NEMOC Random BS Thread
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You do? Can you assist me and getting rid of it?
Hey Mark, does this story sound familiar?
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/04/13/pkg.big.purple.garage.komo
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/04/13/pkg.big.purple.garage.komo
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- 2016 GT ST 47A
That sux x2. We got back just over 3k this year and my pc keeps prompting me to buy "Spyware Protect 2009" for USD$49.95 in order to clean it. Guy should be at the house tomorrow.
I just had to get rid of my sister's virus over the weekend, she had the AV360 virus. It wasnt that nasty but just annoying. It disables your antivirus and then tries to get you to purchase a new antivirus software (thats fake) for like 50 bucks. It doesnt allow you to go to any website that would allow you to remove viruses/spyware (like avg, spybot, adaware, etc.). If you don't get rid of just one of about 30 locations it plants itself in the registry and folders on the harddrive it reemerges.
My sisters computer is painfully slow as it is so it took about 3hours to get rid of it all. Took about 20minutes every restart because of all the s*** it puts on your computer and all the s*** my niece has downloaded and NEEDS to have startup when windows does.
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That describes my situation as well.
Greenblurr93
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And pay double for a Mac? no thanks... and im not about to try and get into linux..
Ubuntu is rather user friendly...
I highly suggest AVG free as an antivirus software. Also, swap from internet explorer to firefox w/ NoScript and AdBlock plugins. This will take care of a lot of your problems. If you aren't PC friendly then just do AdBlock.
There are a few other programs that will help, but you have to be decent with a PC. Hijack this is one that comes to mind.
There are a few other programs that will help, but you have to be decent with a PC. Hijack this is one that comes to mind.
Greenblurr93
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Never heard of it.. how compatible with most programs is it?? like adobe, flexisign, etc..?
Ubuntu (a Linux distribution) is user friendly if all you need to do is use the internet. If you want to control your iPod, or use MS Office then things get hairy real fast.
iTunes will not run so you're stuck using an open-source alternative. Some are OK but none are very reliable or intuitive.
There is a word processor but it doesn't save documents in the proper format so that someone with a real MS Office can read them...most of the issues are caused by different fonts but I found other formatting issues as well.
It goes with out saying that games will be hit or miss and I could never get Quicken to run smoothly. There is a windows emulator but it isn't very good. I ended up spending more time in a virtual machine running WinXP than I did on the actual Ubuntu desktop.
iTunes will not run so you're stuck using an open-source alternative. Some are OK but none are very reliable or intuitive.
There is a word processor but it doesn't save documents in the proper format so that someone with a real MS Office can read them...most of the issues are caused by different fonts but I found other formatting issues as well.
It goes with out saying that games will be hit or miss and I could never get Quicken to run smoothly. There is a windows emulator but it isn't very good. I ended up spending more time in a virtual machine running WinXP than I did on the actual Ubuntu desktop.
Greenblurr93
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Good point. I guess I was still in the mind set that 95% of people just use a computer for internet purposes.
My company just switched everyone from McAffy to AVG. Now I get crash messages once a day and Internet Explorer occasionally fails to reach the internet and I have to kill all the AVG services manually to get it working again. Needless to say, I am not impressed.
For porn!
Greenblurr93
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Yeah, sounds like it wouldnt be good for me since i need to run quickbooks, adobe, flexisign and other large programs for my business...
I just did that, but not for that reason
Yeah I have used Ubuntu before as well, but if you are okay with just using the internet and word processing (Open Office has a linux distribution, also anyone else looking for free Microsoft Office compatible software check out openoffice.org)
Its fun to mess around learn Linux but like you said i just returned to Windows to do my real work.
Dual-Boot the OS's if you can (have an unused partition with atleast 6gb on it). So you can return to Windows easily without worrying about losing anything.
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That's a fallacy. The days of Macs being virus free are over.
