Hello HolyGeek,
>:)) tonight is the eve of the hebrew new year. so, shana tova! ("happy
>new year!"). may all the denizens of all the worlds be happy, healthy
>and content!
>
>wholeheartedly
>
>yosy
Happy New Year Yosy
> I'm feeling a bit suspicious of Spyware Doctor.. You can download a 'free'
> scan... It finds immediately many spy dingies.. some of which it describes as
> dangerous.. gives you the creeps .. makes your hair stand on end...many more than
> either ad-aware or spybot found when I checked a few minutes later... BUT... it
> doesn't remove them unless you buy ... and it costs 40 euros which is a lot of
> moola.. very convincing I almost bought it and I might yet, but I want to hear what
> some of you may have to say about it.. what keeps a company from running a scam
> instead of a scan??? Lobster, are you there??
>
> Love, sam
I am here
>Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm feeling a bit suspicious of Spyware Doctor.. You can download a 'free' scan... It
>finds immediately many spy dingies.. some of which it describes as dangerous.. gives
>you the creeps .. makes your hair stand on end...many more than either ad-aware or
>spybot found when I checked a few minutes later... BUT... it doesn't remove them
>unless you buy ...
>
>
>
>There is a totally free version you can download that DOES remove things it detects.
>Can you check on the download site for a version other than the one you tried.
>
>I downloaded the free one and have been using it this week and it has successfully
>removed everything i told it to remove. Many of the things that it reports as needing
>removal are merely cookies, but some of what it has found are actual programs and the
>odious add-on toolbars that some programs affix to Internet Explorer.
>
>On one computer, i upgraded installed ICQ this week - the version available was ICQ
>4. After downloading, i realized that it added an ICQ hotbar to the IE browser on
>that computer. I don't like it when programs plant themselves as toolbars on my
>browser. I uninstalled ICQ4 from that computer and will not be using the product.
>
>Whatever you decide, good luck.
>
>love and peace,
>joyce
I agree with Joyce.
On the whole (especially with security) a computer software seller is trying to make
you insecure to sell you security.
Freeware stuff is trying to make you be and feel secure . . .
Unless you engage in 100% full time security planning (no time for much else)
you need to be realistic
Basically most people do not have a firewall (zone alarm or sygate)
some are beginning to realise they need a virus checker (AVG, antivir or avast).
Most spyware is just trying to get your browsing
details to send you spam
People after getting credit card details go for unprotected easy targets ( - there is
enough of them)
So install a firewall and a virus checker and adaware and spybot
AND do NOT use IE and outlook (which are the usual targets) if you can avoid them
You have then done as much as is reasonable
So take it easy . . .
(unless you enjoy the cloak and dagger stuff)
You do your best and that is that.
If you are unsure of anything ask here
or somewhere you trust
and check out and add to
Open Source
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Open_Source
I find pricelessware has the best software for most common things
majorgeeks is good for security
what is a good Linux site?
anyone for open source and/or freeware?
a linux distro to watch yoper is number 18 in popularity and climbing . . .
http://www.linuxforums.org/news/article-24256.html
>Subject: converting from WP51
>
>Hi friends,
>
>I have some old documents on my computer that I wrote when I was still
>on a very old pre-internet machine that only ran WP51.
>I do not have WP51 on this computer, but these documents have been moved
>to the files of my old vectra and then the files of my old vectra were
>moved to my new vectra.
>I've been trying to convert them into OpenOffice files, but no succes so
>far.
>I can only open them in a somewhat readable form in wordpad, but with a
>lot of little square blocks at the beginning and not all the letters
>look right.
this may seem a strange solution but see if you can import into abiword
and output in open office if all else fails - it must have a better solution though ..
.
========== and here is the geek news ================
For the most part, speech recognition technology has been lousy. Well, with this fact
in mind, a group of universities are working on a chip designed to allow speech
reconigition to be more accessbile. The chip will be totally dedicated to the task of
speech recognition.
According to this news release from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), the National
Science Foundation awarded a $1 million grant to a team of CMU and researchers at the
University of California at Berkeley to develop a silicon chip for automatic speech
recognition. In fact, speech recognition will move from software to hardware. The goal
of the engineers is to develop "a radically new and efficient silicon chip
architecture that only does speech recognition, but does this 100 to 1,000 times more
efficiently than a conventional computer." Even if the future chips will be integrated
in cell phones or PDAs, the real goal is to help security and emergency organizations.
These chips should be ready in three years.
===== about time says this cructacean ===============
Tired of using a mouse to control your PC? Perhaps there is another option for when
your arm starts to ache: your nose. A novel PC control system lets users nudge a
cursor around the screen with gentle movements of their nose. Blinking the left or
right eye twice takes the place of left or right mouse clicks.
======= excellent news
The inventor, Dmitry Gorodnichy of the Institute of Information Technology in Ottawa,
Canada, calls his nose-steered mouse a "nouse". In addition to giving people a change
from the keyboard and mouse, he hopes it will make using a PC easier for people who
have a disability.
======= nouse is a scouse (Northern England) word for knowledge . . .
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