Topic: OT: thank god for the Taldren Forums!

[Captain KoraH]

In a monumental lapse of judgement, I let my wife use my computer one day, and I was immediately attacked by several viruses which crippled my computer. After hours and hours of smashing my head into the Windows wall of pain, and finally re-installing Windows, I finally was able to connect to the internet, but the only website that I could connect to was the Taldren Forums. Why? I noticed that the Taldren forums use an IP address instead of a domain name resolved by DNS. That led me to check my internet connection DNS settings, and sure enough, some malicious app had re-routed all my internet traffic through some strange foreign webserver, preventing any DNS resolved web URL's from resolving on my comp. So, with that info I was easily able to remedy the problem. Thank god for the Taldren forums, it has saved me from much hassle and frustration!

[Dogmatix!]

Wierd, wild stuff....that's a new one on me.


Best to keep the female Spousal Units away from the computer.  Sadly, the best way to do that is the ensure they have their own to muck about with.



 

[Corbomite]

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Wierd, wild stuff....that's a new one on me.


Best to keep the female Spousal Units away from the computer.  Sadly, the best way to do that is the ensure they have their own to muck about with.



 

Give 'em a blender. It has lots of buttons and makes noise. They'll never know the difference.  

[Dogmatix!]

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Wierd, wild stuff....that's a new one on me.


Best to keep the female Spousal Units away from the computer.  Sadly, the best way to do that is the ensure they have their own to muck about with.



 

Give 'em a blender. It has lots of buttons and makes noise. They'll never know the difference.    

       


Good stuff, Corbo...made me laugh out loud on that one (never a good thing at work   )



 

[E_Look]

The wife yells that she wants me to show her * how to download, open, read, and reply to her e-mail*... so I do it.  Well, she still calls for me every time she's on because something or another "has done something funny" and she's now too scared to do go any further!  Usually, it's because she either has to quick or heavy a clicking finger or too slow!

[Toasty0]

My solution was to build my wife a 'puter and install ME on it--that way there is little chance of her hurting herself with it...

hehehehe, boy am I dog meat when she reads that. }~  

[TOCXOBearslayer]

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In a monumental lapse of judgement, I let my wife use my computer one day, and I was immediately attacked by several viruses which crippled my computer. After hours and hours of smashing my head into the Windows wall of pain, and finally re-installing Windows, I finally was able to connect to the internet, but the only website that I could connect to was the Taldren Forums. Why? I noticed that the Taldren forums use an IP address instead of a domain name resolved by DNS. That led me to check my internet connection DNS settings, and sure enough, some malicious app had re-routed all my internet traffic through some strange foreign webserver, preventing any DNS resolved web URL's from resolving on my comp. So, with that info I was easily able to remedy the problem. Thank god for the Taldren forums, it has saved me from much hassle and frustration!  

Ok, how did you do it?

I seem to have the same thing happening right now.

[AdmiralFrey_XC]

Bearslayer, you near a phone Bro?

I can give you a quick call to walk ya through it.

Regards,

[TOCXOBearslayer]

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Bearslayer, you near a phone Bro?

I can give you a quick call to walk ya through it.

Regards,  

Got it taken care of Frey,  Thanks.

[SkyFlyer]

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My solution was to build my wife a 'puter and install ME on it--that way there is little chance of her hurting herself with it...

hehehehe, boy am I dog meat when she reads that. }~    

Yes... I ersonally think that ME is one of the most stable windows systems that can still run most programs... However I have not tried XP yet, but i notice that it does have some device driver problems... I am running ME on this computer.... screwed up my registry ( cost of hard shutdowns all of the time  hehehehehehe) twice, and reinstalled everything once... didnt need to reinstall but i just wanted to kill all of the crap and screwed up organization... From what I've used, windows ME is one of the best OS's out there, and Windows 95 isnt too shabby either    thats on an old klunker i have   lol  

[Mackie]

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In a monumental lapse of judgement, I let my wife use my computer one day, and I was immediately attacked by several viruses which crippled my computer. After hours and hours of smashing my head into the Windows wall of pain, and finally re-installing Windows, I finally was able to connect to the internet, but the only website that I could connect to was the Taldren Forums. Why? I noticed that the Taldren forums use an IP address instead of a domain name resolved by DNS. That led me to check my internet connection DNS settings, and sure enough, some malicious app had re-routed all my internet traffic through some strange foreign webserver, preventing any DNS resolved web URL's from resolving on my comp. So, with that info I was easily able to remedy the problem. Thank god for the Taldren forums, it has saved me from much hassle and frustration!  

