"Fred E Brown" <fredebrown@nowhere.com> wrote:
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>"Frank McCoy" <mccoyf@millcomm.com> wrote in message
>news:ec7pn79u27k6fjn2tcee7t6svdur3o5efi@4ax.com...
>> "Fred E Brown" <fredebrown@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"Uncle Sky" <Uncle_Sky@home.alone.invalid> wrote in message
>>>news:20120404130653.175$vT@newsreader.com...
>>>> "Fred E Brown" <fredebrown@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>>> Just wondering.
>>>>
>>>> Nope. But Frank posts a lot in A/C.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Uncle Sky
>>>
>>>Haven't seen him there for a few days.
>>>
>> Busy fixing computers.
>> When you're fixing a computer, adding stuff to it, rebuilding, or
>> re-installing major software like Windows (a necessity when doing
>> major overhauls and/or replacing motherboards) it get a bit difficult
>> to keep up with the newsgroups or even email.
>>
>> But I try.
>> I've been getting on and checking things every couple of days.
>>
>> Just did THREE major overhauls of various computers.
>> Will be starting on a fourth in a few days. (I think.)
>>
>> Every time you do a major overhaul, it's not just re-installing
>> Windows itself; but getting all of the minor *little* shit back to
>> working properly.
>>
>> Also, when doing major upgrades, I usually like to add all the little
>> tweaks and additions that I've found that makes life easier on a
>> computer since the last rebuild. Sometimes that takes a few days of
>> trying things and tiddling around before I remember, "Oh yeah! I need
>> to install THIS software as well," or something I thought worked,
>> didn't, and I need to re-install that too.
>>
>> It often takes as much as a week before things are stable again; but
>> when doing several computers at once, like I have been, doing it on
>> one reminds you that you should do it on the others as well.
>>
>> Then, on some things, I have to have the kid over to test out the game
>> software (which I never run) to make sure THAT all works properly at
>> the best possible level for the machine being rebuilt.
>>
>> It's all just time-consuming.
>> <Pant, pant.>
>>
>OK, I'll accept your excuse this time but don't let it happen again.
>I was about to call Homeland Security and have them fly a drone
>over your house to see if you were keeled over dead behind the
>snow blower.
>:-))
>
No snow-blower this time.
I've had it out in the garage all winter long; and used it only once.
Temperature now in the 60s. The grass is green and growing.
My rose-bush survived!!! Yay,
For the past three days I've been *fighting* to remove isearch.avg.com
from my web-browser. Figured it was some kind of root-kit virus-type
thingy; because even disabling and removing the crap vial Windows
install/remove didn't get rid of it being my homepage on Firefox.
FINALLY, today, after going through the registry and removing lots of
crap left by the crappy shit ... All of which didn't work ... I went
online and AVG themselves had the solution I needed:
FIRST, remove the toolbar from Firefox, using:
Tools => add-ons => extensions
And disable the add-on.
SECOND, go into:
Start => Control Panel => Add/remove programs
And remove the AVG add-on.
THIRD, go into:
Start => Control Panel => Internet Options => General
Enter in your desired Home-Page.
Then go down to the Tabs button. (This is VERY important!)
Where it says, "Change how webpages are displayed in tabs"
Click the "settings" button.
Pick either "a blank page" (default) or "your first home-page".
FOURTH, restart Firefox; and where, on the right, it says "AVG" or
something like that, click on the icon; and change your search-engine
to the one you prefer.
GAAAAHHHH!
I've been fighting this thing for DAYS; going so far as to remove and
re-install windows completely to get that crap out.
And, of course, Norton Anti-Virus, Malwarebytes, and Windows
Essentials ALL don't see it as malware. Shit.
I went so far as to build a COMPLETE clean-install emergency/rescue
Windows-Disk on an old 10-gig drive I had around; and STILL none of
them saw a thing wrong with isearch.AVG.com. Ick!
Well, the drive will probably come in handy ... someday.
For now I'm just going to label it as an emergency-drive and put it
somewhere. Used up every inch of the drive-space except about 800 meg
to get it to run with all the latest installs and run all of my
hardware.
Like I said: It will probably come in handy someday.
If nothing else, and I ever have to re-install Windows-XP, I can use
it as a basis for a new installation without having to do the whole
schmear of starting from the Windows-Service-Pack-2 CD.
So, the effort isn't *completely* lost.
Oh yeah: And now I KNOW how to disable that crap without going through
a complete re-install of Windows. That's worth something too.
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