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Webshots program problem.

#1 User is offline   Jimdigriz 

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Posted 08 April 2010 - 01:33 PM

I've got a customer who uses a program called "Webshots" Webshots Home

All he uses it for is for his desktop dynamically changing pictures, from his my pictures folder (he's got a lot of soft core porn and I guess he likes to see a different girl on his desktop every 3 minutes lol) Webshots actually offers a service that pulls pictures from the web, however he doesn't use that function.

The program, for whatever reason runs at 90,000 k, and ever since he got AVG Internet Security he's been having problems with it. I called the Webshots software people and they notified me that AVG's firewall is blocking the program from having web access. (Which it doesn't need in the first place for this customer) The software guy wouldn't tell me what, if any ports to forward on the firewall or anything of any use, and I can't find information about it on the web.

Has anyone else had simmilar problems in this area? I either need a fix for it, or a simmilar program that makes your desktop background dynamic, and it doesn't have to have any access to the web.

Thanks in advance guys!

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Posted 08 April 2010 - 02:03 PM

I use Webshots and it uses less than 10K, so your usage seems to excessive.
You don't say what the actual problems are.
Webshots doesn't need any web access in order to function, if you don't use any web features (I don't).
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Posted 08 April 2010 - 02:32 PM

Sorry, I was a little vague. Like I said it's a customers computer. And apparantly he can't seem to open the program back up, my guess is either AVG or MBAM caught onto it for whatever reason as a false positive and hacked some of the associated files up; just going to have to reinstall.

And that seems rather odd that his version was using so much memory, hopefully a reinstall will repair that as well. Thanks!

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Posted 08 April 2010 - 03:24 PM

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