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Title: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: Freeper on May 17, 2011, 06:08:33 PM
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My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
   
Yesterday, I tried to get on the DU on my room mates notebook. It's a rather small machine, something called 'Eee' and she received it as a gift from her sister to keep in touch. She has got it hooked up with a wi-fi connection, and frankly, it is so fast that I even thought of buying one as a backup for quick internet. That is, until I tried to navigate over to the DU and was greeted with the message that "Trend Micro Security considers this site to be dangerous" and said that it was a "fraud and a scam". This is the virus protection that comes with this notebook, from the manufacture. My room mate says that she is "very concerned that her notebook seems to have a political agenda". Needless to say that I will not be buying this device.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1121732

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Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: Ballygrl on May 17, 2011, 06:12:04 PM
It has to be the fault of the Koch Brothers and or the Walton family.
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: miskie on May 17, 2011, 06:18:07 PM
lets see :

Odds that a room full of liberals has at least one person harboring a virus ~100%
Odds that any website soliciting donations to win an iPad2 is a scam ~75%
Odds that a message board full of liberals has at least one conversation actively endorsing fraud ~%100%


Viruschecker seems to be working just fine.
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: Ballygrl on May 17, 2011, 06:20:19 PM
lets see :

Odds that a room full of liberals has at least one person harboring a virus ~100%
Odds that any website soliciting donations to win an iPad2 is a scam ~75%
Odds that a message board full of liberals has at least one conversation actively endorsing fraud ~%100%


Viruschecker seems to be working just fine.

:lmao:
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: I_B_Perky on May 17, 2011, 06:20:54 PM
Now that is hilarious. Our server netnanny software at work won't let me go to DU, or CC for that matter, but I ain't never had any trouble with an antivirus or spyware at home.
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: jukin on May 17, 2011, 06:24:52 PM
Smart anti-virus program.
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: I_B_Perky on May 17, 2011, 06:48:03 PM
Smart anti-virus program.

Naw... it's all an evil corporate conspiracy by the Koch brothers, dontcha know!!!!  :cheersmate:
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: WinOne4TheGipper on May 17, 2011, 06:54:03 PM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1121732

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Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: Randy on May 17, 2011, 06:56:38 PM
I have an EEE PC and it doesn't come with an AV program on it.
Buy one and put whatever program you want on it moron.
God wat ****ing drama queens. I have a 15yo that lives here that's not a quarter of the queen DUmmies are and she drives us nuts.
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: Chris_ on May 17, 2011, 06:57:54 PM
:catfight:

TrendMicro is crap.  Everybody knows that.
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: Duke Nukum on May 17, 2011, 07:13:01 PM
When I went to see Sarah Palin, somebody in the unruly liberal mob who showed up to shout her down started throwing hunks of cheese at us. I'll never buy that brand of cheese again /DU non sequitur mode
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on May 17, 2011, 07:19:08 PM
:catfight:

TrendMicro is crap.  Everybody knows that.

Your DU name is icymist?
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: GOBUCKS on May 17, 2011, 07:23:34 PM
His room  mate should take that computer to the laundry  mat, and then go to the air  port.
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: true_blood on May 17, 2011, 08:11:21 PM
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icymist (1000+ posts) Tue May-17-11 05:05 PM
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My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Yesterday, I tried to get on the DU on my room mates notebook. It's a rather small machine, something called 'Eee' and she received it as a gift from her sister to keep in touch. She has got it hooked up with a wi-fi connection, and frankly, it is so fast that I even thought of buying one as a backup for quick internet. That is, until I tried to navigate over to the DU and was greeted with the message that "Trend Micro Security considers this site to be dangerous" and said that it was a "fraud and a scam".
That is EPIC! A "fraud and a scam"?!? Who would have thought?
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Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: Splashdown on May 17, 2011, 08:13:57 PM
So....

Where HAS BadCat been?

 :-)
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: IassaFTots on May 17, 2011, 09:19:40 PM
I have an Eee right here, and it can get to DU just fine, it doesn't want to, that's all.
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: BEG on May 17, 2011, 11:27:43 PM
I have an Eee right here, and it can get to DU just fine, it doesn't want to, that's all.

