Hacked Account

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  motre · Member · May 17, 2012 at 10:00 pm

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  Then it seems like that laptop has the plug-in … or it may be in the form of some other mechanism that has taken over the DLL that renders text. If it were me, I’d be hard-wiping the disk and re-installing the OS back from known good disks. Dell is likely to charge you for disks. If you have a Windows license KEY, it MAY work even with regular Windows disks you borrow from someone else.

  Otherwise I recommend Linux (because I’m involved in the community … and we use Linux for everything but accounting at work … and the accounting machine is not allowed on the internet).

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  lorrainehollowaywhite · Member · May 17, 2012 at 10:03 pm

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  Thank you so much. I have written to them and will see what they say in the morning. Total pain isn’t it?

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  raincoaster · Member · May 17, 2012 at 11:09 pm

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  Linux is okay. It’s somewhat limited though, as many programs you’ll want to run don’t come in Linux versions yet. I’m running it now.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · May 17, 2012 at 11:13 pm

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  Yeah, we’ve seen reports of this, and so far it’s been a variety of browser add-ons or extensions. If you disable them all, you can re-enable each on individually until you find the culprit.

  raincoaster, which distro are you running?

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  raincoaster · Member · May 17, 2012 at 11:39 pm

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  Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is what I just downloaded. What I hate particularly is that it will not run TweetDeck. There’s a workaround, but it results in something that goes “BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!” every time you get an update, and when you’re following nearly 10,000 people, that’s every few seconds. It also won’t update after you get an @, so you have to restart it every sixty seconds or so. I cannot stress hard enough how much that’s affected my ability to do my actual job, which is at least in part cool-hunting on twitter.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · May 17, 2012 at 11:48 pm

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  Ah, I’ve been thinking about dipping back into Linux via Ubuntu. Shame about TweetDeck though. :/

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  raincoaster · Member · May 18, 2012 at 1:33 am

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  I just updated and now several things are wrong. DO NOT UPDATE. Ugh.

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  motre · Member · May 18, 2012 at 2:32 am

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  Yes, Linux has limitations, though its mostly due to the apps not choosing to support running on Linux. One option a friend (who needs Windows) has done is Windows in a VM that is full screened to one monitor in a 2 monitor setup. But ordinary people just need one or the other.

  FYI, Xubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 10.10, and Slackware 13.37 here.