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| Quote ="Rock God X"I have a Gmail account, it's just that I've been using the Yahoo one for so long it would be a hassle informing everyone of the change. I don't think I've given the address to anyone who ought not to have it, and I'm always very careful to tick boxes saying "don't share my details with third parties". Perhaps someone has ignored my wishes. I seem to be getting a lot of unwanted calls on my mobile too...'"
You're not in Amnesty are you?
Nearly every email campaign I participate seems to coincide with getting lots of spam.
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If you allow gmail to check the mail from the yahoo account and then just get to your emails through gmail then i think the gmail spam filters may get rid of the spam.
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| Quote ="Rock God X"I have a Gmail account, it's just that I've been using the Yahoo one for so long it would be a hassle informing everyone of the change. I don't think I've given the address to anyone who ought not to have it, and I'm always very careful to tick boxes saying "don't share my details with third parties". Perhaps someone has ignored my wishes. I seem to be getting a lot of unwanted calls on my mobile too...'"
That could be quite likely. At work we deal with data businesses and to say they're not exactly honest would be a massive understatement.
Personal data is quite valuable and a lot of businesses will do anything to make quick cash. |
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| Quote ="Enicomb"That could be quite likely. At work we deal with data businesses and to say they're not exactly honest would be a massive understatement.
Personal data is quite valuable and a lot of businesses will do anything to make quick cash.'"
It seems that a lot of the 'new' spam is coming from a company called 'Prime Advertisers'. I've emailed them and asked them to remove my details from their database, so hopefully this will have some effect on the amount of junk I receive.
On an unrelated note, my Norton subscription is due to expire in 4 days. Does anyone know of a better (or cheaper) internet security software before I renew. |
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The great thing about Gmail is you can alter your address.
If your address is fbloggs@gmail.com, and you're registering with some shyster company or other, then you can tell them your email address is fbloggs+shyster@gmail.com. Any mail sent to that address will still get routed to you. A plus sign and then whatever sequence of alphanumerics you want before the @ sign is all you need.
You can alter your address like this as many differnet ways you can think of, allocating a different +... bit to each company you need to give an address to. Then when you get spam you can see which of the fsckers is selling your address without your permission, find out the name of some person in authority from their company website, and subscribe them to BigJuggs magazine with complementary man's size French maid's uniform at their company address. |
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The great thing about Gmail is you can alter your address.
If your address is fbloggs@gmail.com, and you're registering with some shyster company or other, then you can tell them your email address is fbloggs+shyster@gmail.com. Any mail sent to that address will still get routed to you. A plus sign and then whatever sequence of alphanumerics you want before the @ sign is all you need.
You can alter your address like this as many differnet ways you can think of, allocating a different +... bit to each company you need to give an address to. Then when you get spam you can see which of the fsckers is selling your address without your permission, find out the name of some person in authority from their company website, and subscribe them to BigJuggs magazine with complementary man's size French maid's uniform at their company address. | |
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| Quote ="Rock God X"On an unrelated note, my Norton subscription is due to expire in 4 days. Does anyone know of a better (or cheaper) internet security software before I renew.'"
What version of Windows are you running?
I did a lot of checking around when I upgraded to a Windows 7 machine and settled on Microsoft Security Essentials for AV (free), the built-in Windows firewall, and the occasional scan with an anti-malware tool like Malwarebytes (also free). It's worked perfectly for the last couple of years. |
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| Quote ="Kosh"Quote ="Rock God X"On an unrelated note, my Norton subscription is due to expire in 4 days. Does anyone know of a better (or cheaper) internet security software before I renew.'"
What version of Windows are you running?
I did a lot of checking around when I upgraded to a Windows 7 machine and settled on Microsoft Security Essentials for AV (free), the built-in Windows firewall, and the occasional scan with an anti-malware tool like Malwarebytes (also free). It's worked perfectly for the last couple of years.'"
Windows 7.
Edit: Just downloaded Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes. Hopefully they'll do the trick. |
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| Quote ="Kosh"What version of Windows are you running?
I did a lot of checking around when I upgraded to a Windows 7 machine and settled on Microsoft Security Essentials for AV (free), the built-in Windows firewall, and the occasional scan with an anti-malware tool like Malwarebytes (also free). It's worked perfectly for the last couple of years.'"
I'd agree with that, it's good option for the home user and Malwarebytes is great option for anyone. |
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Thanks Kosh/Enicomb. You appear to have saved me fifty quid!
