jandy44

Hi everyone ,some of you may have noticed I have not been around much of late, I have been having awful trouble with the puter,it has been doing all sorts of weird things and has been a pain in the backside for a week or so now :curse::curse: it all came to light on Sunday night when after experiencing yet another problem I phoned the tech guys for some support ,so he asked me to enter the control panel and select internet options WELL it was not there along with some others that had dissapeared seems more than likely I have had a trojan or some other nasty infection on here causing all sorts of damage :curse: so there was only one course of action to take and that was to wipe the hard disc clean and reinstall windows.So Sunday night I wiped the hard drive,by this time it was late so I left it until yesterday morning to reinstall windows,I just managed to reinstall and send a greeting to JDR before we went out for my birthday,anyway I have spent today rebuilding all the programs ,task bars,reinstalling MSN and even putting the desk tops back has they were and its all up and running and back to normal and even if I say it myself I have done great job and am quite satisfied that all is well again, the only problem is because I have reinstalled I have Norton back on for 60 days but I will remove that in due course using the norton removel tool.

I do hope everyone is well ,have I missed anything ???

So I am back again ,look forward to catching up yet again

brisca

Oh my goodness Jean..............................you had me really worried with the title of this thread!
I thought you'd been really poorly or something!!

I know you're very attached to the old lappy, but I must say I'd far rather hear that you've had a bit of a technical hitch, than to know you've gone down with bubonic plague or something

Anyway, its really good to have you back

I haven't been around much either, cos my lovely Mum was here until last Tuesday - and then ever since she went, I've either been depressed or a bit poorly!
I've been reading the threads and giving out some karma; I just haven't been posting......................but watch out, cos I'm back now, and feeling "normal" again!!

Anyway, what did you do to celebrate your birthday yesterday?
Hope you had a really lovely day?

Love and hugs to you,
Sam xx

PS You're a bit of a clever bunny with all this PC stuff now, aren't you!?

Eve

Hi jean, so glad it was the computer and not you. You have been busy re inmstalling etc, it isn't too hard a job it is just so time comsuming to get them back how you want them. I have been off school since friday and am thinking i should be ok to go back tomorrow, but want to make sure i am perfectly ok for flying off to Competa on friday evening. Just really fogged up with shushy ears now, so i suppose tomorrow I could save my voice and not speak to anyone and as i can't hear very well they wouldn't bother speaking to me!! I don't think that would work very well in a school do you?
Glad to hear from you, take care, oh and what did you do for yur birthday, hope it was a good one!
Luv Eve
xx

jandy44

Hi Sam,

Sorry to hear that you have been feeling a bit low of late,nice to hear your on the mend,it must of been lovely to have your Mum staying with you for a while though ,I bet you have had some really good times with her and some precious memories to hold.

Well after I had reinstalled windows and reset the ISP time was getting on,we had a drive up to the Derbyshire Dales intending to have lunch,by the time we arrived the pub we usually use was about to close at three and re-open at 5 ,so we had a drive to a little village and bought some coffee and snacks and sat by the river at the picnic tables,well George was so funny,Andy was offering him some biscuits and he was not having them ,just threw them on the floor , would you believe he cottoned on to the fact I was dunking mine in the coffee and when I offered him biscuits took them willingly,so then Andy dunked a biscuit in his coffee and he was happy to eat them then

After our snack we drove around the country-side and visited the dam's and George had a good run around, the scenery looks so beautiful at this time of the year with all the different Autum shades and it was still very mild to be walking around.

We arrived back at the pub for an early dinner at six and then afterwards headed back home, so at least we had a few hours out in the end

I recieved a few cards and flowers and I went and treated myself to an external hard drive thingy last Sat,so I had made a back-up of photo's and stuff , just has well

Well Im sure we will be in more contact now,the winter months are drawing in along with the dark nights

Nice to hear from you

Love and best wishes and take care of yourself

jandy44

Sorry to hear that you are feeling so terrible,I do hope you feel a lot better to fly on Friday,I wish it was us heading out again ,put your feet up and take it easy

Eve

jdr

Don`t forget the viruses could come in the photo files etc that you download..........
So be careful that your security is up to date.

jandy44

Iv got Norton on for 60 days again,and then when that runs out I will put a good one on any idea's I had AVG free addition and Zone alarm,I think I will opt for the AVG paid one next time

jdr

The free one is just as good, the paid one is more for business use.

Mitzyboy

You dont need to go for the paid edition of AVG honest, although I can imagine why you feel you should. I know tons of people who have used AVG free for years and not been infected .... I can only assume you must have been very unlucky.

Personally, I avoid downloading anything to my computer unless its really necessary .... like JDR says you can bring something in with a picture.

jandy44

What I think may have bought it in was I recieved an e-mail a few days ago and I was stupid to open it because it was someone after my bank details ,I was not stupid enough to go into the link sent with it though,it just seems a coincidence that I have been having massive problems since then,it had even removed stuff of the puter so it was nasty bloody begger the only downloads I have done are explorer 7 from microsoft and firefox ,and I downloaded various anti spyware etc . Oh well Im back to normal now

Mitzyboy

Yeah, dont need me to tell you now but NEVER open attachments on emails that you are not sure of the origin. It seems a bit of a coincidence doesn't it.

Eve

Oh good, it can't have caught my cold!!
xxxxxxx

mikeoc

I've been sending a few emails out lately asking for bank details, with viruses attached, anyone know how I've got on?

XTreme

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