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Old 09-11-2005, 09:20 AM #1
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Default Be careful with Winks on MSN -
Someone, who will remain nameless suggested I get some free "winks" for MSN instant messenger from a certain website

Without thinking properly, I downloaded one, installed it and now my PC is suffering some kind of attack

More details of the saga here

I am now looking at trying to raise the money to pay a professional to see if he can fix it.

I have a lot of important stuff on my PC and with one of my software tools the installation discs disappeared during a redecoration of my flat last year. So I need to get a fix without the "nuke" option of reformatting and rebuilding from scratch.

I have already spent $42.94 (Canadian Dollars) to register software which promised a fix and did not solve my problem.


So STAY AWAY FROM MSN WINKS!!!!!!!

Especially when talking to me on MSN at the moment.
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Old 09-11-2005, 06:56 PM #2
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Stay away from MSN, full of peados who want your bum.
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Can't really argue with that..
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mine is ok and running fine
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how do you know it was the winks could be a coincidence
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Oh and don't get Block Checker either. That really screws up your PC!
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Which gimp suggested that then??

MSN is full of weirdos in any case.
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how do you know it was the winks could be a coincidence
My system was fine until then
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could be coincidence sorry but you did ask . It aint my fault
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I got the conversion from US (Not Canadian Dollars) the XoftSpy registration stung me for Ł27.70

The fee from the Engineer was Ł45.00 for 1 1/2 hours work

An account of what was done and shortly after

One question I had on there has been answered, with ZoneAlarm I do not us the XP firewall

So far no need for the Nuke option yet- but the night is still young
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how d ya think i feel loosing my car after just paid 600 quid to get it on the road and now its a right off
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BTW are there any PC engineers on this forum, who can scratch build a pc and are au fait with operating systems and how to defeat malware?
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BTW are there any PC engineers on this forum, who can scratch build a pc and are au fait with operating systems and how to defeat malware?
Subject slightly changed..but you'll be happy to know that my shop has now re-stocked beefy bovril
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Subject slightly changed..but you'll be happy to know that my shop has now re-stocked beefy bovril
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So where is it?
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the bovril shop where else
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