Re: Computer aggrivation

Yes- but the less Microsoft stuff you have, the fewer viruses you will have (at this point anyway, as most target susceptabilities in Microsoft). Hence, I am very happy to be using Thunderbird for email, Mozilla for internet, and TrendMicro's PC-cillin for anti virus. I haven't had a problem since!

Theresa

Donna wrote:

And the b**** of it is....

The minute he connects, something will get him again.... Now a days,
they hit before you can get the AV file updates as well as the MS
updates....and no you don't even have to open/download/read an e-mail.
The connection causes it, whether it is a dial up or dsl.

I would watch some of the settings... I believe they default to file
sharing and non-firewalled. Might want to change those before hooking up
the dsl....

Might as well download all the updates, then scan for the virus, then do
the fix. Reinstalling just causes it to happen all over again.

Donna




Wow, what a pal.
I'm not familiar with Sasser, but I suppose it's a good thing you


found


out b4 she passed it on in emails - if that's possible with Sasser.


Kitty


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Ms. Fatma finally got interested enough in e-mail to get a computer.
She bought a reconditioned Compaq laptop and a friend of hers set it


up


for her. When I tried to install her DSL connection, I discovered


that


in addition to Microsoft Office and a lot of other cute stuff, her
friend had also installed the Sasser virus. So. we stripped it down


to


empty, re-installed XP, and are now in the process of fetching the


DSL


connection and then Norton. What a pain.


Island Jim
Southwest Florida
27.0 N, 82.4 W
Zone 10a
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]




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