wow... I think the highest my Ad-Aware's ever gotten is 100~ and that wasafter I had installed it for the first time to try and get it running faster...
<!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> lol some kid down the hall has the university record.
Gonna retry adaware, didn't work on my new comp last time I tried it. It's humming away right now, I should mention I don't use this comp to browse for PRON.
Marik_SteeleTo rule in hell...Join Date: 2002-11-20Member: 9466Members
<!--QuoteBegin--coil+Sep 19 2003, 02:55 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (coil @ Sep 19 2003, 02:55 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--Cereal_KillR+Sep 19 2003, 03:37 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cereal_KillR @ Sep 19 2003, 03:37 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I don't even want to know if you tried to look at defrag. It's been five years they had that computer <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Defrag's on the schedule on Monday. Pray for me. [...] <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Defrag on that computer sheduled for Monday? From the sounds of it you must mean Monday afternoon, Tuesday, and the majority of Wednesday morning.
As for the CD tray not opening: on POST, do you hear it spin at all or see the light blink once or more? If not, it may be something as simple to fix as plugging in the power for it or making sure the IDE cable hasn't been put in backwards. The power seems more likely if the 10-year old boy says it stopped working all of a sudden -- ask if they've moved it around sometime in the past 5 years.
And I heavily suggest using the Hosts file or recommending 3rd party software to the parents so that you can suppress the boy's access to those offensive sites. If both parents are employed I can understand them being clueless as to what the kids are up to at home, but the least they can do is invest $30-40 in trying to make up for the fact.
MonkfishSonic-boom-inducing buttcheeks of terrifying speed!Join Date: 2003-06-03Member: 16972Members
ye have it all wrong , try to load your pc , wait a bit , get impatient , punch the side of your pc as hard as you can , hurt your knuckles , dint your pc and it starts making funny noises ...THATS how you fix it <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
Coil, I live in Florida. If you think people like that are uncommon, then you need to come down to the computer illiteracy capitol of the world my friend.
I've seen it all, from my aunts Dell that was loaded down with so much crap at FIRST bootup that I winced. To my friend's computer which is running the non-lite version of Kazaa, in addition to 30 or so spyware or plugins that I could clearly see running.
Im not talking about lowly 3 or 4 year old rigs running this stuff, these folks buy $900-1000 rigs for doing cycle demanding things like looking up song lyrics and downloading mp3s (on their non-anonymous, sharing enabled version of kazaa).
I've been thinking of perhaps emailing my friends and telling them to get ad-aware, but I realize it would be extremly easy for them to delete something like FastTrack (which is needed to run Kazaa) and then blame me for breaking something.
Its gotten to the point where I have to hold myself back from just asking them to let me work on their computer for a few hours, out of sympathy for the poor machine.
You know, it really sucks being a computer guy sometimes. First of all, no one ever calls you just to say hi. Second, hardly anybody you deal with will know anything, but a good chunk of them think they do. Worst of all is that they hardly ever take your advice. I like to leave a copy of adaware, spybotd, and the MS registry cleaner in a folder called "Monthly" on the desktop, with a link to defrag in there too. But I have yet to have a repeat visit where anybody actually ran those things monthly. No matter, it just means another $25 an hour (+ the drive == $25) for me to go to their house and run 3 programs (don't run defrag, since it takes to f'ing long). Worst yet is that no matter how many times you warn them not to install certain things (Kazza, RealOne Player, ect.) they do it anyway. Oh well, more money for me I guess. Oh yeah, and if they keep using outlook and IE after I've installed Mozilla, then my rate is double. *sigh* I guess what I'm trying to say is, I fell your pain coil, good luck.
Oh yeah, and anybody whoever needs to recommend a dialup ISP, I highly recommend HighStream.net (If it is available), never used an ISP before that will set up an account over the phone and have it work instantly. Best part is that they're cheap!
