Re: [CGUYS] Speaking of Comcast

2008-09-27 Thread Jim
Just ran across an article on macfixit.com which addresses a trojan horse which seems to display similar, but not exact, symptoms to those in Chrpersons post. On Sep 27, 2008, at 1:20 PM, db wrote: If she has a trojan on board which is filesharing videos etc around the clock, the 250 GB

Re: [CGUYS] Speaking of Comcast

2008-09-27 Thread Jim
AOL software has for me been problematic on low speed connections. When forced to use dial-up I use AOL Connect, http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/internet_utilities/aolconnect.html This loads only a slimmed down version of AOL software that still lets you access the internet and use non

Re: [CGUYS] Speaking of Comcast

2008-09-27 Thread Jim
She might try LittleSnitch, http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html This can be set to ask her permission for any possible application that tries to connect to the internet. It pops up an alert each time internet access is attempted. After months of similar issues with Comcast I s

[CGUYS] Mathematica [was: Zune]

2008-09-27 Thread b_s-wilk
When my son was at UMd, he used whatever computer was available. He had a Mac iLamp of his own and bought his own copy of Mathematica for OS X. In the lab at his job in the sub-sub-sub-basement of the Physics Dept, and for class labs, I think he used both Unix and Windows computers. He didn't m

Re: [CGUYS] Anti Virus Suite Recommendation

2008-09-27 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
For another source of protection switch your DNS server to opendns for filtering on phishing websites. I use the paid version of AVG at home and like that. I used Blink from eeye but that kept requiring retraining after system crashes- it does have a free month trial and protects you from virus

Re: [CGUYS] Zune [was: iTunes 8 causing BSOD]

2008-09-27 Thread David K Watson
The OS is not entirely irrelevant for Mathematica, either. Mathematica is a little slower and somewhat more unstable on Windows than it is for OS X and other Unix or Linux OSs. This mostly shows up when doing highly memory-intensive operations. Also, while it is true that a self-contained Mathe

Re: [CGUYS] Speaking of Comcast

2008-09-27 Thread mike
Have her ping several websites...i would say at least fifty pings. Check for packet loss. Not sure how to do this under your version of OS X...I'm sure someone on the list can tell you if you need the info. Or google would be able to help you out. Mike On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 8:07 AM, [EMAIL PRO

[CGUYS] Rv: junk filter problem with Thunderbird

2008-09-27 Thread b_s-wilk
I'm using Thunderbird 2.0.0.17. For the most part it functions well however when it comes to the junk filter, not so good. It keeps putting legitimate email (some from important clients) in the junk mail folder. No matter how many times I mark it as "not junk" and making sure their email address i

Re: [CGUYS] Speaking of Comcast

2008-09-27 Thread db
If she has a trojan on board which is filesharing videos etc around the clock, the 250 GB limit could be an issue... db [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I probably should have asked this weeks ago since Comcast has been a topic of discussion. I help a friend with Computer issues. (iMac / checkbook,

Re: [CGUYS] Downloading photos from Samsung mobile phone, Windows

2008-09-27 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Unless you are dealing with a smartphone you usually need special software to act as a bridge between the phone software and the OS of your computer. If you are saving your pictures onto a memory card, take the card out of the phone and using a card reader get the photos off of the card that w

[CGUYS] Downloading photos from Samsung mobile phone, Windows

2008-09-27 Thread John Emmerling
Hi, I tried for the first time to transfer photos from my Samsung GLYDE. I installed the USB driver, but did not install the VCast Music Manager. After rebooting and connecting the phone, I can see the Samsung USB USB Driver and the Samsung Mobile Modem in the device manager (I found a posting o

[CGUYS] Speaking of Comcast

2008-09-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I probably should have asked this weeks ago since Comcast has been a topic of discussion. I help a friend with Computer issues. (iMac / checkbook, etc. She's a good friend.) She accesses the internet using Comcast, her browser is Safari, and she uses AOL for e-mail access. Last year, afte