re: boot logo
Friday, November 2, 2007 at 8:40 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jim O'Calaghan
(264 messages posted)
Hi Chris, phew! that was a mouthful, and I agree with you, for the most part. Firstly,
most of the malware, antivirus's etc; can play some madness with the reg files, and
by the way, viruses love dial up,anyway Chris, if you're in a position, and have
the cd, perhaps you should do a fresh install, and when you've done that you should
consign IE to the far off reaches, and use a much safer and infinately more secure
browser,like Firefox. Be sure to reinstall AVG etc; but expect a slow down in loading,
(but worth the wait) Good luck and I hope things work out well for you.
Jim
On Friday, November 2, 2007 at 5:53 am, Chris Rickards wrote:
>I didn't want to get into it but since you asked ....
>
>1. My dial-up connections is taking it upon itself to just hang up whenever it seems
>fit. A few times a day if I'm online all day. This only started happening right
when
>the boot logo got smaller.
>
>2. I'm getting restriction errors when I try to go in and change the date/time.
The
>specific message is "This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect
>on this computer. Please contact your system administrator." Note: this is my home
>computer, I am logged in as the administrator. And this too only started happening
>right when the boot logo got smaller.
>
>3. These same restriction errors pop up whenever I try to get into any program within
>the control panel such as add/remove programs etc. The only one I can get into within
>control panel is users and passwords and there is nothing in there to monkey around
>with that would have an effect. Again, this started with the boot logo.
>
>More notes: I hate virus scanners, firewalls, maleware scanners, spyware scanners
>etc. On that note I also hate viruses, maleware, spyware, etc.
>
>What I'm getting at is I've been running without a safety net for more than a year
>now without issue. No firewall, no scanning software of any kind. I only have a
dial-up
>connection and it seems that these attacks aren't worth their while if the effort
>is too great. It's almost as if the robots knock on the door and when they discover
>a slow connection, they run like hell.
>
>That's been my experience anyway because like I said, I've been going for quite
some
>time without a safety net.
>
>Sure you could say "well look at you now". The funny thing is, these issues only
>happened AFTER I INSTALLED all the firewall/virus scanner crap.
>
>I'm running PC Tools Firewall Plus, Spyware Doctor's suite of tools, AVG and all
>these problems are only now showing up. Not only that, the speed of the system is
>nowhere near what it was without all these 'safeguards' robbing resources.
>
>I hate them with a passion and wish we could turn back the clock, kick bill gates
>in the ass and tell him not to release imperfect code. I mean c'mon, perfection
is
>possible so why not produce perfection. Screw 'investor satisfaction'. "look people,
>we are able to make this thing absolutly perfect, but we cannot deliver perfection
>in the timeframe we promised so we'll have to wait an extra 6 months for this next
>release OK?" BINGO, no need for these brilliant folks out there showing us how weak
>and insecure the platform bill and his gang has created.
>
>Sorry for the rant I'm just sick of computers ... rather, having to deal with this
>crap. I just want to use the friggin thing without haveing to constantly tweak and
>learn and fiddle and post at help forums and and and ....
>
>And by the way, the scans are comming up negative for virus'. But nice try.
>
>
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