Topic: Forum News, Announcements, Updates, Errors, etc..... (Read 421403 times)

RAAArtyGunner · « **Reply #275 on:** July 01, 2013, 09:48:51 pm »

Davie,

Posted this mayhem link

http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=40878.new;topicseen#new

and it gave me the same link back as the answer, what was I supposed to see???

condeh · « **Reply #276 on:** July 01, 2013, 09:56:23 pm »

That link is already a 'full' one, try entering http://goo.gl/iaZd9 and you will see the effect.

RAAArtyGunner · « **Reply #277 on:** July 01, 2013, 10:20:19 pm »

Condeh,

How did you do that???

condeh · « **Reply #278 on:** July 01, 2013, 10:24:37 pm »

If you google for 'URL Shortener' there are a number of sites which let you enter a long URL, and will provide a small one. The reason being it is easier to send to others, and saves space for character limited systems such as Twitter.
I used www.goo.gl (a service run by Google) to create the link, which is interesting as it then will keep track of how many clicks it gets, and from which countries ( I hadn't realised it did that until now)
3 Clicks so far

RAAArtyGunner · « **Reply #279 on:** July 02, 2013, 04:01:50 am »

So big brother is indeed watching

Martin [Admin] · « **Reply #280 on:** July 02, 2013, 11:40:04 am »

Well despite all this good advice and even following my own advice, I got tagged with a virus / Malware / Trojan yesterday!

I was downloading a program trial from Cnet / Download.com yesterday and got hit by TopArcadegames - and it was a bitch to remove!

In the end, I found these pages which proved very useful:
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/960863
http://www.2-spyware.com/remove-toparcade-hits-virus.html

It had also deeply embedded itself into Firefox but found this:
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Cannot%20uninstall%20an%20add-on#w_uninstalling-manually

I'm now running Malwarebytes 'deep scan' to kill off the klingons!

NB 1: I stopped using Norton AV a few years ago as I got a virus (Conficker), the first thing that was hit was the Norton! Took me days to work out what the hell was going on!
( Also Norton got so big and bloated, it was taking up to 40% of my processing power. Big AVG fan these days... plus I get what I pay for - Free! Norton is not cheap but not value for money when I used to use it.... but what do I know! )

NB 2: I use AVG on my Android Tablet.

NB 3: Mayhem is deep virus scanned at least once a week!

Thanks again to Rob Wood & Twister

TheLongBuild · « **Reply #281 on:** July 02, 2013, 01:44:30 pm »

Have next years Norton for £12.99 from Amazon

I find Norton is fine, My system went silly with AVG. But its whatever people feel happy with..

essex2visuvesi · « **Reply #282 on:** July 02, 2013, 02:54:57 pm »

Something to bear in mind. It is not wise to run more than one Antivirus software on a system as it can cause problems
If you do decide to switch, some AV software can be a real pain to remove completely.

I have never been a lover of Norton as others have said it's quite a resource hog.

My 2 choices are
Avira
http://www.avira.com/en/avira-free-antivirus

Fsecure
http://www.f-secure.com/en/web/home_gb

Also as an emergency backup I have a Jumpshot USB stick
http://www.jumpshot.com/

An amusing bootable USB antivirus/malware package

Peter Fitness · « **Reply #283 on:** July 02, 2013, 11:11:09 pm »

I used Norton for many years, but moved to Trend Micro on the advice of a computer guru. Norton is very resource hungry and was slowing my PC far too much, whereas Trend Micro allows it to operate normally. In the 5 or 6 years I've been using Trend Micro I have never had a virus; that's not to say it couldn't happen, but it hasn't happened yet. I have Trend set to update automatically, so I always have the latest protection.

Peter.

chris gillespie · « **Reply #284 on:** July 04, 2013, 08:44:02 pm »

so currently 400 guests 5 guests looking at a different topics at a time and 32 members on at the moment...

is this the issue ? getting overloaded with bots etc .

Martin [Admin] · « **Reply #285 on:** July 04, 2013, 09:53:24 pm »

Interesting! I'll look into that.

