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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, February 20, 2004 - 12:40 am
Bob, nope, you don't have to send one to your mom. You can get one of every item in the store that is on rebate. Maybe I shouldn't tell you that you missed the REALLY biggest deal they had this week. FREE Uniden walkie-talkies. They are really nice, too. Let this be a lesson to all you frugal geeky types out there. Office Max has really good free stuff. Check out their ad early Sunday morning and go to Office Max instead of going to church (got to get there early for the realllly good stuff). Uhhhhhhhh, don't tell Tess I said that about skipping church.
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Friday, February 20, 2004 - 12:46 am
AVG from www.grisoft.com? That's what I use and it has been working out very nicely for a couple of months now. Back to Office Max. Did you see the CD-RW internal drive that is only $5 after rebate? It's much faster than what I have and would certainly be great for someone who does not have a burner. Here's what I may purchase tomorrow:
About the Trojans: Norton must not be detecting it, otherwise it would not be able to run and disable Norton. not sure if AVG will detect it, since anti-virus programs are not the best at detecting Trojans. I thought Trojan Hunter was good, but I felt if used up too much resources (CPU and memory) to have it actively scanning. If it's not actively scanning, then it won't help you stop the trojans. Ack! Where the heck are your getting your porn from? 
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Friday, February 20, 2004 - 12:49 am
Why am I still awake and why am I the only person in chat? Seems like we could have had this conversation better there, but then nobody else could read about it. I'm still there if you want to talk about this stuff in real time.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, February 20, 2004 - 9:25 am
Bob, it was after my bedtime when I was asking my questions above, so I couldn't have come into chat even if I had seen your message in time. Maybe we should start an Office Max thread. I am telling you, they have good deals like this EVERY week! I think I got both my CD burners FREE on different occasions. I presume you probably get a Sunday newspaper and throw away all those advertising inserts. This week, tell the family to save them, and look for the Office Max one. They have free stuff ALL the time. The whole back page from the flyer you posted above was free stuff. I also got free neon diskettes and free Post-its this time in addition to the walkie-talkies. They also had the following items free this week: 100 slimline jewel cases, keyboard, optical mouse, McAfee firewall, 6 outlet surge protector with modem protection, caller ID telephone, CD wallet, GE universal remote, lapel microphone, 56K internal modem, network NIC card for desktop, hands-free earpiece, Post-It notes, 2-pak of canned air, and 10 piece tool kit. Yeah, AVG is what I meant. I am going to download it now. You know, the first time I had the trojans, Norton did not detect them but Zone Alarm did after a day or so and shut down my computer. I don't get the porn. Bigdog does. That is what is so irksome. HE gets the porn, and I get the trojans (no condom jokes here please). He has a lot of pervert buddies who like to send salacious stuff back and forth. I am sure he would send you some if you would like to have it. He is generous like that. Send me an e-mail with the address you would like to use, and I will pass it along to Bigdog for his porn distribution list. Uhhhhhhh, better not tell Tess about this offer either.
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Spygirl
Member
04-23-2001
| Friday, February 20, 2004 - 6:56 pm
How would I fix an internal error that occurs each time I try to open a pdf file? If I save the file to my desktop and then open it, it works fine, but if I try to open from any direct pdf links, I get the error message. Also, if I actually open reader (4.0) before clicking the link, it'll open fine.
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Weinermr
Member
08-18-2001
| Friday, February 20, 2004 - 7:03 pm
Spy, I could be way off, but my guess is that you need to upgrade to a newer version of Adobe Reader. Version 6.0 is available for free here Adobe Reader 6.0
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Friday, February 20, 2004 - 7:10 pm
Spygirl: Not sure what the problem is, but maybe you could upgrade to the newer Adobe Reader 6.0 and see if the problem still exists. The other thought would be to reinstall 4.0, but if you're going to do that, why not download the newer version? If you uncheck the "Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition software" box, then the download is 15.9MB for the full version of the reader. If you uncheck the full version, the size goes down to 8.7MB, but it's not clear what features you would lose. I don't know what type of internet connection you have, but if you can handle the 15.9MB download, I would go that route.
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Friday, February 20, 2004 - 7:11 pm
<...thinks he would probably do whatever Weinermr suggests...>
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Spygirl
Member
04-23-2001
| Friday, February 20, 2004 - 7:17 pm
Thanks, you two! I figured that would be what you guys would say. I'm downloading the upgrade right now. I'll check back when it is done....
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Friday, February 20, 2004 - 7:17 pm
WEINER!!! Do I need to come in here and talk 'technology' to see you anymore?? I miss ya!
