martymas

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  1. hi team ive had a hard drive given to me.that had been wiped which i didnt know of . when i tried it in my sys.it says it cant detect any drive. ive changed the plastic pin around ,but get the same message. does this mean i need to use a floppy to get that data back on the hdd. i intend to use it as a slave. if i need to use a floppy what floppy win 98se ,me or xp thanks marty
  2. hi barb ive used it for several years . do you have the alert button on your tool button . unfortunately it dosent intercept viruses in or out but if you get one it is one of the few scanners that cleans without having to use safe mode. it dosent take up any space until you use it. some thing i notice it detected a potential highjack on my address bar. which i removed with microsoft anti spyware. can remember it doing that in the past. marty
  3. hi team this is a low risk warning . tho still important marty As of February 16, 2005, 05:31 PM (GMT - 08:00, Pacific Standard Time) TrendLabs has declared a Medium Risk Virus Alert to control the spread of WORM_MYDOOM.BB. Trendlabs received numerous infection reports indicating that this malware is spreading in Singapore and U.S. This worm was previously detected as WORM_MYDOOM.M. It has very similar characteristics as with WORM_MYDOOM.M. However, this new MYDOOM worm comes compressed with MEW compression tool, whereas WORM_MYDOOM.M is compressed using UPX. Like earlier MYDOOM variants, th
  4. thanks bar . yes mine is 32 bit . i have a link to download 64 bit . but being on 56k dial up. it will take hours. tho the download requires to burn it to a cd. i can also order it from microsoft. so ime chewing over it. thanks again for your link marty
  5. hi team how do i tell what version of xppro do i have .bit 32 or bit 64 is there a scan engine i can access to tell me this. thanks marty
  6. thanks very much CurlingSteve. got it appreciate that. thanks again marty
  7. hi team worpad has gone from sight. ive used the search option but only shows 3 files do i need to reinstall it if so how. ive searched microsoft support but found nothing at the moment . but i will keep searching i posted here because some one may have a better idea. thanks marty
  8. well team i apprecaite the amswers i got from some of the most experienced on the board. on my 40geg i dont worry about restore points tho clean it every so often. but as i said in my original post, the compt i experiment with, only has a 4plus hdd and so i need to watch the space.but will take daves advice and set it lower set it lower . the reason i posted initially was the 4geg was freezing every now and then. i thought the restore points may have been the reason. was why i posted . normally if im in doubt i post here. and as you can see i got the advice from some of the best in the field.
  9. hi team here is another alert marty (by TrendLabs Global Antivirus and Research Center) ********************************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Friday February 11, 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To read an HTML version of this newsletter, go to: http://trendnewsletter.rsc03.net/servlet/c...pgLlQgLlQgFV2VR Issue Preview: 1. Trend Micro Updates - Pattern File & Scan Engine Updates 2. Locked Up – SYMBOS_LOCKNUT.A (Low Risk) 3. Top 10 Most Prevalen
  10. hi team. im posting this to see if any one has taken notice of thr amount of space . you save by cleaning out the restore points regular. and its some thing i dont do. until i notice.the space i use is getting down. i have this 4.9 geg unit i play round with. learning how to utilise the components and software.and i notice my gegs was getting down . so went to disk clean up. and when it came to. delete restore points.there was nearly 2gegs of restore points cleaned up. as im a fan of restore my compt . i didnt mind as long as it is done regular. and not like i did wait until it was nearl
  11. i just read where 13 14 15 16 year olds are the biggst users of this srevice. i watched a program on discovery . they now write in code and the younger users pick up the code quicker than others . they other downside was the reporter was comminicating with a user. who thought it was a 18 year old girl. but when they confronted the offender it was a 35 year old man. so there are plenty of diversty in this sort of relationship no only joking. the program. stated there are .i million online relationships around the world . a day. thats quite a big number . or is it. ive never had one so i cant
  12. hi thanks murtu52 i will probably stick to out look express. but ive often been tempted to ask. how ever one never knows. thanks again marty
