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I love the way the install program tries to trick you and then the program itself tries to 'warn' you, that RP is not your default player for mp3/wav/etc. Or the struggle you have to even FIND the free player on their site. I hate RP, I hate everyone who wrote RP, and I especially hate their web monkey and the guy who wrote the installer.
Christian
As I learn the innermost secrets of the around me, they reward me in many ways to keep quiet.
Men with pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought Jewellery.
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What I hate most if when I goto sites and find that to play their video/audio they only offer RealPlayer. Hopefully Microsoft will kill off RealPlayer just as they have done with Netscape.
Michael
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RealPlayer blows, the video codec sucks, the player is slow, the installation of so much filth is downright annoying.
Of course, WiMP also blows. Most professionals use QuickTime.
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I'm just curious whether you've tried the free one from www.Grisoft.com. It's the only anti-virus program I've used which hasn't made my system unstable.
John
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Well I thought RealPlayer was bad until I installed Go!Zilla. Man not only is that programme a pain to uninstall but holly crap does it come with fifty mini programmes that all sit there tracking your movements, displaying adverts, updating Go!Zilla's announcements.. and on and on and on.
Also the whole interface is shocking, I wish it would take a hint from the dinosaurs and die.
Otherwise Norton is not too bad, as long as you keep it on a short leash and don't put all the options on then your system stays fine.
As for people who get viruses all the time... wake up and listen to Christian. All those Warez sites filled with porn will give you infections and email attachments are as bad as the red light district in Amsterdam.
Play it safe, get protection!
*no, no affiliation with any condom manufactures, promise
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
"We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible."
- Chretien Malesherbes
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I've not had Go!Zilla ( I use mIrc for my growing media collection ) but the WORST ever pseudo virus is Bonzai Buddy. Someone here at work is STILL trying to get rid of the last remnants of this thing. It's a blue monkey that wanders your desktop freely, telling bad jokes and generally being more annoying than the @#()$#@() paper clip. He also offers to help you find the best deal on things, in other words he is a self installed spammer that redirects you to his website at random intervals.
Christian
As I learn the innermost secrets of the around me, they reward me in many ways to keep quiet.
Men with pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought Jewellery.
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Oh man I have not even installed that phuketing Bonzai Buddy and it annoys me. ICQ keeps showing me ads regarding it and a couple of my favourite websites pop-up "download your new best friend" adverts which drive me bananas (excuse the pun).
When I first saw it I thought "oh god, Barney has morphed into a gorilla, save us all!".
The really sad bit about all of this? A friend, new to computers, thinks it is really cute and wants to install it. I throttled that idea out of his head pretty damned fast.
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
"We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible."
- Chretien Malesherbes
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I had a fool at work who installed this on their laptop, it pissed me off so much I uninstalled it and tracked every last bit of it down. Problem is now I can't remember how I did it.
Michael Martin
Pegasystems Pty Ltd
Australia
martm@pegasystems.com
+61 413-004-018
"Don't belong. Never join. Think for yourself. Peace"
- Victor Stone
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Ah Go!Zilla, another piece of spyware masked as a useful app. Between it and RealPlayer, they've turned me into a privacy freak. Although I did find the Go!Zilla functionality useful. Anyone know of a less annoying app which will allow me to schedule a list of downloads. I've been thinking of writing one but don't know much about the internet download side.
I wish Microsoft would intergrate one into XP
Michael
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GetRight is another Go!Zilla like app. Schedule downloads, resume etc. But I have not used it for awhile so it may also have gone the spyware route of Go!Zilla.
They should integrate it into Internet Explorer... IE's download "capabilities" are pretty horrendous (though this is not saying other browsers are any better).
But I will bet if MS integrated a download app into IE they would be sued for some or other reason by some or other company. Crap.
..."Between it and RealPlayer, they've turned me into a privacy freak"...
lol don't get me started on you privacy nutter... err advocates again.
I did not mind Go!Zilla recording that I downloaded BritneyNekkid.zip from PornStars.com but all those ad's just freaked me out.
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
"We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible."
- Chretien Malesherbes
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I've been using GetRight and it's pretty good.(not sure about the newer version tho) The best feature I like is the segment download. It's really handy when the download speed is really crappy.
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Opera has a resume download feature
I believe IE does this too...
