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[qwerty]

I put this here because i figured it would get answered faster...

 

Well about an hour ago i put more ram in my computer and now all the threads look like that. Just shows up as the first post and then it has it where you have to click on each individual post that a person makes... would take me forever to have to click on each one. None of my soxtalk settings have been changed... and i even cleared my cache for just for s***s and giggles...

Edited April 27, 2006 by qwerty

[whitesoxfan99]

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[qwerty]

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Thank you... have no clue how that happened as i never hit it. Never even occured to me that was the only problem.

 

Delete this f***er.

[FlaSoxxJim]

Curiously enough, I also put RAM into a compuer tonight (my kid's cheap iron Wintel, not one of the mighty Macs) and ran intto an odd thing.

 

On going out to the web, I all of a sudden started getting redirects to porn sites, porn and Brazilian soccer popups, etc., pretty much no matter where I tried to go. This is obviously an issue since this is a six-year-old's computer!

 

I did a few spyware sweeps and I think found the ooffending software.

 

Now my question is, is there anyway the budget RAM I installed somehow has the spyware burned into it in a ROM or something?? I really have no idea, but we never had anything like this happen until I put in the new RAM.

 

Very strange.

[southsideirish71]

Curiously enough, I also put RAM into a compuer tonight (my kid's cheap iron Wintel, not one of the mighty Macs) and ran intto an odd thing.

 

On going out to the web, I all of a sudden started getting redirects to porn sites, porn and Brazilian soccer popups, etc., pretty much no matter where I tried to go.  This is obviously an issue since this is a six-year-old's computer!

 

I did a few spyware sweeps and I think  found the ooffending software.

 

Now my question is, is there anyway the budget RAM I installed somehow has the spyware burned into it in a ROM or something??  I really have no idea, but we never had anything like this happen until I put in the new RAM.

 

Very strange.

 

Your kids has a wintel. For shame. OSX would of kept your child safe for surfing.

 

I doubt its the memory. RAM is volitile, which means the data gets destroyed as you boot and reboot your computer. Nothing is saved in RAM from boot up. So most likely its not that. Make sure you run a few antispyware checkers. The antispyware community is not sharing signatures like the a/v community, so one company might find something, while another might not.

 

Try clearing your cookies to start off. Then clear your DNS cache. ipconfig /flushdns from a dos prompt. mr mac.

 

There is a new class of spwyare that has been lurking, its a brower hijacker that utilizes the autosearch function in your browser. When you mistype a url it will automatically try and send the text to your default search engine for lookup to help you find where you are trying to go. However the default search engine is porn spyware central. You get bombed with popups. Microsoft is a pain in the ass for spyware. Hopefully its just a rogue cookie, or piece of random spyware and not something like a browser hijacker or something more low level. If you still are having problems pm me and I will give you a list of tools to run that may help you identify the culprit.

Edited April 27, 2006 by southsideirish71

[FlaSoxxJim]

Thanks, Irish!

 

And I agree, it's a shame the poor kid has the cheap iron. But he's all about the ames, and there's a lot of titles that aren't available for OSX. My daughter has seen the light though, she's my Mac kid and is still humming along on an old tengerine clamshell iBook.

[Heads22]

Thanks, Irish! 

 

And I agree, it's a shame the poor kid has the cheap iron.  But he's all about the ames, and there's a lot of titles that aren't available for OSX.  My daughter has seen the light though, she's my Mac kid and is still humming along on an old tengerine clamshell iBook.

 

I'm more than happy with my 15" Powerbook.....but do you have a recent laptop? The computer runs fine and everything.....I've really only had 4 major issues....starting from the least worrisome.

 

1. The paint has chipped off below the fn key.....I'm trying to decide whether I should live with it or not. Probably easier to.

 

2. Thing is a b**** to clean.....I'm never eating around it again.

 

3. The bottom seems to run a little hot. It may be my fault from using it all the time, but it still seems a little warm, and that seems to be an issue for some.

 

4. The power adapter has to be the worst design ever. I've already used the warranty once to get a new one, but it seems that if you dont twist the plug into the computer just right, it won't recieve the power. The first adapter I had just frayed through in 3 months. Now I have it reiniforced with electrical tape, but it'll probably be just a matter of time before I need to get a new one.

[rangercal]

I put this here because i figured it would get answered faster...

 

Well about an hour ago i put more ram in my computer and now all the threads look like that. Just shows up as the first post and then it has it where you have to click on each individual post that a person makes... would take me forever to have to click on each one. None of my soxtalk settings have been changed... and i even cleared my cache for just for s***s and giggles...

qwerty,

That happens to me when ever I run a soxtalk google search.

[FlaSoxxJim]

I'm more than happy with my 15" Powerbook.....but do you have a recent laptop? The computer runs fine and everything.....I've really only had 4 major issues....starting from the least worrisome.

 

1. The paint has chipped off below the fn key.....I'm trying to decide whether I should live with it or not. Probably easier to.

 

2. Thing is a b**** to clean.....I'm never eating around it again.

 

3. The bottom seems to run a little hot. It may be my fault from using it all the time, but it still seems a little warm, and that seems to be an issue for some.

 

4. The power adapter has to be the worst design ever. I've already used the warranty once to get a new one, but it seems that if you dont twist the plug into the computer just right, it won't recieve the power. The first adapter I had just frayed through in 3 months. Now I have it reiniforced with electrical tape, but it'll probably be just a matter of time before I need to get a new one.

 

I'm still plugging along on the first gen 15" Titanium G4, and it is even more battlescarred than yours. My combo drive went bad a few months ago and I vultured one out of another old Titanium, but it turns out the boards on the two computers - manufactured just 3 months apart - are substantially different. I had to cut the chassis away from the CD slot with a dremmel because the slots were misalligned by about 5mm. The back of the chassis around the IR sensor is also busted away and the close clasp has gone.

 

My biggest frustration with the unit is that the AirPort range on it sucks balls. Always has. And you can't fit an Extreme card into that original 15" case so I'm stuck. I think the problem is a woefully inadequate antenna on that model. My kid's legacy iBook (Santa got it for $125 and vultured an Airport card and some RAM for it) has wi-fi range throughout the whole house, and most times I can't even get a room away from my transmitter before I lose signal.

 

I need work to upgrade my PowerBook something fierce, but the popped for a beefy dual-chip G5 tower for me just a couple years ago so I probably need to hobble along with the old unit a while longer.

[Texsox]

I think it is wonderful that Apple and AOL have made computing accessible to the masses.