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| Quote ="Rock God X"
On an unrelated note, my Norton subscription is due to expire in 4 days. Does anyone know of a better (or cheaper) internet security software before I renew.'"
If you are looking for a paid service then Sainsburys are knocking out Kaspersky 2012 3 user version for £15, best bargain I've seen for a while. |
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| Quote ="Big Graeme"Quote ="Rock God X"
On an unrelated note, my Norton subscription is due to expire in 4 days. Does anyone know of a better (or cheaper) internet security software before I renew.'"
If you are looking for a paid service then Sainsburys are knocking out Kaspersky 2012 3 user version for £15, best bargain I've seen for a while.'"
That does seem like a good deal. Though I'm never looking to pay for something if I don't have to! Will the set up Kosh and Enicomb recommended do a similar job? |
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Yeah.
Microsoft Security Essentials is the only Microsoft product whose name accurately describes what it actually is.
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My laptop CD/DVD drive is knackered. Its an Asus k52f series (I think?). It won't read discs and makes a funny noise when any disc goes in it, I reckon someone has actually snapped a piece from within the tray (basically its not a software problem).
Wondered if anyone knew what region I'd expect to pay to get this fixed?
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| Quote ="Ashley_"My laptop CD/DVD drive is knackered. Its an Asus k52f series (I think?). It won't read discs and makes a funny noise when any disc goes in it, I reckon someone has actually snapped a piece from within the tray (basically its not a software problem).
Wondered if anyone knew what region I'd expect to pay to get this fixed?'"
Does the drive come out of the machine? It is usually just one or two screws holding it in, if so you can DIY, plenty of sellers on eBay for replacements. |
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I just had a Blue Screen of Death about 30 mins ago and am wondering if there is a chance it could happen again ? Everything came back seemingly fine.
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| Quote ="Dead Man Walking"I just had a Blue Screen of Death about 30 mins ago and am wondering if there is a chance it could happen again ? Everything came back seemingly fine.'"
Yes, every chance. Best back up your stash now, just in case. |
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| Quote ="Saddened!"Yes, every chance. Best back up your stash now, just in case.'"
My laptop is less than three years old though. Just ran backup. Thanks. |
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| Quote ="Dead Man Walking"I just had a Blue Screen of Death about 30 mins ago and am wondering if there is a chance it could happen again ? Everything came back seemingly fine.'"
Try and get the BSOD details if it happens again, right click on my computer, choose properties, click advance tab, click settings in startup and recovery box, uncheck automatically restart. That will allow you to grab the details.
It could have just overheated but the hard drive or RAM could be failing, could be anything really until you grab the info. |
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| Quote ="Big Graeme"Try and get the BSOD details if it happens again, right click on my computer, choose properties, click advance tab, click settings in startup and recovery box, uncheck automatically restart. That will allow you to grab the details.
It could have just overheated but the hard drive or RAM could be failing, could be anything really until you grab the info.'"
It would be good if it had just overheated but as I said before it's seemingly OK at the moment and I did turn it off a few times and all was fine. Thanks for the instructions on looking it up as when it first came up I didn't know where and what to look at. |
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| Quote ="Big Graeme"Does the drive come out of the machine? It is usually just one or two screws holding it in, if so you can DIY, plenty of sellers on eBay for replacements.'"
Ordered a drive for £14 off eBay, hopefully it'll work. Just have to strip the machine down to replace it. |
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| Quote ="Ashley_"Ordered a drive for £14 off eBay, hopefully it'll work. Just have to strip the machine down to replace it.'"
Should just be one or two screws on the bottom of the machine mate |
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My bird has just accidentally replaced her Uni work on Office, one of her biggest pieces, as is the way. Any way she can go back to find it or is she doomed as expected?
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| Quote ="Roddy B"My bird has just accidentally replaced her Uni work on Office, one of her biggest pieces, as is the way. Any way she can go back to find it or is she doomed as expected?'"
Your 'bird'? I haven't heard anyone use that term for about twenty years. |
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| Quote ="Rock God X"Your 'bird'? I haven't heard anyone use that term for about twenty years.'"
Makes me feel masculine. Besides, the world girlfriend? Ugh. 'Partner'? Queer. Wench, maud, woman, etc. just aren't me.
Anyway, I managed to sort it. Ta. |
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Two questions - hopefully both will be easy to answer.
Internet dongle - what's the best one to get for only maybe 4 or 5 hours browsing per week??
Probably not the place to ask on here but will anyway - how do you remove a twitter account on a windows phone???
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