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stickguy · February 2022

no idea what it did not like but took about 10 tries, and a lot of deleting, to get that to post.

oldfarmer50 · February 2022

imidazol97 said:
Random poll

What internet security and malware protects are you using on your
computers? I have had Norton for several years, but have gotten tired
of the continual advertisements for the other services, Lifelock, e.g.,
they pop up on the screen after startup. Time to switch.
Is Microsoft Defender on anyone's list?
McAfee?

Whatever was on the IPad when we bought it.

tjc78 · February 2022

I’ve been running Defender since WIN 10 came out with no issues.

henryn · February 2022

@imidazol97
In my mind, Microsoft Defender is more than "good enough" for most people. It is not the absolute best defense, and it is not the lightest on resources, but definitely "good enough". If you want to spend money, there are several products that I would recommend over N-o-r-t-o-n.

My personal favorite is E-s-e-t, because it is very light on resources, having the least impact on performance. The everyday cost is too high (in my opinion), but if you pay attention you can find some real bargains. My second choice is K-a-s-p-e-r-s-k-y. Once again, the everyday price is too high, but bargains can be found

On EDIT: After several trial and error attempts, the problem is "N-O-R-T-O-N"

abacomike · February 2022

Filled up with PUG at Costco this morning - $3.76 per gallon - up quite a bit from early last week.

stickguy · February 2022

I took care of the gas price issue. I don't buy gas. I have put gas in once in 2022 (between both cars). Had to fill up the Maverick once when I ran up to NY since I picked it up 12/31 and it still has more than half a tank. The Acura has not had gas put in since late December too (day before we went to pick up the new car). So I guess having 2 spreads out the few miles we do drive!

carnaught · February 2022

I couldn’t get Avast to work on my desk top. Contacted tech support and they were took over a day to answer, then were worthless, FWIW.

kyfdx · February 2022

Yeah, something is up with the moderation tool. It's possible we've had a lot of spammers using those terms, and they've been entered into the restricted terms database.

kyfdx · February 2022

If you want to answer the post, stop quoting the post, and spread out the product name, the way that @henryn did.

driver100 · February 2022

I thought Windows 10 came with it's own security system.
Mine works pretty good, even tells me it is blocking a popup, and it has a warning on some emails.
It isn't very intrusive, but it seems to be OK for my needs.

stickguy · February 2022

Driver, it does have one . That’s defender. Does basically what the stand alone brands do.

laurasdada · February 2022

I've been running Defender since I let Kaspersky lapse. No issues that I know of, all of the payments I've made to help move millions of dollars from Nigeria have gone through. Expect the money deposited to my bank account any day now.

venture · February 2022

I've used Kaspersky Internet Security for as long as I can remember. It stops bad downloads and sites. I also run Ccleaner sometimes. It's amazing how many trackers it finds.

carnaught · February 2022

venture said:
I've used Kaspersky Internet Security for as long as I can remember. It stops bad downloads and sites. I also run Ccleaner sometimes. It's amazing how many trackers it finds.

Eastern Europe, maybe?

venture · February 2022

carnaught said:

venture said:
I've used Kaspersky Internet Security for as long as I can remember. It stops bad downloads and sites. I also run Ccleaner sometimes. It's amazing how many trackers it finds.
Eastern Europe, maybe?

The trackers? I don't know. I just delete them.

driver100 · February 2022

stickguy said:
Driver, it does have one . That’s defender. Does basically what the stand alone brands do.

Thanks Stick, so why do people buy the one that rhymes with Morton?

stickguy · February 2022

Famous name brand and good marketing I assume.

tjc78 · February 2022

@driver100 said:
Thanks Stick, so why do people buy the one that rhymes with Morton?

Stuck in the past. For years it was extremely popular, then came along better and cheaper solutions.

Is AVG still around. I used that before Defender came installed by MS.

carnaught · February 2022

Morton is slow…

carnaught · February 2022

McA** isn’t that great. All are better than nothing.

ab348 · February 2022

Some sort of "free" Macafee came on the Dell laptop I bought a couple of years ago. Even though I never configured it or said yes to anything after the free trial, it still nags at me every so often. Just went through the latest round of uninstalling it last week. Interested if it will work this time around.

Speaking of laptops, I have an old (2010 I think) Asus laptop that I set up with an external monitor and keyboard on my office desk here at home after I had some issues with it fairly early on (the power plug broke off the motherboard internally, which made it dicey to keep using it as a portable after it got repaired according to the guy who fixed it). I mostly use it for web surfing and email. It began life with Windows 7 and now has 10, but it is really struggling, especially with disk thrashing. I decided to upgrade it with a SSD this week, and having done that to another machine (another Dell) last year, figured I knew what to expect.

