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  1. #1
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    Cleaning your hard drive of porn

    so here's the problem

    downloaded one of those free teasers off some lezbo porn site and it said it saved it to a temp fil

    well, I can't locate it and worse, when I tried to play a ski teaser, the god damn porn clip cam eup instead

    how do you find where this crap gets saved to and clean up these temp files?

    anyone?

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    Run all of these until they come up clean, they will do it for you:

    Spybot S&D: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

    AdAware Personal (SE): http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

    AVG AntiVirus: http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5

    avast! AntiVirus: http://www.avast.com/eng/down_home.html

    -- All are free.
    -- Update the definitions, and
    -- select the 'scan all files' or 'deep scan' options.
    “The best argument in favour of a 90% tax rate on the rich is a five-minute chat with the average rich person.”

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    look in your My Documents folder, c:\temp or c:\Windows\Temp

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    Search for *.wmv, *.mov, *.avi on all your drives
    Elvis has left the building

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    If you saved it as a temp. internet file, then clear your browser cache. That should do it.

    Or, find out where your temp. directory is and scroll through the various files and delete it. If you go to your browser settings, you should be able to find the location of the temp. directory.

    Now, that doesn't mean its gone from your hard drive; just deleted from the directory.
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    all the above + http://www.ccleaner.com/

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    great suggestions, THX everyone

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    I forgot to say, it sounds like you got some malware making the porn flick come up whenever you play other vids.

    The stuff above will clean you up, but also install these two things to prevent malware from getting installed again. They're both free, one is passive and one is active:

    http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
    http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html
    “The best argument in favour of a 90% tax rate on the rich is a five-minute chat with the average rich person.”

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    too bad you don't have a mac.

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    Quote Originally Posted by No User Logged On
    Run all of these until they come up clean, they will do it for you:

    Spybot S&D: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

    AdAware Personal (SE): http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

    AVG AntiVirus: http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5

    avast! AntiVirus: http://www.avast.com/eng/down_home.html

    -- All are free.
    -- Update the definitions, and
    -- select the 'scan all files' or 'deep scan' options.

    do NOT install 2 av programs.
    it WILL cause system instability

    dump ad-aware and spybot for MS Antispyware if you're running XP.
    they're worthless on the OS.

    also ccleaner is awesome.
    use it.
    run the "issues" section after uninstalling software/cleaning with spyware scans.

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    whoa, ccleaner got rid of almost 2 gigs of crap, that was pretty amazing.

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    Wait... AdAware doesn't work with XP? Why?

    Is ccleaner better than MS Antispyware?
    It's idomatic, beatch.

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    ad-aware does work on xp
    it just kinda sucks at detection

    MS Antispyware is the best currently.

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    Quote Originally Posted by likwid
    do NOT install 2 av programs.
    it WILL cause system instability

    dump ad-aware and spybot for MS Antispyware if you're running XP.
    they're worthless on the OS.

    also ccleaner is awesome.
    use it.
    run the "issues" section after uninstalling software/cleaning with spyware scans.
    If you use free AV pgms., which there are, you cannot count on just one to catch the latest viruses floating around. And if you have instability problems, it will be from somehting else, these two installations work fine together on W2K, XP, W2000Server and WS2003

    Don't rely on just one of the anti spyware programs. After you get things cleaned up, maybe that's ok, but until then you need to run several, they all miss things. And what one misses, the others catch.

    The java programs in the second post are the best prevention of everything listed here.

    I never heard of ccleaner. If it's not listed here in the daily Security Software Updates it's not hit the mainstream yet.
    “The best argument in favour of a 90% tax rate on the rich is a five-minute chat with the average rich person.”

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    Well far be it from me to tell anyone anything about computers, but ccleaner just gets rid of temp files and other assorted bullshit that's on your hard drive, I don't think you'd find it on a list of security software.

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    I ran ccleaner on my 6 year old win98/128mb ram computer at home, and it got rid of about 100 MB of crap. My computer didn't implode so I think that it worked.
    Yep, seen this before. Crazy liquor & cheeseburger party got out of control.

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    Listen to the Likwid. He fixes people's Compoopers for a living.
    Ever since he recommended the MS Antispyware Beta I've been Innerweb BS free. It even runs itself when you're not on!

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    "Spybot S&D: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

    AdAware Personal (SE): http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

    AVG AntiVirus: http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5

    avast! AntiVirus: http://www.avast.com/eng/down_home.html"

    Does all this stuff work on Mac OS X? My computer is getting all funked up and I need to do something, but don't know what the holy hell I'm doing. I'm def guilty of the occasional porn binge.

    Please advise!!

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    my mac at work was all fucked up and the guy who fixs our macs recommended to just buy a new computer....

    incidentally, since i dont make the purchases and my boss was in hawaii for 5wks(cock) i got him to do a fresh reinstall and everything works fine now.. stupid salesmen.

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    +1 for excellent use of the search function by norwegianspiral, you sir should be an inspiration to all of the clueless jongs and noobs, thank you.

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    Pretty old thread that got pulled from archives. The browser in use makes a difference for the cache and temporary intenet files. As for tools to do this- anything listed like CCleaner will delete the stuff but not get rid of it on your computer... There are a few extra steps and software to scrub the system needed if this is a business computer and you want to save your job.

    But to answer the question of if many of the PC Windows programs listed work on a Mac- not with OS X.

    Start at this site: http://www.pure-mac.com/virus.html for some suggestions. Many Mac OS users do not run Anti-virus software due to the nature of the Linux/Unix like background and protection.

    And take it over to Tech Talk.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by norwegianspiral View Post
    "Spybot S&D: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

    AdAware Personal (SE): http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

    AVG AntiVirus: http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5

    avast! AntiVirus: http://www.avast.com/eng/down_home.html"

    Does all this stuff work on Mac OS X? My computer is getting all funked up and I need to do something, but don't know what the holy hell I'm doing. I'm def guilty of the occasional porn binge.

    Please advise!!

    fkn sweet

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    I have been running AVG antivirus, Trend Micro Security, and AdAware. I downloaded ccleaner and ran it and it found 649 problems! After it repaired them I can't believe how much faster my computer is. Amazing!
    Sucks at internets

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    Quote Originally Posted by iceman View Post
    +1 for excellent use of the search function by norwegianspiral, you sir should be an inspiration to all of the clueless jongs and noobs, thank you.
    Iceman purges his hard drive of porn-related internet files in jeans.
    You can cut me off from the civilized world. You can incarcerate me with two moronic cellmates. You can torture me with your thrice daily swill, but you cannot break the spirit of a Winchester. My voice shall be heard from this wilderness, and I shall be delivered from this fetid and festering sewer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stew130 View Post
    I have been running AVG antivirus, Trend Micro Security, and AdAware. I downloaded ccleaner and ran it and it found 649 problems! After it repaired them I can't believe how much faster my computer is. Amazing!
    Damn - 649??!!! Nice work. But do you have Mac OS X?

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