  13. hi team. ive seen this bandied about mainly this board . what is gmail. i feel embarressed. as it has been posted enough. can some one explain what use is it and how does it operate. marty
  14. hi shadow i love those quotea hope you dont mind if i send them on to a friend marty
  15. sorry bout that . see what that article has done to me. getting back to cows. my first job after stopped going to school was milking cows . at first it was by hand .seven of us but once the industry became automated . we became redudant . i was a bit sad at the time.i love any thig to do with. being a cowboy. however time marches on . we had one breed of cows.ayashire . i dont think that breed is around now . they keep modifing. the breed. more milk and better class of bi products marty
  16. hi yes i think the item was hightlighting the shortage of feed at this time of the year and they had to revert to .mariwana. so it nust be legal to grow it in that country. by the way i found that country is in eastern europe not sure why i thought of africa as soon as i read it. the thc is the amount of gigle substance in the plant marty
  17. i havent seen a post from him since he and i had a run in over pete_c. he pmed me saying he was a fan of leo. and if i was to defend pete.get my facts straight. but my post at the time had nothing to do with pete or leo . it was the company beaming techtv c.f.h to me that was grizzling. because they lost the feed when comcast over. at the time when the thread was raging at g4. it was mentioned it was in a certain persons hands to release certain rights to the program.other wise the company i deal with would be able to. to get the feed back again. there were several letters on this board about
  18. hi team just read this on news text in liechtenstien. [not sure where that is] farmers were feeding the cattle on hemp. and it was getting into the milk.. so the goverment clamped down on the amount of t.h.c levels.in the milk and instructed the farmers to stop feeding at a certain level. who ever thought of milk giving you the giggles. wouldn that be an ideal pot factory. my we live and learn . any posters want to buy a cow. marty
  19. does win98se have access to.services . if it does go the and enable dns. to the left of the appli is options click restart. not sure about win98se marty
  20. those emails i dont get with OE. and i havent had them for several years . some how my email address has been. commandeered by some one once i installed firefox. and i need to find a way to stop it. as im not experienced with fire fox i need your advice. the last time i got a porn email.was . when i first started posting to techtv c.f.h and chappy showed me how to combat that. since then i have three emails addresses . which i leave on the server.and one which comes to my inbox . and very few people know that one. so ive taken as many precautions as i know of it may be because im not famili
  21. hi team . recently i installed firefox. having read on this board where it is a safe browser. now its on .im now getting . porn emails from a yahoo address . i thought firefox was protected from this.. im not a fan of porn . so im at a loss as to how my email address got into these hands . can some one give me any ideas i thought only IE got this sort of stuff . the peole here who advocate firefox . can you explain.i went to the fire fox site .to try and find the reason i got this stuff but i cant find any reference to it . so it gets uninstalled . im a bit brassed off . at these dirty mi
  22. hey scotty beam me away from this old age b----t hahaha marty
  23. yo TK. i like those tweaks handy stuff. thanks marty
  24. i havent recieved one of these for some time so im not sure if it has been posted or not take care marty Dear Trend Micro customer, As of February 2, 2005, 6:55 PM (GMT - 08:00), TrendLabs has declared a Medium Risk Virus Alert to control the spread of WORM_BROPIA.F. TrendLabs has received numerous infection reports indicating that this malware is spreading in the Bolivia, U.S., Korea, Taiwan, Mexico, and China. This is a memory-resident worm that drops a copy of itself in the root folder using different interesting file names with a PIF extension. It atte
  25. press here ho team ive found the answer. now, im not sure bout uninstalling directx . after reading all the info. i find it is of no use in win98se unless you are a gamer. and i need this OS for an animation appli. lm --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- hi team is it possable to uninstall directx from win98se. ive been to the microsoft support and it says directx is embedded. i remember at techtv c.f.h. i uninstalled it because i was getting errors . any ideas