jdmidwest

Did you get the one I sent last week??

There have been several pieces of malware running around in the last year that pops up and says your computer is infected and installs a fake antivirus or repair tool. Ahout the only way to defeat it is to start in safe mode and run a cleaner or zap it with a boot disk or usb drive. One handy tool I use comes from this website called Combofix, My Bleeping Computer. . There are several boot iso files from Kasperskylab and Dr Web Cure it that create boot cd's with a linux shell that will let you remove viruses, delete autoruns, and fix mbr's that have been damaged. You really should not have to toss your computer. If all else fails, fdisk and format the drive and reinstall Windows and programs and you should be back to day one when you bought the computer.

If you were using Internet Explorer, it would not have happened. Microsoft products are impervious to viral or malware attacks.....

My pet peeve with them lately is that they close a stretch of road to replace a bridge and detour traffic miles out of the way around it instead of making a bypass bridge. Here locally, 61 is closed at Appleton, 34 is closed at Burfordville, and I just saw that 2 smaller roads are closed today for culvert repairs.

They cut back on the spellcheckers.........

Did you go home to a pot of chicken soup? Can't have a blind hen wandering around the farm...

At least they should have plenty of cooling water. Just a thought, you would think one of the many engineers that built that project would have thought twice about building in a flood plain.

Phil posted last week that there were some on OAF seeing some type of virus activity while using OAF. This popped up this morning on Avast while I was browsing. Something got set to the temp folder that Avast did not like. It may be nothing, but if you get the same, let Phil know with a PM.

He has lived there for about 6 years now and we have spent some time on the lakes fishing which have always been productive. They have a golf course if you like that sort of thing. Big River runs thru it and there is a good put in/ pull out spot for a float. It is well policed and protected with covenants. They have a great fireworks display every 4th. Just an hour drive or less to St. Louis, Wappapello Lake, or Clearwater Lake. It is a real nice place for an outdoors person.

I am voting Missouri mainly because of my experience with it and none of the others except Arkansas. Missouri is unique, it offers wild small stream born trout, tailwater trout, lake trout, put and take trout, and pay to fish trout. Not many other states offer so many ways. Missouri offers Rainbows and Brown trout, and just south of the border you can find Cutthroat and Brookies if you want them. The scenery on some of our streams are second to none and the fishing is year round. I have fished Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alaska, and North Carolina for trout. None really compare to what we have here in the Ozarks.

I met a guy in Alaska that humped in a full pack and an 18 pack of Bud Heavy tied to the outside of it in the carton to our float camp. Tossed them in the river, set up a tent, and had cold beer when he was done.

My x wife had a friend over one time that took an interest in my fly tying equipment. She stole some feathers and a pair of hackle pliers to make something called a "roach clip". I guess she was too poor to hire an exterminator.

They have a complex and extensive Sewer System, no Septic Tanks. Although I know for a fact there is urine in several of the lakes.... What lake is the home located on? I have a friend on Capri.

This one sure had a delayed reaction........

Shallow Shad Raps in Crawdad or Gold/black, size SSR5 I think. Work good for trout in rivers too.

Gavin has a good point, yank off all of the good feathers you need and sell off the excess. Take the profit. put it in the bank till next year or so and buy new stock. It is a fad, it will pass shortly. Remember the AR gathering shortly after Obama was elected. Prices skyrocketed, there were widespread shortages. Now the market has a glut, prices have fell below what they were before the election. There are some great deals out there now on AR style weapons.

Some friends fished it yesterday and it was fair. The river was in good shape, but there was a lot of jet boat traffic on it due to the holiday weekend. Lots of dads. Heading down in the morning for a day trip also, will be in a jet myself. Packing rain gear cause we are gonna get wet.

It is crazy how all of the hackle has just disappeared. I stopped in at Reed's Cabin outside of Montauk this weekend. All capes were gone except 2 packs of 4 half capes of the 4 popular Whiting colors and lots of 100 packs. As a fly shop manager in the past, I could count on one hand the capes I sold per year, but I always stocked most colors and grades of Metz back then. I am sure this will freshen up the supply chain in the next few years. But as others have stated, I rarely use hackle on any flies any more. I use CDC for most dry flies and foam for terrestrials. Cheaper, and will float better without dressing.

OK, you win. Sorry my 24 years of computer experience could not explain it.

The OAF cookie contains login info that could be hacked by someone else, so a Security Software may see that as divulging personal info and throw a report. The ads flashing on the website are enough to launch a cookie or malware program since they are bits of computer code that Phil allows to run on his web. You don't have to click thru them for them to track you. I use Firefox with Flashblock and ad block, the ads are still there as a small banner, but they don't flash and grow larger. Clear out your cookies and restart your browser, then surf OAF for an hour and look at your cookie folder to see what it leaves.

OAF sets a cookie to track the login. Some of his ad sites that flash a banner across the top may set cookies of their own.

Did anyone mention what the antivirus message was? Did anyone mention what AV software was being triggered? Most new combo packages will warn if a site tries to set ad or tracking cookies as it sees them as possible malware or self loading viruses if they have protection turned all of the way up. I use Avast and have not seen any alerts, and it finds things in the temp folder from time to time on certain other trusted sites.

Funny how that coincides with the amount of rainfall we received that month.

If you want late summer bass action on a river, the St. Francois is great for that. Sam A Baker Park has the camping facilities. You will probably have to bring friends and make your own float and shuttles above the park. There is a canoe rental in the park but the shuttles are limited. 11 Point upper river gets really small in the summer so the float is not usually possible. From Whitten down it is good that time of the year for smallies and trout. Camping in Alton and Riverton with canoe rentals at both places. You left out the Jack's Fork, Current River, and the North Fork rivers.

yep!