Sue

But was it actually to catch a burglar? Do we know? And if it was, and if they caught him, why was that overkill? We have no idea if it was overkill unless we know the exact situation. The police are damned if they do and damned if they don't. Usually threads on here are complaining that burglars aren't being caught!

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Tax Disc was always a constant reminder your > Tax was due... and responsible drivers paid up on > time. > > Now responsible drivers are being hit with hefty > fines for late payment... Just a DVLA ploy to make > money. > Fox, it's not a DVLA ploy to make money. You get a reminder in the post when your tax is due, just as you did before. If you ignore it and don't renew you get fined, just as you did before. It's much much easier to renew online. It takes about five minutes, as opposed to going to a Post Office with all the car documentation, queueing for ages and then having to wait while the paperwork was all done manually.

ianr Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue, is this your first run of MSE? The offender > is allegedly a file in your Dell recovery > partition, and could well be a false alarm. That > would tally with some similar reports I've just > read in old web discussions about MSE. No, it's supposed to be running a scan daily, but I occasionally run one anyway. I ran a full scan overnight because I was getting a notification that the PC status was unprotected, and then tried to quarantine the Trojan this morning. I think. I'm losing track of time! I was reading some stuff about false alarms last night, but couldn't work out how to tell if it was a false alarm or not :))

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > And get Proper Anti virus software and Anti > malware software.. when all is sorted.. > Otherwise you won't even know what infections > your PC has.. yet alone remove them.. Fox, MSE is "proper anti virus software and anti malware software." I am using it as recommended by a computer specialist who had to reinstall Windows on my laptop a few years back due to issues caused by the anti virus software I was using before.

Sorry for the delay in replying, I have been out. Thanks everybody for your help. I attach a screenshot of the situation previously which gives an error code and says that the file cannot be saved. However the trojan is now showing up in my MSE history in "all detected items" and saying that the action taken is "quarantined". It seems to have quarantined it four times!!! On 21 March (twice) then 22 and 23 March. I really don't understand what is going on. If I go to "quarantined items", there is nothing there. And if it has actually been quarantined, why was I being told yesterday that I had it and it needed to be quarantined? Does it keep coming back? Sorry to be dim. I've attached another screenshot of what is now showing in "all detected items."

earlydoors Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue does the world all revolve around you? Yes, my world does. Who does your world revolve around? :)) And my feathers weren't "ruffled so much" by the buggy. They were ruffled by the ridiculous assumptions and personal attacks on me made on this thread. Which if memory serves were started by you. And now I'm off to do other things. Enjoy your day :)

After running a full scan overnight I have a notification that I have TrojanDropper Win32/Dunik!rts on my laptop. It won't quarantine because it says "the file exceeds the limit allowed and cannot be saved." I am using Microsoft Security Essentials (on advice last time I had major laptop problems several years ago, partly caused by the virus checker I was using) but in any case having googled, apparently it isn't picked up by other virus software anyway. I am quite concerned as it looks serious. I have googled and found advice on how to remove it, but to do it properly appears to involve going into the registry, and no way am I going to start messing with that, AAAARRRGH :( Also, I don't know whether all the sites I have consulted are themselves OK, and I am concerned I could make matters a lot worse. Microsoft itself isn't a lot of help - it just says "no further information is currently available on this threat" and "alert notifications from installed antivirus software may be the only symptom(s)". My ancient laptop had been running very slow, but I moved a load of music files to an external hard drive yesterday and that speeded it up considerably, so I am quite p-ed off that now I've got this :( I went into task manager to stop it running in the background at least, but it's not showing up there, so now I'm totally confused. If anybody can help I'd be very grateful. ETA: Bizarrely, my status is now showing as "protected", and the history is showing no detected items at all. Is this some kind of total false alarm? I have a screenshot showing the trojan was detected, advising quarantine and saying it's dangerous and installs other programs, and also that it cannot be saved into quarantine.

fonread Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Embarrssing. > > Not sure what's worse, the guff written about the > Brick House buns or this drivel. It's just insane! Christ, so now I'm not just anti-social, I'm embarrassing too. Or rather, embarrssing. I'm off to the river again to throw myself in :))

Nigello Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Eating food of any kind on a bus or train is not > good sense, let alone good manners. Things spill, > not everyone is likely to do the right thing and > dispose of food and packaging correctly and some > foods and drinks do smell unpleasant. > Neutral behaviour ought to be the name of the game > in public spaces like transport. (I've had to pull > people up from dropping freshly-sucked peach > stones on the bus floor and eating a > ketchup-enhanced chiili burgers in a packed Tube > train and would do it again.) Nobody needs to eat > on a bus, except perhaps a very young child/baby > or a diabetic every now and then. > > If you are hungry, go to Le Chandelier and eat > your food in the correct place (to get this thread > back on track!) That wasn't really the way to get the thread back on track, was it? :) I'm interested in how people are much more keen to have a go at me than to comment on a buggy placed so that it prevented people from either entering or leaving a shop/restaurant. To reiterate: It was a cold baguette. There was no smell. There were no crumbs. There was no litter left. We were on our way to a walk by the river the other side of London, travelling on two buses, and had no time to sit for ages in a cafe waiting to be served in order to spend five minutes or less eating a baguette. If eating a cold baguette on a bus is bad then I'M SORRY!!! I agree smelly food on a bus is bad (but ours wasn't smelly)!!! I agree people who drop litter are bad (but we never drop litter, in fact we pick it up)!!! I agree it's not good to do things which may annoy other people (but quietly eating cold non-smelly baguettes did not appear to be annoying any of the very few other people on the bus)!!! I agree our time management was bad and we should have got food in the day before, got up earlier and eaten it before we left (Yes! We're crap, nasty, disorganised people) !!!!! Let s/he who is without sin cast the first stone!!!!

JohnL Wrote: --------------------------------------------- > > This thing lasts a month at least - and everybody > has > it - wondering if it's pollution and not > infectious. I don't think "everybody" has it! If it was due to pollution, would the symptoms not be purely respiratory? Eg coughing? I was interested to see someone above had aches in their teeth. I had that too, didn't connect it at all to my other symptoms, but my teeth are fine now, so maybe it was related!

earlydoors Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Get over yourself. You've had a moan about what > you consider anti social behaviour (someone > leaving a buggy in your way) and when you get > pulled up about what many others consider anti > social behaviour ( eating on a bus) you have a > hissy fit. A buggy blocking the only entrance to a shop is in the same ball park to you as eating a baguette on a bus? To be absolutely clear, the buggy was actually immediately in front of the doorway. Nobody could get into or out of the shop. And you consider my posts on this are "having a hissy fit"?? I don't think it's me who needs to get over myself :)) I see you only registered on the forum a fortnight ago. Maybe you should de-register and start again in a more pleasant frame of mind :) ETA: And I never said anything about anti social behaviour. I said it was a lack of common sense. If you are going to criticise my posts and myself in such an extremely personal manner, at least get them right!

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Otta Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > How do you know the food was smelly or that > > slobbering was going on? > > It's not a question of whether or not the food was > smelly or if anyone was slobbering... ? > > It's just plain anti social to eat on Public > Transport... > > There has to be a total ban.. otherwise who can > dictate what can and what cannot be eaten... > Cheese & Onion sandwich.. ? Jamaica Patties...? > Fish & Chips.. ? Kebabs.? Curry..? > > I find flavoured crisps can be nasty.. > > DulwichFox.. Hot food which has a strong smell is one thing. I cant see how eating cold food which doesn't smell is anti social in the slightest.

earlydoors Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It may not have been smelly, but the point is > she's got a bit of a cheek, and completely misses > the irony of > moaning about buggys being left in doorways and > then saying she's buying grub to eat on a bus, > which I think is an equal display of bad manners. > > Throwing stones and glass houses is a phrase that > springs to mind. WTF? Are you for real?

earlydoors Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I bet your fellow bus passengers wished a better > job had been done of blocking you in with that > buggy so that they didn't have to endure you > slurping and slobbering over your smelly food on > the bus. How pathetic. It was cold baguettes and there was no smell.

Many shops and pubs will put up posters. You could start by asking at those already displaying some. Be aware they probably won't replace them after the windows are cleaned, though.

A note on the windscreen would probably be more effective than posting on here?

We went to Le Petit Chou yesterday to get stuff to eat on the bus, and literally couldn't get out the door because someone thought this would be a good place to park a buggy. I do despair of some people's common sense.

This isn't a cold. Different progression of symptoms. And not much work would get done if everybody stayed at home with minor ailments :)

I looked into it a year or so ago. The people I spoke to were very helpful but in the end I decided it just wasn't worth the cost just to get more space in my understairs cupboard, especially as the electricity meter was there as well, and the fuse board or whatever the modern version is called.

Grok Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sounds like a hangover, Sue, especially as I > thought you were going to fall off the stage > backwards last night :-) > > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Yeh I've had it/got it :( > > > > Like a sort of flu but not so bad you have to > stay > > in bed? > > > > Aches? Bit of a cough? Slight sore throat? > Runny > > nose? Not much energy? > > > > I also had a headache for a while :( It's not a hangover. What a sad life you must lead. All you seem to do is troll on here. Grow up.

Yeh I've had it/got it :( Like a sort of flu but not so bad you have to stay in bed? Aches? Bit of a cough? Slight sore throat? Runny nose? Not much energy? I also had a headache for a while :(

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Master Chef. Too much Pink Lamb. > > I like My Lamb 'Well Done' Charcoal... Crisp > Fat... > Each to their own ....

Maybe give the council a ring and see what they say? You might be pleasantly surprised.

adonirum Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- mrs.adonirum, > when informed yes you can throw out my old green > coat, accidently threw away my slightly more > expensive Brook Taverner one !!!!(well, I'm told > it was an accident) These things are never accidents - she clearly didn't like that coat :))

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- I feel that many folk who aren't > keen on Primark because of that tatty side, but > equally can't afford the more expensive options > are probably crying out for a good cheap > alternative (something along the lines of C&A back > in the day). I agree. C&A were cheap but their clothes didn't become like rags after a couple of washes (or one wash if you're unlucky). I used to buy a lot of stuff there when I was a student. I can't say I would miss BHS if it disappeared. It's got no USP any more.