Goodbye PFs: Wishing You All the Best

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The discussion revolves around a member named Wolram, who initially announced his departure from the forum, prompting a wave of concern and well-wishes from fellow members. Many expressed their sadness at his potential exit, reminiscing about his contributions and humor. There were playful comments about the difficulty of leaving the community, with members joking about dragging him back if necessary. As the conversation progressed, it became clear that Wolram's departure was linked to computer issues, possibly involving hackers and email problems. After some time, Wolram returned, expressing surprise at how much he was missed and indicating he would share more about his technical troubles. Members welcomed him back enthusiastically, offering support and advice for his computer issues, particularly recommending antivirus software. The thread highlights the strong sense of community and camaraderie among members, as well as their willingness to help one another with personal and technical challenges.
  • #51
turbo-1 said:
Welcome back, friend! If you don't already have it, download and install AVAST. Also if you don't use FireFox, it would be a good time to install and use that browser. No browser is perfect, but FireFox gives you better protection against malicious sites than IE (none).

If you can give specifics on what happened to your PC, we'll be happy to help.

That's indeed the point, what happened? filling up e-mail? Hackers? There seem to be malicious trojan horses, etc using e-mail addresses of target computers to reproduce spam, taking most of it's capacity. Draconic measures may be required like formatting and re-installing Windows. And yes most definitely the free home edition of Avast! as guards for front and back doors.

So Wolram, perhaps you can explain and we could help, but the best help there is, is a good neighbour knowing his way around in windows.

Also overloaded systems grinding to a halt, may benefit trendously from a good clean-up!. It works superb albeit that you have to reinstall all passwords again.
 
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  • #52
Welcome home Wolly!
 
  • #53
hi you Wolly!
 
  • #54
Wolram, I'm in computer security. You may PM me if you would like some free advice or help.
 
  • #55
WTF? Make a new email acc if someone is f-ing with it. Hotmail is by far the best...
 
  • #56
binzing said:
WTF? Make a new email acc if someone is f-ing with it. Hotmail is by far the best...

That's the reason why I have five different e-mail accounts. One for each level of importance. If something generic requires an e-mail address (which could possibly solicit my address) I give them them the 5th or 4th level one. If it's something important like e-mails for forums I'm a part of or something I purchase, I give out the 2nd level e-mail. I leave the 1st level for all private/daily e-mails.
 
  • #57
Andre said:
Draconic measures may be required like formatting and re-installing Windows

Or, from a more practical standpoint, turf that Windows-burning piece of **** and buy a Mac.

edit: Hey, what happened to the built-in censor?

Edit by Evo: it's been reported.
 
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  • #58
Danger said:
Or, from a more practical standpoint, turf that Windows-burning piece of **** and buy a Mac.

I''m a Windows guy, but that's still hilarious. :smile:
 
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  • #59
Thanks, Evo. I could have edited it myself, but that would have left the door open.
 
  • #60
Danger said:
Thanks, Evo. I could have edited it myself, but that would have left the door open.

I got to tell you, Danger, it's so funny that you were relying on the filter to clean up your post for you :smile: And then when you saw that it's broken, you were like "Whoops!" :redface:

:smile:
 
  • #61
Danger said:
Thanks, Evo. I could have edited it myself, but that would have left the door open.
I'm glad you didn't edit it, you proved my point about the censor not working.
 
  • #62
B. Elliott said:
That's the reason why I have five different e-mail accounts. One for each level of importance. If something generic requires an e-mail address (which could possibly solicit my address) I give them them the 5th or 4th level one. If it's something important like e-mails for forums I'm a part of or something I purchase, I give out the 2nd level e-mail. I leave the 1st level for all private/daily e-mails.

Yeah, same here, except its like having two 5th level ones and a 1st level one. I keep a hotmail (1st) for my forum stuff, website registration things, and personal email. Either my gmail or yahoo gets used for random crap that may be a scam, etc. Mainly my Yahoo is used for Freecycle and Yahoo Answers.
 