Don't you mean "THE DU"?
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: Ballygrl on May 17, 2011, 11:45:45 PM
I have an EEE PC and it doesn't come with an AV program on it.
Buy one and put whatever program you want on it moron.
God wat ****ing drama queens. I have a 15yo that lives here that's not a quarter of the queen DUmmies are and she drives us nuts.

You mean the OP could be making a false statement?
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: thundley4 on May 18, 2011, 12:16:36 AM
Why was the DUmmie using their computer anyway?  The friend probably got tired of clearing out viruses and malware the DUmmies gets on their laptop and set the antivirus to block the one site the DUmmie couldn't live without.  That is the one site other than pron sites.
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: LC EFA on May 18, 2011, 01:04:37 AM
Sheesh. Some people.

Add an exclusion or reflag the site as safe.

I swear the technical competency level of these people is lower than that of a retarded gibbon.
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: Skul on May 18, 2011, 03:13:00 AM
Using the roomates connect??
Parasite!
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: Tucker on May 18, 2011, 06:58:22 AM


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2. I'll let her know about those.
   
She's not exactly computer literate, and sometimes, I'm not even sure about computer things. I mostly rely on the nice young man at Staples to help me out. Besides, it's her notebook. What concerns me is that this program is from the manufacture, put into a device that is only $250.00 in price and will be the only device that a lot of people can afford.
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Why not add a slam to the evil capitalists to the tale. Always a secondary agenda with DUmmies.
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: Karin on May 18, 2011, 08:34:14 AM
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$250.00 in price and will be the only device that a lot of people can afford.
  Not after Obama's food and gas. 

"Fraud and a Scam."  Too F'in funny!  :lmao:

But at any rate, I object to the unnecessary insult directed to retarded gibbons on these very pages.  Cease and desist.   


Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: BlueStateSaint on May 18, 2011, 08:45:57 AM
But at any rate, I object to the unnecessary insult directed to retarded gibbons on these very pages.  Cease and desist.

I was going to mention that this morning, but the damned computer was balking at actually loading any pages. :banghead:
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on May 18, 2011, 09:43:12 AM
Now Karin and BSS, to be completely fair here, he did not actually equate the DUmmorrhoids to retarded gibbons, he placed them below retarded gibbons, but didn't really say just how far below.  Let's give him the benefit of the doubt, and take that as meaning a very great distance indeed.
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: BlueStateSaint on May 18, 2011, 09:45:43 AM
Now Karin and BSS, to be completely fair here, he did not actually equate the DUmmorrhoids to retarded gibbons, he placed them below retarded gibbons, but didn't really say just how far below.  Let's give him the benefit of the doubt, and take that as meaning a very great distance indeed.

Point taken. :o

I love your new adjective--"DUmmorroids."  It fits them so well.  H5 issued.
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: LC EFA on May 18, 2011, 04:35:34 PM
Now Karin and BSS, to be completely fair here, he did not actually equate the DUmmorrhoids to retarded gibbons, he placed them below retarded gibbons, but didn't really say just how far below.  Let's give him the benefit of the doubt, and take that as meaning a very great distance indeed.

Some clarification is clearly in order here.

The intellectual difference between a retarded gibbon and a "DUmmorrhoid" is approximately the same as the difference between Einstein and cinder blocks.
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: NHSparky on May 18, 2011, 04:40:05 PM
:catfight:

TrendMicro is crap.  Everybody knows that.

That's why I got rid of the "trial" version of McAfee on my laptop and installed BitDefender.  No problems with it at all.
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: BattleHymn on May 18, 2011, 04:53:46 PM
His room  mate should take that computer to the laundry  mat, and then go to the air  port.

