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Old 12-25-2011, 11:11 AM
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During my session with HP the other day, the possibilities of viruses was discussed. We both thought that a virus might be the source of my blue screen problems. I told him that I've had a few higher risk intrusions blocked by Norton and he told me that that's not unusual. Everybody gets several attacks on a regular basis. (the tech rep was from the mid-west and not a sourced out location)

I had 13 attempted intrusion on just one day that I checked out. Fortunately most are low level and pretty much benign. This fact alone tells me the importance of having a good virus protection and firewall on your computer and frequent updates.

I cannot attribute a single intrusion attempt to be associated with this web site and I'd even bet that if I didn't log in to TOTV for a day or two, I'd still have similar results with the attempted intrusions.

BTW, I have had one and only one issue with using the site. When I preview a posting I get a text only preview and have to click the preview button again to have a normal view. However, I have no idea if it's the site or on my side. I believe it is on my side because it seems to happen on IE only and not Firefox or Chrome.
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