I'm ditching the internet

I bought Cyber Patrol, and hooked up another computer for my 13 year old son in the living room, with it on it.
Best $40 bucks I ever spent.
He can't even chat on Yahoo with the program in place.
Any site that has anything to do with weapons, drugs, sex, rock n roll, gambling, chat, etc...all get blocked automatically. You can tailor the blocks accordingly and if any site even has an advertiser or pop up in place that falls into one of your restricted category's, Cyber Patrol smells it ahead of time and blocks it.

You can set it up so that he's not allowed to exploit himself by giving out his name, address or school...it won't let em type it.

You can set up times that every program on the pc become available and times they are not. Including the internet.
It updates itself to new area's on the web that may be offensive according to your settings.

Nobody can't watch every move their kids make 24/7, but it CAN be regulated.
 
So. Dak. If your still on I have one thing to say.
You have spywires in your computer. How they got there
is a mistery.

http://www.merijn.org/files/hijackthis.zip

Copy that whole address and download it.
It's a zip file so you'll need A program to unzip it.

Just run hijackthis program and you won't get any
popup. run it every week after that. In the program
you check every box and delete all of them.

About blank is the is the worst.
happy hunting; Joe
 
I don't get it. I don't get porn popups on my computer. I don't have a popup blocker either.

Doesn't there have to be some spyware, cookies or something from porn sites you have visited in order to get them???

My wife doesn't get them on her computer, my mom doesn't get them on hers either. So, where do these things come from and how come you get them?

Very odd.
 
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Doesn't there have to be some spyware, cookies or something from porn sites you have visited in order to get them???




Yes and no. A less than straight up web sight can install the pop-up program on the system. There are a few web sites that will use misspellings of other web sites to dump you into their own search engine that will attempt to hijack your homepage. These are frequently the types of sites that will try to install a pop-up program.

After the pop-up program is installed, it talks to a server elsewhere on the internet that sends it the ads to display.

An excellent program (and free) to remove pretty much all of the pop-up or tracking programs that you may not even be aware of having is Ad-Aware. It can be found at http://www.lavasoft.com. There are a number of pop-up and spyware removal programs out there, but I am most impressed with Ad-Aware.

There are also pop-up ad companies that simply scan for IP addresses (much the same way telemarketers dial one number after another) of people that are running Windows that have security holes left open. Easiest way to defend against this is to keep on top of Windows updates by going to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
 
Man,
I couldnt live without the internet, its like the biggest shopping mall in the world right in my living room. Plus I know the latest on whats new, rather than seeing it show up 3 years down the road in my local stores.

Sorry to hear that

RM
 
Wow, thanks Bronco! We are very careful about how/when/where we use the computer, etc. but I just downloaded Ad-Aware from Lavasoft and found 23 different monitoring programs or attempts to hijack/track us. I wondered why my machine was running so slow lately. PredatorMasters solves yet another non-hunting problem! Todd
 
I think my major problem with my computer is the service provider. We use Sympatico (Bell Canada). At one time they were very good. Now they've grown to where they cannot provide reliable service. Every day at 5 PM we get locked out and receive the message "MSN must close due to a problem we've encountered." We're subject to being thrown into a solid state (loop back) at any time. There's really a lot of frustration involved with this. Hell, if they cannot provide the service then get out of the business. Does anyone el,se have this problem with their service provider? Best wishes.

Cal - Montreal
 
So Dak,

I can help you get those pop ups under control. If you want to keep your internet I will work with you through PM or email and help you clean them off your machine as well as setting it up to prevent them from coming back. Let me know if you want my help - I have helped other members on here with PC problems. I have been a PC tech for 11 years so I have a little knowledge about them.
 
re: Ad-Aware

Our previous internet PC was so riddled with adware, etc. that we couldn't get online anymore. Thinking it was something else, we bought a new machine only to run into the same problem again. Installing Ad-aware removed all the crap and invariably when it starts running slowly, a rerun of Ad-aware restores the speed.

I'm sold on it and highly recommend it also.
 
My PC was running slower than hell after a lightning storm we had. I called up my internet provider and they said there was nothing wrong on there end. I just ran my Hijackthis program and it instantly came back to life.
 
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hmmmm gonna have to stop in here more often... sorry I missed this when it was so active... Adaware is good, I also run Spybot... available here... the 2 of them work from different platforms and look for different types of boogers... they compliment each other well... if you don't want to pay for a virus scan there is a good freebie... here hope this helps... hope SoDak comes back... always enjoyed his comments... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
 
Ad-Aware is good stuff, I installed it onto one of my favorite gun-shop owners pc, it had 800+ items to be removed/deleted. Booted back-up ad-ware cleaned out some more and now it runs well. He can get to supliers pages etc. now and runs the updates frequently. I got one heck of a discout on a RCBS electronic scale for the 'work' done.

