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Texannie

Friday, October 03, 2003 - 08:51 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I finally figured out that my spyware was deleting my searchbar feature. Does anyone know how to change the settings or what settings to change so that it will ignore it?
I use AdAware 6.0. and www.mysearch.com

Draheid

Friday, October 03, 2003 - 10:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Texannie: If you open AdAware and click on the 'Gear' icon at the top you will see a window for 'Scan Settings'. In that window is a bar that says "Click Here To Select Drives & Folders". Clicking there will let you see your computer's drives and folders (use the + to expand the tree). You will need to determine where the search tool files are stored and then uncheck that folder in this window. That should keep AdAware from scanning and removing the program.

Hope that helps.

Texannie

Friday, October 03, 2003 - 11:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I did that, but it's still catching it when I run a scan.
This is all so silly and frustrating at the same time! I am about ready to uninstall adaware (it was working fine till i upgraded!) but i don't know of any other free spyware programs.

Ladytex

Friday, October 03, 2003 - 12:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
If you really want to keep that search bar, knowing that it is putting spyware on your computer, then run ad-aware, find out what program or data tracker is being used by your search bar, and then put those things in your ignore list.

Texannie

Friday, October 03, 2003 - 12:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The funny thing LadyTex is that it wasn't before the upgrade in Adaware. I have had the searchbar for a long time..it works well for my kids. One reason why I picked this particular search program is that it states specifically that they don't add spyware.

Yankee_In_Ca

Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 10:51 am EditMoveDeleteIP
All right, this isn't a computer problem, but is anyone else out there as upset as I am that Half Life II has been delayed AGAIN -- and this time until April 04!!! Bummer.......

Mak1

Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 05:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
At the risk of sounding stupid....what is Half Life II? a game?

Juju2bigdog

Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 05:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Me stupid too, Mak1.

Lumbele

Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 06:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, lets start the stupid club then, Mak1 and Juju. Half Life doesn't tell me diddly either and it doesn't sound all that positive on the surface, too.LOL Care to give a little more info, Yankee? Please?

Twinkie

Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 06:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Count me in on the stupid club. Never heard of Half Life.

Yankee_In_Ca

Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 07:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It's a game. Half Life was the most acclaimed game of its kind ever. And Half Life 2 just won "best of show" at E3.

As someone who loves this type of game, I'm bummed. It was originally scheduled to be released in September for my bday, then pushed back a month, then pushed back until "before Christmas," and today they announced it's now pushed back until April. It's been in development for 3-4 years.

Sia

Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 09:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I just downloaded the newest version of aol's AIM/instant messenger program and after it installed itself something called "Fishhook Installer" kept trying to access the Internet. I blocked it. I couldn't find out anything about this. Anyone have any info? Thanks in advance.

Juju2bigdog

Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 11:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I installed latest AIM a few weeks ago. No fishhook.

Sia

Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 11:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks, Juju. I am sure this is connected with the AIM update, though, because I've never seen it before and it says it's an AIM program as it's trying to connect with the 'net. I just keep blocking it because I suspect that it could be some sort of spyware.

Egbok

Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 11:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Re: Half Life. Half life is a term used with medication doses. When the strength of the dose reaches its' peak, it's at its' "half life". Just one of those factoids I learned along the road of life..LOL.

Tabbyking

Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 11:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
there is something wrong with my tv, my radio AND my computer. they all say ahnuld is governor....

i also recall 'half-life' as in something radioactive having the 'half-life' of 20,000 years or something. i took it to mean, "don't come out of your cement bunker for a long, long time."

Egbok

Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 11:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Tebby, maybe your tv, radio and computer need to be terminated.

Wargod

Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 11:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Half-life is also a sciency thing. I vaguely remember it from that hell of a science class I took last year (sorry Lance!)

Tabbyking

Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 11:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ugh, i agwee.

Jed245

Wednesday, October 08, 2003 - 06:04 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Yankee Don't worry I'm kinda bummed too cause I would like to play a little half life 2 myself. Not to mention the possibilites of it comming out on the xbox console.


I happen to have a little info on why it was delayed if your interested yankee. Some smart little gammer out there hacked into thier data base and dowloaded the source code for about 3/4ths of the game. I also hear that the engine (which you can use to make the game) along with the other 3/4 of the game can be downloaded through mirc/kazaa/other places and used to remake the game.

So to counter this they are redoing alot of the game and changing the source code around. So all that re writting is what's gonna push it back till next year.

*yeah I'm a gamer... deal with it* :o)

Jed.

Ktbb

Wednesday, October 08, 2003 - 07:38 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I have to do this quick because my computer will freeze up.My comp is really slow when I get on the internet, and keeps freezing up. When I first log on it seems to be working fine then it is so slow that it takes at least 60 seconds to respond sometimes longer. It is not always allowing me to close down programs, or pop ups because the "program manager " is not responding. Please help me. It took me three tries just to get this far.

Ktbb

Wednesday, October 08, 2003 - 07:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
oops I forgot to tell ya I have windows xp

Ladytex

Wednesday, October 08, 2003 - 08:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
have you done disk clean up lately?

Draheid

Wednesday, October 08, 2003 - 08:12 am EditMoveDeleteIP
KTBB I STRONGLY urge you to install a firewall on your computer. You can get an excellent FREE firewall by Clicking Here to download ZoneAlarm from ZoneLabs. After you have downloaded and saved this file, run it and follow the prompts to install.

The problem people are having is both a vulnerability in Windows AND the open ports exposed to the interenet where this exploit is being done. A firewall such as Zonealarm should prevent that from happening by closing those ports from being accessed.

You will still need to apply the appropriate patch to your system. Please go HERE to view instructions and download the patch.

Hope this helps.

Yankee_In_Ca

Wednesday, October 08, 2003 - 10:12 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Jed -- I heard about the source code/engine steal -- here's a link to a new updated story about it today. Looks like some of the stolen stuff has already been distributed out there... Bummer for everyone...

http://money.cnn.com/2003/10/07/commentary/game_over/column_gaming/index.htm?cnn=yes

P.S. -- can we possibly be the ONLY gamers at TVCH?