<!--QuoteBegin--Majin+Sep 19 2003, 12:02 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Majin @ Sep 19 2003, 12:02 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> adaware just about told my friend to burn his computer. It found 1200 files and 15 folders! 15 f-in folders!
I told him to take his computer and burn it.. NOW! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> thats fargen insane, my record was 8xx 12 folders on a computer a customer brought in. It was a win98 machine it would not start in anything other than safe mode, I realized there was a massive problem when I ran a virus scan and it took over 4 hours to check 28x,xxx files. Seems this 98 machine was creating a blank file every single time it booted or shut down, it was a glitch microsoft admited to, it took a good 15 minutes to delete the files because the naming convention was all numbers.
LOL this lady also had EVERY single password and PIN number (with account numbers) in a text file on her DESKTOP called..... wait for it..... PASSWORDS
I didnt tell her anything, just charged her $150 for the repairs and sent her on her way (cloned HD in the office, we clone most HDs just in case we nuke em by mistake)
She must have been related to the people you did work for Coil
Ive got AOL running with a Linksys router.(my dad's an idiot and says he will lose alot of bussiness if he changes his email) But i dont know how to hook it up on a mac comp. I cant even turn on a damn mac computer, the ones at my school are macs and whenever i want to turn it on i keep slamming my hands on the keyboard and it eventually turns on.
I feel for you. As much as I love PC's, I don't think I could stand getting into a tech support job. I'd end up whipping people with old AT keyboard cables.
I tell you what though, it's funny to run adaware on a friend's PC to fix some popups only to find tracking cookies from various sex sites. rofl
You need a drivers license to drive a car because you might hurt people if you don't know how to drive, including your self.
Why don't we have a 'computer license' so that people will have to learn how to not put important pin numbers to bank accounts on their desktop, how not to open emails with exutable file types in attached(like .scr, .exe etc)? It would be for their safety and/or privacy and for others(these are the people who somehow get sobig, ILoveYou virus or msblaster and congest the internet with junk mail and other traffic every time a new big virus or worm is out <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->, I mean, please do apply security updates from MS every once in a while because theres allways virii and worms exploiting them a few weeks after they are discovered if they are just to severe to pass up.
A while back outlook express had a bug that allowed attachments to be automatically opened, don't even have to do it manually, now that's what I call convinience <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->. I guess all you can blame those people using outlook express for is for using outlook express <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->.
Ah and Coil I'm sure we all want 'adventures in coil land' episode 2 on monday...
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> You need a drivers license to drive a car because you might hurt people if you don't know how to drive, including your self.
Why don't we have a 'computer license' so that people will have to learn how to not put important pin numbers to bank accounts on their desktop, how not to open emails with exutable file types in attached(like .scr, .exe etc)? It would be for their safety and/or privacy and for others(these are the people who somehow get sobig, ILoveYou virus or msblaster and congest the internet with junk mail and other traffic every time a new big virus or worm is out , I mean, please do apply security updates from MS every once in a while because theres allways virii and worms exploiting them a few weeks after they are discovered if they are just to severe to pass up.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Somebody brought that up a while ago.. lemme see if I can find the link...
here: <a href='http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19991127/wr/tech_web_1.html' target='_blank'>http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19991127/w...tech_web_1.html</a> and another here: <a href='http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=528&ncid=528&e=3&u=/ap/20030911/ap_on_hi_te/digitally_informed' target='_blank'>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...itally_informed</a>
The only problem I see with the idea is that, unlike driving, no one usually dies from improper computer use (though sometimes I think they should....). And also the variety of platforms would mean either a single test for each platform, or a general test that covers them all. Or one that just covers important bits like "Don't do stupid ****".
it was pretty bad <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
AllUrHiveRblong2usBy Your Powers Combined...Join Date: 2002-12-20Member: 11244Members
Eeep. That story sounds like my own experiences tech supporting my sister on her secondhand(it was mine, and that makes me sad that I used to game on that hunka junk) HP Pavilion. At least we're not trying to run WinXP on it. After she DLed and used Kazaa for a while (and just from running around the net willy-nilly) she also got 30 and summat from adaware. And the CD-R drive on her's opened, it just didn't read CDs (but yet it still burned them, at a blazing 4x!) and if you've ever taken an HP apart for anything you know that even for something as simple as replaceing a drive is at least a 15 minute project (If you're lucky).
