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Everyone make sure your windows version is up to date! Really bad virus out there!


Microsoft actually called my brother's work about it. 1st time that's ever happened!


If you don't know how to update heres instructions.


The very top tool bar of the internet explorer says tools. Click on it-go to windows update and then once on the update site go to express install. Download the patches and install. If it doesn't show 'em your safe!


I don't want any of my friends on here having their computers crash! Take care and have a good one!


You all have a safe cyber trip okay! LOL!



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  Couldn't help myself............Just a little humor here.............thanks SD, hadn't gotten the word on that one yet..........Doll


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 THANKS


I  must send my thanks to whoever sent me the one about rat poop in the glue on envelopes because I now have to use a wet towel with every envelope that needs sealing.

Also, now I have to scrub the top of every can I open for the same reason.
I no longer have any savings because I gave it to a sick girl (Penny Brown) who is about to die in the hospital for the 1,387,258th time.

I no longer have any money at all, but that will change once I receive the $15,000 that Bill Gates/Microsoft and AOL are sending me for participating in their special e-mail program.

I no longer worry about my soul because I have 363,214 angels looking out for me, and St. Theresa's novena has granted my every wish.

I no longer eat KFC because their chickens are actually horrible mutant freaks with no eyes or feathers.

I can't enjoy a good Latte from Starbucks anymore because they WOULD NOT send any coffee to that poor Army Sgt who requested it.

I no longer use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a water buffalo on a hot day.

Thanks to you, I have learned that my prayers only get answered if I forward an email to seven of my friends and make a wish within five minutes.

Because of your concern I no longer drink Coca Cola because it can remove toilet stains

I no longer can buy gasoline without taking a man along to watch the car so a serial killer won't crawl in my back seat when I'm pumping gas.

I no longer drink Pepsi or Dr. Pepper since the people who make these products are atheists who refuse to put "Under God" on their cans.

I no longer use Saran wrap in the microwave because it causes cancer.

And thanks for letting me know I can't boil a cup water in the microwave anymore because it will blow up in my face...disfiguring me for life.

I no longer go to shopping malls because someone will drug me with a perfume sample and rob me.

I no longer shop at Target since they are French and don't support our American troops or the Salvation Army.

I no longer answer the phone because someone will ask me to dial a number for which I will get a phone bill with calls to Jamaica, Uganda, Singapore, and Uzbekistan.

I no longer worry about sudden cardiac arrest, since I can now cough myself back to life instead of wasting time calling 911.

I no longer have any sneakers -- but that will change once I receive my free
replacement pair from Nike.

I no longer buy expensive cookies from Neiman Marcus since I now have their recipe.

Thanks to you, I can't use anyone's toilet but mine because a big brown African spider is lurking under the seat to cause me instant death when it bites my butt.

Thank you too for all the endless advice Andy Rooney has given us. I can live a better life now because he's told us how to fix everything.



And thanks to your great advice, I can't ever pick up $5.00 I dropped in the parking lot because it probably was placed there by a sex molester waiting underneath my car to grab my leg.

If you don't send this e-mail to at least 144,000 people in the next 70 minutes, a large dove with diarrhea will land on your head at 5:00 PM this afternoon and the fleas from 12 camels will infest your back, causing you to grow a hairy hump. I know this will occur because it actually happened to a friend of my next door neighbor's ex-mother-in-law's second husband's cousin's beautician, who is a lawyer.  

Have a wonderful day, and you are welcome !!   

    





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I have my computer set on "automatic update", through Microsoft, but, what the hey, I still occasionally log in to their update site, and manually update against loopholes they frequently find in their software.


The slugs out there, trying to make a dishonest living, will never cease.  Just like everything else in life,though, I have found it is easier to guard against those slimey denizens of life's underbelly, when I am sober!


 


PS. Doll, thanks for the humor.  We also always have to watch out for the "spoofers"!


 


 



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Hi Justin,


I do run an old Windows ME, so for me, that was a good tip, and I have just completed it, and nothing blew up. 


I don't mind change that much,  but have to say regarding computers,  I really drag my feet on shopping for a new one. Part of that Love/Hate thingy, and I will just use this one until it runs out of steam.   One of the little ity bity things I miss being married to a man that was always updating everything, all the time,  must be a guy thing, for sure.


So I will keep my fingers crossed that I updated the right items, haha.


After I restarted, my Computer told me that there were some important items missing and Microsoft might not be able to start.  Just said, no worries, it will, and it did.


DSL is my last version of keeping it up to date, did that early this year.  But tell me more about that Virus,  it could just come in on Old Explorer stuff, not thru the mail, which is the most common way of picking up a virus.  So when you have the time, will you enlighten me on that.


Better get out my old copy of Computers for Dummys and read, YET again, haha.


Ok, you must be laughing now, see I told you, I don't know S##t! about computers, turn it on, go make a cup of coffee, and when I come back, walla, everything is on, and running. That works for me.


DUH, Toni                                               



-- Edited by Toni Baloney at 10:27, 2006-08-16

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thanks for the tip. i can use all the help i can get! wagon

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Found a fix- f-disk hard drive, removing every trace of the corrupted code (I mean, uh, windows)
Be sure to erase backup partition, so that the malicious code, I mean windows, cannot re asert control of your system.
Install Linux. Spend the same time usually devoted to rebooting and pulling hair out to getting to know your new operating system. That's it. All there is to it. Problem solved.
You know why it is in most cases impossible for linux to become virus infected? The virus does not have permission to execute the necissary code and do it's dirty deeds.
Back from sponsors. Bedtime. thought i'd conver... I mean share a little. Goodnight
Ryan
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
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-- Edited by Rjs at 23:44, 2006-08-15

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Hi Justin,

Thanks for the warning. I do appreciate it. At the moment my windows and Internet security are all up to date. But, I have just ordered a new computer and needed the reminder.

Take care,

Carol

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