virus from photobucket!!!
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ah, right then!
Well, the laptop is my gf's from work, this happened on thursday night
, so rach took it to work on friday morning to get it fixed. But by by saturday night at about 8.00pm I'd had enough not being able to access the forum and general internet! So a quick trip to tesco and problem solved!!! 
P.S.
You sound like you know your way around a computer
I don't, but do know my way around Tesco's
Well, the laptop is my gf's from work, this happened on thursday night
, so rach took it to work on friday morning to get it fixed. But by by saturday night at about 8.00pm I'd had enough not being able to access the forum and general internet! So a quick trip to tesco and problem solved!!! P.S.
You sound like you know your way around a computer
I don't, but do know my way around Tesco's
Liverpool
Smokin said:mmm-five said:Should have got a Mac
(sorry, that seems to the stock response for computer problems these days).
Yep!!!!!!!!!
(although those internet buggies are becoming non-discriminatory. Careful out there, fellas)
The only problem I've had in 20 years of Mac use has been when I used to get sent MS Word files infected with a macro virus from Windows users.
It didn't infect the Mac side but it made the file read-only, which was cured by simply removing the macros and doing a 'save as'. I had lots of PC user friends sending me Word files to disinfect.
There are very few attacks that can be launched without a user putting in their password - and if they do that without checking what's asking for it then it's their own fault, not the Mac.
I was a bit worried when Apple announced they'd be using Intel chips as I thought this would make it easier, but 4 years later I've still not had a sniff, and my Mac is on at home & connected to the internet almost full time (so I can access it remotely) - although I do use a decent router/firewall and use obscure usernames & passwords (which I sometimes forget).
It's not the hardware that's a problem, but the operating system and the users using them. I have 2 Macs and both run both OSX (10.6.2 Snow Leopard) and Windows (XP and Windows 7) - OSX has no security software, Windows has 2 or 3 different security apps installed and updated. Neither of the Windows systems have ever reported any malware - although I do read what the installers say they're installing, so don't get any dodgy 'Yahoo, Google, MSN, toolbar' freebies that I don't want.
As it's unlikely you're going to change your laptop for a Mac, you'd do well to have a couple of anti virus softwares. I find this one good, and cheaper than when I bought it on the High St http://www.webroot.co.uk/En_GB/consumer-compare.html And you can download free versions here http://download.cnet.com/windows/
I get the feeling that people who like Zeds also like Macs. It must be the side of the brain we use... .
I have two Macs at the moment and the only virus I ever got was a bounce through my email (from a PC server). I also run Snow Leopard and now I can't print from Office apps on my Mac. ( I have a long running conversation going with Microsoft about it. ) I think I'll just buy a new copy of iWork and forget Office. :wink:
. I have two Macs at the moment and the only virus I ever got was a bounce through my email (from a PC server). I also run Snow Leopard and now I can't print from Office apps on my Mac. ( I have a long running conversation going with Microsoft about it. ) I think I'll just buy a new copy of iWork and forget Office. :wink:
WLH: Who is it by, Oracle or is it Oracle based. I see the logo at the bottom of the page?WLH said:mcbeee, consider download for free OpenOffice for Mac....
http://www.openoffice.org/
...and yes Itunes works great on the Mac...
I'm downloading it to have a look and see. Any tips ?
Sticks said:mmm-five said:Should have got a Mac
(sorry, that seems to the stock response for computer problems these days).
My only experience of Apple is iTunes. Is the rest better?
Most Apple software on the PC is pants as they're writing for a system that isn't their's and thus they don't quite know how it works - same with Microsoft Office on the Mac which is awful (and before anyone says it, OpenOffice is NOT an option if you use Office professionally). Office is definitely faster on Windows than it is on OSX (same hardware though) and I just use whichever version the client requires (I've got parallel installs of Office X/2000, 2003/2004 2007/2008).
The two pieces of anti-malware I run on the Windows partitions are AdAware (click the picture on the LEFT) and Avast - both free for the basic version, which is more than enough.
I use both sytems day-in and day-out, and have similar software loads on all 4 platforms (which can get VERY expensive for some of the Adobe/Quark stuff) - but I tend to have the latest versions on the fastest machine and transfer the older licence to the slower machine.
lamlp640 said:while trying to upload pics of my car from photobucket, my laptop picked up a massive virus!!
i am now therfore speaking to you from my new laptop (an unwanted expense) the laptop had protection, but to no avail!
anyone else had this problem?
What did the laptop do ? It might of not been a Virus?
I very doubt you caught something from Photobucket's site...It was probebly something you caught earlier from some other dodgy site/download, or something might of genuinly died in the laptop lol.
And yes, iTunes sucks!
