You thought spam was bad?
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I installed a DivX player this morning to watch a bit of missed Futurama. Two hours later I wanted to get some info on SQL, so i typed www.microsoft.com/sql into the URL and clicked enter. A second later up popped this! A bloody GAIN (related to Gator ware) pop-up application advert. Advertising Oracle nog all. So this thing must be monitoring everything I type into IE, waiting to match keywords. That is just annoying to the extreme. Thank the lord for Ad-Aware.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaChristopher Duncan wrote: Which explains why when Santa asked, "And what do you want for Christmas, little boy?" I said, "A life." (Accesories sold separately)
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I installed a DivX player this morning to watch a bit of missed Futurama. Two hours later I wanted to get some info on SQL, so i typed www.microsoft.com/sql into the URL and clicked enter. A second later up popped this! A bloody GAIN (related to Gator ware) pop-up application advert. Advertising Oracle nog all. So this thing must be monitoring everything I type into IE, waiting to match keywords. That is just annoying to the extreme. Thank the lord for Ad-Aware.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaChristopher Duncan wrote: Which explains why when Santa asked, "And what do you want for Christmas, little boy?" I said, "A life." (Accesories sold separately)
Yeah, all hail adaware :) (Incidentially, I did see one bit of crapware attached to an app that would automatically un-install adaware for you! Surely doing stuff like that is somewhat illegal) -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
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I installed a DivX player this morning to watch a bit of missed Futurama. Two hours later I wanted to get some info on SQL, so i typed www.microsoft.com/sql into the URL and clicked enter. A second later up popped this! A bloody GAIN (related to Gator ware) pop-up application advert. Advertising Oracle nog all. So this thing must be monitoring everything I type into IE, waiting to match keywords. That is just annoying to the extreme. Thank the lord for Ad-Aware.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaChristopher Duncan wrote: Which explains why when Santa asked, "And what do you want for Christmas, little boy?" I said, "A life." (Accesories sold separately)
Paul Watson wrote: Thank the lord for Ad-Aware. the following is from the adaware site Ad-aware is a free multi spyware removal utility that scans your memory, registry and hard drives for known spyware and scumware components and lets you remove them safely scumware :) - I like their phrasing
Technically speaking the dictionary would define Visual Basic users as programmers.
But here again, a very generalized, liberal definition is being employed and it's wrong
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Paul Watson wrote: Thank the lord for Ad-Aware. the following is from the adaware site Ad-aware is a free multi spyware removal utility that scans your memory, registry and hard drives for known spyware and scumware components and lets you remove them safely scumware :) - I like their phrasing
Technically speaking the dictionary would define Visual Basic users as programmers.
But here again, a very generalized, liberal definition is being employed and it's wrong
- just plain wrong - Tom Archer 5/12/02Other 4 letter words, far nastier than scum often spring to mind -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
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I installed a DivX player this morning to watch a bit of missed Futurama. Two hours later I wanted to get some info on SQL, so i typed www.microsoft.com/sql into the URL and clicked enter. A second later up popped this! A bloody GAIN (related to Gator ware) pop-up application advert. Advertising Oracle nog all. So this thing must be monitoring everything I type into IE, waiting to match keywords. That is just annoying to the extreme. Thank the lord for Ad-Aware.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaChristopher Duncan wrote: Which explains why when Santa asked, "And what do you want for Christmas, little boy?" I said, "A life." (Accesories sold separately)
Yeah, I'm not terribly impressed with the way MSN 5 keeps bringing up adds to purchase Christmas presents online since the upgrade to it either. :(
I knew it would end badly when I first met Chris in a Canberra alleyway and he said 'try some - it won't hurt you'..... - Christian Graus on Code Project outages Damned nice for remote servers where using Enterprise Manager is like wadding through treacle while covered in velcro, upside down -Paul Watson on SQL Server Query Analyser
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Yeah, I'm not terribly impressed with the way MSN 5 keeps bringing up adds to purchase Christmas presents online since the upgrade to it either. :(
I knew it would end badly when I first met Chris in a Canberra alleyway and he said 'try some - it won't hurt you'..... - Christian Graus on Code Project outages Damned nice for remote servers where using Enterprise Manager is like wadding through treacle while covered in velcro, upside down -Paul Watson on SQL Server Query Analyser
