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Both yesterday and today I've been having problems actually using the 'net.
I've been able to log on but everything runs extremely slowly. I ran my McAfee and it found nothing.
Sumi, if you're running Windows, I would recommend downloading Lavasoft's Ad-Aware and Spybot Search & Destroy and have them check for spyware on your PC. I know McAfee has some anti-spyware capability these days, but IME those two programs in conjunction do a pretty good job of catching 99% of what's out there. Plus Spybot has some immunization ability. (Don't install the tea-timer function, though, as it's annoying and doesn't help all that much.)
With Ad-Aware, after it's finished scanning, click on the Critical Objects tab and only remove those. Otherwise it will wipe out your Most Recent Documents list and your most recently viewed web page URLs, which is annoying if you make use of either of those functions.
Flying toasters! Funny--my little brother worked for them, back when people would actually pay money for screensavers.
Okay. Lavasoft ad-aware. That sounds good. I will say that I was more patient tonight and did not have the same problem.
I'm looking for a copy of the original Opus and Bill screensaver where they shot down the flying toasters (Before Broderbund sued them and won).
Daniel, I have it somewhere. I'll look around for it tomorrow. If I can find it, I'll zip the files and upload it somewhere.
I loved the flying toasters back in the day. that's so awesome.
Me too! Aftereffects was my favorite thing.
I'm looking for a copy of the original Opus and Bill screensaver where they shot down the flying toasters (Before Broderbund sued them and won).
Well, rats. Turns out I don't have that one. I have the sequel to it. [link] And disk 3 is corrupt. And now my floppy drive wants to format any disk I put into it, even the ones that worked not five minutes ago. Bother.
I know that we had that one. I have no idea if I've still got the disks for it.
And disk 3 is corrupt. And now my floppy drive wants to format any disk I put into it, even the ones that worked not five minutes ago.
Your machine is obviously infected by ghost toasters. That fly.
So, I installed the flying toasters on my MacBook. It's cool - there's just one disappointment. When I first saw the flying toasters, what really cracked me up was that it had a slider that controlled how toasted each piece of toast was. This version doesn't have that. Oh well.
