Re: [CGUYS] security softward - trendmicro - any information?
I've been using Trend Micro PC-Cillin for quite a few years and it has done the job. The only problem, kind of a big one, was that they majorly updated the program a little over a year ago and uninstalling the old program (necessary before installing the new one) was very complicated. Because I was having trouble with the uninstallation and was busy with other stuff at the time, I put off completing the job, and, of course, contracted a virus necessitating (or so I thought) reinstallation of the entire OS. This will not be a problem for you, unless Trend Micro does another similar upgrade in the next couple of years. Soon we PC users will all be running Windows 7 and hopefully these security issue will be but a bad memory. -Original Message- From: Computer Guys Discussion List [mailto:COMPUTERGUYS- l...@listserv.aol.com] On Behalf Of Mother Geek Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 5:37 PM To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: [CGUYS] security softward - trendmicro - any information? Hi - I have a tech guru who wired my house who suggests dumping McAfee (even before last week's difficulty) and use Microtrend instead www.trendmicro.com Have any of you used this successfully? Is there something else you'd recommend? Thank you. /gayley knight *** ** ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *** ** * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Should I buy for my wife?
I have been using the Acer Aspire Revo R3610-U9012 for a few months as part of a home theater setup and it has been fine. This is more expensive than the AR1600 but it comes with a wireless keyboard and mouse (which I needed) plus Windows 7 with its built-in security program, which seems to work. It's amazingly quiet and small, and I understand it can be attached to the back of a flat display to keep it off your desk and out of sight. Acer - AspireRevo Nettop with Intel® Atom™ Processor Model: AR1600-U910H | SKU: 9535434 She is not a computer person. Only uses it for limited e-mail and for microsoft word. Is not interested in using for more than this. Would this Acer do the job? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Help - computer seems infected, going crazy!
The other day John Gilroy on WAMU's Computer Guys (and Gal) radio show recommended a program called Revo to clean up a machine infected with what sounds like the same malware on your machine: http://www.revouninstaller.com/ It is able to hunt down the hidden files which enable the malware to resurrect itself after it has ostensibly been removed by more conventional methods. Link to show: http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2010-02-02/computer-guys-gal I can connect to the internet and use email, so long as about every 5 seconds I say no to the pop-ups that say my computer is at risk or infiltrated or bring up these websites (using IE, while I am only using FireFox). I keep stopping the scan this new antivirus program seems to be running because I am afraid it itself is a virus, maybe part of a scam to infect the computer in order to get me to buy the software to disinfect it! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Help - computer seems infected, going crazy!
The software is $40 and is designed for something else. Malware is not going to create the uninstall files a program like Revo would need. Maybe if you already had it installed and monitoring changes it might be able to uninstall some malware, but I would not bet on it. Note that its web pages does not say a word about removing malware. Yeah, I kind of wondered how one ANY program could be installed on so badly an infected system, (and I yes I did note that the website says nothing about removing malware) but John Gilroy did say he used it for that, and recommended it for that purpose. Maybe there was more to the story than he had time for. If you were still on the show you coulda ast him. BTW, I miss those Edgy Listening first Tuesdays with you, Mr. Gilroy and Derek McGinty. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Help - computer seems infected, going crazy!
Battling against those two sure was entertaining. Yes. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] New SIM, but improved?
I have noticed this in the past with some items, but today we are seeing somewhat of a reversal. A lot of the cell phones are getting bigger, and some even say the the iPad, the latest major computing product release, is essentially a larger Ipod Touch. Computer monitors are also getting bigger as Apple is showing us. TVs are getting humongous. Steve Yes, TVs are getting larger in two dimensions, but they are also getting thinner and lighter. The new LED displays are super thin. George * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Ban mobile computing
Yes, I wasn't thinking about vulnerable pedestrians in the mix. The stakes are considerably higher in the human vs. large, speeding machine context. Good point. But even here I bet there will be a tech solution to preventing car collisions with ANYTHING, humans, animals, trees, ice patches. Even now there are (infrared?) sensors that can pick out warm people on a dark night, warning a driver of their presence. But I agree that at present people should not be using their devices while driving. The New York Times had an article about pedestrians who are getting injured while walking and using electronic devices. One teenager gave himself a concussion by walking head-first into a pole! Safer cars don't do very much for pedestrians, who are no match for drivers on cellphones or computers. Human flesh versus a ton of speeding metal--it's no contest. No many how many safety improvements you put in the car. --Constance Warner * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Ban mobile computing
Technology helped to create this problem but technology eventually will provide solutions such as safer cars, reliable crash-avoidance systems, and even vehicles that drive themselves. Meanwhile people need to focus on their driving. Did I read somewhere about a car-based system that would disable cell phones when the car is moving? we just cannot have folks driving around doing all that stuff, sometimes multiple things at once, hands-free or not. Steve * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] iTunes problem
