Re: Fun with AVG 8 Anti Virus

"Tim Weaver" <tmw99999@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Paul Richardson hugged my left nut and wrote:
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>> "Tim Weaver" <tmw99999@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Jim Larson hugged my left nut and wrote:
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>>>> Paul Richardson wrote:
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>>>>> "Rick Savoia" <oh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>> Paul Richardson wrote:
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>>>>>>>> "Tim Weaver" <tmw99999@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>>>> Paul Richardson wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>> "Tim Weaver" <tmw99999@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>>>>>> Rick Savoia wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>>>> "Paul Richardson" <paulszoo.ARMADILLO@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>>>>>>>> One of the fun things I got to do on my return to this
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sceptered Isle on Thursday was to renew my AVGAS
>>>>>>>>>>>>> subscription. It very nicely upgraded me from version 7 to
>>>>>>>>>>>>> version 8. As soon as I ran the scan it identified a virus
>>>>>>>>>>>>> called Internet Explorer 7 and promptly removed it from the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> system and also handily removed all my restore points. A bit
>>>>>>>>>>>>> annoying on the whole. So I'm now using Firefox as a browser
>>>>>>>>>>>>> and cursing a bit because the firms ****ny new VPN doesn't
>>>>>>>>>>>>> seem to want to work with Firefox. Just what I needed after
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 16 hours flight time.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Sounds like a feature, not a bug.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> That is absolutely a feature.  To remove restore points that
>>>>>>>>>>> eat up drive space is a genius idea.  And I assume it's
>>>>>>>>>>> heuristics had to know IE would never unleash a brand new
>>>>>>>>>>> version of IE without letting it know, so it was on-guard and
>>>>>>>>>>> doing it's job.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I know stuff like this is a real pisser, but I did get a hefty
>>>>>>>>>>> chuckle at Paul's expense.  Not because it's Paul, just
because
>>>>>>>>>>> it's not me.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> And I don't watch the spellchecker as it's changed AVG to
AVGAS.
>>>>>>>>>> However, the house fire insurance policy is up to date
>>>>>>>>>> soooooooooo.....
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> At least that's something.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> This comes on top of having my cell phone stolen in Hanoi and
>>>>>>>>>> Cathay Pacific not managing to load my baggage in Hong Kong and
>>>>>>>>>> having to spend a day and a half wearing the same clothes in
>>>>>>>>>> Johannesburg.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Man, that's a lot of traveling.  The only person I know who
>>>>>>>>> travels all over the planet sells jets for Gulfstream.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Wouldn't mind the commission on that 8-) Last 26 days from
>>>>>>>> Thursday
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> From Gatwick via Dubai to Bangkok, Hanoi, Saigon (for a week),
via
>>>>>>>> Hong Kong to Jo'burg, Durban, Cape Town, via Jo'burg and Dubai to
>>>>>>>> Gatwick. One day I'll get a proper job.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Just don't fly over one of those "Lost" islands.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (He's currently posting to ATF via an old TRS-80)
>>>>>
>>>>> Nope, it's a Texas Instruments TI4
>>>>
>>>> (TI-99/4A?)
>>
>> That's the kiddie, 1st pooter we had
>>>>
>>>> ((For its time, it was a nifty little toy.))
>>>
>>> It was magnificent.
>>>
>> It had it's good points but the BASIC was a little different to the BBC
>> machines that got popular here just after I bought it. The kids went to
>> school & had to learn the differences.
>
> The Extended BASIC module was an improvement.  It would have been a
super
> fast machine for it's time if it wasn't for the GROM chip TI used.
>
You can't win them all. I liked the way that things were provided as
bubble 
memory plug ins so the games and the teaching modules just ran without any

dramas about plugging in the cassette player. The basic maths and English 
packages were really useful for my kids who were pre-school at the time.

-- 
Paul R

Float like a leaf on the wind