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Offline mikhael

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Reply #20 on: May 12, 2004, 11:12:28 am
They generally will if you lie to the website and say you're using IE.
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Reply #21 on: May 12, 2004, 11:22:10 am
The RIAA (Ripoff Industry of American Assholes) has "stepped up their tactics", says I.  Better empty your shared folder.

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Reply #22 on: May 12, 2004, 04:30:03 pm
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They generally will if you lie to the website and say you're using IE.


Actually, you'd be amazed at the number of sites that use proprietary IE "HTML" for their most basic navigational functions. And the thing that gets me the most is when I can't figure out how an apparent "button" is actually supposed to do anything by viewing the source code.
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Reply #23 on: May 12, 2004, 05:15:50 pm
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Stop using IE - that's how 99.9% of the spyware and viruses sneak through.


Or, even better -- browse under Linux - practically NO spyware can get through to you there
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Reply #24 on: May 12, 2004, 06:13:18 pm
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Webroot's SpySweeper and PopUpWasher are good.


Wow... SpySweeper works like a charm!! thanks for pointing this out.:)
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Reply #25 on: May 12, 2004, 07:34:00 pm
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Actually, you'd be amazed at the number of sites that use proprietary IE "HTML" for their most basic navigational functions. And the thing that gets me the most is when I can't figure out how an apparent "button" is actually supposed to do anything by viewing the source code.


You're right: I would be amazed. I haven't seen any in a very, very long time. Could you point me to some I might use? ;)

I admit, I tend to browse sites that are very specifically agnostic and/or standards compliant, so I must miss these sites to which you refer.
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Reply #26 on: May 12, 2004, 10:08:39 pm
that SpySweeper program is amazing.  thanks to whoever recommended it :yes: :yes:
 

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Reply #27 on: May 13, 2004, 01:22:07 am
So it's fixed?
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Reply #28 on: May 13, 2004, 05:02:51 am
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You're right: I would be amazed. I haven't seen any in a very, very long time. Could you point me to some I might use? ;)

I admit, I tend to browse sites that are very specifically agnostic and/or standards compliant, so I must miss these sites to which you refer.


Usually I run across them at work, you know the kind... the boss says to go to this site, see if what they offer businesses/websites is something we can use, and if so, implement it. The site then turns out to be a horrid maze of nested tables, font tags, and other assorted IE-friendly paraphenalia.
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Reply #29 on: May 13, 2004, 11:52:23 am
Back off the nested tables and font tags man...

:D

I used to use those alot, until I found that CSS and DIVs made my life REALLY easy.
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Reply #30 on: May 23, 2004, 06:27:14 pm
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So it's fixed?


actually, no.  last night i double-clicked a MP3, and a siren went off... and kept going off till i rebooted :p :cool:

i'm out of ideas ;)
 

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Reply #31 on: May 23, 2004, 07:11:31 pm
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yeah.

my computer's sound card's putting out a looped, continuous police siren.  i can't think of any programs that are making it do that, since only Kazaa, AIM, and McAfee are open..

Actually I had the same thing happening at the office last week...

you might wanna go look for a new vid card...:( it is coming apart...
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Reply #32 on: May 23, 2004, 07:57:02 pm
Your computer knows what you do at night.

BTW: Spybot rocks.
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Reply #33 on: May 24, 2004, 12:10:31 am
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you might wanna go look for a new vid card...:( it is coming apart...


would the video card make that wailing sound?!  :lol: :p

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Reply #34 on: May 24, 2004, 12:33:42 am
your computer is randomly making a siren noise? :wtf: Can you record it and post it here? That's the first time I have ever heard of anything like that.

I would use Mozilla instead of IE but I can't get it to work with any flash or shockwave material, which rules out quite a few sites these days.

For the adware and spyware, the Adaware/Spybot combination seems to work well and has gotten everything for me so far.
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Reply #35 on: May 24, 2004, 10:16:58 am
Is it a smooth siren noise, or more like those old DOS games?
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Reply #36 on: May 24, 2004, 11:32:54 am
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actually, no.  last night i double-clicked a MP3, and a siren went off... and kept going off till i rebooted :p :cool:

i'm out of ideas ;)



Whoa, this is the wierdest problem I have ever seen. Does it do this only when you do certain things or just randomly? Did you install or download anything lately? Some viruses do piggyback on video files.
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Reply #37 on: May 24, 2004, 12:25:12 pm
As I said, dunno exactly what was wrong with the video card, but after replacing it the siren stopped...I could get it to stop by mucking with the display settings and changing the card's sync rate and/or resolution, but it only stayed quiet a couple of minutes and then it started again, and it is indeed much like a continuous two-tone siren, produced  by the on-board bleeper of your mobo...yet the display didn't look as if the card was about to give in...does your card have an onboard fan? maybe it's kaput and the GPU is overheating?

ah...did a quick search...was indeed the fan on the GPU...and the siren is your mobo's overheating alarm, so it can also be that your CPU fan is on the fritz, check the hardware monitor page of your BIOS to see if the temp for mobo or CPU isn't running too hot...
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Reply #38 on: May 24, 2004, 01:00:00 pm
no it's definately not my computer overheating, because the displays show it's running just over 100 degrees farenheit.

next time it goes on i'll record it...
 

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Reply #39 on: May 24, 2004, 04:38:49 pm
Could be a fan jammed.
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