On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 21:15:55 +0000, PAUL PAVLIK wrote:
> on my P166 /Win 95.... (with Norton's Anti-Virus too) i got the Stoned
> Monkey Virus.
Yet another clue as to why I dont use windoz. Microsoft's unethical
business tactis have made it a lotta enemies, who are now striking back
with a continuous barrage of sabotage software. The operating system
and applications are so bloated that virus scanners cannot deal with it.
> Now, the computer store says that they cannot do not know how
> to recover the drive.
Those who really understand computers dont work in computer stores.
Those who do, make so much money they sometimes buy computer stores.
You should be able to extract the work. I'd get a copy of DR-DOS 7.03
fed x from Caldera.com The whole OS is about 6meg, and you should have
a clean floppy master boot disk with it. I'd also get another IDE HD.
I've seen 1.2gig for 30-40$ 3.2gig 40-50$
Depends on what your 'work' consists of. if it is business database
and correspondance, ie- text files, and can be identified, you can
copy them to the DRD HD leaving all of the infected applications on
the win 9 drive. You cant infect a text file with a virus because
text files are not 'executed' but merely displayed and/or modified by
your editor or spreadsheet software. One of the glories of ASCII
Graphic images, jpg & gif are safe as well; the viewer app only puts
them on the screen, and they have no instructions to write to a drive,
which is what a virus does.
All it takes to install a HD is a phillips screwdriver and the balls
to open the case. and maybe the room inside to install it. if you
already have a cd rom and a zip drive and a floppy drive...
but if you have a heritage system, you prolly dont. you might prefer to
get a SCSI with a SCSI controller card and maybe a terminator. VLB SCSI
controllers are cheap, and what you get is a hard drive so fast it will
dramatically improve performance.
You will end up with another drive to use as a backup, so that the
next time, whether the drive crashes or a virus, you still have your
business.
You could also invest in Linux, the ultimate solution for the next
generation of complex business applications. People whose careers
depend on computers dont wanna be caught in the cross fire with sabotage
software aimed at Microsoft.
uncopywritten. do what you will with it.
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