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Thread: Cleaning your hard drive of porn
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09-30-2005, 03:50 PM #1Registered User
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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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09-30-2005, 04:00 PM #2
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.”
- Winston Churchill, paraphrased.
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09-30-2005, 04:01 PM #3
look in your My Documents folder, c:\temp or c:\Windows\Temp
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09-30-2005, 04:06 PM #4Registered User
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Search for *.wmv, *.mov, *.avi on all your drives
Elvis has left the building
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09-30-2005, 04:22 PM #5
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.Quando paramucho mi amore de felice carathon.
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09-30-2005, 05:33 PM #6
all the above + http://www.ccleaner.com/
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09-30-2005, 06:33 PM #7Registered User
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great suggestions, THX everyone
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09-30-2005, 10:08 PM #8
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.”
- Winston Churchill, paraphrased.
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10-03-2005, 08:44 PM #9
too bad you don't have a mac.
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10-04-2005, 06:46 AM #10Originally Posted by No User Logged On
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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10-04-2005, 08:32 AM #11Funky But Chic
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whoa, ccleaner got rid of almost 2 gigs of crap, that was pretty amazing.
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10-04-2005, 01:03 PM #12
Wait... AdAware doesn't work with XP? Why?
Is ccleaner better than MS Antispyware?It's idomatic, beatch.
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10-04-2005, 01:35 PM #13
ad-aware does work on xp
it just kinda sucks at detection
MS Antispyware is the best currently.
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10-06-2005, 08:09 PM #14Originally Posted by likwid
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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10-07-2005, 07:48 AM #15Funky But Chic
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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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10-07-2005, 09:57 AM #16
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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10-07-2005, 03:46 PM #17
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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01-22-2010, 03:13 AM #18Registered User
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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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01-22-2010, 04:51 AM #19Registered User
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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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01-22-2010, 07:35 AM #20Funky But Chic
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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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01-22-2010, 01:34 PM #21
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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01-22-2010, 07:25 PM #22
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01-24-2010, 03:21 PM #23
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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01-24-2010, 04:08 PM #24You 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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01-27-2010, 05:45 PM #25Registered User
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