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MSN viruses

Frank — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:46:51 +0000

I am getting a virus sent through pictures. And it also makes me log off occasionally (which is WICKED annoying)

does anyone know how to solve this problem? I am not sure if it is the same as charlene's and i'm not gonna risk it.

Thankz

How to make Vista faster in three steps

Martin — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:11:10 +0000

It _is_ a tip, just not the one you expected! You should know that I get my kicks from luring innocent users (and squirrels - particularly the ones on fire) onto my website where I earn huge amounts of money with Google ads that aren't there. Also, I love to just "tail -f" my web server's access log and then just sit there and look at them. It's almost as much fun as writing ironic blog entries.

How to make Vista faster in three steps

squirrelonfire — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:36:49 +0000

This is not a tip, and you probably wrote this to get your blog to be on top of google search result

ASUS NX1101 跟Vista六十四bit不能用

Martin Rubli — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:39:51 +0000

Since I happen to know what problem you're talking about: The "features" in question are neither advertised nor supported, so that hardly compares to the problem I described here. But hey, if this is how you deal with your frustration then I'm happy you found an outlet for it on my personal blog. :-)

ASUS NX1101 跟Vista六十四bit不能用

guest — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:18:07 +0000

Now you can feel the pain I feel when trying to use some features in Logitech webcam drivers that simply don't work because they do not seem to have even been tested after they were coded and re-coded after several attempts to fix bugs.

MSN viruses

Sue — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:21:19 +0000

recently i have had a friend pop online..send a web link and pop offline..he wasnt even home..this a new virus?

Windows Messenger sucks

TY — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:25:22 +0000

Windows Messenger is a JOKE, don't you see how crappy that small piece of shit is?

The most basic computer skill

Dan S. — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:53:35 +0000

You are right on so many levels!

MSN viruses

Laura — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:19:12 +0000

Hello there,
The other day a friend of mine signed on, gave me a link and signed off. I clicked the link and it came up with this magic millions website. I thought nothing of it and then closed the window. Then my friend told me that she had recived the same link from me later that week! How can I get rid of this?

xxx :]

Windows Vista (Part 4: Explorer)

Joseph — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:09:49 +0000

I do not know what to say about Vista. I just give up on it. It is really painful to work on it. when you are busy typing the cursor jumps around as it pleases and you end up typing things that don't make sense while your time is being wasted with this jumping around cause you always have to go back to find and rectify what was messed up. I hope Microsoft will giveup on it or compensate us for the loss in buying Vista.

Windows Vista (Part 4: Explorer)

Yonah — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:57:36 +0000

There must be more to it. I've never had explorer crash. I've had it hang sometimes when trying to read from a bad CD/DVD, or I've had a DLLhost crash when thumbnails for video files are created, but I've yet to have a single Explorer crash. Are you sure there isn't something else hooked to explorer that shouldn't be? Some oddball shell extension? At least for me, I've not had a problem on either my desktop or laptop, both of which have run vista since August.

Windows Vista (Part 4: Explorer)

Ed — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:44:22 +0000

to me, vista explorer is irritating to me because of the automatic classification of media files. I don't want that I hate that because I want to know the file sizes and not how populair the media is with myself.

Vista explorer: two thumbs down

Windows Vista (Part 4: Explorer)

morentin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:37:42 +0000

hello i have a problem with my vista and i don't know how fix it, always that i want to save a file and the default folder is "documents" the explorer crash or if i open a file and is in "docuements" folder it crash too, for example if i'm in word and save a file it stop working but i can save in wordpad and if a open a existing file i can save the change but not "save as" like a new one, do you thing that i need to reinstal mi vista?

Getting WebDAV to work in Windows Vista

Martin Rubli — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:10:32 +0000

I had that too the other day but rebooting solved it for me. Vista has a lo-o-ot of issues with network shares and drive letters.

On the other hand, I could never get anything mounted with the net use syntax on XP. If I knew of a good stand-alone WebDAV application I would use it. *sigh*

Getting WebDAV to work in Windows Vista

Mark Figueredo — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:39:05 +0000

I am still getting an error when the webdav works perfect on win xp

C:\Windows\system32>net use * "http://myserver.com/"
System error 67 has occurred.
The network name cannot be found.

MSN viruses

Martin Rubli — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 07:46:02 +0000

Charlene,

I don't know how they eventually solved the problem, but one guy sent around this link. The site currently seems down but you can find it in Google's cache. Don't know if the instructions are very helpful, but at least you should be able to get some info on how to delete the virus files.

On a side note: From my personal experience (and from reading test reports) Norton AntiVirus has a horrible success rate, especially with recent viruses. You might be better off with some other product. They all have quirks but BitDefender gave me the best impression so far.

MSN viruses

Charlene — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 04:08:20 +0000

My husband and I just got the same "Sup, seen the pictures from the other night?" message. I'm on Trillian so I never got a file transfer request, but my husband got it on MSN and downloaded/opened the folder.

Was wondering if you know how the problem was solved for your co-workers. We have Norton and we're running multiple virus scans but nothing seems to be showing up.