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Summary:
| Battery: | AAA/10440 |
| Switch: | Reverse clicky |
| Modes: | 1 |
| LED Type: | Osram warm |
| Lens: | Glass |
| Tailstands: | Yes* |
| Price Paid: | $7.82 |
| From: | KaiDomain |
| Date Ordered: | 31 Oct 2010 |
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Tonight Mom called and said she thought she had gotten some kind of virus disguising itself as anti-virus software. She kept getting a window popping up telling her to download some software. She knew that she wasn’t supposed to do this and that McAfee was supposed to protect her from viruses. But McAfee had let this one through. [In fairness to McAfee, it turns out her subscription had expired several months earlier.]
This isn’t a virus so much as it is a trojan and like so many of them, once it gets on your computer it is very hard to get rid of. By manipulating the Windows registry it prevents executables from running so that you can’t install anything or run programs, and it stops you from getting to websites where you might find help or download fixes. Even if you can find the virus’ executable files, they will reinstall themselves the next time you open your web browser or any other executable. Awful.
Summary:
| Battery: | AA/14500 |
| Switch: | Reverse clicky |
| Modes: | 4 |
| LED Type: | Cree XR-E Q5 |
| Lens: | Collimator (plastic) |
| Tailstands: | Yes |
| Price Paid: | $16.99 |
| From: | Manafont |
| Date Ordered: | 25 Oct 2010 |
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Summary:
| Battery: | AA/14500 li-ion |
| Switch: | Reverse clicky |
| Modes: | 1 |
| LED Type: | Osram |
| Lens: | Glass |
| Tailstands: | Yes |
| Price Paid: | $9.93 |
| From: | DealExtreme |
| Date Ordered: | 22 Aug 2010 |
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When I first started learning about flashlights last year, I went to CandlePower Forums (CPF). It is a very active discussion area and there is a wealth of information there and members who know crazy amounts about flashlights. But they kind of look down their noses at people like me who buy cheap Chinese lights from DealExtreme, sometimes even showing outright hostility and intolerance towards even discussing cheap lights (for instance if you provide a link to a light you see at DealExtreme, the moderators will delete it). And if there is one thing I can’t tolerate, it is intolerance. So early this year one guy got fed up and started his own discussion forum dedicated to cheap lights, called Budget Light Forum (BLF). It has been nice to have a place like that and I have posted reviews of some of the different lights I have bought. There are people from all over the world on that forum.