I downloaded a large part of a 20MB or so download, and them my connection was lost (damn you BT). When I dialed in again I was expecting to ahve to start from scratch, but when I clicked on the link IE resumed the downlaod from where it got to.
I haven't seen this feature documentated, but IE stores the file in a temp directory whilst downloading, together with basic information about it like the name and source. This would enable it to resume the download if necessary.
so might be useful for viewing BritneyNekkid.jpg
It's a lot quicker just to get a magnifing glass and a barbie doll... they both have the same plastic content, and look the same.
David Wulff
dwulff@battleaxesoftware.com
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IE6 does seem to resume a download where it left off, which is very useful. Now if only they'd build in a download queue so that I can schedule to download files.
Michael
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if only they'd build in a download queue so that I can schedule to download files.
If they did then every company that produces downlaod acceleration software, etc, would sue for blood.
"MONOPOLY! MONOPOLY! MONOPOLY!"
David Wulff
dwulff@battleaxesoftware.com
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I'm using FreeBSD 4.3 with nat and ipfw on a dediacted machine
And an AVP but only like a virus scanner (monitor have halted my system several times)
With the best regards, Vitaly.
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Hummm, build myself an OpenBSD box for the firewall and run Norton Anti-Virus on the main box.
That seems to do the job well !
Luc.
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For inbound traffic I use FreeBSD 4.2 box running NAT/ipfw. For outbound traffic I use ZoneAlarm Pro. It is scary how many programs actually tries to communicate over the internet w/o any hint. Good thing Mr ZoneAlarm gives me the option to say no.
I also require IE to prompt me for scripts and activex controls. Maybe I'm paranoid, but I still haven't had any viruses since '93 (Remember the "Jerusalem" virii family?
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I'm using Tiny Personal Firewall. I've used ZoneAlarm in the past, however, its UI is the worst piece of crap I've ever seen.
Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com
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ZoneAlarm and McAfee VirusScan.
My desktop machine (an IBM Aptiva) came preinstalled with Norton Antivirus but it never did really get on with the Display Driver (an integrated Rage Turbo 3D Pro).
When I upgraded the Aptiva to Win2K the copy of Norton that came with it wouldn't work and I was sufficiently FiretrUCKed off with it by then that I just went out and got McAffee. No problems since.
I haven't had any problems with ZoneAlarm. It's simple and seems to be effective - I ran a test using Gibson Research's grc.com and was impressed enough with the results not to bother trying anything else.
Andy Metcalfe - Sonardyne International Ltd (andy.metcalfe@lineone.net) http://www.resorg.co.uk
"Be yourself, not what others want you to be."
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I'm using the very good Norton Internet Security as a firewall and McAfee AntiVirus 5.
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Nobody's perfect but this is no excuse for bad code!
So let's code well!
(Chris Meier)
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When I upgraded the Aptiva to Win2K the copy of Norton that came with it wouldn't work
Well, that's because NAV is a totally different product (different binaries, that is) betwen 9x and NT/2K.
--Mike--
http://home.inreach.com/mdunn/
Trillian: What are you supposed to do with a manically depressed robot?
Marvin: You think you've got problems. What are you supposed to do if you are a manically depressed robot?
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Yep. I realised that when I read the Win2k setup compatibility report.
I already had McAfee running happily on my laptop, so I decided to standardise. The problems with Norton under '98 just tipped the balance....
Andy Metcalfe - Sonardyne International Ltd (andy.metcalfe@lineone.net) http://www.resorg.co.uk
"I'm just another 'S' bend in the internet. A ton of stuff goes through my system, and some of the hairer, stickier and lumpier stuff sticks."
- Chris Maunder (I just couldn't let that one past )
"Be yourself, not what others want you to be."
- Me (unless someone else thought of it first)
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At home, I use the free versions of Zone Alarm and AVG anti-virus from Grisoft. I really like them both, especially since the other things I've tried cause more problems than they fixed.
John
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AVG antivirus from Grisoft is only free for users in the United States and not for users from Europe. Why?
I use InoculateIT Pesonal Edition.
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I use Norton Anti-Virus on my workstation and I use Sygate Personal Firewall (free and very good) to protect it from my ADSL connection, and I have a RedHat Linux box protecting my web and mail servers from their permananent dial-up connection.
All works very well...
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