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Archive through February 11, 2003
Zachsmom | Wednesday, February 05, 2003 - 07:44 am     square..think TOGA TOGA TOGA!! |
Squaredsc | Wednesday, February 05, 2003 - 07:47 am     ahh i get it now, thanks 'mom. |
Webkitty | Wednesday, February 05, 2003 - 08:11 am     I got in. Going next Wednesday. After I get home from Key Largo, I will seriously start shopping for a puter. Sewing while drunk, now that's a gift! |
Car54 | Wednesday, February 05, 2003 - 02:08 pm     Actually Zmom, you are very close on that. I am mostly Irish and went to grad school west of Chicago, where of course St Patrick's day is a major major holiday. I was the grad assistant in charge of the costume shop and we went into the city to drink green beer and celebrate, but I had a show in construction and had to go to work late in the day. I remember sitting at the sewing machine...thinking "I am fine, I can do this fine...." right before the doublet got away from me and I sewed through my index fingernail! Now... I don't drink at all anymore...my motto is "Just say sew". |
Hippyt | Wednesday, February 05, 2003 - 02:57 pm     Ouch Car54!!!! Quick question:When I try to copy,I keep getting the message on my clipboard,cannot display clipboard is in binary form. What does this mean? Is it something I have inadvertantly turned on? Can I turn it off? How? Thanks! |
Sisalou | Friday, February 07, 2003 - 07:16 pm     I have zone alarm and Norton virus protection. Anyways, I got locked out of aol because of something called a "trojanhorse". It made it appear that I had sent questionable emails to people. How in the heck did that happen. I thought I was protected from that sort of thing. I was shocked and horrified to have Aol thinking I would send out "porno" email!!  |
Jed245 | Saturday, February 08, 2003 - 03:47 am     Zone alarm really couldn't help in a situation like this. See Zone alarm only keeps outside connections from being made to your computer. Does your norton antivirus have auto protect enabled? Even with it enabled. You still could get a trojan horse. See those programs work kinda like this. You download something and a trojan horse is hidden within the downloaded file. It then sends out random e-mails from your account. There are several other effects trojan horses have, but, that is the basics. You may want to do a complete system scan with norton antivirus and see what that comes up with. :o) Jed. |
Draheid | Saturday, February 08, 2003 - 06:53 am     Actually, Jed & Sisalou, Zonealarm works both ways. It keeps anything outside your computer from getting in AND it requires you're permission for any program that is trying to get out before allowing access to it. Zonealarm tracks all programs that access the internet, the permission level you give, and even if the program is changed or upgraded from the last time you used it to access the internet. I do NOT think you have a trojan horse. I suspect but can not prove, that you may have simply fallen victim to someone using your e-mail address (the name only, not the actual account) to send spam. I would think AOL should examine some of the spam being sent out and determine where it was originated from. I don't think it came out of your computer, Sisalou, so they should be able to rule out your involvement fairly easily. Hope this helps. |
Sisalou | Saturday, February 08, 2003 - 09:58 am     Thanks for the input guys! Come to think of it I did get some emails that appeared to be from "myself" but i just deleted them and didn't think anything of it. This spam is very annoying. I do not need to have my _ _ _ _ _ enlarged, I don't even have one! |
Jed245 | Sunday, February 09, 2003 - 09:56 am     yes dra, I know that. I was only refering to the fact that the main use of a fire wall is to stop incomming traffic. It does ofcourse ask for permission for each program. SOmething like outlook express is trying to connect to the internet" Do you wish to allow this?" something to that effect. You can set up your firewall which, most people do to automattically allow a program to access the net. If you set it up with outlook or anything else then that program always has access to the net. |
Kaili | Monday, February 10, 2003 - 02:10 pm     How about this problem- today my computer turned itself off twice. I thought it was a power line problem, but my zip drive was still on and the monitor was on- it was just the computer. Then I had to wait like 20 minutes to be able to turn the computer back on again. It hasn't done it again (yet). It happened when I was playing a game off of a CD- I have played the game many times before and never had a problem. The game is Zoo Tycoon- I got the expansion pack on Friday and have had no problems. Yesterday though I downloaded some new items for the game (official ones from the MS site)- this began happening after I added the items to the game. I get a little ways through the game, then pow- it goes off. Any ideas what's going on? |
Twiggyish | Monday, February 10, 2003 - 02:18 pm     Sis, a virus will replicate and send emails as if from you. In order to stop this from happening you need to run a scan from your Norton. See if your Norton is up to date. Second, it does sound like you have a trojan. They can gain access from back door programs. I'm surprised your Norton didn't catch it. I also have Zone Alarm. It's an excellent program. Kaili, that happens with our Zoo Tycoon, too. It's especially true when we try to name our exhibits something different like Xanadu. (which is a cheat or hint to make a unicorn appear)..LOL |
