RE: [Liveaboard] Face book and other computer quirks for boaters Arild, Not true. I routinely screw with my XP installs. And also my Office installs. Always go to second or third line help with MS. And I also install from cd/dvd. So that bunk of needing to go to a dealer is just that. Problem is if you got the software from a vendor who has an open license structure. Not from a Windows XP disk you bought.
N.Y. RUSSELL Office Coffee Service "Java Powered Service" -----Original Message----- From: Arild Jensen Sent: Mon, 29 September 2008 12:19:39 To: [email protected] Subject: [Liveaboard] Face book and other computer quirks for boaters ahmet erkan wrote: > BTW : Anita like me might be apprehensive about joining the "facebook" > crowd. There was a lot of bad publicity about it's data security. Have > you had any bad experiences? You seem to recommend it, how long have > you been registered to "facebook" whatever it is? I have learned not > to say anything negative or positive about things I don't know. REPLY More specifically facebook was mentioned as being one of the websites at which you ran a great risk of picking up a particularly nasty malware. My daughter insisted on my joining faceook in order to see pictures of my grand daughter. I got my computer ruined. This particular malware blows right through Symantec Norton and Windows defenses. A fact corroborated by a lot of other victims and IT professionals. Befoer I realized exactly what was happening the malware had used my computer to spew out spam and that got me black listed and blocked by my ISP. Attempts to eradicate the malware failed. I ended up having to get another computer and I was off line for a couple of weeks. fortunately my ISP knew that I had problems with a virus so even though they had to block me they allowed me to restore internet access once I had another computer. In case you wonder why an whole new computer instead of just a hard drive; Turns out that XP is a one shot deal. By replacing the hard drive Microcsoft said that constituted a different computer configuration and they wanted me to buy a new copy of XP. When I phoned then because my software install would not validate they told me that computer was not authorized for this area and then by voice phone they told me the computer was not where it was registered from and the hardware was changed. Sure it was changed. i had upgraded a number of things since buying it three years ago. In other words they practically accused me of using a stolen computer. Once we got that straightened out they said I could get validated by buying a new copy of XP USD $199.95 BTW none of the current versions of good Anti virus protection software will install on a machine running non validated software. I tried! In other words if you attempt to run a non-validated copy of Microsoft you can't load malware prtection that is up to date on the latest threats. This is simply more of Microsoft's efforts to eradicate boot leg copies of their product. And if you haven't got high speed access, it takes too long to load even if you are legit. Unfortunately this has some serious ramifications for boaters. My dealer tells me that the latest move by Microsoft means you can no longer load a MS operating system from disk. You get a boot disk and then you have to download the OS and get it validated on-line while its at the dealer. So what happens if you have a computer crash while cruising someplace with no internet access. or just a slow dial up? you are SOL! It used to be you could recover from a HD failure and even a virus attack by simply wiping the drive or if a hard failure; replacing the drive then reloading from disk . Not any more. So much for security of computer based navigation systems. That is why I ended up replacing my computer. Its now junk! I discovered that software that used to load from disk now encountered a problem and the install failed. I can no longer load my legal but old copy of Office 2003. Third party software fails to install and reports essential components of Windows are missing. Pre loading a spare HD with all the essential programs for use as an emergency back up and then trying to load a second HD for actual use on the same computer also violates the Microsoft definition of one time use of XP. and they won't validate the second install. Unless you know you navigation software can run on an older version of windows like Win98SE or maybe W2K you won't be able to recover from a crash or virus infection on your sea going computer. regards Arild _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
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