Please Read: Anti-Parasite Feature

[hoppy39000]

ohh and just to clarify the other techs were upper level and dev techs from MS itself

[MarkG]

hoppy, thanks for the info

i think the best would be to contact and@doxdesk.com so that the page that we link to (http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/Xupiter.html) is updated accordingly

thanks again

[hoppy39000]

mark i just emailed the address you gave me above with slightly more detailed explination, and copies of my above posts...if you want or need followup email me at jpmuzyka@attbi.com or jpmuzyka@bellsouth.net glad to help anytime

jon

[Locutus]

Excellent feature, Markos

Of course, my PC was clean, but I'm on my parent's PC right now and it turns out it has like 8 or 9 of those parasites

I'm preparing a lecture on Internet security for my parents as I'm writing (and will download AdAware or something similar)

[Scouse Gits]

Fortunately - I'm clean, another AdAware + ZoneAlarm user - the big problem is the kids' machines, they don't have the sophistication to realise that temptation generaly has a cost - my stepson's machine is a total nightmare - I am tempted to re-format and start over, but then he would lose some stuff that has actual value ;(

SG[1]

[Zopperoni]

Originally posted by Scouse Gits
I am tempted to re-format and start over, but then he would lose some stuff that has actual value ;(

If you have a home network and some free diskspace on your own computer, you could transfer those "valuable" data on your own computer before formatting.
Otherwise, you could make a partition on your son's computer and put all the data there.

[Panag]

hi ,

, its intresting to place your files on a cdrw or dvdrw , ..... there are even double sided dvd's and cd's on the market , ......

this serves a couple of things ; you allways have a copy , so if you travel its intresting , if your comp goes to comp heaven you still have a copy , if you want to do a reformat you can do so without losing time , ..... etc , ....

have a nice day & seasonal greetings

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Zopperoni

Otherwise, you could make a partition on your son's computer and put all the data there.

I didn't think that you could create a new partition without removing the old one and hence losing the data anyway.

[Zopperoni]

With Partition Magic you can.

[Wittlich]

Zopper, you are just full of little tid-bits of information, aren't you? Just keep these little tid-bits flowing!

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Zopperoni
With Partition Magic you can.

Ah......I looked at one of the early versions of this but didn't like it. I am old-fashioned......I still use fdisk.

[alva]

Fdisk

Originally posted by DrSpike


Ah......I looked at one of the early versions of this but didn't like it. I am old-fashioned......I still use fdisk.

hmm, and we all know what the f stands for

[Zopperoni]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Ah......I looked at one of the early versions of this but didn't like it. I am old-fashioned......I still use fdisk.

I've used PM 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0, and so far I've been content with it.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Scouse Gits
Fortunately - I'm clean, another AdAware + ZoneAlarm user - the big problem is the kids' machines, they don't have the sophistication to realise that temptation generaly has a cost - my stepson's machine is a total nightmare - I am tempted to re-format and start over, but then he would lose some stuff that has actual value ;(

SG[1]

Just make SG3 muck the stables a little more.

[DeepO]

Originally posted by Zopperoni
I've used PM 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0, and so far I've been content with it.

Call me outfashioned, but I'm still using version 4 (fits on a system disk, runs from DOS 6.22)... wonderful program, paid itself many times over.

I wonder, is there a risk that non-IE users get infected with this spyware business as well? I don't have extra toolbars on my screen, and am using Netscape 7. I know the home page won't reveal whether I'm infected... and was wondering whether I need adaware as well.

DeepO