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and now I can if I read and enter some funky number in a graphic and prove I'm a carbon based life form - heh heh - funny.
For the past six months I've not been asked to do this - was just shut out with some sort of technical response saying I was out of luck. I figured my PC was too old or some such. Now I'm offered the ability to post if I pass the test.
So, able to post for years then shut out for six months and now can post if I enter the numbers correctly. What gives?
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Most likely it's you. Your computer was or is infected with a "trojan" that automatically mailed out spam and sent it to forums such as this. The webmaster responded by quarantining your address. Get a good spyware detector, such as Spysweeper or Spyware Doctor and clean your computer. Do not download one from an ad. Most of those are spyware themselves. Go to a Big box store and buy it.
format c: and reinstall can be a better solution for problems like this (after you made a back up)
You can almost always fix a virus or spyware installation without resorting to a reformat. Sometime it takes an expert who understands the intricacies of the registry. If it does... Pay him!Over the past few years I have had to help friends recover from an unccessary reformat recommended by an unqualified minimum wage tech service person from somewhere in the third world. Yes it does work. Nuclear weapons usually achieve the desired result, but there is one heck of a lot of collateral damage. Okay, windows is running again, but what about the video drivers, sound card drivers, all those keyboard shortcuts that require a program in memory etc, etc, etc. Many of these programs have to be downloaded from the web. God help you if your father-in-law bought a cheap computer with a video card that is no longer supported. Plan on a long search for the drivers
Then there is re-installing the security software, MS office, the games, the financial program and everything else that people accumulate over the years. All of the web favorites are gone. The home page needs to be set up again. Same with the media player.
Once all the software is installed everthing needs to be updated on the web. Some programs have to be updated multiple times. Finally you have to customize the programs like office so your personal preferences are set up.
All this is asumming everything is backed up properly.Usually it isn't and that creates all kinds of different problems. I'm not a computer professional but I have worked with computers since the 1970's and I am a long time hobbyist. Soemtimes reformats are necessary, but I avoid them like the plague.
Howdy
If you are asking why you used to be able to post but then couldn't perhaps you should have asked in the support asylum a while ago, or emailed Rod or a moderator.
In any case if you tell us who you were posting as before maybe things will become clear.
It appears you are an AOL user and AOL has decided that any email with the word AudioAsylum in it is spam (or more properly they appear to have decided to not override their automatic spam detecting system.) So if you emailed or used the comment button you might not have seen a response. (But once again you could have asked why not on the support asylum or by emailing again.)
If you use some other email (from Yahoo, Google, HotMail etc.) to register, then if you login you won't need to answer the captcha question anymore.
-Ted
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