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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
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Computer illiterate brother keeps screwing up the computer

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Ya know i love my brother but i tell ya he's the biggest air head when it comes to computer use. My parents went out and bought a brand new computer. Within a month my brother had it riddled with so many virus's that it simply wouldn't work and i spent three hours formatting it and reinstalling everything.

Now its happened again and the little bugger insists that it is MY fault even though i haven't used it at all!!!!!!!! I have my own computer and it doesn't have a virus on it!

I have WATCHED him click on pop up windows and he's opening emails that he doesn't know who its from! He says he knows what he's doing and that he can fix anything, only it always results in him deleting a file that the computer needs to run! I'm so sick of this! He's using MY internet access so i could just change the password, but he NEEDS it to do schoolwork online and my parents insist that he have access.

He's the type of person who always blames everyone else for everything and my parents treat him like their miracle child. He has quit quite a few jobs and they don't bug him about finding a new one but when i left my job cause i was stressed beyond belief and getting migraines so bad i wanted to die they are on me like a hawk everyday now to either get another job or go on employment insurance.

Everything that goes wrong is MY fault according to my brother.

Now i'm going to have to spend the night formatting the computer just so he can screw it up again and we'll go through this all over again.

I just want to SCREAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Real simple solution...

Buy an anti-virus program. No one should be on the net with out one. And leave it running all the time.
 
Does he have internet access at school? He can check his email there and the techs at school can deal with it. And if your parents don't agree with that, well then they can buy a firewall and a cyber nanny program to keep his bad surfing habits from screwing up the computer.

I know my brothers screwed up the home computer ALL the time when I still lived at home (they were looking at porn and did a poor job covering their tracks online), so I ended up going thru the registry and cookies at least three times a week to get rid of spy ware, and does anyone remember that program that would kick you offline after you'd be on for like 15 minutes? I can't tell you how many times we got infected with that, GRRRRRRR. Lianne, I feel for ya hon.
 
Hi Dennis, I have Norton Antivirus installed but it can only detect the virus not quarentine or delete it. It usually says delete failed. Most of the stuff is spyware with a trojion horse or two. I set Norton up to do an update everytime its logged on to the internet and to run scans all the time but it still doesn't do anything about them.......i'm losing faith in the program lol

They make my home page some really disgusting porn site and will shut down any other windows i open if it isn't related. It has even set up new internet connections and the last time this happened we couldn't run any program cause the virus's were taking up ALL of the memory.

I've been trying to figure out how to get into DOS so i can format. Its the only way i was able to last time but my mind is clouded with frustration and migraine pain, so i'll have to track down my OTHER brother for his help.....this one is the youngest and brightest of the three of us. Little brat can do any mathamatical calculation in his head.....he's a genius!

Whitney, this brother is out of school, just doing some online courses for work. Thanks for your support. My mom apologized for yelling at ME which was nice, but it'll happen again i just know it.

I just read through the firewall instructions on the computer and saved all of my pics i had on it. Once i get into DOS i'll begin formatting........yay......NOT!
 
hehe, i'm just not thinking LOL. All i needed to do to format the computer was to boot from my windows disc. DUH! the computer is formatting now......

now i just have to find a way to restrict my brothers access to internet sites........
 
I use McAfee Online and it works well. It has stopped any virus I have encountered as well as the trojans.

Zone Alarm is a good firewall and it is free.

Ad-Aware is a good program for removing spyware.

The best thing you can do to stop your browser from being highjacked is dump IE. Switching your browser to Firefox should stop the highjacking. If for some reason you have to keep IE, read this article to help you remove it next time. But I strongly suggest you get rid of IE, it is so full of holes it is impossible to keep secure. You won't lose any of your bookmarks/favorites either. Firefox will import them right in.

Good luck.
 
Thanks Dennis, i didn't realize IE was so vulnrable. I've checked out the sites you listed and i'll install FireFox tomorrow.

I need to get to bed for now, having stared at the computer for so long its given me more head pain. I got the computer formatted and Windows installed so i can work at it more tomorrow :)

Thanks again :)

Red
 
If you're having to format that often, you need to pick up a program called Drive Image from Powerquest.
Get everything installed, and all the settings where you want them, then image the drive in it's pristine state. Once he screws it up royally, just run the program and restore the image. No other effort on your part, and everything is back just like it was when you last set it up.

I use the program myself. When I build a new system I install all my critical programs, set them up the way I like them, then make my original image. Then every three months or so I make a new image that gets overwritten by the next one. I always have the original and the latest image available for when it's may be needed.

The catch is you can't store the image in the drive being imaged. I have multiple drives, so it's not a problem, but otherwise you'll have to set the program to burn the image to cd for restore purposes. Would save you a lot of hassle from the sound of it.
 
Firefox

Thanks Dennis, i've been looking for a good alternative to IE and Netscape, Firefox seems to work great
J. Dustin Loy
 
Clay, that sounds cool. Formatting is a pain! I didn't partition the drives so i'll have to burn it to cd.

I usually just format but now that i know about all of the programs out there to help hopefully this will be the last time.

Thanks
Red :)
 
i hate brothers

my little brother screws up my computer to the point where i have to fix it usually once or twice a week if he uses it for more than an hour theres enough spyware and stupid pop ups and viruses im supprised my computer doesnt just blow up its incredible i should get paid to fix his mistakes
 
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