I had to reinstall Windows 5 times to get it to work.
What I ended up doing was grabbing and burning the Sasser and blaster patches and installing them.
I don't run a firewall. I find them to be a major pain in the ass. It might bite me in the butt, but I have an old, happy mac connected to the net that will serve my needs if my PC eeds to be reformatted again. I have a bitch of a time running WoW even with the virus scanner on.
I have heard that the SP2 firewall actually isn't that bad, but I'm not putting SP2 on.
While most of that article is good, the 'OH NOES HAX0r5!!!111' hype is what bugs me. You're WAY more likely to be mailed by a virus that exploits a security hole in windows than a script kiddie. Unless you frequent some IRC servers and accept all incoming transfers :P
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Date: 2005-01-07 05:13 am (UTC)What I ended up doing was grabbing and burning the Sasser and blaster patches and installing them.
I don't run a firewall. I find them to be a major pain in the ass. It might bite me in the butt, but I have an old, happy mac connected to the net that will serve my needs if my PC eeds to be reformatted again. I have a bitch of a time running WoW even with the virus scanner on.
I have heard that the SP2 firewall actually isn't that bad, but I'm not putting SP2 on.
While most of that article is good, the 'OH NOES HAX0r5!!!111' hype is what bugs me. You're WAY more likely to be mailed by a virus that exploits a security hole in windows than a script kiddie. Unless you frequent some IRC servers and accept all incoming transfers :P