I've said it before, and I'll say it again - get Trillian - it's free (at least the free version is free ;P) and doesn't contain any adverts whatsoever, unlike the "real" clients it replaces And Trillian Pro is nice too :) Anyway... I'm off home now :beer::jig: -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
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I installed a DivX player this morning to watch a bit of missed Futurama. Two hours later I wanted to get some info on SQL, so i typed www.microsoft.com/sql into the URL and clicked enter. A second later up popped this! A bloody GAIN (related to Gator ware) pop-up application advert. Advertising Oracle nog all. So this thing must be monitoring everything I type into IE, waiting to match keywords. That is just annoying to the extreme. Thank the lord for Ad-Aware.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaChristopher Duncan wrote: Which explains why when Santa asked, "And what do you want for Christmas, little boy?" I said, "A life." (Accesories sold separately)
Talk about Gator... DAMN FUCKING spyware I say!!!! I never thought it could do something, but it could! After awhile there was a damn calendar app in my systray!! and later there was a... hm.. don't remember but it was an unwanted app! It could install apps that I didn't want. I couldn't uninstall it (surprising?) so I marked all files that belonged to Gator and pressed Del.. then I made a reboot and voila! All my apps in the Program dir was gone! When I had started moving importent files to my dads computer I finally found a dir named NULL. Opened it and saw all my programs in there!! Thank someone I got them back! Rickard Andersson@Suza Computing C# and C++ programmer from SWEDEN! UIN: 50302279 E-Mail: nikado@pc.nu Speciality: I love C#, ASP.NET and C++!
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Talk about Gator... DAMN FUCKING spyware I say!!!! I never thought it could do something, but it could! After awhile there was a damn calendar app in my systray!! and later there was a... hm.. don't remember but it was an unwanted app! It could install apps that I didn't want. I couldn't uninstall it (surprising?) so I marked all files that belonged to Gator and pressed Del.. then I made a reboot and voila! All my apps in the Program dir was gone! When I had started moving importent files to my dads computer I finally found a dir named NULL. Opened it and saw all my programs in there!! Thank someone I got them back! Rickard Andersson@Suza Computing C# and C++ programmer from SWEDEN! UIN: 50302279 E-Mail: nikado@pc.nu Speciality: I love C#, ASP.NET and C++!
Rickard Andersson wrote: Thank someone I got them back! Anyone in particular? you know, just in case I run into them... :rolleyes:;) BW "I'm coming with you! I got you fired, it's the least I can do. Well, the least I could do is absolutely nothing, but I'll go you one better and come along!" - Homer J. Simpson
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again - get Trillian - it's free (at least the free version is free ;P) and doesn't contain any adverts whatsoever, unlike the "real" clients it replaces And Trillian Pro is nice too :) Anyway... I'm off home now :beer::jig: -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
Yeah, I do like Trillian. The only thing is, I like having instant notifications when mail arrives in my hotmail inbox too. Decisions, decisions... :rolleyes: BTW - are you going to leave poor Jig chasing that beer eternally, or will you allow him to catch it and enjoy the weekend at some point? :)
I knew it would end badly when I first met Chris in a Canberra alleyway and he said 'try some - it won't hurt you'..... - Christian Graus on Code Project outages Damned nice for remote servers where using Enterprise Manager is like wadding through treacle while covered in velcro, upside down -Paul Watson on SQL Server Query Analyser
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Yeah, I do like Trillian. The only thing is, I like having instant notifications when mail arrives in my hotmail inbox too. Decisions, decisions... :rolleyes: BTW - are you going to leave poor Jig chasing that beer eternally, or will you allow him to catch it and enjoy the weekend at some point? :)
I knew it would end badly when I first met Chris in a Canberra alleyway and he said 'try some - it won't hurt you'..... - Christian Graus on Code Project outages Damned nice for remote servers where using Enterprise Manager is like wadding through treacle while covered in velcro, upside down -Paul Watson on SQL Server Query Analyser
Trillian pro does mail notifications (and can do it for any pop3 mail account too) -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
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Yeah, I'm not terribly impressed with the way MSN 5 keeps bringing up adds to purchase Christmas presents online since the upgrade to it either. :(
I knew it would end badly when I first met Chris in a Canberra alleyway and he said 'try some - it won't hurt you'..... - Christian Graus on Code Project outages Damned nice for remote servers where using Enterprise Manager is like wadding through treacle while covered in velcro, upside down -Paul Watson on SQL Server Query Analyser
turn it off then :) I did Tools/Options/General :)
Technically speaking the dictionary would define Visual Basic users as programmers.
