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Quote " I went on a Christian music forum"

Sure you did

Steve,

Well...if you want a safe place to listen to Christian-pop music....there's a station from Des Plaines, Ill. called 106.7 FM - The Fish. It serves the Chicago metropolitan area.

Check it out at http://www.1067thefish.com

I'm not into religious-themed music....but this one has a cute & catchy jingle that I really dug (i'm into radio station jingles).



Disclaimer: I don't work for The Fish or its parent company Salem Communications!


[This message has been edited by SvenNYC (edited 03-17-2004).]

ayrton, I'm sorry, I didn't understand your comment on the "Christian Music Forum". Thanks Steve

Panda Platinum Internet Security will stop 98% of malware and spyware which are the new threats. I believe everyone is pretty much overcome the attachment vulnerabilities.
http://www.pandasoftware.com/home/default.asp

If you are interested in an operating system that will allow zero penetrations of any kind whatsoever, and never needs updating then I suggest Bodacion Technologies "Hydra" System. It requires no updates or much IT support, to speak of. It's impenetrable. This would be an operating system that you would offer a customer with the base system starting at around $17,000.
http://www.bodacion.com/products.html
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-pdp10/2003/04/15/0000.html

I do not work or represent either of these companies.

I do use their products though.

I'll 2nd spybot. Great program. Can't beat the price. It also seems to work. Beware of pop-ups that say your PC is infected, download this. Once you download that your PC is infected.

It is a shame that some can make a living by filling every PC possable up with garbage. Once your infected you PC opens some pages and they make a few cents.

Tom

Dare I say it.... Hackers didn't do all that. Legitimate porn pushers did most off it. They write HTML tags that pull up other sites. They love doing that soo much that pay each other to do it. Hackers just found a way to take advantage of it, by linking them all together. You end up with endless pop-up porn ads. A small amount of stuff on one page, or most likely an e-mail can take you off to some server somewhere to download the rest of programs that do all types of damage and mis-direction. Hackers or so they're called like to see this as a form of protest of the vunaralbilities of the internet. Personally I think its funny, not cool, but funny in comparision to REAL damage. Odds are if you clear all of your "cookies" and "temperary internet files" you'll be fine. At worst, an anti-virus program will clear it out for you.

The things I absolutely detest though, are for profit, outright illegal scams. Not spam, SCAMS! The funny ones are when I get an e-mail from "Administrator", of my own website. Not funny ones, like e-mails from "Banks", claiming they need information like SSN, pin #'s, User ID's etc. You get an e-mail that says your statement is ready to veiw, "Click here" and it sends you to a site that looks and feels like your bank, even checks your balance for you. (With your log in info they can do that) Now they have your log in info, they can start sending money around deep space. YOUR MONEY! I haven't been hit by one, but I catch these type of things in the deleted files all of the time. Anti-virus gets most, but I still see them.

To add to the above wisdom, one way to substantially reduce your exposure to spyware is to switch Firefox for your browser.
A fair bit of the spyware out there uses ActiveX as the infection path, and Firefox does not automatically run ActiveX scripts the way that IE does.
Before I made the switch to Firefox, a 2-weekly scan with Adaware would usually turn up 15-20 items for removal. Post-firefox it seems rare for it to find anything at all except for lists of last-opened files and the like.

Mark, 'detest' is a mild way to describe these people. I transfer/convert money from the UK to France, (£s to euros), when I need it, and when the exchange rate is to my advantage. I have to do it by fax, as e-mails are not secure. In fact my bank's computer system won't open attachments, even if the clerk wanted to. Thus the rigmarole every month or so of typing up a request, printing a copy, plugging in the fax, (because I can't run it and the answerphone together), faxing the bank and not being sure of getting the best rate due to the delays of a mechanical transaction. All just so some jerk can have a bit of 'fun' or earn a couple of cents selling crap. It's about time governments started legislating against these b*s and putting them in jail and confiscating their assets.
Alan

Month ago, maybe over a year. computer running real slow, connecting to internet automatically, bookmarks showing up to sites I've never seen. And lots and lots of porn emails every day. some days nearly a hundred.

Downloaded and ran Ad Aware 6. Found spyware and removed it.

Then I went to Tools-->internet options--> security--> custom--> and set "run active x controls" to "no". So nobody can run programs on my computer to install this stuff.


That fixed it but means I get annoying prompts all the time warning me about active x controls trying to run.

So I found the solution...I downloaded firefox as my web browser for free and don't use internet explorer anymore. All better now.

I am running Aol 9 Security with the bundled McAfee security suite.
I think my machine ran better with the spyware and viruses.