re: boot logo
Friday, November 2, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6157 messages posted)
Dream world.. You have no idea how many lines of code are in an NT/W2K system do
you?? Any expert in the field will tell you to stop whining, buck up and reinstall,
then for God's sake, the first thing you do is get protection on the system and keep
it updated!!
You invited the disaster on yourself but running unprotected AND, using an ADMIN
account when you should only have that one for ADMIN uses and maintenance!!! Setup
up an account with reduced permissions so that viruses and malware don't have the
rights to do the damage that they can do on an ADMIN account, and use that for your
day to day use. If you don't know how to do this on a W2K system then have someone
help you that knows how, get a book that explains the dangers of running the way
you have been and how to protect yourself with the built in tools, or use another
system that isn't as complicated to maintain as what W2K can be.
Don't blame uncle bill when the tools are all there to protect the system, but you
didn't want to educate yourself and use them, or set up your system in the first
place to resist infection if that's what did happen. But running without protection
is just plain an open invitation for disaster and you can only blame yourself for
that one.. Lots of free good AV and malware protection around that won't impact
your system at all. So there really is no excuse!
Don't bother posting back, I won't waste my time to read it...
On Friday, November 2, 2007 at 8:20 am, Chris Rickards wrote:
>Thanks for the suggestion but ... ABSOLUTLY NOT on the reinstall. I'm sick and tired
>of that being the only recourse.
>
>Yes it works, yes I will be rid of all these issues, BUT ... A. I don't have the
>disks (running win2000pro) and B. I have a tremendous amount of time put into installing
>my software, updates, passwords, tweeking and fine tuning and and and........
>
>A fresh install is out of the question. I'd rather take a sledge hammer to this
system
>and go buy another system and reconfigure that system ..... I suspect however in
>time THAT system will become victim of RESULTS of the GARBAGE bill and his gang
produce
>that is affecting THIS system.
>
>Someone out there knows how to fix issues like this without a re-install. That is
>all too often the answer. I don't think we should all be required to be computer
>experts simply to use this clever invention.
>
>And regarding my contention that I will be attacked less than someone on a high
speed
>connection ... I still stand by that assertion. My own anicdotal evidence supports
>the premis. Sure, I can still be attacked, but it's less likely than if I had a
high
>speed connection. I mean, c'mon, over a year of smooth sailing, no attacks, hackers,
>keyloggers, minimal spam (not that spam has anything to do with the speed of a connection),
>and and and.
>
>It's only AFTER installing avg, spyware dr. etc that I'm getting these issues .....
>and they all say everything is honky dory. ??????? huh .....
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