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Spygirl
Member

04-23-2001

Friday, February 20, 2004 - 10:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
More information on CDilla

Functionality: Copyright protection software

It says that the software that installed CDilla may stop working if I delete it.


Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Friday, February 20, 2004 - 10:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Spygirl, most of the sites that discuss C_Dilla point to this page and describe it as spyware intended to prevent you from copying copyrighted CDs. I saw frequent mentions of programs such as TurboTax using this scheme to try to stop people from making copies of their program.

There are also several mentions of programs that will stop working if you remove C_Dilla from your computer.

FWIW, I have removed this from my computer and have not had any problems so far. I'm not even sure which program I have installed it either.

Hope this helps.

Spygirl
Member

04-23-2001

Friday, February 20, 2004 - 10:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Excellent information! I'm gonna delete it. Thanks, Dra.

I d/l Ad-ware and it caught 32 more files after the ones removed from Spybot, so I feel good to go!

I also upgraded my AIM and am going to upgrade AOL next. Sometimes you just need to get caught up, ya know?


Weinermr
Member

08-18-2001

Friday, February 20, 2004 - 10:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I've always removed C_Dilla from my PC too. I never have any problems due to removing it. And it always eventually reappears.

Dipo
Member

04-23-2002

Friday, February 20, 2004 - 10:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
okay, I have been concerned about the spyware situation so I went to Spybot Search & Destroy and there are 4 different things to download, it says pick one, which one is the best??? Thanks

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Friday, February 20, 2004 - 11:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Dipo: There aren't 4 things to download, only one from 4 possible locations. Click download by the one that looks nearest to you and proceed from there.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Friday, February 20, 2004 - 11:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Uhhhhhhhhhh, just so Weinermr will know I am okay, I feel I should make at least one post in My Thread today. I am updating my Ad-Aware now. Or, I am downloading a new release or something. Dang, I forgot the terminology already. New Build, that is it! When I tried to update, it said no updates and then flashed a message to go get 181, which I am doing now. Good to see you, Weenermeyer, even if it is just to taunt the pore ole dawg.

Weinermr
Member

08-18-2001

Friday, February 20, 2004 - 11:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Juju, I'm just teasing, not taunting. It tickles me to see you post such good advice here.

Dipo
Member

04-23-2002

Friday, February 20, 2004 - 11:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Dra, it seemed weird to me, so I shall just pick one, flip a coin. Thanks for your help.

I haven't heard from my friend about the email problem, but he was really excited when I walked him through the rule setting thing. (He is not geeky at all, like me). I will check with him this weekend to see how satisfied he is, but I bet he is thrilled. (He now knows how to get rid of some of the attorneys he has to deal with, LOL).

Spygirl
Member

04-23-2001

Friday, February 20, 2004 - 11:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Whew!!

I've upgraded AOL, AIM, Adobe Acrobat, and my Spy-ware programs! I've got some new settings in place, and my computer is already running 75% better than it has been lately.

It's just been sluggish.

Maybe my computer has blood sugar problems, too :-)

Thanks you guys!!


Bob2112
Member

06-12-2002

Friday, February 20, 2004 - 11:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Spygirl: I bet you forgot to run a defrag!

Spygirl
Member

04-23-2001

Friday, February 20, 2004 - 11:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well, I did that about 2 weeks ago - lol

Maybe I'll do it again tonight since I've got all this new stuff in place.

Any other suggestions for "maintenance" work?


Bob2112
Member

06-12-2002

Saturday, February 21, 2004 - 12:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
If you need maintenance done, this is your guy:

Schneidee


Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Saturday, February 21, 2004 - 12:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
<tickles Weenermeyer one more time and heads off to bed>

Ruiner
Member

08-31-2003

Saturday, February 21, 2004 - 7:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
k, have a desk top & a laptop...check email on both & send from both...

how can I have them both have the same info...such as when I've sent/replied etc...

bf is not helping - can't be that tough, can it?

HELP!


