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I just joined. Found the site after a friend told me I should consider using AntiVir Guard instead of the AVG I've been using for the past five years or so.

I always need a lot of tech support, since I am not a programmer and I know just enough about my PC to get in trouble all the time.

The other reason I joined is an attempt to find some 'volunteer' programmers.

I checked the Rules and didn't see any that prohibited this type of posting, so I hope I've joined a forum where my 'volunteer seaches' are allowed. If not, please tell me and I will go away.

One of my hobbies is fooling around with cryptography. In the process, I have written three handbooks on the subject and try to maintain a web site which in addition to 'advertising' my books offers free downloads of various 'codebreaking' programs that I have designed and that others have written.

Some of the these programs are very sophisticated and others are quite simple. So the programmers that have volunteered in the past range from the very skilled and experienced to those who are very much less so.

I've enjoyed working with all of them, but since they have 'been there. done that' I'm always looking for new volunteers to handle the programming tasks of various projects that come to mind.

If anyone is interested, please contact me directly via e-mail or post a reply.

Bob Reynard (secretcodebreaker)

 

Welcome to MajorGeeks

 

Welcome to MGs,secretcodebreaker.

 

Thanks for the two welcome postings (although I suspect they are probably automatic 'form' postings). Nice touch in any case.

I wasn't sure I'd be welcome, posting that request for volunteers and all.

I was wondering why my post had the little check mark in the 'Rating' column. What does that mean?

Has I indicated in my initial post, I discovered this forum while looking for a AntiVir Guard download. Now that I have downloaded and installed that package, I didn't see any indication that it checks my e-mail.

I've been using AVG for a number of years and I'm accustomed to seeing the
little message (in grey tone) at the end of the e-mail.
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No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
Version: 7.0.296 / Virus Database: 268.11.7 - Release Date: 8/29/2006
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Does AntiVir Guard check e-mail?

secret

 

Those aren't auto-responses...we are real people welcoming you to the forum

The check mark in the rating colum simply shows that you have posted in that particular thread. It helps you locate threads quickly that you have particpated in.

I don't use AVG, so I'll let someone else answer that specific question

 

lol! Welcome to MG.....are all secretcodebreakers as suspicious as you are?

As far as your antivirus questions go, you know what they say.....when your on a good thing, stick to it!!

 

I can't speak for other 'codebreakers.'

A few years ago, I was trying to get some technical help in/on? a chat room and after 'talking' to a xxxbot for about twenty minutes, that for the most part answered with 'don't know what you mean by ...' another person told me I was trying to explain my problem to a program (software).

That and some of the 'canned' responses one receives from so-called Help Desks have made me suspicious, as you call me, of replies to postings.

I apologize if I have offended those two individuals who posted those kind welcome messages.

As for the antivirous question, I was told that when I first installed AVG years ago, it was the best available but has since slipped in the standings and that AntiVir Guard was now the product of choice.

As for being on a good thing, a similar phrase (American) is "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Speaking of being broke(n). My wife's Thunderbird e-mail program has a corrupt profile (according to the back-up program) and I don't know how to fix it other than removing the program and installing it anew. Problem - if I do that I'll lose all her Saved Mail. The latest version of Thunderbird seems to have adopted (conformed) to the Windoze XP practice of hiding files. My back-up program can no longer find the directory in which Thunderbird places the e-mail files. It somewhere in the depths of Documents & Settings.

I've found those files using my UltraEdit text editor Search function, but the 'Browse' function on Explorer and my back-up program (Karen's Replicator from Karen's Power Tools) can't find those files.

Would this be a good place (MajorGeeks.com)to start a thread on that or would that be Off Topic(s)?

secret

 

Its all good, great to have you here though and Im pretty sure theres no automated responses here (dunno about TimW)

 

Thought I mention this FYI.

Today I received a 'phishing' e-mail via my secretcodebreaker addy. A coincidence? I put this e-mail addy in my profile just yesterday.

Although I have this addy on my website (coded so spambot web crawlers don't find it - although I hear that they have figured out this ploy) I rarely get any Spam at this address and all of it has been from a outfit touting stock. As I can recall, never any 'phishing'

It was a fake PayPal transaction. Said I had just purchased a Dell computer and had a hot link labeled CANCEL TRANSACTION that took me to http://vanguardngr.com/ /www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/login.html which had a pretty authentic looking PayPal Log In page.

Any other members experience this?

I'm not complaining nor accusing anyone on the staff. I realize that putting an e-mail addy in a public profile is a risk, of sorts.

For me this Spam stuff is but a small irritant. Sort of a 'cost of using the Internet.' But I thought I'd let the members of this forum know, in case they might get one.