How would you recommend he make his way there?  I was going to suggest horse back, the rail road, or he could have one of his friends push him there in a wheel barrow. 
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: GOBUCKS on May 18, 2011, 06:53:27 PM
How would you recommend he make his way there?  I was going to suggest horse back, the rail road, or he could have one of his friends push him there in a wheel barrow. 
It would be quicker in an auto  mobile, or even an air  plane.
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: miskie on May 18, 2011, 07:06:31 PM
That's why I got rid of the "trial" version of McAfee on my laptop and installed BitDefender.  No problems with it at all.

I got rid of Windows on most of the computers here, which had the side-effect of solving the virus issue.
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: LC EFA on May 18, 2011, 07:20:09 PM
I got rid of Windows on most of the computers here, which had the side-effect of solving the virus issue.

I made the mistake of letting someone use my netbook unsupervised and they immediately went out and got something nasty. The side effect of removal was that I needed to reinstall windows. After some careful consideration I downloaded an ubuntu image and put that on because imaging the restore DVD and getting it to boot correctly from a flash drive seemed too much pain in the ass.
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: miskie on May 18, 2011, 07:51:05 PM
I made the mistake of letting someone use my netbook unsupervised and they immediately went out and got something nasty. The side effect of removal was that I needed to reinstall windows. After some careful consideration I downloaded an ubuntu image and put that on because imaging the restore DVD and getting it to boot correctly from a flash drive seemed too much pain in the ass.

Yeah, Ubuntu is my distribution of choice. As for me, I just got sick of Windows unraveling over time. Unless one is using their PC to play a lot of installable games (web based flash games work just fine), there is really no reason to not use Linux at this point.
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: IassaFTots on May 18, 2011, 07:55:07 PM
Yeah, Ubuntu is my distribution of choice. As for me, I just got sick of Windows unraveling over time. Unless one is using their PC to play a lot of installable games (web based flash games work just fine), there is really no reason to not use Linux at this point.

That is where I am headed.  I have to use Windows for some work at home, but I am going to set aside some space for Ubuntu to start learning. 
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: miskie on May 18, 2011, 08:04:51 PM
That is where I am headed.  I have to use Windows for some work at home, but I am going to set aside some space for Ubuntu to start learning. 

My PC is Dual-booting - meaning at startup I can choose to run Windows if necessary. Also, since I have a Core2 Quad, I have enough power to run a virtual machine, meaning that while running Linux, I can open up a software Based PC, and run Windows that way - then close the whole thing like any other application. Ubuntu is a good direction to go in - its well seasoned & easily managed by newbs - yet can be altered and customized by the experienced.

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Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: IassaFTots on May 18, 2011, 08:11:15 PM
My PC is Dual-booting - meaning at startup I can choose to run Windows if necessary. Also, since I have a Core2 Quad, I have enough power to run a virtual machine, meaning that while running Linux, I can open up a software Based PC, and run Windows that way - then close the whole thing like any other application. Ubuntu is a good direction to go in - its well seasoned & easily managed by newbs - yet can be altered and customized by the experienced.

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Continuing the derailment.....my BF is going to set up a similar situation for me.  I don't know all of the "technical stuff" but, that basically sounds like what my set up will be sometime soon. 
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: miskie on May 18, 2011, 08:18:16 PM
Continuing the derailment.....my BF is going to set up a similar situation for me.  I don't know all of the "technical stuff" but, that basically sounds like what my set up will be sometime soon. 

Good good - and you know what you are going to learn ? Your PC running Ubuntu will be significantly faster than the same exact hardware running Windows. Good Luck with it. After its set, any questions, just send me a PM.
Title: Re: My room mates notebooks anti-virus program won't allow access to DU
Post by: IassaFTots on May 18, 2011, 08:21:31 PM
Good good - and you know what you are going to learn ? Your PC running Ubuntu will be significantly faster than the same exact hardware running Windows. Good Luck with it. After its set, any questions, just send me a PM.

That is exactly what I understand.  I bought this ASUS with Vista installed and upgraded to Windows 7.  The primary reason why I have decided to learn something new is all because of speed.  I HATE friggin updates. 

I will most certainly keep you in mind if I have any questions.  Thanks!  :cheersmate: