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Outlook is not secure even with the thousands of security updates that come to it. How many viruses have resulted because its so easy to just open an attachment, then the virus scans the address book, sends itself out, and ****s your computer in the process.

And go ahead and "try" to format my HD. My processor has been shot for a good week if you can even remember. Also, you trying to think I don't know s.hit about computers. You are quite wrong. I speak FACTS, not stupid ****. "I'm gonna get a hard drive with 8 gigs of cache". That's the funniest damn thing I have ever heard, and who did it come from?;)

And by the time the person or persons opens the virus in Outlook and tells the FIREWALL that they have access, the hacker can do what he/she feels like.

So keep speaking your stuff. I must read it.

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Jon for the program to open the port. which is a really facinating thing. If you watch the little corner of your screen it actually communicates with the server for about 20 to 30 seconds depending on your connection. And then it downloads your mail. Jon if you got a virus in your e-mail I'm sorry that you can't get an antivirus program like PCCillin because that scans e-mail. And just to inform you outlook defaults to block all attachments that might possibly contain a virus. That came from me as a joke at wei's party.

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i'd like 8 gigs of cache....:drool:


:offtopic:
buuuuuuuuuut, back on topic, i'm really starting to believe this is all just made by valve as an excuse to push back the release date

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I agree with you gimpy, I think that the valve beta testers broke the source code on it. But back to me arguing with Jonbo.. If you really think about it. No hacker does a live hack anymore they insert trojans and then they copy the key strokes and take screen shots of the computer then they go through the screen shots and figure out passwords and everything like that. The only way that a hacker could really get into the company would be to insert the trojan. But I don't think the programmers who get paid a good sum of money neglect to scan their e-mail. I mean if you are a computer programmer you would scan your e-mail every day, You would do that to make sure something like this never happens.. So in my personal opinion I think the company leaked the source code because they didn't want to release the game until 2k4

I've confirmed that the HL2 beta leak is real.

Click here to see HL1 running on HL2's engine.

Click Here to see homebrew HL2 pics.

CNN's news article about it.

And I'm d/l'ing it.

It's fascinating for me to see how the game was put together (of course I'll still buy it when the time comes). At any rate, this is what the hacker said before he leaked the full version:

"To all those saying HL2 was delayed because of the hacking action, ill just remind you that what was leaked is what Valve has, nothing more and nothing less, so its pretty good to understand it wasnt finished yet. Also I'd like to point out the E3 [demo] was one big fake by Valve. Ever tried to kill that soldier in physicstown ? Notice the door will still get kicked ? No scripted sequences ?

To everyone saying this is no Beta: I'd like to point out that THIS is what you wanted Valve to release on 9/30/03, theres no such thing as a much better release in Valves network! "

To Valve: I suggest you stop lying to your customers about how much was stolen/compromised, or I'll have to release everything just to prove my point. And you know what you got, as I do."

This was stated by the hacker in an IRC channel after valve software claimed that only 1/3 of the game was stolen (a complete lie as we can see now). Valve never intended to give the game to us on 9/30. They've been meaning to push it back as far as April 2004 claiming that the game was almost done. It makes me wonder what the point of lying was. I mean, I don't care about the reason. I just want to know when the game's going to be out.

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Let's see, I have Norton installed on my comp. So if I was to download an attachment, Norton would immediately tell me its a virus. Plus, I hate Outlook (Express) because it has way to many security holes. My main email provider for the past 5 years or so has been Yahoo. And within the past year or so, they installed a thing that scans attachments before you download them, so if I was to get a virus, I wouldn't get it.:) So don't try to say that I don't have any ways to stop my computer from getting viruses.

Look at the ass on that baby..... :drool:

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...i don't see any proof that says that the code was in fact stolen, lets see, the first site, half the pix don't work(the ones that would really showanything different), the second one is just a batch of screen shots, just because you haven't seen them before doesn't meant they were taken as screenshots, as for the third one, just as nothing stopped them from telling the gaming community that it was leaked, nothings stopping them from telling the same thing to CNN, i want to see whether the source code u'r getting is real, and whether it could be compiled, because a game like that is more than just source code, its a vast array of image files, sound, and much more.

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Right, Gimpy, the source code was the first thing that was released. It wasn't just the source that was stolen. The entire HL2 tree was copied. You don't have to believe it was stolen. I'm just telling you what was reported. I've been trying to d/l the compiled version of the game, but the IRC servers are so busy with it. I've been trying to find a torrent file, but to no avail.

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Well, I've decided to revive this topic after actually getting ahold of the beta (more like an alpha) leak.

The Havok physics are all in place (almost everything works perfectly), most of the graphics are really impressive. However, I have one really big drawback. I have a GeForce 4 MX420, so I don't have pixel or vertex shaders. So I get either no water, or this really silly metallic looking stuff.

Even in alpha form this "game" runs at full speed on my 2.3 GHZ P4 with that MX420. All in all, very enjoyable. Although I don't condone what was done, I'm still going to take advantage of it. :D I'll still buy the full game. This really is crap in comparison.

I haven't yet converted HL1 onto the HL2 engine. Apparently the improvements are lighting, shadowing, water, and havok physics. So pretty cool. If I get that up and running I'll tell you.

Did anybody else get this?

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how big was the file?

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I've been wanting HL2, but it won't help to have it right now since my video card is crap for gaming (Matrox G400 Millenium 32MB). But hopefully for xmas a 9600XT graces my comp.

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i got the HL2 beta downloaded its about 1.39gigs
and that will extract to about 4 gigs

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I wouldnt know where to look...I wouldnt mind giving it a try, just to see how well it perfrorms on my P4 2.66 with Radeon 9500pro. Im kinda surprised it ran that fast on your crappy graphics card. Where did you get the file from?

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Funny this showed up again, a friend said something about it the other day...

did anyone ever get to play half-life 2?
no
i played that
it sucked.. no ai
was like doom with good graphics

LMAO



What...no one else thought that was funny?


*runs off crying*