Interesting enough I had the same problem few days ago and im not exactly sure if i got everything in order yet. (for example google altavista lycos etc dont work, i just get some m4d cpanel opening up on me)

how did u get fix it again? I obtain dnses automatically and i dont see any specific dns addy that could be fux0ring things  

[Captain KoraH]

Well in my case the "Obtain DNS automatically had been changed to obtain it from an IP address, which I fixed just by clicking on "Obtain automatically". If you already have that set and you can only visit websites that use IP's instead of domain names, then I'm not sure what could be the problem at your level. It might even be your ISP. Just as an additional note, merely re-installing Windows had no effect for me, since it doesn't change any settings. You'd have to format your hard drive and then install your OS from scratch for all your settings to be reset, and to get rid of any spyware and such that is eating up your bandwidth and resources without you knowing. Oh I just remembered something, sometimes if your Internet Options setting within IE for security is set too high, it won't display some websites.  

[Taldren_Admin]

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Wierd, wild stuff....that's a new one on me.


Best to keep the female Spousal Units away from the computer.  Sadly, the best way to do that is the ensure they have their own to muck about with.



 

Give 'em a blender. It has lots of buttons and makes noise. They'll never know the difference.    

Hmmmmmmm....maybe you, as the one that has all of the computer knowledge in your family, should take responsibility for not installing the security patches that have been out for awhile and would have prevented that from happening....

Blenders are nice for mixed margaritas but I much prefer the P4 3.2GHz 800MHz FSB, 1GB DDR PC-3200, 120GB Seagate Barracuda with8MB Cache HD, NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra 256MB system I am building this morning. I haven't decided if I will adapt to  SCSI yet. The GUI I created to interface with the OS so that I  have an easily customizable over clocking system will enable me to fluctuate my component usage based on the immediate need so this should be quite a kick of a system to game on.

Did I mention that I am a  wife too?  
   

[Corbomite]

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Wierd, wild stuff....that's a new one on me.


Best to keep the female Spousal Units away from the computer.  Sadly, the best way to do that is the ensure they have their own to muck about with.



 

Give 'em a blender. It has lots of buttons and makes noise. They'll never know the difference.    

Hmmmmmmm....maybe you, as the one that has all of the computer knowledge in your family, should take responsibility for not installing the security patches that have been out for awhile and would have prevented that from happening....

Blenders are nice for mixed margaritas but I much prefer the P4 3.2GHz 800MHz FSB, 1GB DDR PC-3200, 120GB Seagate Barracuda with8MB Cache HD, NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra 256MB system I am building this morning. I haven't decided if I will adapt to  SCSI yet. The GUI I created to interface with the OS so that I  have an easily customizable over clocking system will enable me to fluctuate my component usage based on the immediate need so this should be quite a kick of a system to game on.

Did I mention that I am a  wife too?  
   

I'll bet your husband makes a great pot roast too.  

[Dogmatix!]

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Wierd, wild stuff....that's a new one on me.


Best to keep the female Spousal Units away from the computer.  Sadly, the best way to do that is the ensure they have their own to muck about with.



 

Give 'em a blender. It has lots of buttons and makes noise. They'll never know the difference.    

Hmmmmmmm....maybe you, as the one that has all of the computer knowledge in your family, should take responsibility for not installing the security patches that have been out for awhile and would have prevented that from happening....

Blenders are nice for mixed margaritas but I much prefer the P4 3.2GHz 800MHz FSB, 1GB DDR PC-3200, 120GB Seagate Barracuda with8MB Cache HD, NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra 256MB system I am building this morning. I haven't decided if I will adapt to  SCSI yet. The GUI I created to interface with the OS so that I  have an easily customizable over clocking system will enable me to fluctuate my component usage based on the immediate need so this should be quite a kick of a system to game on.

Did I mention that I am a  wife too?  
   

Umm...I do, eh?    

My system is always patched and up-to-date.  I don't wait for MS to tell me something is available.  I go check myself...regularly.    Additionaly, my wife hasn't managed to screw up any of my systems.  That was KoraH!  

Incidentally, in over 20 years of owning a personal computer, none of my systems have ever been infected with a virus or trojan...or any other kind of shennanigans.  Just lucky, I guess.  

Sounds like a nice system, even considering the unfortunate choice of graphics adaptor.    

The next one I build will be built from an AMD 64-bit processor.  Were I building one now, rather than last February when I put my current system together, I probably would have made the same choices as you have, except for the graphics adaptor.



 

[Taldren_Admin]

Why the negative on the graphics card? haven't installed it yet...still open to input.  

[ActiveX]

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Why the negative on the graphics card? haven't installed it yet...still open to input.  

Igmore im, he is likely one of those ATI fanbois...

[James_Smith]

Everyone seem to be laying into the 5900 series right now after the Half Life 2 benchmarks were released showing that the ATI 9800 had a significant performance advantage. I certainly wouldn't pay full price for the Nvidia (and didn't - I got one for £150 below list price) but it's not a bad card by any stretch. Just doesn't seem to be all that quick  in DX9 games compared with its competitor. It'll still run SFC, and thats all that matters!

[Tremok]

 ATI! ATI! Boo Nvidia Boo! Egg it! Egg it!

Edit: Count on a wife to get a graphics card nicknamed the Dustbuster.

Now, which way to run...  

[Captain KoraH]

Post deleted. Sorry to offend anyone.