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Home >> Dating >> Can women really go for geeks?
18.05.2007, 22:39 quote
Omg, im glad im not the only one has turned geek on a friday night, whilst you lot were having fun here i was recovering my laptop coz i had a dreaded virus! what a waste of an evening that was!!! ggggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
18.05.2007, 22:46 quote
| TinkerLou wrote: |
| Omg, im glad im not the only one has turned geek on a friday night, whilst you lot were having fun here i was recovering my laptop coz i had a dreaded virus! what a waste of an evening that was!!! ggggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr |
Rest assured, you're not a geek. No geek worth their ram stick would get a virus! I can't remember the last time I got a virus, it must have been at least 5 years ago. My only contact with them these days is rescuing other people's machines.
18.05.2007, 22:48 quote
| CharmingDave wrote: | ||
Rest assured, you're not a geek. No geek worth their ram stick would get a virus! I can't remember the last time I got a virus, it must have been at least 5 years ago. My only contact with them these days is rescuing other people's machines. |
what virus thingemybobby do you use then?? coz i had norton on here which clearly did bugger all in the way of fighting virus's
18.05.2007, 23:05 quote
| TinkerLou wrote: |
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what virus thingemybobby do you use then?? coz i had norton on here which clearly did bugger all in the way of fighting virus's |
First of all, some honesty, no technique is 100% assured to work. This is just what has worked for me where ever I have used it.
My usual process is to use non-microsoft software for email & web browsing, only install software I trust & have checked out, which means no dodgy copies of software from a mate or downloaded. I'd also be do regular updates to windows.
The main security orientated thing, for me, though, is to use the computer day to day logged in as a non-admin user. You can do administrator things, for individual tasks or running a particular program as an admin by right clicking on the appropriate icon and choosing "run as" to run that one thing as an admin. The reason for this is that, because you can't do marry all to change your computer ... neither can 99%+ of virus or trojans that try to infect your computer. Obviously, it is possible to infect a computer despite this, but the point is that the vast majority of this bad shit tends to expect the user to run as admin ... because every default windows install is set up like that,
Using the above technique, I have managed to keep windows machines that I use and others I have set up for other people virus free. I still do checks when I get the chance, but if they have followed my advice then I always find that the machines don't have any baddies on it. My own machines don't have firewalls or AV and tend to sit behind a router, too, which adds a fairly high degree of added protection. I'd not recommend "normal" users to not have an AV program or firewall, though. Most of the them do as good as each other and none of them are perfect.
I should hasten to add, though, that I've not used windows regularly for about 5 years or so. I'm a Linux nerd now. I only used it regularly between 2000-2002. The machines I have set up in my preferred way seem to be evidence that my technique works well.
I also keep windows & software on a separate partition to my own personal data. The reason for that is so that I can wipe windows and re-install without losing my personal data. Of course, I'd scan my personal stuff for baddies if I had to do a re-install.
I do more than this, but this is all the easy to do bits that help a lot.
Others on here will take apart what I have said and call me a fool ... but I don't care/
I hope some of that helps.
18.05.2007, 23:08 quote
[quote="CharmingDav
I hope some of that helps.[/quote]
well it would have done if i had understood any of it!! hehe, But Thanks Dave, i wil read it another 15 times and see if it sinks in! 
18.05.2007, 23:32 quote
| TinkerLou wrote: |
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well it would have done if i had understood any of it!! hehe, But Thanks Dave, i wil read it another 15 times and see if it sinks in! |
Yeah, I had a feeling that might be the case
One day, when I can be arsed, I might just commit all of my ideas to a website with a simple step by step guide to doing all of that. I try to get the basics across to everyone who's computer I sort out via a couple of demonstrations of some of those things. I'd implement everything except for the fact that they'd need to pay me more money.
21.05.2007, 18:51 quote
| imoneofthem wrote: |
| Let the geek answer that one for you.
|
Trust me, I am very much a g33k
. Just for starters I'm over 5 years into being a regular desktop linux user. I could list loads of things to show just how much of a geek I am, but hopefully you get the idea. I've been geeking since the 80s.
ps. both of those AV programs have been shown in some tests to fall short of AVG, and to be perfectly honest none of them are perfect and prevention is so much better than trying to cure a problem. I've had to clear of shit that *no* AV or anti-spyware program could find, and I'd tried many of each type of program without success. They all thought the computer was clean, when it plainly wasn't to anyone using it.
Downloading software illegally and looking for cracks ... that's asking for trouble, even if you're safe most of the time. Most users run windows as an admin, meaning anything can install itself if you're not careful.
21.05.2007, 23:00 quote
| twistedvoilet wrote: |
| omg are you guys having a geek off |
mv imoneofthem /dev/null
I win
He r d35tr0y3d.
23.05.2007, 13:39 quote
| CharmingDave wrote: | ||
mv imoneofthem /dev/null I win He r d35tr0y3d. |
Stop now
23.05.2007, 13:48 quote
| Bams wrote: | ||||
Stop now |
And my answer is yes- girls really can go for geeks. There is nothing wrong with them at all, why shouldn't we go for them? And I'm quite a nerd myself
23.05.2007, 16:12 quote
Its better to hide your geek credentials.
Most will lose interest the moment their mates find out you're a geek or you give the game away.
23.05.2007, 16:28 quote
| scubawallace wrote: |
| I am at heart a geek but I think I hide it well... |
Is the hair part of your anti-geek disguise then? That is some long hair you have...
23.05.2007, 17:07 quote
| Bams wrote: | ||||
Stop now |
OK, but only because it's you, baby. I love the hair in the picture by the way
23.05.2007, 20:25 quote
| scubawallace wrote: |
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can't really answer that, the hair is just part of me 
its long but its been in too many slipstreams at 100+, did a trackday too once where I lost all hair ties so it was all flapping about in the wind all bluddy day - took me hours of detangling it! 
the aprilia falco was definately good for hiding geek credentials too - big v twin italians are macho rather than geek and I luv em  but I still want a shot on the R6  pretty please  |
I must admit I am not a fan of v twins. I used to have very long hair when younger and it was a nightmare on the bike if it got free. Then I let it go into dreads which solved that problem. I have not got an R6 Scuba... yet but did see a beautiful one on Saturday that I was serverly temped/tested by...
Anyway back to geeks...sorry bike chat maust be another forum!
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