Wisconsin Chit-Chat & Daily Check-in... - Page 54

**CarolsCritterCare** · 12-01-2008, 09:19 AM

I'm back....

I picked up a horrible virus that wiped out my whole hard drive. gggggrrrrr

Now I have IE8 and SP3 because everytime we tried installing IE7 and SP2 I had tons of errors.

Latina · 12-01-2008, 09:24 AM

Sounds like you got more snow than us as well keith, to have shoveled twice! We have blowing snow & what not, but not too bad.

tamed · 12-01-2008, 09:31 AM

Good morning! How are we on this fine snowy day? Has everyone dug themselves out? I am still waiting for someone (read mr. tamed) to clear our driveway. Good thing we don't open till 10:00.

Went to see Twilight with my oldest grandaughter yesterday. She loved it. It is definitely okay, but not something I would have gone to see for myself. I must admit to reading the series and loving it, even though it's so....adolescent. I have to admire an author who can write that many words and keep the reader interested in the story.

tamed · 12-01-2008, 09:33 AM

Yikes, Carol. Were you able to recover all your stuff?

**CarolsCritterCare** · 12-01-2008, 09:45 AM

Some I did, most I didn't. Smart Kid did a ghost and grabbed what he could...but a lot was gone already. He used something called Knoppix (SP?) and was able to get in and see my hard drive.

I got my pics, but I lost all my videos I made...glad that they are on youtube.

Lost all my tags so I have to start that over. All I have it what I put here.

Lost all my cool programs from the freebee of the day site

pk · 12-01-2008, 11:37 AM

Sorry to hear that Carol. I actually had that happen a couple of times. Not fun.

I did want to throw it out here to see if anyone else heard this...I was told that the 'smileys' that you can download can often bring virus's with them. I had a free offer of the smileys one time and went for it and the guy that worked on my computer at the time told me that is how people end up with a ton of problems and to never, ever go for the smileys and many other sites that offer free things like that.

I only mentioned this since I know you mentioned the free smileys that you found one time when listing your free tags, and things. That wasn't long ago that I read that and now you had a bunch of computer problems.

Could it be connected somehow? How dangerous is downloading the free smileys?

Just wondering.

Blue Baboon · 12-01-2008, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by tamed

Two stellar examples are Uncle Sam's Cereal--A Fine Laxative and Uncle Fred's Fine Sex Olives. I think you should not have a product name with Uncle in it. There's something wrong with that. I found the olives in a grocery store; the words FINE SEX are in big orange type.

I found those olives at a gas station on the way up north this past summer. I have a picture of them.

Blue Baboon · 12-01-2008, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by tamed

Went to see Twilight with my oldest grandaughter yesterday. She loved it. It is definitely okay, but not something I would have gone to see for myself..

We also went to see a movie this weekend. We saw Australia. It was a good movie, but long.

We don't get to the movie theater much these days, it's just too expensive to do it that often.

Blue Baboon · 12-01-2008, 11:57 AM

We didn't get too much snow here in town. Maybe 2 inches at the most. I will be leaving for work early today, just in case it's worse that direction. I doubt it, but you never know. They don't know how to use a plow where I live. You can always tell as soon as you get outside of the city limits. Roads are always much better.

**dgridley** · 12-01-2008, 12:50 PM

Howdy, all.. afternoon appt, then I'll be back!

Meanwhile, "Start writing a new chapter, for if you live by the book you'll never make history."....

**CarolsCritterCare** · 12-01-2008, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by pk

Sorry to hear that Carol. I actually had that happen a couple of times. Not fun.

I did want to throw it out here to see if anyone else heard this...I was told that the 'smileys' that you can download can often bring virus's with them. I had a free offer of the smileys one time and went for it and the guy that worked on my computer at the time told me that is how people end up with a ton of problems and to never, ever go for the smileys and many other sites that offer free things like that.

I only mentioned this since I know you mentioned the free smileys that you found one time when listing your free tags, and things. That wasn't long ago that I read that and now you had a bunch of computer problems.

Could it be connected somehow? How dangerous is downloading the free smileys?

Just wondering.

YUP that is what my kid says too....he wont let me have the free smilie thing.... I was grounded from those about 3 yrs ago because he got tired of fixing my computer and it was always smilie related. That's why I switched to home made tags. Tags are more fun then smilies anyways cuz they are made for you and have your name on them.

**keith** · 12-01-2008, 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Blue Baboon

We also went to see a movie this weekend. We saw Australia. It was a good movie, but long.

We don't get to the movie theater much these days, it's just too expensive to do it that often.

My daughter saw it and swears it is the best movie of all time!

We got about 5 inches in my neighborhood, but we sit on a hillside and the way the wind hits us it just piles it up!

Still up and at 'em.

Later.

Regards,
Keith