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This is not an argument with your reasoning, per se, but just more clearly explains how my post fits into and out of your comment.
I was addressing the code's availability as a liability only in that it's availability enables the 'bad guys' to know their target explicitly. It's like a bank vault who's lock designs are publicly available.
For most open-source items (Gimp2, Audacity, &etc) this is not a problem. One should always download from the parent site (or mirrors they supply) to avoid imitation versions, but that's true of everything. Since I don't rely upon these for security, knowledge of their code is not a weakness if I've a genuine version.
And then, of course, one wonder how really unknown are the working of non-open-source AV products? A clever hacker wouldn't announce cracking it - just quietly exploit it.
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I just use Microsoft Security Essentials, it is free and does a pretty good job.
No single antivirus is 100 %. but you can not run 2 at the same time or they may end up fighting with each other, and or just slowing the system down.
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Got a remote control pillow for my son yesterday but he lost the code booklet on the way back from the shop. I'm assuming all the controls use the same codes. Anyone know what the code is for Sky+ HD?
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How about emailing the manufacturer ?
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Yeah I've phoned them after posting and they've e-mailed it to me already (wasn't expecting such a quick response hence posting it here).
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PompeyThree wrote: a remote control pillow
A what?
I now have a vision of you and your son racing pillows round the garden. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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It's this[^], it was in a charity shop and he thinks it's the best thing ever!
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That's not a pillow - that's a cushion! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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How do you get the cat/dog/other pet off it so you can change channels? 
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I have that problem with a normal remote.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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On top of that, how do you use it as a normal pillow/cushion without accidentally changing the channel when you move to get comfortable?
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PompeyThree wrote: Anyone know what the code is for Sky+ HD?
Wrong forum.
Have your tried google or RTFM, and all the other stupid ass answers people use.
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Many years ago I bought a universal remote, guaranteed to work with any TV.
Of course it wouldn't work with my TV so I phoned them up.
Can you just put your remote on the phone for me says they.
You what says I.
There was a small hole in the back of the remote, the phone squawked at it for a few seconds, the remote worked with my TV from then on.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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This is possibly the best thing I've heard in a long time.
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 my jaw dropped. 
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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Dang I had forgotten about doing that once. Of course I remember using a hard wired remote.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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PompeyThree wrote: I'm assuming all the controls use the same codes.
You know what happens when you assume...
For my sins I always have to set the elephanting things up for my parents (an experience sufficiently awful that it'd make me cut the cord if I hadn't entirely swore off FollyWeird years ago). Replacement 1 and Replacement 2 used different codes. Replacement 2 and Replacement 3 used different codes. Logitech's USB programmable remote just swapped one form of hell for a different one.  
I now recommend throwing your TV out and buying a new one if you accidentally step on and smash the original clicker. Spending $xxx to $xxxx is the least painful option. 
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Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The corridor must pay half a mutton by all Saints eve. (9)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The corridor HALL
must pay OWE
half a mutton ???
all Saints eve HALLOWEEN
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Spot on - you are up Monday!
A Mutton is a "printers mark" (actually a width of space when movable type was used) also known as an "Em". Half that space (half an Em or half a Mutton) was known as an "En" (also called a "Nut").
(My Mother was a printer, before she retrained as a Probation Officer)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Trust ewe to be obsessed by things that sound like they are sheep inspired. 
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I thought it must have been a pet name for some old ewe out back. 
That part had me stumped...
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RossMW wrote: That part had me stumped...
That was kinda the idea!
I know you lot have an obsession with beastiality, so I thought I'd give you a chance to exercise your minds... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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