( NB. can only see post they can't see photos hosted on our server. )

chris gillespie · « **Reply #286 on:** July 04, 2013, 09:58:13 pm »

There was dozens and dozens of topics, that had 5 guests each looking at them, incase my previous post wasnt very clear.

derekwarner · « **Reply #287 on:** July 05, 2013, 12:29:33 am »

.......The Longbuild says......."Have next years Norton for £12.99 from Amazon :-))

I find Norton is fine, My system went silly with AVG. But its whatever people feel happy with"
...totally agree

.........like many...I have experience the good & the bad over many years....MacAfee....Symantec......... CA ........AVG...however have been very satisfied with Norton 360 multi user licence for 5years & share it with family & friends.......
I also found CA to be an excellent product...however Harvey Norman in OZ were loosing too many $ in selling other peoples Anti Virus software so stopped importing hard copies of CA [/b]&now import an alternate brand that I suspect is owned by Gerry Harvey.......

.............Derek[/size]

davidm1945 · « **Reply #288 on:** July 05, 2013, 06:48:02 pm »

Quote from: derekwarner_decoy on July 05, 2013, 12:29:33 am

.......The Longbuild says......."Have next years Norton for £12.99 from Amazon I find Norton is fine, My system went silly with AVG. But its whatever people feel happy with"
...totally agree .........like many...I have experience the good & the bad over many years....MacAfee....Symantec......... CA ........AVG...however have been very satisfied with Norton 360 multi user licence for 5years & share it with family & friends.......
I also found CA to be an excellent product...however Harvey Norman in OZ were loosing too many $ in selling other peoples Anti Virus software so stopped importing hard copies of CA &now import an alternate brand that I suspect is owned by Gerry Harvey....... .............Derek

Hey Derek, have you got some sort of random font generator operating?

malcolmfrary · « **Reply #289 on:** July 05, 2013, 09:53:36 pm »

Quote from: davidm1945 on July 05, 2013, 06:48:02 pm

Hey Derek, have you got some sort of random font generator operating?

Probably being worked by something that Norton missed. Dont click on anything in there.

Capt Podge · « **Reply #290 on:** July 06, 2013, 12:20:23 am »

Quote from: chris gillespie on July 04, 2013, 08:44:02 pm

so currently 400 guests 5 guests looking at a different topics at a time and 32 members on at the moment...

is this the issue ? getting overloaded with bots etc .

Hey Martin, I noticed something similar to this at about this time last Saturday i.e. 520 "guests" and 8 users !

Didn't report this as I thought this was normal

I'll be watching from now on though

......and I'll report via PM in case this thread gives "them" a warning

Regards,

Ray.

dougal99 · « **Reply #291 on:** July 14, 2013, 12:26:38 pm »

Could not get the site up for most of yesterday and then when I did I could not post. Cannot post a picture this morning. Is it me?

regiment · « **Reply #292 on:** July 14, 2013, 02:56:00 pm »

i too could not get on untill 1700 hours.. i am blaming the heat melting the bt wires

Capt Podge · « **Reply #293 on:** July 15, 2013, 10:02:59 pm »

My broadband (BT Infinity) has been down since Thursday

"They" have made an appointment for an engineer to visit me this coming Thursday - this was the earliest I could get - however, broadband came back online this evening.

I'll give them a call tomorrow

Regards,

Ray.

Stavros · « **Reply #294 on:** July 15, 2013, 10:28:37 pm »

478 GUESTS 37 USERS 4 hidden at 2230

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Dave

TheLongBuild · « **Reply #295 on:** July 15, 2013, 10:57:00 pm »

yep looks iffy

Stavros · « **Reply #296 on:** July 15, 2013, 11:10:47 pm »

Loads of Gusets looking at the same topic 2 to 3 pages in some instances very ODD

Dave

raflaunches · « **Reply #297 on:** July 15, 2013, 11:21:42 pm »

Something very odd is certainly going on, the iffy ones are only looking at Sections and not individual topics.

Martin [Admin] · « **Reply #298 on:** July 16, 2013, 12:21:18 am »

'Guest browsing' temporarily disable to test server loading.

warspite · « **Reply #299 on:** July 16, 2013, 08:21:03 am »

fully agree with that

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