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#1 jram

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Posted 27 September 2010 - 12:47 AM

I try not to judge, but just surfing minding my own business and they tried to get the old guy. I'll just get back on my Mac where you can surf without something jumping out at you.

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Posted 27 September 2010 - 12:57 AM

The Microsoft Security Essentials thing is a nasty.... I just had it on one of my boxes, and it caused me to fdisk & format the system partition and install a new OS. Probably was fixable, but I got totally fed up and frustrated - if I could have found the (*&#$ who wrote this one and released it, I would have put a bullet in his head and felt good about it!!

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Posted 27 September 2010 - 02:30 AM

Ahem,

and it did not come from me :rofl1:

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Posted 27 September 2010 - 02:43 AM

I've run the browser in a sandbox the last 3-4 months. So far so good. :i_hate_that_puter:

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Posted 27 September 2010 - 03:09 AM

It's all depends on your computer habits.
No security program will protect you, if you decide to do something dumb :)
Never had any infection and I spend a lot of time on my computer.
...been on net since 1993 :)

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Posted 27 September 2010 - 09:02 PM

Someone needs to use his Mac when he goes to 'Those' sites!

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Posted 27 September 2010 - 09:15 PM

What sites? Posted Image

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Posted 27 September 2010 - 09:29 PM

EWWWWWW. Assumption Alert. :angel_to_devil:

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Posted 27 September 2010 - 09:31 PM

The 'Microsoft Security Essentials' thing I got was not from one of 'those' sites, at least not on the day I got it!!
That's my story, & I'm sticken' to it... :)

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Posted 27 September 2010 - 09:34 PM

Fran must KNOW, what she's talking about.....LOOOOOOL

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Posted 27 September 2010 - 09:58 PM

Little old ladies don't visit 'those' sites. This site is as thrilling as it gets for me. Hey Broni, I met a lovely Polish girl today. She was working in the restaurant at one of the casinos in our mountains. She came from near Gdansk--is working her way across the country before going back to Poland in November. Small world, isn't it?

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Posted 27 September 2010 - 10:00 PM

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is working her way across the country

Maybe, she'll swing by here :)

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Posted 27 September 2010 - 10:03 PM

You'd like her--very pretty! I've also met a couple of Polish girls working in my home town. They've married and settled down here.

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Posted 28 September 2010 - 04:52 AM

You apple folks can laugh all you want, your living on borrowed time. Popularity may be your demise.........................

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