Not with this thing. I got the SSD drive connected yesterday morning and began the cloning process. The cloning software (Acronis) that came with the drive was really slow mostly because the Asus only has USB 2.0 ports on it, not USB 3 which is 10 times faster. But just before bedtime last night it said the cloning was successful. Today should have been the easy part, swapping the hardware. The physical swap was easy, but the Asus BIOS would not recognize the new drive. Apparently the SSD is too new for what that can handle and Asus offers no update path for it on their awful website. So after a whole lot of trials and tribulations I decided to throw in the towel, wipe the drive, and send it back to Amazon. I think the Asus is going to be retired very soon.

abacomike · February 2022

I have Windows 10 running on my PC so Defender is working fine as little as I use my PC. Comcast/Xfinity is my cable provider for internet and they have their own virus and malware protection for users. Same for WiFi.

qbrozen · February 2022

@ronsteve ... Josh "pornstache" Allen? Ugh. Good luck with that. lol.

henryn · February 2022

ab348 said:
Some sort of "free" Macafee came on the Dell laptop I bought a couple of years ago. Even though I never configured it or said yes to anything after the free trial, it still nags at me every so often. Just went through the latest round of uninstalling it last week. Interested if it will work this time around.

Speaking of laptops, I have an old (2010 I think) Asus laptop that I set up with an external monitor and keyboard on my office desk here at home after I had some issues with it fairly early on (the power plug broke off the motherboard internally, which made it dicey to keep using it as a portable after it got repaired according to the guy who fixed it). I mostly use it for web surfing and email. It began life with Windows 7 and now has 10, but it is really struggling, especially with disk thrashing. I decided to upgrade it with a SSD this week, and having done that to another machine (another Dell) last year, figured I knew what to expect.

Not with this thing. I got the SSD drive connected yesterday morning and began the cloning process. The cloning software (Acronis) that came with the drive was really slow mostly because the Asus only has USB 2.0 ports on it, not USB 3 which is 10 times faster. But just before bedtime last night it said the cloning was successful. Today should have been the easy part, swapping the hardware. The physical swap was easy, but the Asus BIOS would not recognize the new drive. Apparently the SSD is too new for what that can handle and Asus offers no update path for it on their awful website. So after a whole lot of trials and tribulations I decided to throw in the towel, wipe the drive, and send it back to Amazon. I think the Asus is going to be retired very soon.

There are several ways to work around the problem. The best way is to do a clean install of Windows. You can get the install media (an iso file) directly from Microsoft. Write that iso to a flash drive, using Rufus (google it), then boot from the flash drive and do a clean install of Windows on the new SSD. A clean install is always preferable. This will leave you with the necessity to reinstall all of your application software, and move across your data from the old hard drive.

Pretty much everyone who works in the business will recommend the clean install. It's more trouble, but the results are always going to be better.

andres3 · February 2022

There may be a malfunction in TTS land, need a code reader and expert mechanic to take a look.

The S4 land is free from problems lately.

Might need that Elantra N or similar with a DCT and 10-year warranty after all.

ab348 · February 2022

It wasn’t a Windows problem. The BIOS would not recognize the SSD at all, and when you went into there to change it, it didn’t even see it.

venture · February 2022

ab348 said:
It wasn’t a Windows problem. The BIOS would not recognize the SSD at all, and when you went into there to change it, it didn’t even see it.

No BIOS update on their web site?

stickguy · February 2022

My thought process now, is I'm old and get aggravated easily. And new hardware is pretty cheap, so instead of fighting continued battles on an antique (and knowing that at any time something else is likely to go) to make a hodge podge solution work I will just buy something new that does what I need.

can be applied to cars too of course!

venture · February 2022

stickguy said:
My thought process now, is I'm old and get aggravated easily. And new hardware is pretty cheap, so instead of fighting continued battles on an antique (and knowing that at any time something else is likely to go) to make a hodge podge solution work I will just buy something new that does what I need.

can be applied to cars too of course!

Sometimes it's the challenge. As time marches on though, I'm much more inclined to agree.

ab348 · February 2022

venture said:

ab348 said:
It wasn’t a Windows problem. The BIOS would not recognize the SSD at all, and when you went into there to change it, it didn’t even see it.
No BIOS update on their web site?

Nope. Nothing at all for that model number. Planned obsolescence.

ab348 · February 2022

Did I mention it's pothole season locally? We have a bumper crop here this year. This pic is from a local machine shop that actually fixed this one.

tjc78 · February 2022

Wow that wheel took a beating. Looks like an Alcoa wheel from an older F250.

imidazol97 · February 2022

@ab348
So ASUS has no update for the BIOS! I updated 2 of my laptops to SSD's last spring.
I used Diskgenius to transfer the various parts of the hard drive to the SSD. On one
I left off the rebuild WIN in case of failure. I think that old hard drive was originally
Win 8.

As for getting rid of McAfee leftover: https://service.mcafee.com/?articleId=TS101331&page=shell&shell=article-view

There a file on there that will scavenge McAfee parts to remove them.
I have used this type file for N ort on in the past when something wouldn't
allow it to work right and I couldn't uninstall and reinstall.

