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Post by StormInateacup on Apr 3, 2012 12:22:10 GMT -5
Help! I have a proxy called Expat Shield. It gives me a UK address - a new one - every time I log on through it. I like the UK address because it gives me access to about half of Youtube , BBC iplayer and Channel 4 On Demand - none of which are available through servers in other nations. However, since the day I installed it I have had issues with ie trying to take over my lappy. It opens windows continuously and begins playing ads underneath what I am looking at/listening too. One of the ads begins with a beating human heart and it creeps the fuck out of me - increasingly as it happens so often. Seriously. I have to stop every 30 mins or so and close about 20 ie windows - all of them demanding that I make ie my default browser. - yeah as if - even I am computer literate enough to know that's not an option. Should I trash Expat Shield and try another UK proxy or is there a way to disable ie utterly? Thank you for your time and expertise in this matter.  |
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Post by admin on Apr 3, 2012 12:25:10 GMT -5
Dump it. You're going to end up with a ton of malware. The safest way is to join a paid proxy service.
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Post by admin on Apr 3, 2012 12:27:53 GMT -5
Besides, why the hell are you using IE?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2012 12:41:02 GMT -5
Yeah, find a proxy that lets you use Firefox or Opera.
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Post by StormInateacup on Apr 3, 2012 12:49:44 GMT -5
I'm NOT using ie. It came installed on the lappy because as my son so charmingly put it "ie is microsoft's bitch" and I have never used it as a search engine other than to download Chrome the day I brought it home.
It just keeps turning itself on.
You've got me paranoid about Malware now and I'm running a full scan.
Is Hide My Ass the best bet? I can get that for a year I think on one payment of about $60.
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Post by admin on Apr 3, 2012 12:54:55 GMT -5
Hide my ass is pretty good, yes. Just be sure you're going to use it enough to be worthwhile.
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Post by StormInateacup on Apr 3, 2012 13:10:52 GMT -5
What I use it for most is the UK address. So I get access to all those great things like BBC and 4OD which only the UK people get. I can even watch Coronation Street and East Enders online with a UK address.
Shitsticks - gunna have to think now.
I hate thinking!
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Post by admin on Apr 3, 2012 13:13:57 GMT -5
I had to subscribe to Al Jazeera just to see it. I live in a heathen country.
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Post by spazmosis on Apr 5, 2012 20:30:03 GMT -5
Yeah yeah, i use a proxy so i can have a foreign address as well...........*shifty eyes*
Not sure if this is going to be of any help or not but in Windows there's no way you can get rid of the evil big blue e (IE). Like Windows Media Player, you cannot delete or uninstall it at all.
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Post by StormInateacup on Apr 5, 2012 20:35:04 GMT -5
Yeah yeah, i use a proxy so i can have a foreign address as well...........*shifty eyes* Not sure if this is going to be of any help or not but in Windows there's no way you can get rid of the evil big blue e (IE). Like Windows Media Player, you cannot delete or uninstall it at all. So that's why you didn't answer my email about this, right. yeah I know "I own a Mac...I don't have to worry about shit like this"**blows enormous raspberries at him** And go to Introductions and introduce yourself....did your mother teach you no fucking manners at all? |
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Post by spazmosis on Apr 5, 2012 20:40:09 GMT -5
Ummmm, my Mum did teach me a few manners but she, as well as i, have no fucking clue about forums. I've never been on one like this before so ahhhhhh, please point me in the direction of 'Introductions'. Don't wanna seem ruder than i already am.
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Post by StormInateacup on Apr 5, 2012 20:45:47 GMT -5
Ummmm, my Mum did teach me a few manners but she, as well as i, have no fucking clue about forums. I've never been on one like this before so ahhhhhh, please point me in the direction of 'Introductions'. Don't wanna seem ruder than i already am. It's alright. I've explained that you're Australian so they're not expecting much in the way of civilised behaviour anyway. Come on. Hold Stormy's hand and I shall take you there. Don't pick your nose, keep your knees apart or spit OK? I have an image here. thebluecaterpillar.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=8Walk this way (I know...if you could walk this way you wouldn't need manners, right?) |
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