Serious breach of protocol/etiquette on KiwiBiker

[Blackbird]

Thank you John - appreciate it. You veered dangerously close to techno-speak but I will forgive you as you have been so helpful. As I'm charitably disposed because you were so helpful, I shall plead with my good friend Rider in Black to refrain from nipping round and giving you a clip round the ear - I assure you you won't like it if he did.

Cheers

Geoff

[RiderInBlack]

Thank you John - appreciate it. You veered dangerously close to techno-speak but I will forgive you as you have been so helpful. As I'm charitably disposed because you were so helpful, I shall plead with my good friend Rider in Black to refrain from nipping round and giving you a clip round the ear - I assure you you won't like it if he did.

Cheers

Geoff

Yep, gave John a "greenie" and a big wet soppy kiss for that (personally I'd rather have clipped his ear).

[John]

I really would preferr a clip around the ear... sigh...

but that kiss wowza. that just did it for me.

[Zapf]

On another note, go here to find out howto stop getting ads and bad cookies/spyware forever, I've been doing it ever since windows 98 works a charm.

ermm smart... smart... on another note... don't do it on your work computer people.... might break something

[John]

ermm smart... smart... on another note... don't do it on your work computer people.... might break something

ah true good point, if you still want to just copy the original content of the hosts file on your computer into the one that you download, and it will be cool as.

[Antallica]

If any of you who have been 'hacked' are using KB from your work and are connecting to the net through a proxy server (especially wingate), I would suggest telling your IT Administrator to clear the proxy server's IE cache. This is happening at work where you'd open up the Microsoft evaluation page for example and get someone elses login.

[Blackbird]

If any of you who have been 'hacked' are using KB from your work and are connecting to the net through a proxy server (especially wingate), I would suggest telling your IT Administrator to clear the proxy server's IE cache. This is happening at work where you'd open up the Microsoft evaluation page for example and get someone elses login.

Crikey, all this great info coming out shows what a minefield the IT world is. Thanks for the initiation!

Geoff

[Biff]

Word of advice about Adaware, and some other spyware programmes. Some of these companies (including Lavasoft - creators of Adaware) actually de-list spyware distributed by company's that pay Lavasoft a royalty. In other words Adaware, amongst others, are pretty shite. I recommend looking at packages such as Spy Doctor, but use Adaware and Spybot as well.

The bottom line - as always - if it's free, it's free for a reason, if it's cheap, you get what you pay for.

[SARGE]

On another note, go here to find out howto stop getting ads and bad cookies/spyware forever, I've been doing it ever since windows 98 works a charm.

i run a hosts file also.. i have a pretty complete file ( made in conjunction with a few spy/ ad/ cookie/ etc utilities)..

am happy to donate a copy to anyone who needs it .. my browsers dont get many adverts, no spy cookies..pop ups.. nothin i dont want at all..

[pyrocam]

i run a hosts file also.. i have a pretty complete file ( made in conjunction with a few spy/ ad/ cookie/ etc utilities)..

am happy to donate a copy to anyone who needs it .. my browsers dont get many adverts, no spy cookies..pop ups.. nothin i dont want at all..

Ill take that. handy in my proffession.

[zadok]

Word of advice about Adaware, and some other spyware programmes. Some of these company's (including Lavasoft - creators of Adaware) actually de-list spyware distributed by company's that pay Lavasoft a royalty. In other words Adaware, amongst others, are pretty shite. I recommend looking at packages such as Spy Doctor, but use Adaware and Spybot as well.

The bottom line - as always - if it's free, it's free for a reason, if it's cheap, you get what you pay for.

I gave adaware & Spybot the flick. Using a-squared, which seems to do the best job all rolled into one. And it's free.
http://www.a-2.org/en/software/free/