I have had my new computer up and running for 3 days and when I used ad-aware yesterday, it had already found 21 things! not to mention the Viruses that keep getting past my firewall and Norton is stopping.
I got my first computer when I think I was five, and I learn alot. Now I'm where I am today. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> i 'got' my first comp before i learned to write... by 'got' i mean i forced my dad to let me play games on it, i had to sit on his lap because i couldnt reach the keys... <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->
I got my first computer when I think I was five, and I learn alot. Now I'm where I am today. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> i 'got' my first comp before i learned to write... by 'got' i mean i forced my dad to let me play games on it, i had to sit on his lap because i couldnt reach the keys... <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> nub, I could run DOS (or whatever OS there was 15 years ago) when I was 2
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It found 1200 files and 15 folders!
15 f-in folders!
I told him to take his computer and burn it.. NOW!
wow... I think the highest my Ad-Aware's ever gotten is 100~ and that wasafter I had installed it for the first time to try and get it running faster...
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lol some kid down the hall has the university record.
357 spyware, addwares on his PC
152 objects so far... FFS!
Done, 172 objects, mostly gator and IGetNet.
Anyway, that's horrid. Seriously. Can't they afford a good computer for their kids if they're on high speed cable? Sheesh.
Scan status so far:
Running processes: 36
Objects recognized: 64
Objects ignored: 0
------------------------------------
Processes identified: 0
Registry keys identified: 3
Registry values identified: 1
Files identified: 60
Folder identified 0
Defrag's on the schedule on Monday. Pray for me.
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Defrag on that computer sheduled for Monday? From the sounds of it you must mean Monday afternoon, Tuesday, and the majority of Wednesday morning.
As for the CD tray not opening: on POST, do you hear it spin at all or see the light blink once or more? If not, it may be something as simple to fix as plugging in the power for it or making sure the IDE cable hasn't been put in backwards. The power seems more likely if the 10-year old boy says it stopped working all of a sudden -- ask if they've moved it around sometime in the past 5 years.
And I heavily suggest using the Hosts file or recommending 3rd party software to the parents so that you can suppress the boy's access to those offensive sites. If both parents are employed I can understand them being clueless as to what the kids are up to at home, but the least they can do is invest $30-40 in trying to make up for the fact.
Press button, wait 1 second (no more, no less), pound on the top of the case. It should come right out.
I'm not kidding, this worked for me.
I've seen it all, from my aunts Dell that was loaded down with so much crap at FIRST bootup that I winced. To my friend's computer which is running the non-lite version of Kazaa, in addition to 30 or so spyware or plugins that I could clearly see running.
Im not talking about lowly 3 or 4 year old rigs running this stuff, these folks buy $900-1000 rigs for doing cycle demanding things like looking up song lyrics and downloading mp3s (on their non-anonymous, sharing enabled version of kazaa).
I've been thinking of perhaps emailing my friends and telling them to get ad-aware, but I realize it would be extremly easy for them to delete something like FastTrack (which is needed to run Kazaa) and then blame me for breaking something.
Its gotten to the point where I have to hold myself back from just asking them to let me work on their computer for a few hours, out of sympathy for the poor machine.
Oh yeah, and anybody whoever needs to recommend a dialup ISP, I highly recommend HighStream.net (If it is available), never used an ISP before that will set up an account over the phone and have it work instantly. Best part is that they're cheap!
It found 1200 files and 15 folders!
15 f-in folders!
