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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #6090 on: April 13, 2008, 02:46:27 PM »
Have a look at your event logs, especially the system log. If you need help, PM me the relevant event IDs and I'll try to help you sort it out.

Yep, I just did that a bit ago. It is the ISP verification software trying to open their home page against my will. There is no doubt.

I hate them (with boots on!).

Download a program called HijackThis and use it to locate whatever it is that tries to open that home page. Be careful, though, because a lot of the stuff HijackThis lists is legit.

What ISP are you using? And what's the verification software?

(You don't already know this or haven't looked?)

It's Netzero and the software is their own proprietary befucklement! (You have to download their software, install it and run it in the background to get on)

I've seen HijackThis, but I've not tried it.

Try it. No harm in running it to see what's been taking over your pooter.

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I used another homepage preserver once and the Netzero software became corrupt and pouted. I have tried to go manually, but that also causes problems. [/quote]

All you should have to do is to break a registry key and then reset your home page. HijackThis can identify the problem for you. Ad-Aware can , too, probably, now that I think of it.
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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #6091 on: April 13, 2008, 07:31:14 PM »
thinking about sleeping
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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #6092 on: April 13, 2008, 07:33:47 PM »
Thinking about a light snack and then to bed

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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #6093 on: April 14, 2008, 12:42:09 AM »
using the bathroom

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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #6094 on: April 14, 2008, 12:50:51 AM »
Have a look at your event logs, especially the system log. If you need help, PM me the relevant event IDs and I'll try to help you sort it out.

Yep, I just did that a bit ago. It is the ISP verification software trying to open their home page against my will. There is no doubt.

I hate them (with boots on!).

Download a program called HijackThis and use it to locate whatever it is that tries to open that home page. Be careful, though, because a lot of the stuff HijackThis lists is legit.

What ISP are you using? And what's the verification software?

(You don't already know this or haven't looked?)

It's Netzero and the software is their own proprietary befucklement! (You have to download their software, install it and run it in the background to get on)

I've seen HijackThis, but I've not tried it.

Try it. No harm in running it to see what's been taking over your pooter.

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I used another homepage preserver once and the Netzero software became corrupt and pouted. I have tried to go manually, but that also causes problems.

All you should have to do is to break a registry key and then reset your home page. HijackThis can identify the problem for you. Ad-Aware can , too, probably, now that I think of it.

Knowing which on the first try (or rather ... the third) would certainly be helpful. I'll try it.
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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #6095 on: April 14, 2008, 12:51:46 AM »
I am about to go to sleep.   Applied for a bunch of jobs online.
:P   Internets are super serious.

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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #6096 on: April 14, 2008, 12:22:55 PM »
All you should have to do is to break a registry key and then reset your home page. HijackThis can identify the problem for you. Ad-Aware can , too, probably, now that I think of it.

Knowing which on the first try (or rather ... the third) would certainly be helpful. I'll try it.

HijackThis is somewhat less helpful than Ad-Aware because it does assume that you are capable of googling the results.
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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #6097 on: April 14, 2008, 01:01:17 PM »
Waiting for my tea to steep sufficiently.   8)

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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #6098 on: April 14, 2008, 04:09:42 PM »
Not much.
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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #6099 on: April 14, 2008, 05:45:35 PM »
Enjoying an orange and doing some spamming.

Anything to keep boredom at bay  ::)

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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #6100 on: April 14, 2008, 07:13:19 PM »
watching youtube videos

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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #6101 on: April 14, 2008, 07:32:57 PM »
itching itching and more fucking itching as i type with one finger
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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #6102 on: April 14, 2008, 07:55:45 PM »
Getting pissed at peaboy!   :grrr:  But, then again, I'm sure he likes that, so I'll do the "shun" mode. 

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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #6103 on: April 14, 2008, 08:13:49 PM »
Watching Anthony Bourdain in Peru on the History Channel.  What a hottie.  I must be getting old, if chefs are starting to look hot to me.  :-\
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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #6104 on: April 14, 2008, 08:17:53 PM »
Watching Anthony Bourdain in Peru on the History Channel.  What a hottie.  I must be getting old, if chefs are starting to look hot to me.  :-\

Meh, I'm hot for Cat Coura, the female Iron Chef of the Food Channel.   :green:  To each their own! :green: