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Ah, it worked but Firebird has dishonored the great PLASTERMASTER buy not recognising his plasterliness and confusing me with some GUEST! For this it must spend 3 months in the RECYCLE BIN!!!

I think I need my computor guy to mess with it. It looks like a good program but it would be nice if it just replaced IE, kind of like a new homepage. Also for add blocking you have to set up a profile. This is a process that got me totally lost. It would be better if it just had a series of "click heres" to set up the default settings.

Interesting also my options at the bottom of this page I am on now doesn't have a box notifiication when a post is added to this thread. In other words it changed the shoptalk reply page.

Ron

Search and destroy is not the answer. Adware 6.0 is the answer. This was the last version that was free and can be found here http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10045 ... tag=button This is the real deal this morning found 40 while s&d found 10.

Travis, I just downloaded adware. After running spybot and finding 10 items to remove, I then ran adware and found 164! Qiestion though, how to I quarrentine them? A windo comes up where I must enter the file name. I do not want to type in 164 file names and deal with them individually. How do you do it? Spybot has the destroy button.

Thanks
Ron

The free software scares me - I use SpySweeper by Webroot. If you want to read a (long) article on computer security click here http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,12 ... X1BTT00586 .

Btw, with SpySweeper, I only have to check off the boxes next to the found spyware and then click delete to remove them all.

Replying from Firebird 0.7. I updated just for you! (well, I wanted to update anyway)
The command was urpmi firebird -a, using Mandrakes urpmi tool.
(get/install everything called "partially" firebird is a rough translation)

You will have to login once on the front page using Firebird, it will ask if you want it to remember the username/password.

(Just as you will anytime you try a new browser, Firebird MIGHT have used mozillas info if it was set up right)

It will not use explorers data.

Just a note--Firebird is under very heavy development...
It still is very lightweight (if they turned of the debugging)

If you need stable, or want e-mail that is not outlook, etc, consider Mozilla, there is far more commerscial suport
(shockwave, quicktime, realplayer plugins... They may work in Firebird, but you may have to manually install.

I think all this computor talk has hijacked the hijack thread.

Ron

Wasn't that the point? ;-)

Its good info, i need to get smarter about this stuff to. I still use IE because i dont understand my options, think i better start doing my homework.

Anonymous wrote:Travis, I just downloaded adware. After running spybot and finding 10 items to remove, I then ran adware and found 164! Qiestion though, how to I quarrentine them? A windo comes up where I must enter the file name. I do not want to type in 164 file names and deal with them individually. How do you do it? Spybot has the destroy button.

Thanks
Ron

If you have run adaware and a list is displayed of found items, click in that screen with your right mouse button, choose select all and click the next button, it 'll ask you if you want to quarantine the selected files....

Hot Wheels wrote:Its good info, i need to get smarter about this stuff to. I still use IE because i dont understand my options, think i better start doing my homework.

Besides Mozilla / Firebird, another good option for WWW browsing is Opera. Firebird and Opera are two must installs for me whenever setting up a new computer. Opera is a commercial browser, but you can use the free version which has a unobtrusive banner.

Enjoy!

Tuna

I've updated the link on the aircooledtechnology.com web site. If you find any other human mistakes on the site, feel free to contact me directly.

Tuna

tuna wrote: another good option for WWW browsing is Opera. Firebird and Opera are two must installs for me whenever setting up a new computer. Opera is a commercial browser, but you can use the free version which has a unobtrusive banner.

I've been a fan of Opera since version 3 (which was many many moons ago); ditched IExploiter and used the free version for years. I bought version 6.0 when it came along. Opera7, though .. many features are tempting, but I *hate* the new mail client. If I upgrade to 7 I'm gonna have to dust off Eudora for my email handling.

Tristessa wrote:.... but I *hate* the new mail client. If I upgrade to 7 I'm gonna have to dust off Eudora for my email handling.

If you haven't already, you might want to check the Mozilla project's email client, called Thunderbird. It's got a lot of amazing features, including adaptive spam filtering, multiple accounts, and it will not propogate viruses and worms (Java and Javascript disabled by default).

Tuna

Don't want to be flamed by you guys.. but all this spyware can be avoided by going with a Mac. http://www.apple.com/imac is the simple solution.

No viruses known to exist on Apple's New OS X built on a Unix BSD core.
My business is run by these machines and they are rock solid and no email virus ever has bothered my mac.. or any spyware. It just does what its supposed to do with all the software available for anything I want.

See the Wall Stree Journal.

October 23, 2003

If You're Getting Tired Of Fighting Viruses, Consider a New Mac
http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20031023.html

for consumers and small businesses, there's a simple way out of this endless morass: Buy an Apple Macintosh computer. There are no viruses on the Macintosh's excellent two-year-old operating system, called OS X. And the Mac is a terrific computer -- as good as, or better than, Windows for the typical computing tasks important to mainstream users.