On Tuesday 09 September 2003 10:55 pm, rikona wrote: > Hello robin, > > Sunday, September 7, 2003, 12:34:19 PM, you wrote: > >>Isn't it true that if you are "fully patched" (as painful as that > >>is) that these virus's don't get you? > > r> It can be very painful indeed. When I went home this summer, the > r> first thing I did was to go to Microsoft Update and set it to > r> download and install all security patches since the last time I > r> was over (a year previously). When I rebooted, Windows was > r> completely buggered. Reinstalling didn't work - I had to reformat > r> the whole partition and start from scratch > > This happened to me too. I was so upset I called M$ PAID support. > Their ONLY solution was to reformat, and this cost me $$$ for that > lousy advice! I was really pi***d. I explained that I had about 10+ > Gigs of data files on that machine. They did not give a s**t about > that data, at all - didn't even apologize that it would be lost. Their > attitude really is the s**ts!
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