Oh pshaw, on Fri 08 Dec 2006 02:42:46p, Little Malice meant to say...

> Hey all -- miss me? I'm kidding of course; with the traffic in
> this froup, I'm barely a blip on the screen. But just in case
> anyone was wondering "where'd that weird blond gal go?" -- on
> Wednesday morning, I picked up a trojan. My hard drive is
> currently munged and I need to format it, *sigh*. I'm currently
> working through Miguel's HD, which sucks. Anyway, I'll probably
> be back next week. Hope all is well, I see Carol is leaving us
> again, dangit...
>

Ooh, sorry to hear that, jani! Hurry back soon!

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Oh pshaw, on Fri 08 Dec 2006 03:32:19p, Little Malice meant to say...

> One time on Usenet, Wayne Boatwright <wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com> said:
>> Oh pshaw, on Fri 08 Dec 2006 02:42:46p, Little Malice meant to say...
>>
>> > Hey all -- miss me? I'm kidding of course; with the traffic in
>> > this froup, I'm barely a blip on the screen. But just in case
>> > anyone was wondering "where'd that weird blond gal go?" -- on
>> > Wednesday morning, I picked up a trojan. My hard drive is
>> > currently munged and I need to format it, *sigh*. I'm currently
>> > working through Miguel's HD, which sucks. Anyway, I'll probably
>> > be back next week. Hope all is well, I see Carol is leaving us
>> > again, dangit...
>> >
>>
>> Ooh, sorry to hear that, jani! Hurry back soon!
>
> Thanks hon, I'll probably be done by Monday. I plan to spend
> tomorrow making homemade frozen meals for my diet and reinstalling
> software. Have a great weekend... :-)
>

Thanks... Good luck with it.


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Hey all -- miss me? I'm kidding of course; with the traffic in
this froup, I'm barely a blip on the screen. But just in case
anyone was wondering "where'd that weird blond gal go?" -- on
Wednesday morning, I picked up a trojan. My hard drive is
currently munged and I need to format it, *sigh*. I'm currently
working through Miguel's HD, which sucks. Anyway, I'll probably
be back next week. Hope all is well, I see Carol is leaving us
again, dangit...

--
"Little Malice" is Jani in WA
~ mom, Trollop, novice cook ~

"Little Malice" > wrote in message
...
> Hey all -- miss me? I'm kidding of course; with the traffic in
> this froup, I'm barely a blip on the screen. But just in case
> anyone was wondering "where'd that weird blond gal go?" -- on
> Wednesday morning, I picked up a trojan. My hard drive is
> currently munged and I need to format it, *sigh*. I'm currently
> working through Miguel's HD, which sucks. Anyway, I'll probably
> be back next week. Hope all is well, I see Carol is leaving us
> again, dangit...
>

I missed you! How did you pick up the trojan? Do you have anti-virus
software? I am wondering if I am protected against trojans.

In article >,
unge (Little Malice) wrote:

> Hey all -- miss me? I'm kidding of course; with the traffic in
> this froup, I'm barely a blip on the screen. But just in case
> anyone was wondering "where'd that weird blond gal go?" -- on
> Wednesday morning, I picked up a trojan. My hard drive is
> currently munged and I need to format it, *sigh*. I'm currently
> working through Miguel's HD, which sucks. Anyway, I'll probably
> be back next week. Hope all is well, I see Carol is leaving us
> again, dangit...
>
> --
> "Little Malice"

She'll be back and yes, I'd noted you were not posting but you were not
gone long enough (yet) for me to worry. ;-)
I know that I was scarce for a week or so, but I'm sure everyone
appreciated the break. <lol>

I've googled the group profile after all.......
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One time on Usenet, "cybercat" > said:
>
> "Little Malice" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Hey all -- miss me? I'm kidding of course; with the traffic in
> > this froup, I'm barely a blip on the screen. But just in case
> > anyone was wondering "where'd that weird blond gal go?" -- on
> > Wednesday morning, I picked up a trojan. My hard drive is
> > currently munged and I need to format it, *sigh*. I'm currently
> > working through Miguel's HD, which sucks. Anyway, I'll probably
> > be back next week. Hope all is well, I see Carol is leaving us
> > again, dangit...
> >
>
> I missed you!

Thank you!

