OMG. Has "runsan" opened a new account? Monday, March 2, 2009 at 5:29 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) Eric Gold wrote: |If you're going through a router, then disconnect from it |and connect directly to the modem. If that doesn't work - come back. | A new someone giving out bad advice?? http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1236043455 I'm sure Jack knows better than to put a Windoze box on the 'Net barefooted, but for the others who would read this: NEVER connect your Windoze box to the Internet without a protective layer that filters packets. Some time-to-infection numbers for running an M$ OS on an unfiltered connection are in the 20-second range. I'm also curious how this poster accounts for the *temporal* element in the query --which is the *only* variable revealed. Written in response to: re: disappearing ethernet card (Eric Gold: Monday, March 2, 2009 at 1:25 pm) Responses to this message: re: OMG. Has "runsan" opened a new account? (jack hall: Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 7:44 am) All messages in this thread [show all] disappearing ethernet card (jack hall: Sat, Feb 28, 2009, 5:52 pm) re: disappearing ethernet card (gewg_: Sat, Feb 28, 2009, 6:55 pm) re: disappearing ethernet card (jack hall: Sat, Feb 28, 2009, 7:17 pm) re: disappearing ethernet card (Eric Gold: Mon, Mar 2, 2009, 1:25 pm) OMG. Has "runsan" opened a new account? (gewg_: Mon, Mar 2, 2009, 5:29 pm) re: OMG. Has "runsan" opened a new account? (jack hall: Tue, Mar 3, 2009, 7:44 am) re: disappearing ethernet card (jack hall: Tue, Mar 3, 2009, 7:51 am) re: disappearing ethernet card (gewg_: Tue, Mar 3, 2009, 10:54 am) re: disappearing ethernet card (jack hall: Tue, Mar 3, 2009, 11:43 am) re: disappearing ethernet card (gewg_: Tue, Mar 3, 2009, 12:50 pm) re: disappearing ethernet card (jack hall: Wed, Mar 4, 2009, 10:12 am) re: disappearing ethernet card (jack hall: Fri, Mar 13, 2009, 3:08 pm) re: disappearing ethernet card (gewg_: Fri, Mar 13, 2009, 4:38 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum