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Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Wednesday, February 18, 2004 - 9:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I had a very strange experience late this afternoon. I had about four IE browsers open, but only this site and another reality tv site open, neither of which have popups. I, uhhhhhhh, did happen to be talking to Bigdog at the time on our new little walkie talkies, when I heard a female voice come out of the computer speakers. It said something like, "Hi, this is Lisa, and in the next 30 seconds I will show you how to speed up your computer." That was all. Nothing else happened. I looked real quick to see if I was looking at something in my e-mail with voice. Nope. Has anybody here ever had that happen?

Well, it sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? Maybe it was some kind of quick popup ad on the Juno browser which I don't use. BUT if I am not using it, I don't get any popups on it. Very weird.

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Wednesday, February 18, 2004 - 9:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Juju: I know that AIM has been running audio/video ads in the space at the top of the buddy list lately. Did you have AIM running at the time? I don't know what movie that would be for but it's a possible explanation. Either that or your computer knows you shouldn't be on two reality sites at the same time. Perhaps Neil has a feature on the new board that we don't know about??

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Wednesday, February 18, 2004 - 10:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL, Dra! Admin has spyware embedded on my computer to ferret out when I am wrongfully playing around at another reality television site????????? Hahahahaha!!! Damn, he is good!

And you know I only ever turn on AIM to talk to you or Tess or Spygirl.

Spygirl
Member

04-23-2001

Wednesday, February 18, 2004 - 11:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Okay, Juju, the same thing happened to me one day last week and I about freaked - I didn't have the TV on and I live alone. LOL

I did have AIM open, but nothing else at all that would have done it. I guess it had to be AIM in my case.


Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Wednesday, February 18, 2004 - 11:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
it's the new ad for memturbo - i saw it moving when i was at a site. no there is no spyware on your computer from lisa!

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 12:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
But where did it come from, Landi? I did not have AIM on.

Grannyg
Member

05-28-2002

Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 4:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I know Juju, but I ain't telling.

Wink
Member

10-06-2000

Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 9:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sheesh Juju, a secret agent should be able to figure it out!!!

Legalboxer
Member

11-17-2003

Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 9:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
easy question - what do i type to open a specific directory when in DOS mode (such as i have c:\Windows> showing and I want to then open the system directory??

(its been way too long since i used dos)

Legalboxer
Member

11-17-2003

Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 10:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
never mind, found the solution :-)

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 11:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Has anybody ever noticed there are a lot of odd characters that crawl out of the woodwork in here when Juju asks a dumb question?

I still think Draheid was right, and Admin has spyware on my computer.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 6:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Two more days for bargain CD-RW's at Office Max. They have 100 CD-RW's for $4.99 after rebate. That is five cents each!! For RW's. Sale ends Saturday.

Bob2112
Member

06-12-2002

Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 8:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yay Dawg!!!

<...hopes Dawg will tell us how to use the CD-RWs...>


Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 9:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You know there's nothing more unattractive than a Sponge with a smart mouth, don't you, Bob?

Bob2112
Member

06-12-2002

Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 9:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I know it now. :-)

Now I have to go out tomorrow and find that deal.

What brand are they?


Dipo
Member

04-23-2002

Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 10:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well I would like to know what they are used for. Is it to burn CD's? That is the only thing I can think of. LOL, I hope I am right.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 11:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Bob, they are Ridata brand.

Dipo, yes to burn CD's. There are CDR's and CDRW's. CDRW's are rewriteable discs and can be erased and re-used. CDR's you just fill them up and that's it. There is a some discussion about them earlier in this thread, which is what Bob is referring to. LOL.

Dipo
Member

04-23-2002

Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 11:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ok, so the RW means rewriteable, good to know for future reference, thanks.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 11:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Dang! I got TWO more trojans tonight! WHERE could these things be coming from? I swear I have opened nothing suspicious today. I should have written down what files they were in. I remember one was in C:Windows:Temp and the other was not. Is it possible I am getting them from somewhere on the internet?

And just what ARE all those things in C:Windows:TEMP anyway? Some of them are years old. I recognize some of them, and they are just some stuff I looked at or worked on once. I started to delete them all and started getting those scary messages that Windows may not work properly if I delete this, etc. They are a big variety of stuff, from pictures, to folders with cookies in them to the chess program I downloaded so I can post the chess board in the chess thread.

Bob2112
Member

06-12-2002

Friday, February 20, 2004 - 12:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Cool, Dawg.

I saw those at OfficeMax.com, but they came out to $10.00 after rebate for the 100 pack. I guess the in store price must be better than the on-line price. I'll try to get out to Office max at lunch tomorrow and see what they say.

