Coast Rivers & Computer ??

[Chris Nordling]

To keep it on the fishing board :grin: :

The Wilson and Nestucca rivers are slowly on the move up. Hopefully the leaves will be gone soon too. I just can't wait to drown some more eggs, and begin chasing some chromers upstream :cheers:

It's been a few years since we had a storm at the right time, in the right amounts ( so far) for fall fishing. I just love fall...... :grin: :grin:

Now my computer ? :

I recently purchased some anti-virus software, and apparantly my instant update thingy has expired. Now they want me to purchase an update pack.

While this is probably a good idea, I keep getting reminded by the software company like every 5 minutes. Literally, I get the same pop up that says" ......your anti-virus will keep working without the updater, but it is strongly suggested...."
How can I make it stop ?? It's making my maching run kinda weird, and will stack these messages up 5 deep sometimes. I may want the updater later, but not now. I also wonder how long the new one will last, since the original download's ended only a few months after I purchased it.

Any ideas or suggestions graemlins/1zhelp.gif Please help, as I'm not that computer saavy sometimes.

thanks,

Chris

[The Fishing Geek]

The "Life in General" board is getting lively, so if you would have posted this there I would have caught it. I've been hanging out there a lot lately (at the aggrivation of a few :wink: ).

Buying updates to AntiVirus software is how they stay in business. There's really no way to get rid of that notice, short of uninstalling the product and that leaves you unprotected. Trust me, there are a crudload of viruses out there. I receive them in email all the time. It just so happens that I run on a non-Windows operating system so they don't infect me. :wink:

For the cost of renewing the update subscription, I think that it is worth it. It will cost you MUCH more when you get a virus that hoses your system, because then you have to hire a geek like me to fix it. And geek rates are usually more for the first hour than you will spend on that subscription.

I say upgrade your subscription to another year or two, and continue to regularly update. It'll save you one day, and you'll be glad you were so proactive. Trust me, it's not if it will save you...it's when.

[ 11-09-2002, 10:38 AM: Message edited by: The Fishing Geek ]

[Keta]

:smile: Hi Geek :smile: Keep it up I need the entertainment :shocked: What OS do you use?

[ 11-09-2002, 02:19 PM: Message edited by: Keta ]

[The Fishing Geek]

At this point the OS that I use is Mandrake 9. Took a little bit but I've got my scanner, my digital camera, my printer...essentially EVERYTHING working. And Mozilla (web browser) is great in Linux or Windows. I also use Open Office, which is a free Office clone available in Linux and Windows as well. Beats paying the Microsoft tax or having to steal the software from a friend of a friend. Works with Word and Excel-formatted documents, too. Hard to beat that for free.

I keep Windows 2000 around for my wife and her Palm Pilot software, plus for when I do video editing. Linux still doesn't do that very well, and all my tools are in Windows. Trust me, when I find workable alternatives in Linux I'll move that over as well.

Now you know where the Geek part comes from. Beats biting the head off of a chicken.

[Keta]

Geek,
I tried Linux (Red Hat 5.2) but it wasn't advanced enough for a slow millwright. How is Linux now?

[The Fishing Geek]

RedHat 5.2? Oh yeah, that would have been a rough one.

RedHat 8.0 is good, but I have to give the usability nod to Mandrake. It detected my video card (ATI Radeon All in Wonder), printer (Canon s450 USB), scanner (Epson 636U USB), on install without my working on it at all. It also detected my network card and get my cable connection up during install. The only thing that was tricky was getting the digital camera and Palm Pilot connections up, and that's because they're serial ports.

I use KDE as the Window manager, and it's great. The install puts on more software than is needed and misses some things that I installed later. My Philips sound card didn't work, but I had another cheapo card that worked. Sure wish Philips would help with the drivers, though...

Otherwise, give Mandrake a try. For everyday use, it will do everything that Windows will.

[Chris Nordling]

Thanks Geek. It's cheap so I'll just get .Hopefully that will shut the pop up off for awhile.

Chris :cool:

[graybeard]

The best money I ever spent was on my Norton Anti-Virus. It updates automatically. I just renewed my subscription for a year for under $15. Since I have my email address on the front page of a webpage, I get up to 6 viruses emailed to me a day by spammers that have software that scans the internet for email addresses. If you have your email address on a front page of a website, you're going to get a bunch of viruses sent to you. For the last few months the "W32 Klez" virus has been the one I get mailed to me on a daily basis. It goes into a computers address book and sends the virus to your email buddies without you knowing it. :blush: :mad:

[Jennie@ifish]

Update! At any cost!!!

Believe me, the cost and hassle of trying to fix a badly infected computer is well over the cost of the update.

[skrimmy]

Ditto that Jennie! A persons time it takes to clean up an infected 'puter is worth far more than the small cost of the update subscription. Virus's run so rampantly these days that the odds are stacked severely against you without virus protection.