Draheid | Monday, February 10, 2003 - 02:18 pm     Kaili: Take a look in your display settings (Start - Settings - Control Panel - Display), under the 'Screensaver' tab, there should be a button for 'Power...' at the bottom of that screen. Make sure none of them are set too low. I'm not sure, but it sounds like the system is detecting an extended period of inactivity and powering down because of it. If you don't have that section, you might also check in your CMOS setup to see if there is a power management setting in there too. I understand your first reaction that this couldn't be the case because you are actually playing the game, however, this could be one possibility. If this doesn't fix it, please let me know along with a few other details such as which windows, any messages, etc. you have with this situation. Hope this helps. |
Sherbabe | Monday, February 10, 2003 - 07:30 pm     I have aol, and have lost all my favorite places. I can't even click the heart on any site and get them back. anyone a brief explanation what i can do to fix. i am a beginner as far as technology goes. I've tried calling aol tech, but their suggestion did not work. |
Wargod | Monday, February 10, 2003 - 07:54 pm     Do you get the drop down menu when you click the heart, Sher? |
Wargod | Monday, February 10, 2003 - 07:59 pm     Just saw you said you can't click on the heart. Are you seeing the heart at all? |
Kaili | Monday, February 10, 2003 - 09:58 pm     Ack! I was responding before and my computer shut off before i had a chance to post!!! I did a little investigating this time- obviously the game isn't the issue since I wasn't playing it. I took my computer out of the desk cabinet and took the shell off (which was quite warm might I add...). I think it's overheating and shutting down. I have the shell of still and it's on my floor out in the open. I checked inside- the fan is spinning although I can't feel a breeze- not sure if the fan is just too small or what. Anyway, it's pretty dirty in there. Tomorrow I'm going to do some vacuuming in there and try cleaning it out to see if that helps. I'm scared to put the shell back on and put it back in the cabinet. The backside of the cabinet is open, but I had a lot of stuff in there next to the computer- I am wondering if maybe it was just too crowded in the cabinet, even though it's been fine the year and a half it's been in there before this started. I also had someone I know take over my computer over the internet and he checked the administrative stuff and found some error message about the clock. Not sure what that meant cause my clock is right. So I just don't know now. I'm scared to put it back in and have it happen again and totally screw up the computer. I did backup all my stuff, but I don't want to have to buy a new computer cause I fried this one! |
Jed245 | Tuesday, February 11, 2003 - 04:22 am     Kali it sounds like you may have found the problem on your own. Computers do get hot and the radiation of electricity traveling through the chips, resistors, capacitors and other componets attracts alot of dust. That combined with your computer being in a crowded poorly ventalated area... May have caused it to heat enough to shut down. A good cleaning and a new more powerful fan may just do the trick. Good luck. Jed :o) |
Draheid | Tuesday, February 11, 2003 - 08:42 am     I read an article this morning about bugs & security holes in Microsoft Internet Explorer. I recommend anyone with IE version 5.5 thru 6.x to CLICK HERE for details and a link to a patch for the program! <link fixed> (22) |
Conejo | Tuesday, February 11, 2003 - 09:13 am     Draheid, this link isn't working for me.  |
Draheid | Tuesday, February 11, 2003 - 09:16 am     Conejo, sorry, I messed up the link. It's working now. |
Conejo | Tuesday, February 11, 2003 - 09:25 am     Thanks Dra! I have version 5.5 and thought I should probably check it out!  |
Kaili | Tuesday, February 11, 2003 - 02:12 pm     Yay- I fixed my problem! I bought a can of air, took the power box out and found another fan that I couldn't see before. I dusted the fan like crazy and now I can feel air blowing out the back again and the power box is cool to the touch after being on a few hours. I guess I can probably put the shell back on now.
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Draheid | Tuesday, February 11, 2003 - 02:28 pm     Yeah for you, Kaili! I'm glad you dusted it out with canned air instead of the vacuum. As a matter of fact, it is best for you to put the box back together. That way the airflow will be correct for cooling the important parts of the computer. Otherwise, the fans aren't really as effective. |
Car54 | Tuesday, February 11, 2003 - 04:42 pm     Oh help me Jesus.... I have a new Dell Inspiron Laptop. When I installed my dial up MSN, suddenly I could barely connect at all....had terrible trouble logging in...can't get mail. I spent 5 hours talking to techs at MSN today- 2 in India, one in British Columbia (can you say outsourcing?) Finally they told me to call Dell and get help re-installing my dial up networking. First I went to phone hell trying to get through their phone system..now I am on hold and they have been playing marching band music really loud for a really really long time.... arggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh The music is REALLY LOUD AND FAST..... |
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