Comments on: Another reinstall… http://www.survivalring.org/wordpress/another-reinstall/ Survival, preparedness, college life and saving the world... Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:51:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Rich http://www.survivalring.org/wordpress/another-reinstall/#comment-183 Rich Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:06:39 +0000 http://www.survivalring.org/wordpress/index.php?p=13#comment-183 Cole, You only have that to look forward to if you use WINDOZE! The past 3 weeks, I've had to wipe and reinstall THREE computers...all running Windows 2000 Pro. None were mine, but all three had AMAZING amounts of virus infection, spyware, trojans, and back door programs installed. It would have taken DAYS to remove all the crap, and even then, some could have been missed. Much better to MAKE SURE the system is clean, by FULL FORMAT of the harddrive, and THEN FULL INSTALL of ALL the system protection needed, including the following... AVG 7.0 Antivirus SPYBOT Search and Destroy Ad-aware Hijack This! Zone Alarm Norton Internet Security 2003 (last year before it started going to crap) and a few more tools. My problems had NOTHING to do with web design or any of the programs I run on a regular basis. Also, I just did a full system recovery AGAIN just 2 weeks ago...all three of my optical drives (2 CD Rom, 1 DVD Burner) went away, and nothing would get them going again. Full system recovery brought them back, AND finally got my system's TV Tuner card working like it is supposed to. Anyway, all I can say is LINUX! Here I come.... More later... Rich Cole,

You only have that to look forward to if you use WINDOZE!

The past 3 weeks, I’ve had to wipe and reinstall THREE computers…all running Windows 2000 Pro. None were mine, but all three had AMAZING amounts of virus infection, spyware, trojans, and back door programs installed. It would have taken DAYS to remove all the crap, and even then, some could have been missed. Much better to MAKE SURE the system is clean, by FULL FORMAT of the harddrive, and THEN FULL INSTALL of ALL the system protection needed, including the following…

AVG 7.0 Antivirus
SPYBOT Search and Destroy
Ad-aware
Hijack This!
Zone Alarm
Norton Internet Security 2003 (last year before it started going to crap)
and a few more tools.

My problems had NOTHING to do with web design or any of the programs I run on a regular basis.

Also, I just did a full system recovery AGAIN just 2 weeks ago…all three of my optical drives (2 CD Rom, 1 DVD Burner) went away, and nothing would get them going again. Full system recovery brought them back, AND finally got my system’s TV Tuner card working like it is supposed to.

Anyway, all I can say is LINUX! Here I come….

More later…

Rich

]]> By: cole http://www.survivalring.org/wordpress/another-reinstall/#comment-182 cole Fri, 14 Jan 2005 03:58:32 +0000 http://www.survivalring.org/wordpress/index.php?p=13#comment-182 I am just a novice & only just disovering HTML. Is this the sort of deal I have to look forward to if I wanna maintain wbsites like yours?. If its not too personal...What are your appx overheads to have a web presence such as yourself? Regards cole...great site...thumbs up. I am just a novice & only just disovering HTML. Is this the sort of deal I have to look forward to if I wanna maintain wbsites like yours?.
If its not too personal…What are your appx overheads to have a web presence such as yourself?
Regards
cole…great site…thumbs up.

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