About the Windows 10: I just did a Windows 10 refresh of all the files
while keeping all my old data files AND my applications. I downloaded
the file from MS to my HD as an iso. Then I mounted the iso file as if it
were a separate DVD. I believe I then ran an execute file within the iso
to start the operation.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

I had a laptop that said it wouldn't update because it had serious missing
updates and files from Windows. Turned out something had made it think
the SSD was a USB drive that was being used to boot (Windows to Go).

I fixed that and went ahead and used the iso to rebuld the Windows
since the error still showed after fixing the registry damage that made
the comptuter think Win10 was on a USB instead of my SSD.

ab348 · February 2022

I did the swap from a spinny hard drive that was failing in my older Dell to a SSD last year. I forget what software I used for the file transfer (it was something from Western Digital who made the SSD) and it worked OK. When I installed the new drive Windows booted fine and then I had to do something in Disk Management to get it to work for applications and file access, but when I did that pretty much everything worked. I was surprised how Windows didn’t choke on licensing, etc., but it somehow knew what that machine had originally. Couldn’t even get close to that point this time.

driver100 · February 2022

ab348 said:
Did I mention it's pothole season locally? We have a bumper crop here this year. This pic is from a local machine shop that actually fixed this one.

Hard to believe you could fix that wheel and make it like new. That is a case where I would probably go with the new one....too much could go wrong I would think and then spend hours trying to rectify the situation.

stickguy · February 2022

fixing well enough to work, and making it like new, are not the same thing!

not sure how old that is, but it might not be something you can easily replace.

venture · February 2022

I'm not familiar with a wheel like that. Where do the lug nuts go? Is there a part removed to fix it?

ab348 · February 2022

That particular machine shop is the go-to place locally for wheel repair. They mentioned in their post that they had to weld the aluminum after making it round again, then trued it up and did the machining work to make it pretty. No idea what that all costs.

qbrozen · February 2022

@venture said:
I'm not familiar with a wheel like that. Where do the lug nuts go? Is there a part removed to fix it?

Appears to be for a large truck. Has 10 lug holes right there in the middle

oldfarmer50 · February 2022

ab348 said:
Did I mention it's pothole season locally? We have a bumper crop here this year. This pic is from a local machine shop that actually fixed this one.

I hope that’s not yours. The roads around here are crumbling too. We’ve had an unusual winter where it’s fluctuated above and below freezing almost daily. That causes a lot of frost heaving and potholes.

It’s going to be 60 tomorrow followed by lows around 10 over the weekend.

mjfloyd1 · February 2022

@andres3 said:
There may be a malfunction in TTS land, need a code reader and expert mechanic to take a look.

The S4 land is free from problems lately.

Might need that Elantra N or similar with a DCT and 10-year warranty after all.

What’s wrong with the TTS? Hopefully not engine related with the ECU flash onboard.

venture · February 2022

qbrozen said:

@venture said:

I'm not familiar with a wheel like that. Where do the lug nuts go? Is there a part removed to fix it?

Appears to be for a large truck. Has 10 lug holes right there in the middle

It's a lot bigger than it looks in the picture.

jmonroe1 · February 2022

venture said:

qbrozen said:

@venture said:

I'm not familiar with a wheel like that. Where do the lug nuts go? Is there a part removed to fix it?

Appears to be for a large truck. Has 10 lug holes right there in the middle

It's a lot bigger than it looks in the picture.

Well, it definitely didn’t come off of a pickup like @stickguy’s Maverick. I doubt his wannabe pickup could even haul that sucker around without groaning.

jmonroe

stickguy · February 2022

1500# payload baby!

jmonroe1 · February 2022

@stickguy said:
1500# payload baby!

After they weld and rechrome that 10 stud wheel it weighs in at 1700 pounds.

jmonroe

explorerx4 · February 2022

@stickguy,
Maybe you can ask jmonroe to go for a ride with to check your new Maverick accessory.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5204357

stickguy · February 2022

Will he fit out through the moonroof?

driver100 · February 2022

So I do a google search and find a few that are similar;

They vary from about $200 used to about $400 new. I still say, if I had a big rig and needed to replace a wheel like that, I would want to buy it new.......less chance of spending hours to get it right, it will probably be a business expense, less chance of being late with a big delivery due to wheel failure.

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andres3 · February 2022

mjfloyd1 said:

@andres3 said:

There may be a malfunction in TTS land, need a code reader and expert mechanic to take a look.

The S4 land is free from problems lately.

Might need that Elantra N or similar with a DCT and 10-year warranty after all.

What’s wrong with the TTS? Hopefully not engine related with the ECU flash onboard.

It's past the 54K mile mark and it's a 2016 so way past any standard warranty flash or no flash. Again, I should have answered those extended warranty telemarketing calls!!!!

Going this afternoon to see what the codes are; "drivetrain malfunction" can apparently be many a thing from minor to major, but I don't think engine related.

jmonroe1 · February 2022

@stickguy said:
Will he fit out through the moonroof?

I’ll force myself.

jmonroe

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