12 Apr 11, 9:49 AM
simply_saffy
UK(HX), 19 mths
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LadyAliana wrote:
Check your facebook for this .
ATTENTION! While on FB, look at your URL address (the very top box on your screen.) If u see "http:" instead of "https:" then u DO NOT have a secure session & can be HACKED. Go to Account - Account Settings - Account Security - click Change. Check box (secure browsing), click Save. FB has automatically set it on the non-secure setting...!
I passed this onto my friends and all of them had to change this setting . Since doing it though it has blocked the crap i had started to get ,
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Thanks for that...just changed my settings ~smiles~ |
12 Apr 11, 9:56 AM
x_Thunder_x
UK(E), 9 yrs
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I think you should change the heading of this thread - it has nothing to do with Fetlife - it was a rogue Avast update
See http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=75978.0
and this is Avast's apology for the cock up by them https://blog.avast.com/2011/04/11/false-positive... ^Thunder^
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Edited 12 Apr 11, 10:00 AM by x_Thunder_x
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12 Apr 11, 10:02 AM
x_Thunder_x
UK(E), 9 yrs
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Reminds Admin that https links don't show as links on IC meaning they have to be copied and pasted  ^Thunder^
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12 Apr 11, 10:06 AM
Ariane
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Random_Dan wrote:
I'd suggest moving on to using Microsoft security essentials and removing Avast, but that's a bit drastic.
I'd imagine in the next Avast update things will get fixed.
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I couldn't get Avast to install on my computer, and ended up with Microsoft Security Essentials. It immediately emoves a rootkit that even MalwareBytes had been unable to shift, although it had detected it.
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12 Apr 11, 1:07 PM
Amazonian
UK(M), 2 yrs
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wonderer wrote:
Why do Microsoft get away with producing computers which are so vulnerable? Only because they've got a near monopoly. If any other maker of domestic appliances had such faulty equipment they'd have to fix it, or go out of business (and in the meantime be in breach of consumer protection laws; e.g. UK Sale of Goods Act).
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I concur....which is exactly why i binned them!!
You can agree with me, or you can be wrong 
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12 Apr 11, 1:10 PM
SirOpenSource
UK(E), 6 yrs
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Ariane wrote:
Random_Dan wrote:
I'd suggest moving on to using Microsoft security essentials and removing Avast, but that's a bit drastic.
I'd imagine in the next Avast update things will get fixed.
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I couldn't get Avast to install on my computer, and ended up with Microsoft Security Essentials. It immediately emoves a rootkit that even MalwareBytes had been unable to shift, although it had detected it.
I've stuck with MSE ever since and it works.
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Of course that rootkit could also be a false positive if malwarebytes didn't spot it. Commodo security suite takes some beating for a free one. I used it on a Windows O/S for years with no problems.
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12 Apr 11, 1:18 PM
Amazonian
UK(M), 2 yrs
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WDTrading wrote:
wonderer wrote:
Why do Microsoft get away with producing computers which are so vulnerable? Only because they've got a near monopoly. If any other maker of domestic appliances had such faulty equipment they'd have to fix it, or go out of business (and in the meantime be in breach of consumer protection laws; e.g. UK Sale of Goods Act).
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you can't install and run programs / play games / watch youtube / view ic etc on your washing machine
there are so many combinations of hardware and software that producing an out of the box solution that users of all experiences etc can use very easily is somewhere in the realms of impossible.
apple produce their own hardware and write the software for it and they basically tell you what you can do with your mac
slight difference
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Too funny, typical microsoft sheep... and wrong to boot! What in reality happens is microsoft give you admin 'rights' and put it under the 'ease of use' umbrella, which in lamens terms equates to 'do what you want with your pc, we don't give a feck about our customers, you go right ahead and make 'baddies' and send them to all and sundry via our weaknesses and we'll give you updates/patches for our product when we feel like it/months after your pc has fecked up' whereas apple don't give you the same 'privilege' to prevent 'baddies' being made/sent thus resulting in no need for virus protection etc in the first place! Prevention is better than cure every day of the week!
NB: This is not a pro Apple 'rant' i use neither Apple or Microsoft.
SirOpenSource wrote:
WDTrading wrote:
wonderer wrote:
Why do Microsoft get away with producing computers which are so vulnerable? Only because they've got a near monopoly. If any other maker of domestic appliances had such faulty equipment they'd have to fix it, or go out of business (and in the meantime be in breach of consumer protection laws; e.g. UK Sale of Goods Act).
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you can't install and run programs / play games / watch youtube / view ic etc on your washing machine
there are so many combinations of hardware and software that producing an out of the box solution that users of all experiences etc can use very easily is somewhere in the realms of impossible.
apple produce their own hardware and write the software for it and they basically tell you what you can do with your mac
slight difference
[/end of pro microsoft rant]
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[start of pro-linux rant]
Microshaft is a system that only remains predominant because of the difficulty of investing enough into development and marketing of a commercial O/S. It works yes but because as mentioned above there are a wide variety of hard/software combinations it ain't easy so system bloat and hacker vulnerability will always be present.
Linux on the other hand has the advantage of being open source and thus available 'free' to the end user. If you only have simple needs [ie websurfing/e-mail/the odd document I encourage you to pick up a dvd on a linux magazine at your local newsagent and try a 'live boot' [installed temporarily into RAM].If you don't like it, take it out and reboot, no damage done.
Linux is a much more secure environment for everyday use and you can even have both Linux & Windows on the same PC.
[End of linux rant]
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Yay, someone who 'gets it' and i concur re "Microshaft" hehe
You can agree with me, or you can be wrong
Edited 12 Apr 11, 1:26 PM by Amazonian
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12 Apr 11, 1:32 PM
Gentledom14
UK(CA), 6 yrs
  
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no matter what system you use, just learn how to back up and how to reinstall, have any sensitive/personal data encrypted with truecrypt, so if you get unlucky with a virus, its not the end of world. “Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
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12 Apr 11, 4:32 PM
x_Thunder_x
UK(E), 9 yrs
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Black0rchid wrote:
I've just joined Fetlife this morning.
I haven't a clue what I am doing, its all black, its not very user friendly and its just confirmed what I knew before I tried... I only like IC! 
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Give it a chance to get used to it. I now prefer it to IC ^Thunder^
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12 Apr 11, 4:43 PM
Godwin
UK, 8 yrs
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MissyG wrote:
FB has been sending out Trojans
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Yes it has indeed. My laptop was zonked last week whilst using FB. No end of issues and a £50 bill. All sorted now though.
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