We don't have any snow in the winter either.

You've never had snow for winter? Texas is as south as you can get without being tropical, and we sometimes have snow for a couple of days

This post has been edited by Lord Revan: Jun 7 2008, 02:55 PM

Yep, I've been off for a while. Still looking for an apartment in Lander, Wyoming--seasonal job through mid-September. Haven't been able to unload my PC from my car yet (I'm in the public library right now). But once I get a place I'm going to see about catching up with my writing obligations.

Catastrophe is here! My pc laptop got itself a very nasty trojan...or rather two trojans. Those beggars have very thoroughly prevented me from getting online, they also took the opportunity to damage my videocard or its drivers so I have a sweet turqouise line across my screen!

But thank all mighty gods for my Mac! Which is the device I'm using right now.

I hope I can save my documents on the pc because that one is going to "hospital-for-computers" tomorrow!

Canis- great to see you back! Good luck with the living-space search.

Minque- Once the PC is repaired, AVG is a good, free anti-virus program. We are considering a MacBook ourselves for when we travel to visit the grandsons....

It has been consistently over 90 F (32 C for our metric and European readers) here. July will probably be brutal.

Of course, but we had snow in like a week last winter. Snow is getting more rare these days.

Minaque, I just went through the nasty experience myself:

Try these, and they are ALL free, and VERY effective.

Malwarebyte's Anti Malware - Slow, but VERY VERY thorough, free updates

Comodo Firewall Pro - free udpates, very powerful as well, will take some time to get used to as it is a third party firewall, and everytime you bring up a program at first, you'll get a pop-up

Spybot - Serch and Destroy. I like the name. Its freeware, so it isnt too shiny but lives up to its name.

This post has been edited by Black Hand: Jun 10 2008, 08:28 PM

To be honest, with Anti Virus I tend to believe you get what you pay for. AVG et al are fine, but they only pick up viruses when they scan - they don't have real time scanning on the free editions.

The best I've found has been Kaspersky, which doesn't hog all the system resources like Norton or MacAfee. Just depends on whether you want to spend money or not

Your statement is quite true BSD-IES. Norton and MacAffee, I find to be quite ineffective honestly. While you dont really have realtime scanning with the free ones, it s a burden you bear to do it manually, and considering just a few mouse clicks is all it takes, versus 20 or 30 bucks, ill do the few mouse clicks. Besides, comodo firewall pro DOES have realtime protection, it just wont have autoscanning, again, all you have to do is click two things.

I find a great antivirus to be Avast. It automatically updates, it's free, and it scans in realtime. I've been saved more than once from inadvertently downloading a virus by it due to it's saving a popup type thing saying "the file you are attempting to download contains a <whatever>"

Good suggestion, wolfie.

ONLY ONE MONTH AND SOME CHANGE UNTIL I GO TO ARGENTINA!

The wait is murder... absolute murder

Thanks guys for the support! You know I actually paid a great amount of money to get a good Anti-virus program! I bought Norton 360! It should be ever so good and safe! Firewalls and daily searchs and updates...Continous scanning..oh gee you mention it! But somehow these trojans got through....hmm I do have a fairly good idea how, but ..hmmm nevermind, let's just say I might be one to blame...

Now Norton is quite messy so I think I'll get another program when the darn thing is cured.

I'm going to my niece's graduation on friday.....oh boy more party! "hick" I was out on the sea yesterday with my colleagues, it was very nice except from the fact that due to very heavy wind, a glass of red wine just emptied itself over me and my handbag! It completely ruined my white blouse so...crap I'll have to dye it dark blue or something...."sigh"

But we had a lot of fun!

Argentina would be cool to visit. What are you going to be doing over there?

Well...... I use Avast, don't know who in my family chose it, but we've used it once and the thing that got in our comp was destroyed. I'll be in camp from sunday to friday next week, the no-electronics-allowed. They don't let you have a cell to call your parents (is texting really that bad?).

i have returned to florida and thus returned to the internet!

how is the chorrol community?

We're good. Wow, it's been a while since I last saw you around

Welcome back!

Welcome back Shogun Sniper!! Doomie, do you go to Argentina every year? Didn't you go there last year around this time too? Or was that another South American country ..

so i totally got a PS3 for the sole purpose of playing metal gear solid 4... anyone else got one?

Ahh Shogun! Nice to see you around...

Anyway I'm off to Finland on monday...business and work, probably no free time at all..but still I like to go away...see something different..

Summer is officially here, and the weather has cooled about 5 or 10 degrees (F); which is a relief. However, we are experiencing the Invasion of the Grandsons, so hot weather is the least of our worries....

There will be much shouting, running about in a random fashion, perhaps abrasions and contusions, tears, etc., etc.-- not to mention what the boys themselves will get up to....

Hope everyone else is having a great start to their summer (or winter for those of you who live in the Southern Hemisphere).