But here again, a very generalized, liberal definition is being employed and it's wrong
- just plain wrong - Tom Archer 5/12/02 -
turn it off then :) I did Tools/Options/General :)
Technically speaking the dictionary would define Visual Basic users as programmers.
But here again, a very generalized, liberal definition is being employed and it's wrong
- just plain wrong - Tom Archer 5/12/02I see no options there to turn off advertising? :~ Unless you mean the "Show MSN Today when Messenger signs in " option, which I have unchecked.
I knew it would end badly when I first met Chris in a Canberra alleyway and he said 'try some - it won't hurt you'..... - Christian Graus on Code Project outages Damned nice for remote servers where using Enterprise Manager is like wadding through treacle while covered in velcro, upside down -Paul Watson on SQL Server Query Analyser
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Rickard Andersson wrote: Thank someone I got them back! Anyone in particular? you know, just in case I run into them... :rolleyes:;) BW "I'm coming with you! I got you fired, it's the least I can do. Well, the least I could do is absolutely nothing, but I'll go you one better and come along!" - Homer J. Simpson
brianwelsch wrote: Anyone in particular? No, I just change the statement "Thank God..." to "Thank someone..." because I feel it to be silly to thank someone I don't beleive... :~ Rickard Andersson@Suza Computing C# and C++ programmer from SWEDEN! UIN: 50302279 E-Mail: nikado@pc.nu Speciality: I love C#, ASP.NET and C++!
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brianwelsch wrote: Anyone in particular? No, I just change the statement "Thank God..." to "Thank someone..." because I feel it to be silly to thank someone I don't beleive... :~ Rickard Andersson@Suza Computing C# and C++ programmer from SWEDEN! UIN: 50302279 E-Mail: nikado@pc.nu Speciality: I love C#, ASP.NET and C++!
Rickard Andersson wrote: because I feel it to be silly to thank someone I don't beleive... "Thank a chaotic sequence of uncontrolled but interrelated events and forces that happened to produce results which pleased me entirely as a side-effect that i got them back..." ;)
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Shog9 This is my December These are my snow covered dreams This is me pretending This is all I need...
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I installed a DivX player this morning to watch a bit of missed Futurama. Two hours later I wanted to get some info on SQL, so i typed www.microsoft.com/sql into the URL and clicked enter. A second later up popped this! A bloody GAIN (related to Gator ware) pop-up application advert. Advertising Oracle nog all. So this thing must be monitoring everything I type into IE, waiting to match keywords. That is just annoying to the extreme. Thank the lord for Ad-Aware.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaChristopher Duncan wrote: Which explains why when Santa asked, "And what do you want for Christmas, little boy?" I said, "A life." (Accesories sold separately)
Paul Watson wrote: A bloody GAIN (related to Gator ware) pop-up application advert. HAHAH, you dont need to install DivX Pro for viewing normal version works fine. The adware is part of licensing cost to use the B-Frame & MPEG4 encoding abilties. Using AD aware will render your divx useless sooner or later (yes I have tried that too), so if you dont need encoding (with adv features) stick to normal DivX. Else, you can kill the cme.sys (or something like that) and gain_trickler3201.exe via task manager. :) DBHelper - SQL Stored Procedure Wrapper & Typed DataSet Generator for .NET
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Rickard Andersson wrote: because I feel it to be silly to thank someone I don't beleive... "Thank a chaotic sequence of uncontrolled but interrelated events and forces that happened to produce results which pleased me entirely as a side-effect that i got them back..." ;)
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Shog9 This is my December These are my snow covered dreams This is me pretending This is all I need...
My personal favorite substitute has to be "VUN," for "Vast Universe of Nothingness." It's one syllable, so it fits in with all those nice phrases... :cool:
-Domenic Denicola- [CPUA 0x1337] “I was born human. But this was an accident of fate—a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change…”
