as RGB: 255,0,0 (#FF0000), as well as in HTML as "red".
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I signed up with Ancestry.com when that was available, which was a free trial. I cancelled that after a week or so, so there were no charges.
I got 3 referrals from a gaming website's forums, and another 2 from my personal website.
Got my free iPod after about 6 or 7 weeks.
This was back in mid July, 2004, so I caught it relatively early.
Pics! http://suqur.shackspace.com/idontbelieve/
That would have been so much better, but I was only visiting for the weekend and he didn't have his Windows CDs or any way to back stuff up. :(
I'm reasonably sure that I cleaned it off 100%. I gave him some training on email viruses, and ActiveX installs on the web, so hopefully he'll be able to go awhile before getting into the same situation.
BTW, his PC is running SO much better now. It actually performs like a clean install of windows.
I forgot to mention HijackThis. It's another great tool for getting rid of spyware, but it's definitely for the more advanced user. It'll show you both good and bad items, so discretion is important.
You can easily track down spyware by googling for the different exes and get tips on removing them.
http://www.spychecker.com/program/hijackthis.html
So many people don't run Anti-virus software, and many of these people are the same that open up email attachments they weren't expecting.
There are TONS of trojans out now with the simple payload of installing spyware on your PC.
The PC that I mentioned I worked on recently had over 500 dll/registry keys/executables and bookmarks (not counting another 300 cookies) that were found as spyware. I removed them all with Ad-Aware, and after a reboot, another 150 files were immediately put back by about 15 different trojans.
I consider anti-virus to be a huge deterrent to spyware.
Is it really necessary to run both? I've been fine with just Adaware for a while now.
They both find different things. So yeah, it's good to run both. Spybot also has some nice features to automatically setup your hosts file and other things to block even more spyware.
The more spyware/malware laws we get the better. It's so frustrating trying to use a computer with tons of spyware and spyware trojans. Ugh. And they say the average PC has 28 spyware programs running on it! This needs to stop.
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It took me about 8 hours to clean out a friends computer the other day. He had about 15 viruses all installing spyware daily.
Here's some suggestions for cleaning your computer:
Grisoft's AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition - this is key. Free auto-updates too
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php
Lavasoft's Ad-Aware - run it every so often, and always be sure to update it manually.
http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html?p
CWShredder - removes only a few trojans that give you tons of ads, but does a better job of fully removing them than ad-aware.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
Spybot-Search & Destroy - Similar to Ad-Aware. You should run both.
http://download.com.com/3000-8022-10122137.html
I just want to put in my two cents as well. I'm sad that they cancelled it, I was definitely lined up to pick up the game as soon as it came out.
/tips one to the old days of adventure games. :(
When Full Throttle 2 was cancelled I wasn't as disappointed, because I got the feeling the game was going in the wrong direction. But Sam and Max 2 seems to be heading in the right one.
Of course, now we'll never know.
... just make sure you save the game before you've gotten to far and then decide to see what happens if you try typing curse words too many times in a row. :(
i've had almost the same exact experience, but much more rarely. sometimes i'll look at a license plate that says A49B69 or whatever, and in my head i read it as AFNBSN... always found that weird
Shared Buddies
None of your buddies have submitted their lists yet.
You can find a couple of demonstrations of how mesh networks can actually work and be implemented in cities and companies on MeshNetworks' homepage. Very cool how the p2p works....
I'm a TiVo fan though, so of course I would never recommend this television to anyone!
Come to think of it, this would be either really good or really bad for auto insurance. Red cars cost more to insure. So turn it blue, or silver, or some other (cheaper) color. But if they ever found out about your nano-paint... maybe they'd charge you for having a red, black, and all the colors of the rainbow.... argh
It's also the dream of every Grand Theft Auto III geek out there! How nice it would be to get those cops off your tail by being able to change the color of the paint on your jacked car instead of driving all the way over to the Paint Shop!
i have no idewa what i'm posting about cause i'm a lamer
Let's say people walk about 5 feet per second on average. 802.11b is effective up to 300 feet. Assuming you and another person carrying these devices are walking directly towards each other at the same speed, that gives you about 2 minutes to transfer data. 802.11b, assuming PEAK performance, which is never really achieved, is 11Mbps. That's fast enough to transfer 165MBs of data. That's about 40 songs or so, depending on bitrate. Not bad.
It would be nice if these had a vibrating alert to let you know when data was being transferred to/from another device. You could hang around or follow whoever you think is carrying the other one, and stalk them until you've download all 20gigs off their Rio PocketRocket(tm)
i mean, com eon now. if it was in wired, why repost it here? seriously now! ok, i'm lame...
Yeah, they're using this in the dump by my house. Nice!
wow... user #47. bow down
How could this work? The article said that Yahoo uses a "web-based content control system." That would imply that each and every story is served up dynamically. If this is so, then an MD5/PGP signature would have to be calculated on the fly as well, and then included as part of the final html returned to the browser. That would mean that after the hacker changed the contents of the article, the signature would change as well to reflect the updates.
What am I missing here? I know I'm missing something and I'll feel really stupid when somebody tells me how it would really work.
I much prefer to name my mp3s in this format: Artist - Track # - Title.mp3.
The hyphens are just more aesthetically pleasing to me, but the Track # makes it possible to play an album back in the original order of the songs on the CD. I hate getting mp3s with no track defined...
Why not just use MultiProxy? You set it up as a proxy, and it connects and routes your TCP/IP traffic through other publicly available proxies on the 'net. You can have it cycle through (non)anonymous proxies at specified intervals, or for every connection. This is essentially the same idea, but without a centralized server. Right? Or am I way off? BTW, this program is great for circumventing blocked AIM or ICQ ports if you're behind a transparent firewall.
I used to be a 3 day employee, part-time, but have since become a full-time 4 day employee. I'm supposed to work 4 nine hour days, but I usually work more like 8 hours a day. That works out to be a 32 hour week. I do work the fifth day if I'm needed, and that ends up being about once a month. And every once in a while I work till 8 or 9 at night to finish something up if a deadline is tight. I'd say on average, I work 35 hours a week. I'm a Web Applications Developer in Northern New Jersey.
Of course, that's just time actually _spent_ at work. I probably spend more like 20 hours actually working every week. Man, that's pretty sad. I have a really bad habit of surfing between slashdot, shacknews, geeknews, tech-report, and betanews, as well as actually writing code for my own _personal_ website. That's _really_ bad. Technically, my company probly owns about 20% of the code used on my website because I wrote it on company time. I've seriously got to work on my self-discipline and whip myself into shape.
If we're going price is right, then my guess is 0000-01-01 00:00:01
ob monty python quote:
When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. And that one sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, and then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Son, the strongest castle in all of England.
From the American Heritage Dictionary:
"The hue of the long-wave end of the visible spectrum, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 630 to 750 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation and whose hue resembles that of blood; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues."
This color can also be expressed digitally as RGB: 255,0,0 (#FF0000), as well as in HTML as "red".