> How did you pick up the trojan? Do you have anti-virus
> software? I am wondering if I am protected against trojans.

I use AVG Anti-Virus, which is usually pretty good. It reported
a trojan called "win" something and said it needed to restart the
system to "heal" system. So I finished what I was doing and clicked
"ok"; now it keeps rebooting repeatedly. I'm annoyed, but I've been
wanting to format and reinstall everything for a while now; this is
just a good excuse... :-)

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~ mom, Trollop, novice cook ~

One time on Usenet, Omelet > said:
> In article >,
> unge (Little Malice) wrote:
>
> > Hey all -- miss me? I'm kidding of course; with the traffic in
> > this froup, I'm barely a blip on the screen. But just in case
> > anyone was wondering "where'd that weird blond gal go?" -- on
> > Wednesday morning, I picked up a trojan. My hard drive is
> > currently munged and I need to format it, *sigh*. I'm currently
> > working through Miguel's HD, which sucks. Anyway, I'll probably
> > be back next week. Hope all is well, I see Carol is leaving us
> > again, dangit...
> >
> > --
> > "Little Malice"
>
> She'll be back and yes, I'd noted you were not posting but you were not
> gone long enough (yet) for me to worry. ;-)

You're right -- it's only been a couple of days. Wow, it seems like
much longer. I hate being without a computer; I only got this limited
access last night.

> I know that I was scarce for a week or so, but I'm sure everyone
> appreciated the break. <lol>

Not me!

> I've googled the group profile after all.......

I've never done that...

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~ mom, Trollop, novice cook ~

One time on Usenet, Wayne Boatwright <wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com> said:
> Oh pshaw, on Fri 08 Dec 2006 02:42:46p, Little Malice meant to say...
>
> > Hey all -- miss me? I'm kidding of course; with the traffic in
> > this froup, I'm barely a blip on the screen. But just in case
> > anyone was wondering "where'd that weird blond gal go?" -- on
> > Wednesday morning, I picked up a trojan. My hard drive is
> > currently munged and I need to format it, *sigh*. I'm currently
> > working through Miguel's HD, which sucks. Anyway, I'll probably
> > be back next week. Hope all is well, I see Carol is leaving us
> > again, dangit...
> >
>
> Ooh, sorry to hear that, jani! Hurry back soon!

Thanks hon, I'll probably be done by Monday. I plan to spend
tomorrow making homemade frozen meals for my diet and reinstalling
software. Have a great weekend... :-)

--
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~ mom, Trollop, novice cook ~

"Little Malice" > wrote

> I use AVG Anti-Virus, which is usually pretty good. It reported
> a trojan called "win" something and said it needed to restart the
> system to "heal" system. So I finished what I was doing and clicked
> "ok"; now it keeps rebooting repeatedly. I'm annoyed, but I've been
> wanting to format and reinstall everything for a while now; this is
> just a good excuse... :-)

Hey! I'm glad you're going to be able to fix it. This will
make me back up my system tomorrow. I've been putting
it off. And happy to see you, of course.

nancy

Little Malice wrote:
> Hey all -- miss me? I'm kidding of course; with the traffic in
> this froup, I'm barely a blip on the screen. But just in case
> anyone was wondering "where'd that weird blond gal go?" -- on
> Wednesday morning, I picked up a trojan. My hard drive is
> currently munged and I need to format it, *sigh*. I'm currently
> working through Miguel's HD, which sucks. Anyway, I'll probably
> be back next week. Hope all is well, I see Carol is leaving us
> again, dangit...

I hate it when that happens. Grrrrrrrrr. Reformatting is usually the best
way to go. We'll see you soon.

kili
--
http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/kilikini

"Little Malice" > wrote
> I use AVG Anti-Virus, which is usually pretty good. It reported
> a trojan called "win" something and said it needed to restart the
> system to "heal" system. So I finished what I was doing and clicked
> "ok"; now it keeps rebooting repeatedly.

Uh oh, that is what I use! Just what I did not want to hear!


>I'm annoyed, but I've been
> wanting to format and reinstall everything for a while now; this is
> just a good excuse... :-)
>

That's looking on the bright side. Always a good option~!

