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Title: Tarquin's Unfounded Doubts about the topic 'One each day'
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on August 26, 2015, 11:13:34 PM
Okay, clicking this link elicited a massive site content warning, and every siren in Christendom went off.

Needless to say, I hastily retreated. Was this opening post your doing, Agent Coulson?
Title: Re: Tarquins's Unfounded Doubts about the topic 'One each day'
Post by: Mince on August 27, 2015, 12:00:01 AM
If you mean your browser gave you a warning, try using Chrome. It's an interactive animation.
Title: Re: Tarquins's Unfounded Doubts about the topic 'One each day'
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on August 27, 2015, 12:09:55 AM
I was using Chrome. And McAfee jumped in with "When we visited this site, we found it exhibited one or more risky behaviors."
Title: Re: Tarquins's Unfounded Doubts about the topic 'One each day'
Post by: Mince on August 27, 2015, 12:20:39 AM
It has a flash animation. Perhaps it hates flash animations. I never install virus checkers - useless pieces of rubbish.
Title: Re: Tarquins's Unfounded Doubts about the topic 'One each day'
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on August 27, 2015, 09:48:40 AM
I'm sure if it does hate flash animations that it's all flash animations, and nothing personal. So it's perfectly safe then?
Title: Re: Tarquins's Unfounded Doubts about the topic 'One each day'
Post by: Mince on August 27, 2015, 11:42:18 AM
It was safe for me. It's a baked bean flash.

Try his blog: http://blog.simonpanrucker.com/ (http://blog.simonpanrucker.com/)
Title: Re: Tarquins's Unfounded Doubts about the topic 'One each day'
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on August 27, 2015, 12:21:59 PM
Hmmmm - same warning.......   :-\
Title: Re: Tarquins's Unfounded Doubts about the topic 'One each day'
Post by: Mince on August 27, 2015, 01:26:54 PM
And you believe McAfee because . . . ?

AVG says it's fine (http://www.avgthreatlabs.com/ww-en/website-safety-reports/domain/simonpanrucker.com/) and so does Google (http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=simonpanrucker.com).
Title: Re: Tarquin's Unfounded Doubts about the topic 'One each day'
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on August 27, 2015, 01:56:03 PM
Because I pay them to scare me like this.

Okay - I'll take the plunge...
Title: Re: Tarquin's Unfounded Doubts about the topic 'One each day'
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on August 27, 2015, 02:03:06 PM
So far, so good. As far as I can tell, I'm still in the land of the living, and SO glad I took the risk.
Title: Re: Tarquin's Unfounded Doubts about the topic 'One each day'
Post by: Mince on August 27, 2015, 02:09:31 PM
Quote from: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on August 27, 2015, 01:56:03 PM
Because I pay them to scare me like this.

And you pay them as well? Use AVG Free (http://free.avg.com/gb-en/homepage), or the free antivirus from Avast or Avira: some reviews say they are better than McAfee anyway (though some say they are slightly worse). Personally, I don't bother with any of them as they slow down the computer. I tend to reinstall my computers at regular intervals.
Title: Re: Tarquin's Unfounded Doubts about the topic 'One each day'
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on August 27, 2015, 03:47:13 PM
I've only just renewed my subscription, so they'll be scaring me for another year. Perhaps next time. They tell me they've removed 4 viruses in the past two years though...
Title: Re: Tarquin's Unfounded Doubts about the topic 'One each day'
Post by: Mince on August 27, 2015, 04:24:13 PM
Quote from: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on August 27, 2015, 03:47:13 PM
They tell me they've removed 4 viruses in the past two years though...

Are they likely to tell you that they're not needed? Were they viruses or just harmless cookies, temporary files, false positives?
Title: Re: Tarquin's Unfounded Doubts about the topic 'One each day'
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on August 27, 2015, 04:58:36 PM
Yes.
Title: Re: Tarquin's Unfounded Doubts about the topic 'One each day'
Post by: Mince on August 27, 2015, 05:19:30 PM
Quote from: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on August 27, 2015, 04:58:36 PM
Yes.

Well, in that case, I think you know what you have to do.

By the way, I have a written a program that creates popups about finding viruses vigorously tracks down all viruses. It's £200 a year, which is a 50% saving on the usual totally made-up price of £400 a year.
Title: Re: Tarquin's Unfounded Doubts about the topic 'One each day'
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on August 27, 2015, 05:46:52 PM
Yes.
Title: Re: Tarquin's Unfounded Doubts about the topic 'One each day'
Post by: Mince on August 27, 2015, 05:58:50 PM
And have you done it yet?
Title: Re: Tarquin's Unfounded Doubts about the topic 'One each day'
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on August 27, 2015, 08:59:58 PM
Y...no.
Title: Re: Tarquin's Unfounded Doubts about the topic 'One each day'
Post by: Sandy Buttcheeks on August 27, 2015, 10:38:12 PM
Quote from: Phil Coulson on August 27, 2015, 05:19:30 PM
Quote from: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on August 27, 2015, 04:58:36 PM
Yes.

Well, in that case, I think you know what you have to do.

By the way, I have a written a program that creates popups about finding viruses vigorously tracks down all viruses. It's £200 a year, which is a 50% saving on the usual totally made-up price of £400 a year.

Wow! That must be a bargain. Can I have two, please?