Mircosoft has been slack with controling intrusive pop-ups, advertisements etc. Your desktop & browser is after all valuable real estate for advertisements. Up untill XP w/sp2 and IE's pop-up blocking feature you had to install alternate apps such as blockers and 3rd. party firewalls. You can still do this if your not running XP sp2. Also, as an alternate Mozilla's 'Firefox' browser is a nice alternate to IE, has a built in blocker too.

Cable internet is unsecure, unless your behind a router with NAT. DSL typicaly requires a router with NAT. I'll tell you, once I switched to DSL security was 10x better. I refuse to do business with my local cable co., TimeWarner. They are in bed with AOL, a very anti-hunting pair if there ever was.

I don't subscribe to satilite tv either. I have an antenna, remember those? It gets me all the local channels I need. Tell me why it is I should pay for dozens of useless liberal channels infested with advertisements. Comercials were stations revenue, so now they want me to pay good money to see the same advertisements? F-them. When Satilite lets me pick a few channels I would like, without the garbage attached with 'package programing' then I might consider service. Untill then, they can all kiss my @ss.

One more thing that annoys me, when I take my kids to the theater to go see some damn movie. You pay, that is PAY - good money to see this damn movie. I can see them showing a few previews, but in addition to that you get big-screen advertisements. Friggin just wonderfull. What we have is greed drivin by greed, and the consumer takes it up the rear. The average pampered citizen probably thinks nothing of it, because advertisers want it that way.

In the end we must all decide for ourselves how to deal with these intrusions. It is like fighting insects while afield. What product or service makes it happen, or in some cases what we do without provides the reward.
 
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couldnt live without the internet, its like the biggest shopping mall in the world right in my living room.



/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif LMFAO, I heard that!! The world we live in today is a connected, up to the minute, in your face one. Bad things are happening all over the place, scams are every where, and the world wide web is a dangerous place to the unprotected person- no doubt about it. Accept it and adapt to it. I would have loved to have been alive as a young man in the late 1940's or 1950's. But, I am a young man in 2005. Those nice, pleasant days of mommy and daddy telling thier child that "Every thing is going to be OK" are over. At least to an extent. We are not ever going back to those days. No matter how much we want to.

That being said, I think that while regulations and parental guidance are very much needed (as it has been since the beginning of time) I think that removing technology and interaction will damage a child's social skills in the long run. I have a child myself and am scared at some of the stuff that is out there.
Being an investigator at a prison, I see and talk to some of that scary stuff every day.

I would much rather teach my child the skills that he is going to need to survive the very different world that we grew up in rather than completetly sheltering them from it and throwing them to the wolves at 18yrs of age. Not saying let them look at porn and extreme violence, but don't take the technology away from them that can show and help them with so much more. techology that will keep them "up to date" with the world they live in. Spend the money and get the protection that is needed to keep your kids from seeing inappropriate stuff on the internet. Computor ignorance is not an excuse. Educate yourself and take the appropriate percautions. I have absolutely no pop ups that show up on my computer.

As far as home schooling goes, I think that you are depriving a child the ability to build and develop social skills with others their age when you remove them from the public school environment.
 
Went to a movie the other night that had 6 advertisemnts in front of it. They wonder why box office receipts are down? I almost got up and walked out.

It won't take much more of that to make me just wait for it to come out on DVD and then I can cook some affordable popcorn, run the DVD into the LCD projector, pop the top on a $.50 cent soda and enjoy the show ad free. Are you listening Hollywood? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
The local newspaper did an article on the topic of movie ads, they concluded that the non-theater related ads started before the movie start time, and after the stated movie start time only movie trailers were shown. I tested this at a recent big release movie and there was 13 minutes of government/private advertising. Once we got to the movie start time we then got to endure movie trailers.
 
I grew up without a TV in the house because my parents had the same views about it as some of you seem to share. Incidently, my brothers and I played outside a lot, hunted, and generally enjoyed being kids. Oh....and we can read. Something that seems to be overlooked these days. I still don't have a TV [I am 24], and don't plan on getting one. When I have kids, I don't want them to be tv/video game junkies. On the other hand, I can't live without Internet....my work depends on internet access on a daily basis. As an IT guy I have learned to control pop up's spam, etc as much as possible.
 


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