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The lesson here is to purchase land with a car park, excavate it and hope there's something worth looking at.
D wrote: "The lesson here is to purchase land with a car park, excavate it and hope there's something worth looking at."I am thinking of asking for a historical carpark topic to be created.
;)
Monica wrote: "Ahh, the irony...a "Trojan"! At least you're in the right group for it. Did you check our discus..."
omg that is so funny. :D
No, I had not thought to check the Troy/Anatolia/Turkey thread. perhaps my answer is there!
from what my techies are saying. The Trojan is gone. Vanished without a trace.
I am not sure how one can show up looking for all intents and purposes as if it has installed on my computer (after all, I had to 'stop it' from running in my Task Manager applications) and then vanish from my computer without a trace.
No scans (my anti virus, nor the special scan files that the anti virus provider sent me) picked it up. It simply isn't there anymore....but then how could it have been running when I first found it???
Quite the bloody mystery. And I won't be doing any banking or purchasing until I am told how this could possibly have happened. How it could be there and then be gone without anything kicking it out. :\
Mark wrote: "D wrote: "The lesson here is to purchase land with a car park, excavate it and hope there's something worth looking at."I am thinking of asking for a historical carpark topic to be created.
;)"
I'd second it.
Terri wrote: It simply isn't there anymore....but then how could it have been running when I first found it???..."Last week my anti-virus program (AVG) warned of a virus on my PC, but we found out that it was a "false-positive" and the glitch in the anti-virus program was patched with a software update the following day.
AVG is who I am dealing with. I wish the AVG program HAD warned me of this threat. Instead of Windows picking it up and AVG missing it.Even though the dudes at AVG aren't admitting it yet, I have a feeling that the Trojan I found was a false positive. It can be the only explanation.
Terri wrote: Even though the dudes at AVG aren't admitting it yet, I hav..."AVG didn't say anything on my end either. I found out by typing the virus name into google for more info...and found several articles saying it was not a true virus but a false positive. The next day the software version updated and it went away.
They are so evasive. :\
Trojans, false-positives....sounds like a whole other conversation.
hahaha!!! YES!!! It does!
Richard (http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/51...) from the Historical Novel Society has posted about some Hardback and Paper book giveaways in the Giveaways folder. These are books he has acquired especially to giveaway to US and UK (and maybe Canada if you ask him) to us. So I thought I would splash it around the group. I mean, we don't often get nice hardbacks offered to us for free.
He is giving away to UK members 5 Hardback (yes, paper) of C.C. Humphreys book Shakespeare's Rebel.
So if you live in the UK, please send him a message. As Richard says (below) the publisher is paying postage.
They ask only that you will write a review. Your review. An honest one. Whether that is positive or negative.
For those in the US Richard has a couple (paper again) copies of another C.C Humphreys book. Jack Absolute
This one is an advanced reading copy. You will be the first Americans to receive it.
Again, the publisher is paying for postage, so you only need contact Richard and he will arrange to get the book posted to you.
Please contact Richard if you are interested in these free books. http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/51...
As a reminder. C.C. Humphreys has written these books. Some of you have read one or two of them.
This is Richard's post from the giveaway thread.
Richard said:
The goodreads giveaway are UK published hardbacks of Shakespeare's Rebel.
The offer from Sourcebooks, his US publisher, are ARCs (advance reading copies) which are again physical books (this time Jack Absolute), but proofs (I don't know what binding).
For clarity - neither are ebooks.
I don't think he's published outside of UK, US and Canada. The publishers are paying the postage costs, and they didn't want to mail outside their 'rights' territory.
I hope Shakespeare's Rebel will be CC's breakthrough book, and he'll soon be much more widely known. It's still the only one of his I've read though - I have Jack Absolute on order from Amazon.
Terri, how did you discover the virus in the first place? It wasn't someone ringing you up out of the blue was it?
Richard wrote: "Terri, how did you discover the virus in the first place? It wasn't someone ringing you up out of the blue was it?"Hi Richard,
No. My Windows PC issues picked it up. The little flag popped up in the toolbar with the excalmation mark on it. I looked. It said I had 5 PC issues and Windows will find the problem.
Some were updates for AVG, Java, Flash Player.
The one issue that was with Windows came back as this Trojan (something like Trojandownloader/win32/adload.DA.
Told me to remove it I should run the Windows System Scanner. Which I did. It did not find it. Ran the High priority AVG scan, which also did not find it.
Opened Task manager applications and there was the Trojandownloader..running.
It was all very weird.
Why do you ask? Have you had scammers ring you and try and convince you to let them scan your computer?
P.S OMG Richard. You have a face!!
Terri gets a virus, Richard gets a face. Coincidence?:D
Hey...stranger things have happened. There may be more to this... ;)
Terri wrote: Why do you ask? Have you had scammers ring you and try and convince you to let them scan your computer?No, unfortunately I haven't had that particular pleasure. As someone who has worked in computers for 20-odd years I'd quite enjoy having a conversation with them.
