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The Hobbit Hole VIII - Still round the corner we may meet...
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Posted on 04/06/2004 6:53:09 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Still round the corner we may meet...

New verse:

Upon the hearth the fire is red,
Beneath the roof there is a bed;
But not yet weary are our feet,
Still round the corner we may meet
A sudden tree or standing stone
That none have seen but we alone.
Tree and flower and leaf and grass,
Let them pass! Let them pass!
Hill and water under sky,
Pass them by! Pass them by!

Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate,
And though we pass them by today,
Tomorrow we may come this way
And take the hidden paths that run
Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe,
Let them go! Let them go!
Sand and stone and pool and dell,
Fare you well! Fare you well!

Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight.
Then world behind and home ahead,
We’ll wander back to home and bed.
Mist and twilight, cloud and shade,
Away shall fade! Away shall fade!
Fire and lamp, and meat and bread,
And then to bed! And then to bed!

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To: Ramius
I don't wanna sound scary, but you may have bigger problems than just a virus. Do you have a hardware firewall of some kind on your internet connection?

Yes, I have Norton Internet Security which has a firewall. The firewall picked up two virus attacks shortly before my system locked up. One it said it deleted, the other it was unable to repair. Usually when that happens it's no big deal, so I didn't run the antivirus scan right away--was going to do it later--now I wish I would've run it.

61 posted on 04/06/2004 8:14:46 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora
it should boot first from a CD in the drive. If it doesn't, you will need to change the boot order in your system BIOS. Not hard to do.
62 posted on 04/06/2004 8:15:06 PM PDT by Ramius (As it turns out... taxation *with* representation ain't all that great either.)
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To: Ramius
No such things...

heh! Last week you had an unwelcome wench!

63 posted on 04/06/2004 8:15:11 PM PDT by Wneighbor (I got a need for speed and I don't mean the drugstore kind)
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To: Rose in RoseBear
Thanks--appreciate everybody's help.
64 posted on 04/06/2004 8:15:45 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora
Yipes ...

Yep, boot 'er up to the CD .... you should be able to clean from there, or at least scan.

65 posted on 04/06/2004 8:16:10 PM PDT by Rose in RoseBear (HHD [... did your system boot to the CD, or did it give you grief? ...])
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To: Ramius; Rose in RoseBear
it should boot first from a CD in the drive. If it doesn't, you will need to change the boot order in your system BIOS. Not hard to do.

Okay. I used to know how to boot from BIOS, haven't done it in a while though and forgot. I will wait a minute to see what Rose has to say before trying to boot from the CD; then if that doesn't work I'll probably have a question about BIOS.

66 posted on 04/06/2004 8:18:39 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora
It might not be a virus. It might be someone exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in your system.

I'm a big fan of hardware firewalls. Software firewalls are still a good thing, but a good hardware device, like a Netgear ProSafe device... is indispensable. They'll cover you even if your system is vulnerable.
67 posted on 04/06/2004 8:18:40 PM PDT by Ramius (As it turns out... taxation *with* representation ain't all that great either.)
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To: Fedora
I think I have the CD I used to install Norton Internet Security. How do I boot to it?--you mean put it in the drive and hit "Run"?

A firewall CD won't help you. Borrow or buy an ANTIVIRUS CD (I recommend Symantec), and boot from it. It's designed to be bootable, and it starts a basic anti-virus system to scan your PC.

Most PCs have a BIOS setting that lets you use a CD as a boot device.

68 posted on 04/06/2004 8:19:04 PM PDT by 300winmag (FR's Hobbit Hole supports America's troops)
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To: Ramius
Back in a few...
69 posted on 04/06/2004 8:19:29 PM PDT by Ramius (As it turns out... taxation *with* representation ain't all that great either.)
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To: Rose in RoseBear
Okay, sounds like it's consensus I should boot to the CD, so I'm gonna try that--back in a bit.
70 posted on 04/06/2004 8:20:36 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: 300winmag; Ramius; Rose in RoseBear
Okay, I did that, I think. It gave me an option of booting to the disk, which I selected, and then it said it was doing a scan. The scan only took 1 second--does it scan faster in that mode or something?--usually it takes an hour to scan my whole system. Anyway, it scanned and said it found no viruses, and now it's giving me the prompt for the "A" drive. Now what?
71 posted on 04/06/2004 8:32:00 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: 300winmag
A firewall CD won't help you. Borrow or buy an ANTIVIRUS CD (I recommend Symantec), and boot from it. It's designed to be bootable, and it starts a basic anti-virus system to scan your PC.

It's the 2003 version that has Norton Antivirus integrated with the firewall. It uses Symantec's antivirus updates. I think maybe the basic anti-virus system you mention is what it just did--is the "basic" part why it went quicker than my normal weekly scan?

72 posted on 04/06/2004 8:34:30 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora
heh. I'm sittin' here right along with ya waitin' for you answer! Think they all deserted us for a bit? :-)

73 posted on 04/06/2004 8:40:17 PM PDT by Wneighbor (I got a need for speed and I don't mean the drugstore kind)
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To: Wneighbor
Either that or it's a scarier problem than they want to tell me :)
74 posted on 04/06/2004 8:43:08 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora
or .... maybe they're just as stumped as you and I!!! hehehe

Winmag is prolly working at the moment. Rose is prolly looking at something else for the moment... or talkin' ta Bear. And Ramius is drivin' home... or picking up or avoiding wenches. :-)

They'll get back to ya.
75 posted on 04/06/2004 8:45:46 PM PDT by Wneighbor (I got a need for speed and I don't mean the drugstore kind)
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To: Fedora
Whoa! The storm just hit here with a fury!!! It was loud!
76 posted on 04/06/2004 8:46:47 PM PDT by Wneighbor (I got a need for speed and I don't mean the drugstore kind)
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To: Wneighbor
Or they're stalling 'cause they're gonna charge me by the hour for tech support :)

Yikes on the storm! Is it a bad one?
77 posted on 04/06/2004 8:49:43 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora
Well, this is the Hobbit Hole. If they charge you it will be pints or food... or both! :-)

They say it's a bad storm possibly. Hail and high winds. Flash flooding. It hasn't started to rain yet. Just really loud thunder and bright lightening. I love that part of it! Just don't want any more damage to the house!
78 posted on 04/06/2004 8:51:56 PM PDT by Wneighbor (I got a need for speed and I don't mean the drugstore kind)
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To: Wneighbor
Hey WN... hope the storm passes....???
79 posted on 04/06/2004 8:53:26 PM PDT by Ramius (As it turns out... taxation *with* representation ain't all that great either.)
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To: Fedora
The reason the scan is only taking seconds is because it is probably scanning only the startup Norton CD itself, and not your hard drive. Can you change it to scan the c: drive instead?
80 posted on 04/06/2004 8:54:51 PM PDT by Ramius (As it turns out... taxation *with* representation ain't all that great either.)
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