"Little Malice" > wrote in message
...
> Hey all -- miss me? I'm kidding of course; with the traffic in
> this froup, I'm barely a blip on the screen. But just in case
> anyone was wondering "where'd that weird blond gal go?" -- on
> Wednesday morning, I picked up a trojan. My hard drive is
> currently munged and I need to format it, *sigh*. I'm currently
> working through Miguel's HD, which sucks. Anyway, I'll probably
> be back next week. Hope all is well, I see Carol is leaving us
Carol? as in damsel?

In article >,
unge (Little Malice) wrote:

> > She'll be back and yes, I'd noted you were not posting but you were not
> > gone long enough (yet) for me to worry. ;-)
>
> You're right -- it's only been a couple of days. Wow, it seems like
> much longer. I hate being without a computer; I only got this limited
> access last night.

I feel your pain. ;-)
Even when I got my memory upgrade last week, I went and ran errands
while the shop did it's things and made sure my system got hooked up
right away again... I was only down for a couple of hours.

I don't even like power outages! <G>

>
> > I know that I was scarce for a week or so, but I'm sure everyone
> > appreciated the break. <lol>
>
> Not me!
>
> > I've googled the group profile after all.......
>
> I've never done that...

It can be frighteningly educational. <G>

Just on this group alone in October, there were over 600 posts from me!
I skipped the November statistics......

My only excuse was that I had 2 weeks vacation that month.

>
> --
> "Little Malice"
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In article >,
"Nancy Young" > wrote:

> "Little Malice" > wrote
>
> > I use AVG Anti-Virus, which is usually pretty good. It reported
> > a trojan called "win" something and said it needed to restart the
> > system to "heal" system. So I finished what I was doing and clicked
> > "ok"; now it keeps rebooting repeatedly. I'm annoyed, but I've been
> > wanting to format and reinstall everything for a while now; this is
> > just a good excuse... :-)
>
> Hey! I'm glad you're going to be able to fix it. This will
> make me back up my system tomorrow. I've been putting
> it off. And happy to see you, of course.
>
> nancy

I bought a desktop hard drive for backup...
All the important stuff is already on there but I still have some stuff
that needs transferring.

I generally back up files as I go now whenever I make modifications.

So much easier than burning discs!
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On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 21:42:46 GMT, unge (Little
Malice) wrote:

>froup

You and someone else keep saying "froup". Is that good or bad? I
have no idea.

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sf wrote:

> On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 21:42:46 GMT, unge (Little
> Malice) wrote:
>
> > froup
>
> You and someone else keep saying "froup". Is that good or bad? I
> have no idea.

It's short for "newsfroup", of course.

I suppose you want to know what that means now?

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsfroup>



Brian

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won't shut up.
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One time on Usenet, "cybercat" > said:
> "Little Malice" > wrote

> > I use AVG Anti-Virus, which is usually pretty good. It reported
> > a trojan called "win" something and said it needed to restart the
> > system to "heal" system. So I finished what I was doing and clicked
> > "ok"; now it keeps rebooting repeatedly.
>
> Uh oh, that is what I use! Just what I did not want to hear!

At this point we don't know if it was an actual trojan or physical
damage or what. But there are a bunch of bad sectors on the drive
so we trashed it. Miguel says that sometimes physical damage can
mimic a virus or trojan -- I'm hoping that's the case so you and
others aren't affected.

Fortunately, I was able to back up my drive sans Windows onto our
Raid system (two mirrored 140GB drives). Each of us (me, Miguel,
and Buddy) had our own drives in seperate drawers, but Buddy had
messed his up with one of the Linux front ends (I don't remember
which one) and he's been sharing a drive with his dad. I took his
old one, formatted it, reinstalled my OS, and retrieved my stuff
from the back up. Voila! With a little tweaking, I was done by
Saturday afternoon, much faster than I'd anticipated. And I had
time to make some pork chops and dressing:

Baked Pork Chops with Dressing

6 pork chops; loin, center rib
3/4 C. butter or margarine, melted
3/4 C. chicken or vegetable broth
270g dry stuffing mix (I like Mrs. Cubbison)
1/2 C. celery, chopped
1/2 C. onion, chopped

Layer stuffing and chops in greased roasting pan. Cover & bake
at 350º F for 45 minutes. Uncover & bake 15 minutes more or until
top is golden brown and juice of pork is no long until thermometer
reads 160º F.