However, I do know someone who almost fell for it (before they rang me to ask me whether they should hand over their credit card details), so I just wanted to check you weren't getting scammed.
I am too clever to get scammed. I see them coming a mile away. :)
Terri wrote: "P.S OMG Richard. You have a face!!"I just thought that the ladies of the Ancient & Medieval Historical Fiction group deserved a little treat. You are, after all, only human and I decided that I was being selfish denying you my classical good looks and chiselled jawline.
I do like something a little sweet with my coffee in the morning. Usually it is a biscuit (cookie), but hey, I don't need one of those today! I've been served!
D wrote: "Terri gets a virus, Richard gets a face. Coincidence?:D"
I was going to make a joke about my face being responsible for giving women viruses, but you'll be pleased to know I resisted the temptation.
Hmm.. yes..I do prefer to talk more about sweet things than facial viruses. :[
Check it out..The Read Nest!
32 square feet. One door. One window. One skylight. One bed. One table. A wall of bookshelves. And that’s it.
The Read Nest was built for a private client by Danish architect Dorte Mandrup. The whole birch/plywood structure was built off-site so as not to disturb the future owner’s woodland propert, and can be relocated without disturbing the site.
Nice, I have always wanted a library in my house just with my books and the worlds most comfortable seat.
I think here in Queensland, Australia, that Reading Nest would get hot. It would have to have climate control so it could be warm in winter and cold in summer. :)
I hope it has a place to plug in a coffee/tea pot.
I'll end up a bag lady with three thousand books in tow. Have I said this before? It's the future I envision for myself. Random thought prompted by getting itchy fingers for other Ben Kanes now, what with the Hannibal read. Don't let me buy books.
Bryn wrote: "Don't let me buy books..."Well you know we can't do that. :D
We can't even help ourselves!
Monica wrote: "I hope it has a place to plug in a coffee/tea pot."I would take a thermos of coffee and a bag of snacks.
I do know you guys are no use whatsoever. :]
Terri wrote: "Bryn wrote: "Don't let me buy books..."Well you know we can't do that. :D
We can't even help ourselves!"
Discouraging book purchasing will prevent you from attaining your vision. A vision that I suspect is shared by more than a few in this group.
D wrote: "I would need a loo."That's so funny. I would too. hahaha. Especially if I am taking a thermos of coffee to the Nest with me. So I would have to set it up in the garden close to the house. Or near a big shrub that I can pee behind.
Bryn wrote: "I do know you guys are no use whatsoever. :]"I am glad you understand this. Any attempts to help you would be weak at best. ;)
D wrote: "A vision that I suspect is shared by more than a few in this group."I hope we can get together, then, and be happy bag people, still chatting about our books.
Definitely. The only problem I would have with being a bag lady is that I have expensive taste in bags. It would distract me from my book collection:\
I work with one of that other sort of Bag Lady, who can't say no to expensive brands of bag, and I expect her to join us.
I have to admit. Some new books bought at the store, carried around in an expensive handbag...*shiver*...a good day out.
I havered over a 40pound bag when from M&S (Marks & Spenser - I remember when we called it Marks n' Sparks, but I digress) in Ireland because my other one broke. Granted, it would hold a few books, but it would hardly be considered expensive.
I had to think then...a 40 pound bag? Or a 40 pound sterling bag? lol.I was impressed by the thought of a 40 pound bag. I thought, would it weigh that much? Or was it designed to take 40 pounds of book weight. hmmmm.
This is the kind of insanity I suffer from when someone talks bags and books in the same sentence.
Hahah. There's nothing wrong with a little insanity. My laptop has the sterling sign, but I don't know how to access it. All my keys have 4 symbols and I only know how to get the 'shift' ones. I did once leave Scotland with 27kilos of books in a rucksack, but the from Ireland would never hold 40pounds of weight.
LOL! i think that would be me too if I went to the UK. I would buy another suitcase (or overnight bag) over there to load up on books. All those UK titles that are good prices in the UK, but costly in Oz. :)
Terri wrote: "Check it out..The Read Nest!32 square feet. One door. One window. One skylight. One bed. One table. A wall of bookshelves. And that’s it.
The Read Nest was built for a private client by Danish..."
Is there a basement...and a bowling alley?
Ah no...it is for reading in...not for playing bowls in or hiding dead bodies under....:|
Terri wrote: "Ah no...it is for reading in...not for playing bowls in or hiding dead bodies under....:|"Damn....I knew there would be a drawback.
Bobby wrote: "Terri wrote: "Check it out..The Read Nest!32 square feet. One door. One window. One skylight. One bed. One table. A wall of bookshelves. And that’s it.
The Read Nest was built for a private cl..."
I hope there is a toilet-LOL.
haha! This seems to be something us girls would need. Much easier for guys to just go where they want. :)
Oh I dunno. Nothing a few wet wipes couldn't handle. LOL. Do they call them wet wipes in Australia? https://www.google.com/search?q=wet+w...
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