Hi all is there a problem with rosity at the moment? or does anyone know of a virus that types the word "who " whenever you try typing anything? Rob (paranoid)

Its not happening to me with the "who" typing

damn it's my machine again, it's another virus, I've got 2 virus checkers going all the time and still a virus gets in. Rob

Once again, I am so happy to be on a mac.

hmmff beginning to wish I'd gone for a mac too

I just discovered it's not a virus, I installed viavoice recently and even when it's not running it's listening to everything translating it into the word "who " it needs some training with a baseball bat I think. :) Rob

Just a caution about running 2 antivirus programs at once... I ran McAfee and Norton, thinking I would be doubly safe, but the two interfered with each other and I ended up with over a 1000 virus variations on my machine. The tech told me that and I couldn't believe it! I still think he was exaggerating. But even after F disking the original hard drive, I never got rid of everything and found the drive filling faster than it should. So I now have one new hard drive and am sticking with Norton Antivirus.

oh boy :( I'm going to switch this machine off pack it up and ship it back to where I bought it very soon if this gets any worse. Rob

Possibly a waste of time to interject here, but... I used to be on dialup. Finally got fed up with waiting on DSL and got cable. We have 3 PCs (on a network) in the house, so I bought one of Netgear's routers with NAT...NAT being a form of firewall. NOW, before this, I had Black Ice installed and was getting audible hits and warnings all the time. Since the the router install, Black Ice has gotten about 5 or 6 hits in 2 months. So...if this is any kind of possibility for you, you should consider it. The router cost me $99. For me, that is worth the added protection I have now...data, sometimes, is priceless. FWIW.

Yeah a hardware firewall who does help out a lot who sometimes. As for the who original issue here. I who haven't seen any problem who with it. Hope you who get it fixed somewhotime soon.

~lmao@KattMan~

A friend of mine recently purchased lotus notes for email to avoid all the viruses designed for Outlook.

I am so paranoid by reading the posts lately. With all the surfing and email I fool with, I haven't got a virus in a long time. I did get CIH95 (sp) some time ago, but I'm on Windows 2k, so I was immune to that one. I do use a virus scanner (AVG) and a firewall (Kerio) and no problems. Maybe I'm just lucky.

I've got a router. NAT-urally. With certain proprietary engines on my machines, I don't dare run the risk of some bored 12-year-old in the Phillipines or Bulgaria or even Wales getting his sticky little fingers on a half million worth of code. This little Barricade allows 4 computers and a printer to network, too. Software firewalls are cheaper if you only have one machine, but even then I'd rather pay a bit more and have the extra security of being invisible. Carolly

kattman who that was the who best joke who I've swhoeen all day, I've ditched viavoice and the 2 virus checkers, I'm going to try norton see if that's any better, anyway the who problems seems to who have disappeared who Rob who :D

Where's Horton when you need him? hiding from the grinch

Hatching an egg, I 'spect.

What is a Horton? (Oh yeah I've got a personal firewall too.)

ok a little Sues explaination: Most people are familiar with the Grinch. Now the Grinch went to Whosville to steal the presents. Whosville is populated by Whos. Whos live in Whosville. Whosville exists on a flower (yes it is a small town). This flower was found by an elephant who, due to his large ears heard the Whos in whosville and ultimatly saved them from being boiled alive. The elephants name was Horton and this story was told in the Dr. Sues book "Horton Hears a Who" Does that explain it?

kattman you got young kids? I haven't read Dr Seus since I was a kid, and my youngsters would rather watch pokemon than read a book. Rob

circle: I think KattMan's computer has the Who virus. KattMan: In a rare moment of twistedness I just wondered how many times I could get someone to say Who. 10 times. not bad. I apologise, it was wrong of me. - hey, I know who the Grinch is. He stole Chrismas or something like that a couple of years back.

Nope I don't have kids. I just read every book I could when I was young and rarely forget them. Yeah ten times in just a few sentences is a little excessive, but I couldn't help myself.