PC help needed BADLY

[MattH]

I'm having the same probelm- constantly this afternoon. does it happen when you browse poly? Maybe it was the hackers . It

In XP, just drag the "Send/Don't Send" dialog box where you can't see it, and nothing will happen . It works!

[mark13]

Andy Man - thanks, should be sorted now. Huge thanks to Menlas

MattH - I had the same idea, didn't work on mine...

[The Andy-Man]

i trieed to ignore the send/don't send thing. didn't work either.


Don't thank me mark13, it was every one else that sorted it out

I have a feeling i may have got it off kazaa or something, though i dunno bout these things.

would love to know how it does get ont oyour pc, and how i put up proper firewalls for this sort of thing

[MattH]

It worked for a little while

Anyways, followed steps, problem solved.

Thanks a lot!

[Asher]

Those who have it crashing are all morons who do not know how to keep up on security updates.

Maybe now we've learned our lesson, huh?

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Asher
Those who have it crashing are all morons who do not know how to keep up on security updates.

Maybe now we've learned our lesson, huh?

And this ends another episode of Mr. Ego.

[Asher]

I posted a thread weeks ago telling everyone with affected Windows installations to patch.

Not to mention the people who are affected are particularly stupid for disabling auto-update or not installing "critical" updates once auto-update downloads them.

Duh.

Computers require maintenance, just like cars.

You don't keep up to date on patches, you get ****ed.
You don't ever change your oil, you get ****ed.

Why is this concept so foreign to so many people?

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Asher
I posted a thread weeks ago telling everyone with affected Windows installations to patch.

Not to mention the people who are affected are particularly stupid for disabling auto-update or not installing "critical" updates once auto-update downloads them.

Duh.

It's that time of the month that you have PMS, isn't it?

[geeslaka]

It's really too bad that people keep finding and exploiting the backdoors in windbloze. Perhaps micosoft should stop making them.

[Asher]

The affected RPC code is from BSD.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Asher
I posted a thread weeks ago telling everyone with affected Windows installations to patch.

Not to mention the people who are affected are particularly stupid for disabling auto-update or not installing "critical" updates once auto-update downloads them.

Duh.

Computers require maintenance, just like cars.

You don't keep up to date on patches, you get ****ed.
You don't ever change your oil, you get ****ed.

Why is this concept so foreign to so many people?

Not foreign to me -- I keep auto-update feature running.

[MattH]

Ah-ha. I have the alibi of the first class nature. I was on le vacation a week ago, a good rest for the little grey cells, mon ami.

[The Andy-Man]

I would have all this auto-update and security stuff on, but i don't know what they are or how to switch em on

I am useless with PC's

[MrFun]

If you have XP, it should be one of the small icons in the lower right corner of the bottom toolbar.

[Japher]

Yeah, and it pops up all the time (updates!)

I generally follow all the updates, but I haven't done so since I got back from vacation 3 weeks ago... and I am having the same problem as Andy-man, on my computer at home...