I told him to take his computer and burn it.. NOW! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
thats fargen insane, my record was 8xx 12 folders on a computer a customer brought in. It was a win98 machine it would not start in anything other than safe mode, I realized there was a massive problem when I ran a virus scan and it took over 4 hours to check 28x,xxx files. Seems this 98 machine was creating a blank file every single time it booted or shut down, it was a glitch microsoft admited to, it took a good 15 minutes to delete the files because the naming convention was all numbers.
LOL this lady also had EVERY single password and PIN number (with account numbers) in a text file on her DESKTOP called..... wait for it..... PASSWORDS
I didnt tell her anything, just charged her $150 for the repairs and sent her on her way (cloned HD in the office, we clone most HDs just in case we nuke em by mistake)
She must have been related to the people you did work for Coil
A neighbor wanted me to set them up with AOL.
She didn't have a modem.
Ow. Thankfully, I just tolder her to go to Best Buy and get a modem and more ram installed :-)
I tell you what though, it's funny to run adaware on a friend's PC to fix some popups only to find tracking cookies from various sex sites. rofl
Why don't we have a 'computer license' so that people will have to learn how to not put important pin numbers to bank accounts on their desktop, how not to open emails with exutable file types in attached(like .scr, .exe etc)? It would be for their safety and/or privacy and for others(these are the people who somehow get sobig, ILoveYou virus or msblaster and congest the internet with junk mail and other traffic every time a new big virus or worm is out <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->, I mean, please do apply security updates from MS every once in a while because theres allways virii and worms exploiting them a few weeks after they are discovered if they are just to severe to pass up.
A while back outlook express had a bug that allowed attachments to be automatically opened, don't even have to do it manually, now that's what I call convinience <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->. I guess all you can blame those people using outlook express for is for using outlook express <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->.
Ah and Coil I'm sure we all want 'adventures in coil land' episode 2 on monday...
Why don't we have a 'computer license' so that people will have to learn how to not put important pin numbers to bank accounts on their desktop, how not to open emails with exutable file types in attached(like .scr, .exe etc)? It would be for their safety and/or privacy and for others(these are the people who somehow get sobig, ILoveYou virus or msblaster and congest the internet with junk mail and other traffic every time a new big virus or worm is out , I mean, please do apply security updates from MS every once in a while because theres allways virii and worms exploiting them a few weeks after they are discovered if they are just to severe to pass up.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Somebody brought that up a while ago.. lemme see if I can find the link...
here: <a href='http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19991127/wr/tech_web_1.html' target='_blank'>http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19991127/w...tech_web_1.html</a>
and another here: <a href='http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=528&ncid=528&e=3&u=/ap/20030911/ap_on_hi_te/digitally_informed' target='_blank'>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...itally_informed</a>
The only problem I see with the idea is that, unlike driving, no one usually dies from improper computer use (though sometimes I think they should....). And also the variety of platforms would mean either a single test for each platform, or a general test that covers them all. Or one that just covers important bits like "Don't do stupid ****".
<img src='http://www.skinny.frac.dk/uploads/hmmmm.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
it was pretty bad <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
NO COIL! THEY GOT TO HIM! D:
100% True.
I got my first computer when I think I was five, and I learn alot. Now I'm where I am today.
and that was after using Spy Sweeper.
not to mention the Viruses that keep getting past my firewall and Norton is stopping.
100% True.
I got my first computer when I think I was five, and I learn alot. Now I'm where I am today. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
i 'got' my first comp before i learned to write...
by 'got' i mean i forced my dad to let me play games on it, i had to sit on his lap because i couldnt reach the keys...
<!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->
Oooh and I had one of those TIs that played Atari cartridges!! I used to play Facemaker for frikkin hours cuz I was so easily amused!
100% True.
I got my first computer when I think I was five, and I learn alot. Now I'm where I am today. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
i 'got' my first comp before i learned to write...
by 'got' i mean i forced my dad to let me play games on it, i had to sit on his lap because i couldnt reach the keys...
<!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
nub, I could run DOS (or whatever OS there was 15 years ago) when I was 2