I make this when I'm counting calories -- I divide it into six
servings and freeze five of them, then reheat in the oven so the
dressing stays crunchy. Depending on the size of the chops, it comes
to about 600 kcals per meal. Much tastier than those premade frozen
entrees...

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~ mom, Trollop, novice cook ~

One time on Usenet, "Nancy Young" > said:
> "Little Malice" > wrote
>
> > I use AVG Anti-Virus, which is usually pretty good. It reported
> > a trojan called "win" something and said it needed to restart the
> > system to "heal" system. So I finished what I was doing and clicked
> > "ok"; now it keeps rebooting repeatedly. I'm annoyed, but I've been
> > wanting to format and reinstall everything for a while now; this is
> > just a good excuse... :-)
>
> Hey! I'm glad you're going to be able to fix it. This will
> make me back up my system tomorrow. I've been putting
> it off. And happy to see you, of course.

Thanks Nancy -- and I wish I had backed mine up more recently than
March! Still, it all turned out okay, see other thread... :-)

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One time on Usenet, "Gunner" <gunner@ spam.com> said:
> "Little Malice" > wrote in message
> ...

> > Hey all -- miss me? I'm kidding of course; with the traffic in
> > this froup, I'm barely a blip on the screen. But just in case
> > anyone was wondering "where'd that weird blond gal go?" -- on
> > Wednesday morning, I picked up a trojan. My hard drive is
> > currently munged and I need to format it, *sigh*. I'm currently
> > working through Miguel's HD, which sucks. Anyway, I'll probably
> > be back next week. Hope all is well, I see Carol is leaving us

> Carol? as in damsel?

Yeah, but I hear it's temporary. I hope so, she's a real light in
this ng, IMHO...

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~ mom, Trollop, novice cook ~

One time on Usenet, Omelet > said:
> In article >,
> unge (Little Malice) wrote:
> > One time on Usenet, Omelet > said:

> > > I've googled the group profile after all.......
> >
> > I've never done that...
>
> It can be frighteningly educational. <G>
>
> Just on this group alone in October, there were over 600 posts from me!
> I skipped the November statistics......
>
> My only excuse was that I had 2 weeks vacation that month.

How do you get it to show previous months? I can only see the stats
for December. And you're #1 there, girl... :-)

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~ mom, Trollop, novice cook ~

Little Malice said...

> At this point we don't know if it was an actual trojan or physical
> damage or what. But there are a bunch of bad sectors on the drive
> so we trashed it. Miguel says that sometimes physical damage can
> mimic a virus or trojan -- I'm hoping that's the case so you and
> others aren't affected.


Jani,

Whatever, you should install:


Spybot Search & Destroy:

http://www.spybot.info/


AND Spywareblaster:

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html


AND TCPView:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...g/TcpView.mspx


AVG has it's share of critics.

Andy

One time on Usenet, Andy <q> said:
> Little Malice said...
>
> > At this point we don't know if it was an actual trojan or physical
> > damage or what. But there are a bunch of bad sectors on the drive
> > so we trashed it. Miguel says that sometimes physical damage can
> > mimic a virus or trojan -- I'm hoping that's the case so you and
> > others aren't affected.
>
>
> Jani,
>
> Whatever, you should install:
>
>
> Spybot Search & Destroy:
>
> http://www.spybot.info/
>
>
> AND Spywareblaster:
>
> http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
>
>
> AND TCPView:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...g/TcpView.mspx
>
>
> AVG has it's share of critics.

Good suggestions, thanks Andy... :-)

--
Jani in WA

Little Malice said...


> Good suggestions, thanks Andy... :-)


Your welcome!

Andy
CotD #2

In article >,
unge (Little Malice) wrote:

> One time on Usenet, Omelet > said:
> > In article >,
> > unge (Little Malice) wrote:
> > > One time on Usenet, Omelet > said:
>
> > > > I've googled the group profile after all.......
> > >
> > > I've never done that...
> >
> > It can be frighteningly educational. <G>
> >
> > Just on this group alone in October, there were over 600 posts from me!
> > I skipped the November statistics......
> >
> > My only excuse was that I had 2 weeks vacation that month.
>
> How do you get it to show previous months? I can only see the stats
> for December. And you're #1 there, girl... :-)

I had a friend get me the usenet stats from another site for previous
months. I've not asked him for November yet.

