On Wednesday 25 August 2004 18:55, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
If on the other hand you are
> seeing worms after a clean and a reboot then something is badly
> wrong. This is all assuming that you have reinstalled. ? So did
> you reinstall from the restore cd's or are you still working with
> the original mess?
Re-installed from the restore CD's, created on first boot-up.
Now, friends..........
I initiated this thread with an apology, and I want to emphasize
this apology right now :
I feel I have been a annoyance to you all, bringing this highly
Off-Topic matter up on an otherwise clean and decent list. But I am
extremely grateful to all of you. You have brought me insight into
an utterly obscure an inferior world of computing.
My daughters PC and I have agreed on an armstice : It will remain
disconnected from all and everything until I receive new CD's from
HP. Then - maybe - I will try again, now armed with all your advice
and one CD full of antispyware/antivirus/antiworm/firewall weapons
downloaded and burned via Linux. And NO networking until at least 7
scans reveils NO malware whatsoever. And, if after 5 minutes online
it shows the slightest sign of infection : goodbye to networking
for good.
I can say this with a clean conscience : my daughter need this crap
for one thing, and one thing only : the math application by Texas
Instruments, called Derive. She can use her box for that. And I
will install OpenOffice on it. Then she can use it as she wants.
She agreed to do all her networking (which is mostly e-mail and
surfing) from her account on my Mandrake box.
Failsafe - don't you think ?
So...... Let us bring this thread to an unhappy conclusion :
Either I am the dumbest person who ever powered up a PC - or
Microsoft should be expelled from the Internet until they come up
with a real operating system.
Thank you all.
Kaj Haulrich.
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*sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation*
* http://haulrich.net *
*Running Linux (Mandrake 10.0) - kernel 2.6.7*
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