The Vent and Rant Thread

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by bjones6416

It rained today, and the leaves are falling, but our autumn has been kind of extended this year. First the sugar maples turned that glorious yellow-peach color a few weeks ago, then their leaves fell. In the past few days the dogwood trees have all turned red, and the hickory trees yellow. This is looking down my mom's street this afternoon:

I think we're about on the same latitude, so our weather is almost the same. That street looks like here. Has that 'rainy November' look to it...


Stitchawl

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

I don't run security software at all, yes even on Windows machines. UAC on Windows 7 really helps a lot. . Also, any suspect downloads I would try on a virtual machine first. If it gets infected going back to a snapshot is a 5 second thing.

BOb

What? NO VIRUS SCANNER? Are you Serious?

Or are you talking about login security?

[EowynCarter]

I don't have an anti-virus either
All you need is a firewall, and be carefull. Don't downlod crap, beware of usb stick used in an "unsafe" computer all that.
And keep windows (or iOs or Linux) up to date

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by EowynCarter

I don't have an anti-virus either
All you need is a firewall, and be carefull. Don't downlod crap, beware of usb stick used in an "unsafe" computer all that.
And keep windows (or iOs or Linux) up to date

Not really true. A firewall does not protect against malicious programs that are downloaded. (unless your definition of a firewall is different than mine).

Crap is not always easily definable.

[dsvick]

Originally Posted by nohmi2

Oh frabjous joy!!!

Actually, let me rephrase that @***### bl**dy virus'.

My lap top has somehow acquired a virus by the name of 'Security Tool' which I did not download, as I had heard about it a week ago on TV, but will it let me get into any program to kill it? Not bl**dy likely! It is all pervasive, so I'm venting on my desktop computer.

Went into Windows and there are nineteen pages of people trying to get rid of it.

Be afraid; be very, very afraid.

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

According to techjaws.com/how-to-remove-security-tool-virus/

If you have malwarebytes loaded, it will remove that particular virus.

I use it weekly......free, of course. Be sure to do an "update" each time you use it......

www.malwarebytes.org

I've run into that one here a few times and MalwareBytes doesn't always work with it. The one thing I've found that does is comboFix, I've not had it not work yet.

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by dsvick

Ouch, that hurts! That is one of the things I hate about home ownership, a the little things that go wrong that just seem to happen at the worst time.



I'll check these out later - hopefully all of the attention will cause some changes for the better!!

it was a looong hard day. I am now a certified welldigger's assistant. at least helping him knocked a lot of the labor off of the bill. we finished up at 9 last night. I looked like something the cat drug in, wet, covered in mud, scratched by blackberry vines and the holly tree, but I have a functioning well with more water pressure that I have had in years, and WATER!!!!

[EowynCarter]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Not really true. A firewall does not protect against malicious programs that are downloaded. (unless your definition of a firewall is different than mine).
.

Yeap, hence the "be carefull with what you are downloading".
avoid unknown software.
get software from editor's website, not somewhere else.
keep clear of warez / torrent and other.

[desertgrandma]

Originally Posted by dsvick

I've run into that one here a few times and MalwareBytes doesn't always work with it. The one thing I've found that does is comboFix, I've not had it not work yet.

Who/ what is sUBS?

bookmarked the site.

[bjones6416]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

it was a looong hard day. I am now a certified welldigger's assistant. at least helping him knocked a lot of the labor off of the bill. we finished up at 9 last night. I looked like something the cat drug in, wet, covered in mud, scratched by blackberry vines and the holly tree, but I have a functioning well with more water pressure that I have had in years, and WATER!!!!

And at least at the end of all that dirty work, you could have a nice long bath! Glad you got it fixed...

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by bjones6416

And at least at the end of all that dirty work, you could have a nice long bath! Glad you got it fixed...

I couldn't last night, had to go to bed dirty ;o( the system was still settling and flushing bleach. I get the bath this morning

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

it was a looong hard day. I am now a certified welldigger's assistant. at least helping him knocked a lot of the labor off of the bill. we finished up at 9 last night. I looked like something the cat drug in, wet, covered in mud, scratched by blackberry vines and the holly tree, but I have a functioning well with more water pressure that I have had in years, and WATER!!!!

Wonderful!

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by EowynCarter

Yeap, hence the "be carefull with what you are downloading".
avoid unknown software.
get software from editor's website, not somewhere else.
keep clear of warez / torrent and other.

True, but that doesn't preclude it happening and the best defense is to have a professional and up to date virus checker.

[BenG]

I use Norton 360. Last month I was searching for a book cover using Google Image Search. I found what looked like a decent image of the cover. When I clicked on the link the website tried to take over Firefox and install software on my computer. Thankfully, Norton blocked it and no harm done, but it shows you don't have to visit obviously shady websites or do illegal downloads to be at risk.

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

FireFox is ok in a pinch. I much prefer Chrome... for performance....

I don't. I have Firefox and Chrome installed here. Performance is roughly equivalent.

An advantage of Chrome is keeping each tab in a separate thread, which means that a problematic site doesn't drag down the whole browser. Firefox is moving in the direction, with a plugin container program to handle things like Adobe PDF viewing as a child process.

The fun part is if you add Chrome extensions. Each extension becomes a separate process. Add any number of extensions, and watch your Chrome memory requirements balloon. (Fire up Process Explorer, Install extensions in Chrome,and watch.)

Firefox addons become part of the main Firefox process, and don't have anywhere near the memory impact.

also, it syncs bookmarks cross platform (now that xmarks is gone that is mportant to me).

Xmarks isn't gone. As of last word, they were in discussions to be acquired by someone with deeper pockets, who would continue the free service and offer an optional payware premium service. See http://blog.xmarks.com/
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Dennis

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by kennyc

What? NO VIRUS SCANNER? Are you Serious?

Yes, totally serious. The only thing on it is the built in Windows Defender... which I think is basically anti-malware not anti-virus.

BOb