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Old Aug 19, 2004 | 08:47 PM
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Caught a virus on my main computer, took me a week to dig up all the old parts form my old pc. It's slower but can still hook up to the cable connection thank god. At least I have the internet again.
 
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Old Aug 19, 2004 | 09:10 PM
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Why not just remove the virus?
Which one was it?
 
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Old Aug 20, 2004 | 12:30 AM
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Sent the new one to my Uncle to fix, using old one until I get the new one back.
 
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Old Aug 20, 2004 | 11:07 PM
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I dont understand why people make viruses and infect computers...I mean, do they get a rush out of it or something? Is making people spend lots of money to repair their computer 'funny'? I wish all those people would get caught and rot in prison. As for me, im lucky enough to have never caught any viruses.
 
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Old Aug 21, 2004 | 05:08 PM
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Originally Posted by 93GreenF150
I dont understand why people make viruses and infect computers...I mean, do they get a rush out of it or something? Is making people spend lots of money to repair their computer 'funny'? I wish all those people would get caught and rot in prison. As for me, im lucky enough to have never caught any viruses.
im with yah on that one man...as for me however i have gotten almost every virus there is out their man lol...its all those stupid pop ups that keep doing it lol...oh well i should have it completely fixed in about 2 weeks and have it back to a no virus state soon.

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Old Aug 22, 2004 | 08:37 PM
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i personaly wish that i could trace where the virus came from and add a few things so i could remotely explode the violaters computer.i probably could do the trace but these guys are pretty smart and to infect them is nearly impossible.they run the most sophisticated firewalls and ip scramblers that you could not infect them.
 
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Old Aug 22, 2004 | 08:45 PM
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I may have a tracer available in awhile, so you can tell if your being tracked. I'm waiting on a post on another site. BTW, you would be surprised how low tech these viruses are as far as delivery, its the actual function of the virus that is complicated. Not so much in its function, but in the hiding of it to get it into your computer.
 
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