Video card update: I installed my new cheapo $36 GeForce2 MX400 64MB video card and it came right up with no problems and the screen looks significantly better than it ever did with the older card.

Then I installed (updated) the drivers and software that came on the CD and things started going down hill. The picture was still good, but the mouse became very jumpy and would stop moving several times per second. I then attepted to update to the most recent drivers I could find on-line and that did not fix the problem. I ended up uninstalling all of the video drivers and just let XP detect it again and install the drivers that XP already had and everything is back to working fine. Go figure!

I put a DVD in to make sure that the video card still supported the DVD software and the picture was increadible.

I set the display resolution to 1920x1440 and it is actually usable on my 19 inch monitor. I can actually see the eight messages above this message while I type it in the posting box. All the buttons are so tiny (but clear) that I think I could work this way for about 5 minutes before the eye strain would start giving me a headache. I'm going to leave it at 1280x1024 and see if anyone in the family notices it's a little smaller than before. At this size, I can see the previous 4 messages, so it's still fits a lot on the screen without making all the buttons too small. I may have to back it down to 1152x864 if anyone complains, but that's as far as I will go!

Power supply update: If you read here a few weeks ago you might rememeber that I almost fried my computer when attempting to replace the power supply because Dell used non-standard wiring for the ATX motherboard. All that I really needed to do was replace the fan, but for $30 I was able to get a bigger power supply that should have worked fine. Anyway, instead of spending $6 to send it back to only get refunded $24 (netting me $18), I traded it to a guy at work for 3 80mm ball bearing fans that have blue LEDs. I replaced the fan in the power supply and added one to the front intake vents of the case and now I have a nice blue glow coming from the computer and much improved cooling. The fans are about $5-6 a piece, so I broke about even and he got a good power supply for a computer he is building. The new fans are also quieter than the old fan.


Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Friday, February 20, 2004 - 12:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
C:\Windows:\Temp update - found this website which appears to be most applicable to me with Windows ME http://www.desilva.biz/misc/deltemp.html

Bob2112
Member

06-12-2002

Friday, February 20, 2004 - 12:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Dawg: The temp directory is often used to expand files when you download something in a self extracting format. Other programs will use it if they need a place to store a file temporarily, but often these files are not cleaned up properly. The warning you are getting is likely the basic warning that says you are attempting to delete an executable program. It says this for every .exe file, so in many cases it should not be a problem.

If you want to be safe, you can create a directory nameed something like c:\DELETEME and just move all the stuff you would like to delete from temp into that directory. If nothing seems broken in a week or so, then just delete the entire c:\DELETEME directory and your done. If something is broke, then you can always move the appropriate file back into the temp directory.

As far as the trojans go, I'm not sure you keep getting them and more importantly, why they are not getting caught by your anti-virus scanner initially, but I guess they are found later when you do a system scan?

You may have to break down and pay for trojan hunter, since the 30 day trial has expired and you can't just reinstall it to get another 30 days.


Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Friday, February 20, 2004 - 12:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Bob, you can go online to officemax.com and see the actual ads running for the stores in your area without having to go out there. I forgot which of those burbs you live in, or I could quick check it for you.

Edit: Okay, I figure all the Chicago area stores are having the same sales. I chose Naperville. They seem to have the same sale we are having here. This link may or may not come through.
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Bob2112
Member

06-12-2002

Friday, February 20, 2004 - 12:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OK, that site basically says the same thing, but there is no need to boot into safe mode, unless there is a file that you can not delete because it is in use. Of course, if it is in use, you may not actually want to delete it. I prefer the c:\DELETEME folder followed by a reboot method myself. If things boot up fine, I usually delete it right away, but you may prefer to give it some time to make sure you have run most of the things that you run on a regular bases.

ETA: Thanks Dawg. I found the add on-line and it does have the 100 pack CD-RW for $5.00 after rebate and also a 100 pack CD-R for free after rebate. I think I'll get one of each and just have to check if I have to send one to my mom or if I can do both under my name

ETA again: You got the right store. I bet you remembered the Amtrak went through Naperville and you went right by where I work when I came downtown to meet you. :-)


Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Friday, February 20, 2004 - 12:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Bob, when I am getting these trojans, the way I know I have them is because the first thing it does is disable Norton. So, if my computer starts acting squirrelly, I will look down to my icon tray and see that Norton has disappeared and Pow! (my popup stopper) has been turned off. So then I go to housecalls.com or whatever it is and run an online scan, and two hours later it is done, and two trojans have been killed. Sigh.

I am thinking about trying out that AVI free anti-virus we talked about in the other thread. This trojan crap which Norton is NOT catching, is getting old.