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!

Reminds me of the old Lilly Tomlin character:  "We don't care. We don't have
to. We're the phone company."

-- 
Bryan Phinney
Software Test Engineer


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