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Computer goings-on...
This morning, when I started Alice and Borg (the two machines at the shop), they immediately "saw" each other and I could access the files on one machine from the other.
About an hour later, they spontaneously stopped "seeing" each other, as evidenced by error messages to the effect that no such other machine existed on the network. Then Borg proceeded to stop seeing itself in its own Network Neighborhood.
I am beginning to suspect network hardware. The cheap hub I bought is tops on the list.
After many frustrations with McAfee antivirus, I sprang for the pro version of AVP, published by Kaspersky labs. It immediately found an infected file on my system, which arrived with some suspicious mail and had never been run. (Whew!) It turns out the file is infected with I-Worm.Magister, which appears to be a bad one, from its description.
I applied for an Internet merchant credit card account today and it should be "live" tomorrow, if the sales flack can be believed. I also upgraded the store's hosting to "Merchant Hosting," which costs a small fortune, but the deal is that the bank will waive the application fee ($299) if that's my level of hosting. The back of the envelope tells me it will take a year for me to break even, so I elected the higher level of hosting.
Now, to create a web page for the store.
Cheers...
About an hour later, they spontaneously stopped "seeing" each other, as evidenced by error messages to the effect that no such other machine existed on the network. Then Borg proceeded to stop seeing itself in its own Network Neighborhood.
I am beginning to suspect network hardware. The cheap hub I bought is tops on the list.
After many frustrations with McAfee antivirus, I sprang for the pro version of AVP, published by Kaspersky labs. It immediately found an infected file on my system, which arrived with some suspicious mail and had never been run. (Whew!) It turns out the file is infected with I-Worm.Magister, which appears to be a bad one, from its description.
I applied for an Internet merchant credit card account today and it should be "live" tomorrow, if the sales flack can be believed. I also upgraded the store's hosting to "Merchant Hosting," which costs a small fortune, but the deal is that the bank will waive the application fee ($299) if that's my level of hosting. The back of the envelope tells me it will take a year for me to break even, so I elected the higher level of hosting.
Now, to create a web page for the store.
Cheers...
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eventually discovered that if I uninstalled the McAfee, the problems were largely eliminated.
I event reinstalled McAfee twice to confirm that the problems would reappear.
The McAfee that came with my machine also had only a 9-month license, which wouldn't have been too bad, except that every time I'd get a dialog box that said, in effect, "Hey! You've only got months left, c'mon and get the updated virus definition file!", clicking on "OK" resulted in the display of a dialog box that said, "Sorry, your license has expired."
Calls and an e-mail or two to tech support were not productive.
So I stopped using it, and started using the evaluation version of Kaspersky AVP. Finally broke down and bought the pro version just a day or so ago.
Cheers...
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