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June 25th, 2005, 04:23 PM
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June 25th, 2005, 04:32 PM
#2
Did it indicate exactly what 2 items? I'm guessing "no".
Reminds me of, back in the days when Back Orifice was the media darling, some guy (think GRC.com) had a site that was a clearing house of info on BO, and he attacked some software product that was supposedly going to clean and protect your system, which then did neither. They sued his ISP and him I think, and of course he shut up because he was intimidated by the spectre of legal fee's.
There were a lot of these software offerings to protect from that boogey-man of the day. This is not surprising that the same trend occur's today. I think it goes beyond technology though; I know that here in the US, a lot of companies were offering back yard bomb shelters for sale around the time of the Cuban missle crisis. And I know some car dealerships will STILL offer to sell you 'clear coat protectant' on a new car.
"Data is not necessarily information. Information does not necessarily lead to knowledge. And knowledge is not always sufficient to discover truth and breed wisdom." --Spaf
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made president should on no account be allowed to do the job. --Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
"...people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right." - Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
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June 25th, 2005, 04:42 PM
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Hi Zen~ ,
Here is an interesting review:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1645384,00.asp
Sue and be damned?.............they will get a quick introduction to UK anti-fraud legislation
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June 26th, 2005, 03:37 AM
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I found that most of these products are frauds. A couple days ago I formatted my drive and had installed a clean copy of windows on it, within 4 minutes of being plugged into the t1 at work it was infected with over 70 viral programs, and I know for a fact our network is clean, just our hardware firewall is disabled for upgrades. It auto downloaded a program called "Spy Sheriff" and about 50 spyware items and I had a hell of a time getting them off, ended up formatting the drive again after this. Now I just have to deal with the drive not registering as a 160gb drive, it thinks its a 33gb, and I know its not BIOs its the drive... Any one have any ideas as to how to fix this?
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June 26th, 2005, 07:23 AM
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Now I just have to deal with the drive not registering as a 160gb drive, it thinks its a 33gb, and I know its not BIOs its the drive
My guess would be the jumpers. Maybe you've accidentally put them in the restricted mode rather than master or slave?
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June 26th, 2005, 11:00 PM
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On some HDD's there's a jumper setting that makes the drive only use a portion of the disc space... I don't know the name of the setting, maybe it's restricted like alamuru said, but I would check the manual that came with the drive...
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June 27th, 2005, 01:41 AM
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Nihil thanks for the info...that is interesting to see...especially after seeing this the first time I did a little background snooping for this thread.
http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/
"The most effective of all the products tested at both blocking and removing spyware and keyloggers, and it's our current Editors' Choice"
- PC Magazine, June 19, 2005
I wonder how much that Editor's Choice cost them? Probably a 1 year membership at a local country club for several executives at the parent company of PC Magazine.
"Data is not necessarily information. Information does not necessarily lead to knowledge. And knowledge is not always sufficient to discover truth and breed wisdom." --Spaf
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made president should on no account be allowed to do the job. --Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
"...people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right." - Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
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