I know I'm #1... <blush>

What can I say? I love this newsgroup and all the people here! :-)
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Little Malice wrote:
> One time on Usenet, "cybercat" > said:
> >
> > "Little Malice" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > > Hey all -- miss me? I'm kidding of course; with the traffic in
> > > this froup, I'm barely a blip on the screen. But just in case
> > > anyone was wondering "where'd that weird blond gal go?" -- on
> > > Wednesday morning, I picked up a trojan. My hard drive is
> > > currently munged and I need to format it, *sigh*. I'm currently
> > > working through Miguel's HD, which sucks. Anyway, I'll probably
> > > be back next week. Hope all is well, I see Carol is leaving us
> > > again, dangit...
> > >
> >
> > I missed you!
>
> Thank you!
>
> > How did you pick up the trojan? Do you have anti-virus
> > software? I am wondering if I am protected against trojans.
>
> I use AVG Anti-Virus, which is usually pretty good. It reported
> a trojan called "win" something and said it needed to restart the
> system to "heal" system. So I finished what I was doing and clicked
> "ok"; now it keeps rebooting repeatedly. I'm annoyed, but I've been
> wanting to format and reinstall everything for a while now; this is
> just a good excuse... :-)
>

http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/war...feeklatch.html

One time on Usenet, said:
> Little Malice wrote:
> > One time on Usenet, "cybercat" > said:

<snip>

> > > How did you pick up the trojan? Do you have anti-virus
> > > software? I am wondering if I am protected against trojans.
> >
> > I use AVG Anti-Virus, which is usually pretty good. It reported
> > a trojan called "win" something and said it needed to restart the
> > system to "heal" system. So I finished what I was doing and clicked
> > "ok"; now it keeps rebooting repeatedly. I'm annoyed, but I've been
> > wanting to format and reinstall everything for a while now; this is
> > just a good excuse... :-)
> >
>
> http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/war...feeklatch.html

Heh! Funny site, I wish I'd known about it when I used to frequent
flame groups...

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On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:05:58 -0600, Andy <q> wrote:

>Little Malice said...
>
>> At this point we don't know if it was an actual trojan or physical
>> damage or what. But there are a bunch of bad sectors on the drive
>> so we trashed it. Miguel says that sometimes physical damage can
>> mimic a virus or trojan -- I'm hoping that's the case so you and
>> others aren't affected.
>
>
>Jani,
>
>Whatever, you should install:
>
>
>Spybot Search & Destroy:
>
>http://www.spybot.info/
>
>
>AND Spywareblaster:
>
>http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
>
>
>AND TCPView:
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...g/TcpView.mspx
>
>
>AVG has it's share of critics.
>
Anything will have its share of critics! AVG Free anti-virus is virus
protection only - although I see they also have a separate, free,
anti-spyware program.

I'm a long time user of AdAware when I search for tracking cookies and
other bad things (they have plugins for the worst of the worst). I
picked up something yesterday that had firefox at a stand still. I
ran my AVG, but found nothing. Today, it occured to me that maybe it
wasn't a virus, so I ran AdAware and solved the problem immediately.

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On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:57:15 -0600, Omelet >
wrote:

>
>What can I say? I love this newsgroup and all the people here! :-)

Wow, all? You're a ****ing *saint*. :-)

ObFood: NYT bread on the counter. Apple and peanut butter for snack.
Curried choy and onions for dinner. Really good red-curry tofu at the
Thai place near work for lunch. And a whole bag of honey-mustard
kettle chips (my latest compulsion) for breakfast.

Serene
--
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http://serenejournal.livejournal.com

In article >,
Serene > wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:57:15 -0600, Omelet >
> wrote:
>
> >
> >What can I say? I love this newsgroup and all the people here! :-)
>
> Wow, all? You're a ****ing *saint*. :-)

Well, most anyway. <G>
There are not many in the killfile...

>
> ObFood: NYT bread on the counter. Apple and peanut butter for snack.
> Curried choy and onions for dinner. Really good red-curry tofu at the
> Thai place near work for lunch. And a whole bag of honey-mustard
> kettle chips (my latest compulsion) for breakfast.
>
> Serene

We are still working on that huge batch of fried rice I made. ;-)
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