Thanks, Colin. Very helpful. On Jan 29, 2010, at 8:41 AM, Colin wrote:
> I too had no problems (and I have multiple scanners etc on my PC and all up > to date) so I would suggest two possibilities. > The first is that a virus was picked up elsewhere as suggested but I think it > more likely that you just overloaded the system which caused the freeze. > Many malware items/Trojans etc will cause this to happen because they run as > priority items and use all the CPU power. > If it happens again, run the taskmanager (alt+control+delete buttons) and > check CPU usage. if it's at 100%, see what's using it by checking the running > processes (not applications). > I would suggest downloading and running Spybot and Malwarebytes (both free > programs) to spot any unwanted stuff that's running and, of course, using a > good virus scanner, updating it and running it just in case. > Anyway, no problem with the link - it was clean as was the Youtube connection > and video so definitely something on your PC. > Back to the subject. I love automatons and this was fantastic! > Playing was pretty good too :-) > > Colin Hill > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Geoff Turner > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 7:57 AM > Subject: RE: [HG-new] Bryan Tolley and his mini Vielluer > > I clicked on that link and had no problems. Sounds like it was caused by > something else, a virus picked up from somewhere a bit more dodgy than > YouTube perhaps? > > Geoff Turner > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [HG-new] Bryan Tolley and his mini Vielluer > Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:33:02 -0800 > To: [email protected] > > I know that no one would ever intentionally put anything on this forum that > could cause anyone else computer problems but I wanted to put out a caveat in > case what happened with me might happen with others. > > This morning I clicked on the link below and at first nothing seemed to > happen and it appeared that I had not reached You Tube (it's usually > straightforward). so I tried to go on to other work I needed to do involving > word processing and internet. > > The first thing that happened was that the music would suddenly begin to play > and then would cut off after abut one second. Also all my programs starting > hanging up. I wanted to restart, hoping that would fix things but could not > even save work in order to close the programs I was running (Word, mail, and > other internet). After a while the music stopped for about 2 hours but I was > still having trouble with my programs running extremely slowly. After a > while it did let me save some things, after several minutes of trying. > > I wanted to deal with the problem definitely and figured I could if I could > actually see the You Tube thing. For a long time I could not even find it on > my computer because it was not letting me see the desk top. Also all my icons > at the bottom went dark for a while and I could not even get to the work I > had been doing (some of it urgent). When I finally was able to get to the > desktop to get to You Tube I clicked on the button to close it and it > appeared to close (at least it disappeared visually) but the music continued > to start suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, and I was only able to shut it > off by turning off the sound on the computer. I turned the sound back on > after a while have not heard anything but my programs are still not running > normally. > > At that point for about 30 minutes it was not letting me save anything. But > the all of a sudden it did, although still with much delay. At least I > thought is was saving, so that I could shut down the computer and restart. I > then tried to restart several times and nothing happened. I also tried the > shut down option and nothing happened. Finally I had to do a hard stop and > start. After that I hurried to Word because I need to finish a report today. > However, the last version, which had gone through all the proper save > procedure, had disappeared. I tried to find it with the search function > (thinking I had possibly mistyped something so that it would be elsewhere in > my list of documents) but it was not there. I finally found it in the > general trash (took a while because I had not cleaned that out in a long > time). Of I had not, I would have lost about 3 hours of work on the document > (still spent about 2 hours on this problem, which is not totally solved > because my programs are still running slowly. Yikes! Any ideas, anyone? > > I hope this was just my own blasted bad luck and an isolated occurrence, but > I did want to put out a warning, just in case. > > Trish > > > On Jan 27, 2010, at 10:42 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > If you have never seen Bryan Tolley's marionettes you will really enjoy this. > Watch those fingers go. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SyYosogpok > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "hurdygurdy" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy > > The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at > http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. 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