General Chat

Just lately we seem to be having a lot of threads posted warning of virus, scam etc. These threads have been issued by people with the best intentions in the world but most of them turn out to be fake.

One little gem going around at the moment is an email from the Dad of a dying baby. It claims that AOL & Zdnet are track the message & will pay out if people pass the message on. It's a HOAX but it's being passed around with 100's of email addresses on it.

A lot of these hoaxes could be nipped in the bud if only people Googled first. Copy part of the message & insert into Google within speech marks & see what pops up before these messages are passed on.

I always delete forwarded e-mails.........safest way I think.

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Spoilsports, the lot of you.

Snopes doesn't allow you to c & p the content, in order to *prove* the scam/fiction/fact although you can c & p the link.

this site allows you to c & p the content...

http://www.truthorfiction.com/

Love

Daff xxx

*pokes Ian in both eyes*

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Kitty I always feel so guilty, they are always such *heart rending* stories aren't they?

I'll take a tip from you.... I will delete, with no guilt.

Deanna X

wmsl Ann.... I only learned how to do it last year.... there was a thread on here, I think it might have been Steve... and he was teaching us how to do it, and he actually was brave enough to let us use his thread to practice on, lol!!

So... mouse.... highlight the bit you want to cut or copy.... by left clicking as you move the cursor

then right click on the mouse... it will produce a menu... then left click into copy or cut... go into the bit you want to drop it... and right click.. then left click on paste... then left click on paste.


See, clear as mud, that, lol!!

Love

Daff xxxx

Another problem with forwarded emails is they can contain viruses, so it's the safest way.

Ann.....................try to copy and paste this message to put on this thread

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sdfnhstrh
)£(*)!$-07829=95623094

5***************)))))))(((((((((__________________

hmmm

Something didnt work right......

Nearly Ian......................but how did you manage to copy my thoughts?????

*tries making mind blank*

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S'all right Ian... I am really really good at giving destructions, ;¬)) Looks like it worked, lol!!

What part of hot places are you going to grace with your company?

Love

Daff xxxx

Oops... sorry Claire.... we've hijacked your thread!!

Ann... googling usually works just as well, as Claire suggested.

Love

Daff xxxx

It's OK Daff, I'm not going to chuck the T&C's at you pmsl!

I got a job as a deckchair tester in Goa

:-)

Thanks Claire!!

Now you be careful Ian... those deckchairs can fight back you know.... *holds out poorly squashed digit for inspection*

Love

Daff xxx

The copy and paste into Google should be all you need to do rather than go to a specific site.
To C&P either use the mouse method described above or look at my interactive keyboard thread which goes through many of the keyboard shortcuts and F keys.

Errol.... you do realise that my spare bedroom wall is beginning to look as though it is wallpapered with print-outs from you, lol... all carefully blu tacked at artistically creative angles!!

Looks brilliant.... and easy to understand, too.

Love

Daff xxx

lol Daff
I'll be finishing my subscription soon so your printer can have time to cool down lmao

It'll be a shame... have you decided finally whether to renew or not, then?

Good luck anyway... and all the very best in whatever you choose to do with your *spare* time... if you leave, you will be missed.

Love

Daff xxx

If I leave people can still contact me by email if they have computer problems