The Compers Inn Part 39

wingobins

Aw poor you Sylvia, sounds like you've had a bad day! Glad you managed to get your computer back up and running. Xx

That was awful what happened to the 16yr old girl today on the bus too many horrible people in this world.

sheils6

wingobins wrote: »

Aw poor you Sylvia, sounds like you've had a bad day! Glad you managed to get your computer back up and running. Xx

That was awful what happened to the 16yr old girl today on the bus too many horrible people in this world.

Really scarey wingo - at least they seem to have caught him. Just wonder if he really knew her.

wingobins

I was just watching the news and apparently she tweeted a few weeks ago that a man was freaking her out on the bus by moving seats all the time, I wonder if it was the same one. She was so pretty too.

lomaxsylvia

thanks Sheils/Wingo

that was awful about the 16 year old on the bus. It's frightening to let your kids out now but you have to let them go out.

lomaxsylvia

Firefly - thanks for TAB 11 you are a star


Off to bed now

SYL

galaxynicole

Sylvia - Sorry you've had a bad day. Hope you win something nice to make it better!

Sheils - Congrats on the win!

ellemm - I don't really remember learning to use a computer nor to use the internet. We had one since I was 3 (I'm 29) as my dad was/is a draughtsman and used it for work. I think he rented it at first cos it was too expensive to buy one. As for the internet, I was the first person in my class to get it! Again because of my dad. Never been a stranger to technology tho my mum was hopeless with computers lol. I remember when I was teaching her to use the computer. She had to write everything down in a book at first. She really hated them with a passion but ended up being able to powerpoint and do excel spreadsheets when she became a lecturer. I'm sure your OH will be whizzing around internet in no time.

Indie - Happy belated birthday! Hope you had a fab day!

Wingo - Hope your paperwork turns up soon

Well, had my hair done. Feel like a new woman. Looks so much nicer Went to dinner with one of my friends. Finally got my birthday gift (it was last month). It was a lovely bracelet and a scarf!

weeowens

lomaxsylvia wrote: »

WORSE than that I get's home and go on my laptop to find my bt eamil had been hacked and BT had closed it down. The upshot of it all was that we both had a trojen on our laptops and it cost £160 for Microsoft to put them both right, it took and hour and a half to sort them both out. They said that windows 7 was vunerable to this and they have now installed C cleaner and when my nortan security expires they will put their security and we wont have to pay any more as its a one off payment to Microsoft and they will sort out any future problems we may have as well.

I have been beyond myself with worry but did not have a choice as they wouldn't reconnect my BT account until the problems had been resolved.

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I have just sent a pm to LomaxSylvia as I am a bit concerned re the Microsoft intervention.
I may be wrong but it sounds like this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/18/phone-scam-india-call-centres

http://www.computerrepairtips.net/questions-and-answers-about-the-microsoft-virus-phone-scam/

If it is not please excuse my intervention.

It just seems that for the cost charged new copies of Windows could have been installed or for free the back up on the E drive could be used.
Not withstanding it gives us all a reason to make sure we back up our files now that external memory is so cheap eg: http://www.ebuyer.com/407410-samsung-500gb-m3-portable-external-hard-drive-hx-m500tcb-g

Eta: this is from Microsoft as further explanation........... http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/msname.aspx

wingobins

Omg I hadn't seen that before weeowens, I really hope Sylvia hasn't been scammed by them. I agree with you about using the free versions now, I've bought certain ones in the past which only made my pc worse so I downloaded free ones after that. I just use iPad nowadays as I need a new pc and so far (touch wood) I've had no probs on the iPad. (I still prefer a computer though! )

weeowens

wingobins wrote: »

Omg I hadn't seen that before weeowens, I really hope Sylvia hasn't been scammed by them. I agree with you about using the free versions now, I've bought certain ones in the past which only made my pc worse so I downloaded free ones after that. I just use iPad nowadays as I need a new pc and so far (touch wood) I've had no probs on the iPad. (I still prefer a computer though! )

Hi wingobins.Some like free AV but my experience with AVG put me off.

I now use Kaspersky.For about £16 I can protect three PCs for a year so it seems a small price to pay.

ETA: I bought my PC with no operating system so any issues just get solved via a reinstall as I have the Windows disc that I purchased at the the time: http://www.ebuyer.com/259862-microsoft-windows-7-home-premium-w-sp1-licence-and-media-1-gfc-02021

I use a PC very much like this: http://www.ebuyer.com/407540-zoostorm-desktop-pc-7873-1077

I back up all info to an external drive as they have got so cheap it seems the easiest way.

ETA: more info re BT closing accounts.............http://community.bt.com/t5/Other-BB-Queries/Email-about-closing-bt-Yahoo-account/td-p/584111

weeowens

Further to the above here are some free links:

MSE free security: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows/security-essentials-download

C Cleaner for free: http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner