Haha, do like I did, force my wife to eat linux for her main
workstation. Past a few weeks of trepidation and being pissy, she's now
quite thankful.
Rehab for windoze users, it's for their own good to perform
intervention. :)
-mb
On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 17:18 -0700, Bob Elzer wrote:
> Might have to do an upgrade to wife 1.2 :-)
>
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________
> From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On
> Behalf Of Eric Cope
> Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 4:15 PM
> To: michael@butash.net; Main PLUG discussion list
> Subject: Re: OT - Web browsing issue
>
>
>
> I recently wiped it due to a similar issue. But my wife visits
> the same sites...
>
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Michael Butash
> <michael@butash.net> wrote:
> How often do you actually ask windows-only people for
> anything helpful
> even for windoze? :)
>
> Sounds like something is manipulating your outbound
> traffic, try
> malwarebytes, or a format. I don't trust any windoze
> install once it's
> been compromised, and only slightly more even fully
> patched. I had a
> friends new windoze install get owned in less than day
> of them ignoring
> my warning of using firefox w/noscript, and got the
> same kind of
> behavior hijacking url's like that. Even when cleaned
> with
> malwarebytes, something still persisted that it
> couldn't find, so they
> just wiped it again. Hopefully it wasn't one of those
> mbr-resident
> stealth ones thanks to sony...
>
> -mb
>
>
> >
> > why are we asking windows questions on Linux list?
> >
> > Craig
> >
> >
>
>
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