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Man, you suck.

And your avatar rocks. It has been one of my favorites for a long time along side Eggie's. I will check out the torrent thing. I've just never understood it and so avoided it. Thanks for the info

Torrent technology was invented like 99 years ago and you still ended up on megavideo.

I also have a turntable on which I listen to albums.

I had McAfee, but then some virus (don't remember what exactly the problem was) came and I used Malware, Bitdef and Spybot to clean up, that did the trick.

I never liked McAfee. I tried Spybot some years ago, before I found Avast, and it never seemed to clean anything up. I ened up thinking it was spyware itself, like 99% of these things are.

I'm such a newcomer starting two topics in less than 24 hours.

So after starting the thread about Without A Trace last night, I did some searching for any chance to watch this show episode by episode online. I was fortunate to find something called Megavideo. It's got every single episode of the entire series available to watch. So being in the state we our, my wife and I, not being able to get this series through Netflix, we can certainly put up with watching it online with lag, loading, annoying pop-ups and the obvious reduction in audiovisual quality.

After finding the first episode of season 3 a few pop ups came on. Being completely UNLIKE my cautious self (not that it is an excuse, but it was late and there was excitement and beer involved in my decision making) I clicked YES on 3 or so pop-ups asking me to run software or whatever. I blindly thought it had to do strictly with watching the video online, maybe some sort of plug-in required - I didn't even read them! GAH! I NEVER DO THAT!!1!).

After that the show was almost immediately and repeatedly interrupted by pop-ups saying that the computer is infected and asking if I wanted to start my anti-virus software... Ah, eh? It's already on, you stupid assholes! So I immediately knew it was a virus of some sort, have it be malware or spyware. Before the episode is finished we already started getting pop-ups for viagra and PORNO.COM, lol.

Before the video started, however, Avast did detect a malicious site and immediately blocked it from loading up, but it never detected everything else that was happening afterwards (because I chose to install/allow access  beforehand maybe?).

The show ends, the wife goes to bed and I decide to stay up and find a solution. Soon it blocks internet access completely.
After that, or vise-versa, it wouldn't let me open anything on the computer - not even notepad. I noticed this when I went to check the control panel and a pop-up messege alerts me that it has been infected. I was scared to restart thinking that our new computer that isn't even paid off yet is fucked in the chocolate eye. To no avail, after scanning the computer with Avast on both quick and full scans finding nothing, I decide to restart into safe-mode and run Avast in there as well. Again, both quick and full finished with nothing found. I almost shit. This ALWAYS works.

To make it worse, I was certain doing a boot scan would find the little buggers, but Avast is unable to do boot-scanning on computers that are 64-bit! What the hell is this shit??

I went to bed.

This morning I booted up in safe-mode again and opened up msconfig. I deselected anything that was fishy and restarted normally. Success! No pop-ups, every thing is peachy-keen... except I am still not allowed online.

I get an idea! I load up Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on VIRTUALBOX! HAHA! You lose! I win! I have access to the internet you goddamn nerds that have nothing better to do than jerk off and fuck shit up!

I google around looking to see why I can't access the internet and hopefully find somebody who's had the same virus. I do! It didn't hit me until I saw the solution. Every time I tried to access a site it gave me a messege about not being able to access the proxy server and access is denied. What? Proxy? Why didn't it hit me before? I don't use a proxy! I don't even know what the fuck a proxy IS!

So I go into Internet Options in Control Panel and uncheck the proxy balogna. I restart and VOILA!  I've got access.

Okay, since I made a short story long, I'll cut to the chase.

Avast didn't find the problem. I remembered you guys talking about Malwarebytes in a thread recently and I figured I'd give it a shot. I downloaded it, ran a full scan and it finds 21 infected objects. This is where I get the butterflies. I think to myself, yeah right, now I'll click "Remove" and it'll tell me that it's not available unless I buy it. To my surprise, it removed all infected objects and everything is back to normal (or so I am believing).

I have been a firm believer in AVAST! for years now. It is all I trust and it has done wonders for our computers. I suggest it to everybody and have installed it on computers for various people. They say they haven't had a problem since which is great. We have not had any virus' on any of our computers with Avast until last night.

Can somebody explain to me why Avast didn't find or prevent these 21 objects?

Where is your frosty pint, you ask? Here you go:

But I didn't say it was free! BWAHAHAHA!!!
*infects your computer*
*jerks off to pr0n*

This is more of a vent than anything, I suppose.