As Jordan and Steve described, I also join all the tracks before importing an audiobook CD, then make a playlist of all the CD's in the correct order. But I sometimes had a problem with regaining my place after stopping playback on my iPod. Somewhere on the web was a post explaining how to change the file extension of the audio files from .m4a to .m4b, in order to make the file completely bookmarkable, so this is the practise I now follow. Now the only time the iPod loses its place is after it has been connected to a computer (usually I recharge it from a wall socket), or if I connect the FM tuner. This may be different on a Mac, but when you change the file name a new file is created and you have to show iTunes where to find it. Kind of a PITA but preferable to have to fiddle with the iPod right when you are ready to drive somewhere, work out at the gym, etc. If anybody knows how to join all the individual CD files into a single monster file of the whole book, I would love ! to know how to do that, since this is the way downloaded audiobooks are delivered and playback is almost completely trouble free. George -Original Message- From: Computer Guys Discussion List [mailto:COMPUTERGUYS- l...@listserv.aol.com] On Behalf Of b_s-wilk Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 11:02 AM To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] iTunes problem I have loaded books on CDs into iTunes. Many of them have dozens or even a hundred tracks on each CD, and a book might be 10 or 15 CDs long. These audio files typically have a name like Track 1, Track 2, and so on, there are no differentiating titles, up to 25 or 99. So when I first loaded up a book I'd have 15 tracks called track 1, and 15 called track 2 and so on, and I quickly discovered that iTunes could get confused about the order of these apparently identical files. With audio books I generally have no problem listening to them in iTunes. On an iPod it's another story. I was listening to a collection by Neil Gaiman, with 70+ chapters. On my iPod they were out of order, but not in iTunes. I took the book and merged all of the chapters, adding chapter markers. It was easy, but, sorry, I don't remember which program I used, maybe QT pro, Garage Band, or Audacity. It played correctly on the iPod that way, and I could select chapters. It's possible, no, likely, that since I didn't RTFM for the iPod Touch, I might have set it on Shuffle by mistake. *** ** ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *** ** * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] iTunes problem
Thanks, I will try changing the iTunes option you mention next time I import an audiobook, as it is indeed way easier than what I have been doing. And I will also check out MP3Tag at a later date. I got my feet wet with tagging photos in Photoshop Elements, but gravitated back to the old folder system just because after years of organizing files that way it seems more natural. But clearly the tagging system is a much more powerful way of storing and retrieving data and is the way of the future as you, Tom, and others have pointed out. -Original Message- From: Computer Guys Discussion List [mailto:COMPUTERGUYS- l...@listserv.aol.com] On Behalf Of mike Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 12:18 PM To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] iTunes problem This seems to be much harder then it should be. Properly tagging your cds upon import will correct any issues relating to order of the tracks. Part of the issue seems to be the reliance on iTunes to tag files. It can do basic tag editing but if your library is already imported and you want to tag more then a few files, iTunes lags way behind. http://www.mp3tag.de/download.html MP3Tag is a great mass tag editor allowing for wildcards among other things. To make any mp3 recall where you left off...as podcasts do by default, select the files you want and right click (on windows) and select get info. Under options there is an area to select remember playback position. This will make it so when you go to replay the file, it starts where it last left off even after sync. You can select one file or multiple files to do this. ** * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Blogging for marketing networking (was: Blogging: is it worth it?)
That's why I asked about other list members' experiences with blogging; if they got anything out of it, and if it's worth the large investment of time. --Constance Warner The weblog has enabled some practitioners in the Daily Painters movement to successfully market their work in a new way not formerly possible, and many of us other painters are trying to jump on board. It's fun for admirers of a certain artist to see a new piece from him or her almost every day, and it has the salutory, spine-stiffening effect of forcing the artist to produce work regularly. Plus the pieces, necessarily small, are affordable, and so some of the best painters sell almost all of their daily paintings as soon as they are posted. Obviously, what's on your blog had better be pretty good. The same rule applies here: the artistry has to be at a pretty high level. (gulp!) George * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Camera query. Just curious.
Jordan [jor17...@gmail.com] wrote: ... one of the very cool things about this Nikon is that the display folds out and swivels like a camcorder display. This allows the user to hold the camera at the waist or where ever and view the display. So this display is not available on any new cameras that you know of? I rigged up a hinged mirror contraption for my Sony still camera, in order to do something similar, but it doesn't really work because it is nearly impossible to compose the reversed image. George * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Camera query. Just curious.
Some of my best pictures of people were taken using neither the viewfinder nor the LCD screen. You point the camera in generally the right direction, talk to your subject, smile perhaps, all the while maintaining eye contact, then shoot when an appealing facial expression appears. Later, in Photoshop, you can fix rotation problems and compose the shot. Obviously this technique is for shooting people only, and is a way of circumventing the natural guardedness we all have. -Original Message- From: Computer Guys Discussion List [mailto:computerguy...@listserv.aol.com] On Behalf Of phartz...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 2:38 PM To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: [CGUYS] Camera query. Just curious. Digital camera folks! Which manner of viewfinding do you use and/or prefer? Camera held out in front of you at arms length as you stand or walk about looking like a zombie, or to use the actual viewfinder if your camera has one? I'm a viewfinder person myself if for no other reason than any camera is hard to hold steady when held at arms length. Steve * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Camera query. Just curious.
How do you support the camera? Do you wear the camera bolted to your head? Um... I hold it in my hand? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] USB Turntable?
When I am working out and sweating, and feeling inclined to feel sorry for myself, listening to an account of, say, the Bataan death march, can put my head in a useful place! Tom Piwowar wrote: I can think of plenty of up-tempo music for exercising, but I can't imagine what kind of audio book would be suitable! * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
