What's mildly irritating you today?

[Clodfobble]

Stupid phone died this morning with no warning. No charge lights, no life of any kind. Instant brick.

Fortunately I didn't have much data on there that wasn't also backed up somewhere else, just a handful of photos from the last few days and, oh, every phone contact I had added in the past two years. For some reason those had only gone to internal phone memory instead of the SIM card. So I have the number of every high school friend I haven't called in ten years, but none of the two dozen food co-op people whose numbers I will need to know at the delivery site tomorrow. Rat bastards.

On the upside, I have a new phone. On the downside, everything is different, and I hate different.

[xoxoxoBruce]

On the upside, you have a valid excuse to avoid people you don't like tomorrow.

[sexobon]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

... On the downside, everything is different, and I hate different.

Then you'd probably like me, I'm indifferent.

[Lola Bunny]

Stupidly, I clicked on a link from an acquaintance's email. What the heck?!!?? I never click on links from friends' email anymore. They're all spam and viruses. And this person is on vacation. Why the fudge would he email me??!!!!??? Sigh....just venting....sorry. No anti-virus program on this laptop, so I'm hoping for the best.

[xoxoxoBruce]

No anti-virus program on this laptop, so I'm hoping for the best.

Get a small one, like Malwarebytes, and clean that baby.







Or you could send it to me to clean, just don't remove any of the naked pictures of you and your girlfriends.

[Lola Bunny]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Get a small one, like Malwarebytes, and clean that baby.




Or you could send it to me to clean, just don't remove any of the naked pictures of you and your girlfriends.

Hmm....it's a macbook air. What kind of anti-virus program do I install on that? As for the ehem pictures, I can just send you a cd of them. No need to send my laptop.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I would try Malwarebytes, but somebody familiar wit Macs may have a better idea.

Sure a CD would work, how about a dozen copies, I'll make a fortune.

[Lola Bunny]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Sure a CD would work, how about a dozen copies, I'll make a fortune.

Ugh! I missed this post. Was going to be a personal gift, but now, NO MORE FOR YOU.

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by Lola Bunny

Hmm....it's a macbook air. What kind of anti-virus program do I install on that? As for the ehem pictures, I can just send you a cd of them. No need to send my laptop.

Google the Mac antivirus software called "ClamXav"

It used to be free, but after today (7/31/15) it will be ~$30.
Today, it is $22.46... with a 30 free trial

It has an excellent reputation, is easy to install, and once installed it
monitors whatever drives or folders, including your emails
... whatever you wish.

ClamXav automatically gets daily updates of new viruses,
and actually runs in background without you having to do much of anything.
But then you can scan specific files, and either delete or quarantine any infected files.
So it's very low maintenance.

And it passes no judgement on ehem pictures

[Lola Bunny]

Hehehe.....Do you use that program, Lamplighter?

What I'm hesitating on is that I need to bring my laptop up to the store to get it fixed or looked at. Long story short, when I first got my laptop, I did something and a large chunk of the hd was partitioned off and now unusable. I've been too lazy to bring it up for the Apple people to fix it for me. Calling for an appt has been time consuming and unfruitful. I'm afraid that they may have to redo my system. If everything gets wiped out, will they put back the program for me for free?