So the wife and I are a little upset after finding out that seasons 3 through 7 do not exist in the US on DVD. We finished season 2 last night and returned it to Netflix this morning only to find out that the rest of the damned show isn't available to finish! ARGH!

We started watching it again through Netflix because we missed almost the entire series when it was on. We used to watch episodes of it on TNT back in the day, but they were re-runs at the time and never caught them in time to see them as they were first broadcast.

I was just reading about it on Wikipedia and it seems that every season* except 7 (the last) is available outside the US.

So who wants to buy us this for Christmas?

PS
I'm also hoping that I will some day see a season 1 DVD release of Journeyman... I loved that show :'(

*Season 6 depends on the region

For the love of god.

I always liked Jill Valentine from Resident Evil 1 & 3. I also liked Tiffany in The Adventures of Willy Beamish... before she went punk.

I liked Elaine Marley (from Monkey Island 1 and 2) enough to do lots of sketches and drawings of her when I was younger.. perhaps that could be counted as a crush.

Which positions did you draw her in?

Paint as in microsoft paint? Trust me, it's very much worth it to learn something a bit more advanced than that.

LOL

Don't listen to him, StrawberryMelt-a-way! MS Paint is all I use!

With the exception of Irfanview for resizing and adjusting colors, of course

I can't remember if I replied already, but, this slap's the cat's waffle-eatin' ass. It's incredible that you guys did this

I would love to know how you guys put together an AGS game into a cabinet. Have you considered a tutorial of sorts?

Thanks Malwarebytes did the trick. 

Pfft.
(attributed to Al_Ninio)

WHAt ARE YOU WAITING FOR??2!! INSTALL LINUX!!!!111@1111!!11!!111111!!!

I think it looks completely awesome. The only thing I don't like is that she looks like the main character in the NBC show, Chase.

I can't stand that woman.

Nice one, Scarab. I made her own account yesterday:

Yes, all of AGS is his mistress, I know  :'(... I digress - thanks I have re-read it and it is a little clearer.  I will start with littler things I guess until I understand all the rules. 

HI everyone, I hijacked Snake's name since he always says you are all the smartest  people he knows.  I have a bunch of stuff that I'd like to sell on ebay, but after reading the first few pages of selling tips, I needed a drink and it's barely afternoon.  I just thought I took some pics, posted them with a description and had to mail it to the person who paid me.  I don't understand insertion fees and final price fees, and actually how or where to post where I can get the most for a product... Any help that you could provide would be appreciated!  Thanks a lot!  Snakette

If I could find free resources...

Have you checked out Insta-Game?

I think it's great.

The only thing I can think of is putting more frames into his arms on the front view.

His right arm looks like he's constantly checking to see if his wallet and/or keys are still in there and his left arm is hanging by his side ready to draw his weapon at the count of three.

I watched House on Haunted Hill (1959) with Vincent Price for the first time - now probably my favorite Price film.

And re-watched Horror Express (1973). Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Telly Savalas, Rasputin, a 2 million year old apeman and The Thing - all in one train. Great cheesy horror film and it's now public domain.

I just reviewed Horror Express for you reading pleasure. Will anyone take the bait and watch it?

I LOVE Horror Express! I've got the old VHS tape that I'll watch from time to time! Great movie
I was actually under the impression I was the only person in the world that knew of it!

I will read your review as soon as I remember!
(hopefully that's not too far off, but sometimes it can be)

Yeah, he does. He's got a huge collection.

Dave: I love Eric's responce in the thread, "i'm sure you'll be back. i mean, you HAVE to come back to play my RON game... RIIIIIIIGHT?"

YOU MEAN THE ONE YOU NEVER FINISHED, ERIC??@?!1

Resident Evil, Billy Mays, Adventure Games and Vinyl Records. Why do I love things that are dead?

Well, Duals, it looks like it's up to you and I to revive adventure games with your MI game. We could even throw in Troica and Leitor's Edge as bonus features. On the first of April. It'll work.

Telltale brought it back from dead... Actually maybe AGS brought it back from dead - who knows?

Both of then Singlehandedly Revived The Genre, did they not?

Yes.

Hmm, i'll admit popularity does seem to be declining a little.

Maybe the key is to pull out the sex card in advertising and show the blue cup crammed in between two luscious boobies.

Duals, is it too late to send you a PM or email regarding 2d graphics artists for your new MI game?