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Weinermr
Member
08-18-2001
| Friday, February 20, 2004 - 7:19 pm
Thanks Pamy. There's a better chance if you talk technology, than for me to start talking about Barbie. Good luck Spy. Bob always gives good advice. 
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, February 20, 2004 - 7:22 pm
So this is where I have to find you Weinermr. I missed ya too.
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Weinermr
Member
08-18-2001
| Friday, February 20, 2004 - 7:28 pm
Back atcha.
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Grannyg
Member
05-28-2002
| Friday, February 20, 2004 - 7:36 pm
Well, dang, Hi Weiner!! Miss you, three.
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Weinermr
Member
08-18-2001
| Friday, February 20, 2004 - 7:38 pm
Hi Granny! Now back to Juju's thread... I mean the Computer Problems.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Friday, February 20, 2004 - 7:42 pm
Weiner..come home!!!!
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Grannyg
Member
05-28-2002
| Friday, February 20, 2004 - 7:51 pm
Ok, Computer problem. I got this thing one time on my puter that was spyware. In adaware and McAfee it comes up as Solutions180 and MSBB. I've googled it and checked McAfee and both say it is spyware but no matter how many times I delete it, it comes back. I finally found the MSBB in my startup files when I ran the msconfig and I unchecked it, ran Ad-aware and let it reboot to delete it because it was "in use". I then ran McAfee and it found it again and I deleted it. I went to the Windows page that talks about msbb.exe and did everything it says to do there. There must be something hidden deep within the convines of my puter and every now and then it shows back up. Is there anyway to find where it is residing and get rid of it for ever? I am running WinMe and use IE 6. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Friday, February 20, 2004 - 7:55 pm
Grannyg, what did you say?
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Spygirl
Member
04-23-2001
| Friday, February 20, 2004 - 8:25 pm
Adobe works like a champ now! Thank you, Weinermr and Bob. Related to Granny's question, what is the recommended anti spy-ware program of choice these days? Mine is outdated.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Friday, February 20, 2004 - 8:51 pm
daddykins! miss you! how are you? how is the mrs? how is medley? i thought i wouldn't be able to catch you until April 16th! glad to see you posting. miss ya!
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Friday, February 20, 2004 - 9:14 pm
Rosie: There are 2 programs that many people run that cleanup most of the spyware and adware that gets into our computers. You can download Spybot Dearch and Destroy from one of these links. After you install it, check for updates and then let it scan your entire computer. The first time it could find hundreds of spyware related item (mostly cookies and registry keys) and should be able to clean most of them. If it can't clean it all, it will give you the option to run it at boot time. Select yes and reboot. It will scan before windows comes up and should be able to get rid of anything before it loads into memory. The second program is Lavasoft's Ad-aware 6.0. Download this, install it and have it check for any updates. Run this after Spybot and see what it finds. If you run these two programs every week or so, you should be able to get rid of all the spyware and adware you are collecting. There are other programs that try to keep the spyware and adware out, but I have not had much success with these and still run these 2 programs several times a week. They will also get rid of weird things that attach thenselves to your browser.
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Friday, February 20, 2004 - 9:22 pm
Grannyg, here is some information that might be helpful. If you still have trouble ridding your computer of this, I would recommend rebooting into safe mode and run the adaware again to see if that will remove it for you. Microsoft's Knowledgebase Article on MSBB.exe 180solutions uninstallation instructions (from the page at the above link) Hope this helps.
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Friday, February 20, 2004 - 9:29 pm
OK, replace Rosie with Grannyg in my previous post and I also didn't see at the beginning that you ran Ad-aware. Try Spybot. It often gets the things Ad-aware does not. They seem to overlap about 90% or so, so the 2 of them work well together.
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Grannyg
Member
05-28-2002
| Friday, February 20, 2004 - 9:42 pm
Dra and Bob(2112)You both are absolute dolls and I love you to death. I downloaded the 180solutions and it uninstalled N-Case that neither Ad-Aware or McAfee picked up on. And I downloaded Spybot and intend to run that in just a little bit. I'm hoping it was the N-Case thing that was causing all the problem since I haven't deleted it before. YEA!!!!!!!!
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Spygirl
Member
04-23-2001
| Friday, February 20, 2004 - 10:05 pm
I'm gonna assume part of that posting above was in answer to my question, too. I downloaded Spybot and it ran a search. It cleaned a bunch of stuff up except one - CDilla. Some confusing information about it left me even more confused. Should I force delete this? Anyone recognize it? I'm gonna go upgrade my Ad-ware now.
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