Weinermr
Member

08-18-2001

Saturday, February 21, 2004 - 9:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You could use a web based email service, so that when accessing email from either location, you get the same information. Email files that reside on the PC's hard drive will only reflect what's been downloaded to that PC.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Saturday, February 21, 2004 - 9:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ruiner, I have been liking www.myway.com for e-mail. Reminds me of the old days of Yahoo. They still give you a 6 Mb mailbox and don't have popups, and they are free.

Bob2112
Member

06-12-2002

Saturday, February 21, 2004 - 10:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ruiner: It can be that tough.

Weiner and Dawg are right in pointing you at web based email, but web based interfaces suck, IMHO, so I only use them when I need to access email from someone elses computer.

The best I've been able to come up with is to only have my main computer actually download and delete the email messages from the server. The laptop and a second desktop only read email from the mail server, but they leave it on there so the other computers will see it. This way we always know that we will see every email message on the main computer and don't have to remember where we read it.

Sending is a completely different story, since your sent folder will be local to each computer. We don't worry about the sent email messages much. If I want a copy of an email I'm sending, I bcc it to myself so it ends up in the inbox.

I guess we should ask what software you are using to read your email? Maybe there is a special trick to merging all the folders for certain email programs.


Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Saturday, February 21, 2004 - 11:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Bob, have you been cloned? I notice you are speaking in first person plural.

Bob2112
Member

06-12-2002

Saturday, February 21, 2004 - 11:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Dawg:As far as I know we have not been cloned.

<...but I can't account for what the aliens did when they took me that one night...>


Tess
Member

04-13-2001

Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 12:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
They only took you the one night, huh Bob?

Ruiner
Member

08-31-2003

Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 1:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanx all for answering my questions! Really appreciate the help.

To be honest with you all - it was about as clear as mud when I scanned over your replies last night....


But this afternoon, I think I see a ...it's a little dim and in the distance but I'm sure it with brighten up soon...

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 8:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ruiner, let me see if I can simplify. You are probably using something like Outlook Express for your e-mail? I use Juno, and it operates in similar fashion. You connect to the internet, and then your e-mail client (the Juno or Outlook Express) accesses the central computers and retrieves back a batch of e-mail. What it is doing is putting that gob of mail INTO your computer. Now the gob of mail lives in your desktop or laptop and no longer lives on the internet. So it lives in whichever computer you have downloaded it into, but not on the other computer. Sort of like if you receive your physical mail at a p.o. box, and sometimes you pick it up and bring it home. Other times you take it to your mom's house, but it stays wherever you took it.

Okay, so you want to have access to both the mail at your house AND what is at your mom's house.

Seems like there ought to be something that would allow you to do that, but I am not sure how complicated that would be, or how convenient it would be for you. You would have to copy off certain configurations and files from one computer and transfer them to the other computer every time you switched computers. I would think that would get to be a pain in the neck.

That is why several of us suggested using an e-mail that resides totally on the internet, such as Yahoo or the one I suggested, Myway. There are lots of others, I am sure. With those e-mails, you get online and go to the website and sign into your e-mail account. When you pull down mail, it does not get delivered into your computer, but stays on the internet at Yahoo's or Myway's central computers but pulled down into your individual account. These e-mail accounts operate very much like the one you are used to, but you have to be online at all times to use them. With the e-mail you and I have now, we can get our mail and disconnect from the internet, read it, reply, whatever, then go back online to send outgoing.

Is that clear? And if so, would you still be interested in somebody here telling you if it is possible for you to copy the e-mails between computers and if so, how complicated it would be?

Bob2112
Member

06-12-2002

Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 8:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
and what email program are you using?

Outlook?
Outlook Express?
Netscape?
Juno?
AOL?
Eudora?
Other???


Ruiner
Member

08-31-2003

Monday, February 23, 2004 - 12:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Juju - loud and clear! Kind of figured it worked that way...but you'd think there'd be some easy way to have both units with the same info...

Bob - Outlook Express. The bf runs his own mail server too...

...bcc???