  • #63
Always glad to do my part. :biggrin:

It was quite a surprise after having Matgarbagea show up with asterisks when I was trying to find a driver for a CD player. :rolleyes:
 
  • #64
Welcome back Wolram!
Hope you're able to keep the net sharks away.
I'll have a Guinness for you as well this weekend. Cheers!
 
  • #65
WOLRAM YOU DIRTBAG, DON'T DO THAT AGAIN! Haven't we had this discussion before? I hate it when you start a thread and say 'goodbye' like it's forever with no explanation and then just show your little face up again like NOTHING ever happened.

Having said that :biggrin: - Welcome back, Wollie. We missed you. :!) :!) Just a warning, tho. We Sisters are now sporting our very own codpieces! - supposedly a step up from the frozen fish-whack. :smile:
 
  • #66
Glad to see you are fighting fit TSU, i hope you are mobile very soon, as long as you leave the fish in the freezer.
Gads, i would never imagine anyone miss me, all i can say is i am gob smacked, thankyou
every one.
I will leave my boring problems to the past, then i will find some tedious problems to post for
the future.
 
  • #67
wolram said:
Glad to see you are fighting fit TSU, i hope you are mobile very soon, as long as you leave the fish in the freezer.
Gads, i would never imagine anyone miss me, all i can say is i am gob smacked, thankyou
every one.
I will leave my boring problems to the past, then i will find some tedious problems to post for
the future.

Please go away.

Love,

Cyrus
 
  • #68
I may have a piece of cod with YOUR name on it Mr. Cyrus! :devil: :biggrin:
 
  • #69
wolram said:
Glad to see you are fighting fit TSU, i hope you are mobile very soon, as long as you leave the fish in the freezer.
Gads, i would never imagine anyone miss me, all i can say is i am gob smacked, thankyou
every one.
I will leave my boring problems to the past, then i will find some tedious problems to post for
the future.

I'll be good now that I don't have to worry about you anymore. XOXO
 
  • #70
wolram said:
I will leave my boring problems to the past, then i will find some tedious problems to post for the future.

That's why everyone here loves having you around. There's so few people capable of telling the difference between the two.
 
  • #71
WoW! I like this sentence::biggrin:

wolram said:
Glad to see you are fighting fit TSU, i hope you are mobile very soon, as long as you leave the fish in the freezer.
 
  • #72
Lisa! said:
WoW! I like this sentence::biggrin:

Classic wolram
 
  • #73
Woolie, are you familiar with 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf'? One of these days, you're going to disappear for real and nobody will notice due to all of your false alarms. Quit it, already.
 
  • #74
**HUG**

Glad you're back, Woolie!
 
  • #75
I'm glad you're still with us here Woolie! This thread gave me quite a fright. I saw it only today and looked at the date started and thought you'd snuck out of town while I was away, and I didn't get a chance to say good-bye or get your forwarding address. Glad you've changed your mind.

If you're having computer troubles, maybe somebody here can help out. If you're getting a bunch of new notifications from us in your inbox, check your settings under My PF. I noticed there were some default settings for email notifications after the upgrade. Don't know if it's that or some other mess that needs cleaning up.
 
  • #76
Welcome back Woolie!

I don't get what happened though?
 
  • #77
I think that it's just Woolie being Woolie. The man never backs off from a mechanical problem, but tends to panic when a computer goes sideways. Being a bootstrap mechanical guy myself, I can sympathize.
 
  • #78
_Mayday_ said:
Welcome back Woolie!

I don't get what happened though?

I feel the same, over the span of just less than 1 month Wollie made 3 post, ( goodby, might be back, didn't know I'd be missed ) most of the other 73 post sounded more like insider trading behind the doors??

I think maybe I understand a little of how PF works:approve:
Oh ya, welcome back wolram.:biggrin:


Ron
 
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  • #79
Welcome back Woolie!

I missed you man, nice to see you're here now :biggrin:
 
  • #81
Andre said:
So do I understand that you have a new laptop now, with windows? Let me repeat the advise, uninstall any virus scanner and install Avast!

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html
Avast! updates definitions every single day, it seems. The developers stay right on top of risks, unlike some of the big AV names.
 

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