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I wonder if its your ClipBoard that's getting full. Can you copy text on other sites? I don't mean in a reply, just to copy them.

With regards to ComboFix, is it still installed, or did you finally uninstall it? I'm guessing a log didn't appear after you ran it accidently.

As for gaming, none so far, but intend to play a bit tonight. Need to get my accuracy back how it was on BF2 :)
 
Discussion starter · #102 ·
Can you copy text on other sites?
so far i haven't had any problems copying text from other sites. but should i empty the clipboard anyway? &.. i've never done that before, so i don't know how :rolleyes:

i thought combofix was gone, but it's still there. :( there wasn't a logfile, only the download for the update is showing. HJT & javara are still there, although i didn't finish up with everything you had posted in the wrap up yet.

when this thread is done, it needs to be marked "finished due to endless effort by eddie!!"

a hopefully quick question.. do you happen to know if this indicts a security problem? a friend accessed my email via a smartphone & said my entire contacts list was visible (even though i only have a handful of addresses in the contacts list, & use autofill or have all the other contacts memorized). email addys that were never in my contacts list were showing up on the smartphone.

plus the email i had sent was only to that person; no one was cc'd or bcc'd on it (i double checked the email later). i don't use a smartphone/blackberry, but this seems too abnormal. please don't tell me there's an app for it! ;)

if you feel like saying, just get a new laptop, i'll say ok. only help me turn this one into a target for your gaming night! ;)
can i help pick the weapon? :D

btw, i think BF2 missed you! there will be plenty of time for 3 :)
 
For the ComboFix, leave that for now, as I'm checking something out on the removal of it :)

As for the Smartphone, I have no idea. I only have an aging Nokia, looks like a brick :p

You may want to ask in the Phone forum:

http://forums.techguy.org/88-phones-handheld-devices/

BF2 missed me, but my clan may be very unhappy if I left BF3, and so will I, in a way.

So, messing around with it, and will solve it, darn it :p
 
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BF2 was no doubt happy for the reunion, but duty calls for BF3 :D

for once (!!) i have something that doesn't need to be fixed. :)

& ugh, sorry for the subject, but re. GSF (giant squirrel font) --> could you give me your overall general impression of what it was like the last time you've seen it anywhere? i didn't bother to look on any old posts because it always looked normal before, & is unlikely to have changed.

the reason i'm asking is because i got an idea from tsg's 'preview post' function. i composed an email, then copy/pasted it to a fresh Word doc. while it looked uniformly sized in gmail, in Word, the paragraphs had alternating font sizes (georgia 8, georgia 12, georgia 8, etc.)

so i trotted back to the email, highlighted the entire text, then clicked on 'normal' for font size, since there isn't a numeric option. then opened a new word doc & copy/pasted that text --> the font presented the same as above.

3rd: typed a new email, & copy/pasted to a fresh word doc again. this produced only the first sentence in the 1st paragraph being in smaller sized font. :confused:

4th: started anew with everything again. this time the font size was consistent throughout when pasted on a word doc. fantastic, but :confused:

i think 90ish % of the time with issues (like the lovely quote button), i'm doing something wrong, hopelessly obviously wrong. but GSF appears to be different, unless i'm overlooking yet another thing.

anyway, since i can check & repair anything for font size before i email it, this doesn't need a fix. maybe you alread exhaled when you read that the 1st time!! :p

but it has practically made me climb the wall @ times wondering why it happens! i'll live not knowing though! :)

thanks for the phone forum link!! :up: i should be able to find these myself now, shouldn't i? you've been way too kind to me, to say the minimum!!

& another thanks for a removal of CF, & you know, for everything else!! :up: :up:

should get to PM's a bit later :)
 
Haven't played BF2 yet, will do it this week :)

The only time the font was different was in my soapbox thread, but apart from that, not seen it anywhere else.

yes, the PM's....I was nearly thru them, then I fell asleep, woke up and *poof*, like magic they re-appeared :p
 
Discussion starter · #107 ·
so we'll hear about BF2 then maybe? :)

re. GSF --> do you remember roughly what size range it was: regular (8 -12ish) large (13-24ish), or screamingly ginormous (over 24) anywhere? i'm curious about how giant & how squirrely it actually was.

ah yes, the PM's.. they multiply like rabbits! :eek:
 
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thanks so much!! but if it wasn't large & only a different font, then that doesn't seem to be a problem. on another section on tsg before, people were saying it was unusually large.

just got this whilst doing a google search:

"we’re sorry..
but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now."
:confused:
 
Discussion starter · #110 ·
read the page google directed me to & there wasn't a "CAPTCHA" box involved, so i updated malwarebytes & ran a full scan. it came back completely clean.

ran secunia, & it's @ 100%. i think that's a record for how long a 100% score has lasted :up:

(will restrain myself from writing 'thank you eddie!' a zillion times, but i'd like to :D)

soo.. do you think it's safe to assume it's from the network? think i'll sleep with one eye open regardless ;)

ok, who's more behind schedule right now, me or you? just curious :p
 
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something is definitely wrong; i just got an email & it looks like some kind of spam/virus type emails are being sent from my address.

the subject line is: look i found interesting opportunity

& the text says:

Hi friend!
my mind has been racing this came at perfect timing for me im finally starting to advance in life maybe this will come in use to you
http://mybeautyfulllife.com/profile/89ChristopherMiller/
ttyl

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i didn't click on the link, afraid it's virus-laden.

what do i do beside changing my password?!
 
Discussion starter · #112 ·
now that i'm past the panic/ask eddie stage ;), i'm going to contact gmail about it & see what they say to do.
always something.. & those somethings usually have bad timing too!
 
Discussion starter · #113 ·
facebook had authorized access to my gmail account in case you wanted the wind-up. :eek:

does that mean the hole definitely came through facebook :mad: or could anything else be vulnerable?

urggh! only had that FB page for a gf that didn't want to talk about her mother-in-law on email anyway.. :s
 
With regards to facebook, as I am the only one left in the UK without an account, can you block the access?

Just did a search, and see if this helps:

You do go into your Facebook account but you go to my account then click into notification there are check boxes below you click into the e-mail box to remove the tick this stops you receiving e-mail fro Facebook i hope this helpful
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=7a733828091588d7&hl=en

Although this says that the access was stopped a while back:

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2050429/Google-to-Block-Facebooks-Access-to-Gmail-Contacts

I've had random emails like what you have, from my friends, but I just ignore them. I ask them when they were last on their computer, and they sometimes reply with 'Oh, a few months ago', so I just leave it at that.
 
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i heard or read somewhere that people are starting to leave facebook, so maybe all you have to do is wait it out a bit longer & you'll be fine! :)

yep, i was able to block facebook from having access, thanks!! :up:

i prob. wasn't clear at all before, but i wondered since facebook had authorization to my account settings then (& how that happened i don't have any idea :eek:) if that meant i needed to check everything else to make sure nothing was undone (i.e. restore antivirus settings to default or something like that)?

you're so sweet for looking those links up, & thanks a ton, but i should be (seriously, really really) doing it myself. you know i appreciate it, (@ least i hope you do!!), but you can finally give yourself a break. speaking of blocking access, you had better do that with this thread or you truly will never get a break! :rolleyes:

ffts: since that day, so far no one else has said they got that strange "look i found opportunity" coming from my email. although even the ads on gmail were in a foreign language that day (looked scandanavian or german with umlauts), which was a bit odd. they reverted to english later. oh well, at least nothing else came out of it, whew!
 
I have found someone else at work that doesn't use it, 2 of us so far :p

I doubt facebook could touch the actual virus setting, as this is based on your virus scanner installed on your computer.

However, if you click on the blue cog wheel at the top right of the page, next to your name whilst in Gmail, if you look at the Email Settings, you can see many features to play with ;)

Yep, Google is a great friend when seraching for bits and bats :)
 
Discussion starter · #117 ·
I have found someone else at work that doesn't use it, 2 of us so far :p

I doubt facebook could touch the actual virus setting, as this is based on your virus scanner installed on your computer.

However, if you click on the blue cog wheel at the top right of the page, next to your name whilst in Gmail, if you look at the Email Settings, you can see many features to play with ;)

Yep, Google is a great friend when seraching for bits and bats :)
the count will be 3 soon. just have to find some forum that isn't like FB for gf to use. lefora.com was a suggestion, but don't know if that's just a lateral move from FB.

FB had authorization access to my gmail settings (think it was under gmails 'connected sites, apps, services'?). but its tentacles are no longer coiled around gmail :)

i still didn't finish tidying up everything from that wrap up part you gave me :eek: but found the sheet i printed. so it's going on the pile (or paper tower? :p). can't ignore that stack forever :eek:

thanks for mentioning the blue cog :up:. i'll have to mess with it when i'm prepared to have 10 dumb questions all at once :rolleyes:. (which i'll look up!! :D)
 
I think gmail and facebook may be changing their rules, as I know gmail are creating a new format.

As for the other things to do to the pc, just do them when you can. The most important is keeping the computer uptodate and to scan regulary :)
 
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I think gmail and facebook may be changing their rules, as I know gmail are creating a new format.

As for the other things to do to the pc, just do them when you can. The most important is keeping the computer uptodate and to scan regulary :)
thanks!! :up: if i had read this in a more timely manner.. my secunia wouldn't have been below 100 for several weeks :eek:

better to handle the computer eddie style :D
 
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