[extropy-chat] Opera browser, Danny's system glitches

[MB]

Here is a virus removal tool that I've used:
http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

I love Opera, it is my browser of choice. :) I also have Mozilla and
Netscape 4.x and IE, all of which are better at some things than
others.

For email I'm using PC-Pine. It takes some getting used to, but it
works for me. :)

I am running Windoze 98 SE on a Pentium 200MHz machine. We don't have
broadband available here for reasonable costs. I can hear the noise on
my phone line with my *ears* so I'm sure the computer has a time of
it.

Good luck to Danny.

Regards,
MB


On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Extropian Agroforestry Ventures Inc. wrote:

> Had a friend , Danny who had a major glitch which locked him out of his
> IE browser for an "illegal function" and seemed to even shut down his
> access to his file manager.
> He had an old email program that worked but barley.
> I downloaded the only browser that makes the "under 10 megs" limit for
> our
> sasktel email boxes ... Opera without java and emailed it to him.
> Even his disk utilities refused yesterday so I went back to the old DOS
> prompt  in "safe mode" and did a precautionary scan and defrag  the old
> fashioned way.
>
> Then I tried using the opera browser myself and found it seems to work
> really neat
> so now have all 3 running on mine now.  I have always had both netscape
> and IE running.
> I have always liked the file cache from Netscape as a way to capture the
> odd
> slippery file that does not want to save except by scraping it out of
> the cache.
> I have an old P1 100 MHZ win95 system and at times have locked up the
> IExplorer
> with too large mail  archives and found that IE can get in  when
> Netscape freezes.
> We are on an old copper line phone system so speed is horrible so I find
> the old stuff matches the
> Telco's slow connection anyway.
>
> So diversity is sometimes a real lifesaver.
>
> Do you think my friend might also have a lurking virus as the root cause
> of his windows
> system problems?
>
> Morris Johnson