Windows XP SP2 has a new "Security Center", it will popup and complain to the user and tell it WHY it's enabling these things. Of course for people like us (mostly geeks) it's very annoying having Windows tell you what it's doing and if you choose not to it does it anyways.
Example: I am behind a Router/NAT and it complained it wanted it's firewall. It took me 20 minutes to find out how to disable that menu so it doesn't come up going "your computer is insecure".
The good thing about this is people who are open to the internet no longer worry about crap like this. Windows updates them , makes sure the AV suite is upto date and enables the firewall on all internet connections. The Firewall is better now not just blocking all the ports but it asks "Hey yahoo wants the net" so you can accept or deny it.
Once SP2 is out in final im sure all these little problems windows has with users hopefully will be solved.
haha... me too... same box Dual PPro 200MHz. These PPros are insanely powerfull for it's age. The only problem im having is heat controll.
I got a front intake fan and a out fan plus 2 80mm fans on my CPU's. I also installed an extra 120mm fan on my PSU. There is no keeping this machine cool.
I do just about all the same stuff as you do too and it's nice and quick. Linux does a good job at SMP working. I like how it divides the workload so well.
You know those pentium pro boards support PII Overdrive chips. They can also get a conversion kit and run a 533MHz Celeron. Quite the amazing chipset and chip for it's time.
I completed it many times. You can actually choose anyone but you have to include benard. If you don't then you can't fix the wire to get the arcade machine working to find the secret code for the safe.
If you choose Benard and Michael (the developer) then you can develop photos (which isn't an important thing to do). If you choose syd you can make a recording contract and fuck the Tenticle over. If you choose the librarian you can publish your "Manuscript". So each character can do somthing "unrelated" to winning the game.
Ive only beaten it by the meteor police, and sending the tenticles mail out to that publishing company which publishes anything. I will prolly try to beat it some other ways tonite.
Oh a tip too... if you find yourself getting cought inside of the dungeon you can snag yourself the key for it from the top of the light thingy in the room with the stereo infront of the library. You go into the tenticles room snag his mating CD then record it from the tape in the last panel in the lirary. Once you have that tape you go into the room with the piano upstairs and make a recording of the tenticle mating call onto the tape. Take it downstairs into the "Living Room" (room right before the library) and play the mating call. The Light thing will fall down and you will get a rusty key. That key is the key for the dungeon. Also you can push a brick in side of the dungeon and let one player out (you need one to push the brick and one to run out)
Microsoft has fixed alot of this with SP2 (which is only in RC1) but I noticed it fixed up Active X. Active X does not run with bad scripts. Also Windows detected some spyware found on a website and noted it would not install. Also, Internet Explorer for XP SP2 has a popup blocker which works well. It also has the ablitity to see the list of IE plugins installed and to block them with ease. Sadly enough to say Microsoft is getting off there Asses. I just hate when people bitch about somthing and have nothing to prove it wrong. If your IE users wouldn't click yes to everything that they see they wouldn't get hit so hard.
Firefox got it's first spyware yesturday that I saw on my linux machine. Don't think it's 100% fool proof. I went to a website and it said "Valid Win32 OS not found" then I got a "Install MySearchSomthing.xpi".
Anything that is the most popular has the most problems.
A- Morons use the most popular wares
B- More people to write exploits
C- You do more Damage with somthing more people use.
Microsoft has alot of problems to deal with. They need to make an OS so easy that anyone could admin it yet make it apealing and work well. No one on here can tell me linux is as "User" friendly as windows (for basic tasks).
Example: Setting up Internet
Windows - Chances are your nic got found if not you got a floppy disk or CD rom with the driver. Pop it in restart. Then Right click on my computer , goto NIC card and change values (if DHCP is not supported)
Linux - find the kernel module for your nic , if dhcp is setup then simply run the DHCP program. If not it requries you to edit some confs and such.
To most of you the linux one prolly seems easy but you have to remember joe user likes his GUI and won't read help files. So oviously the windows one is more simple. It's not to bash it, it's just to prove how microsoft did a good job on somthing. It's usability. It's hard to keep everyone happy. I am a linux user but I have a windows box in my house. The only thing I find is the windows box requires me to run the schedule thingy to run Ad-Aware and Norton Windoctor every 3 days. I find with that you can keep even the crappyest windows working fine.
I should prolly shut up now, but seriously microsoft has alot of shit to deal with. People won't update there systems and install all this garbage, im surprised 1/2 of the windows systems out there even run.
Just think about it the next time the latest problem hits the net;-) and you go "oh my windows machine is safe it's behind a firewall. then think about the 30,000 other users who don't have a clue the internet can do more then send e-mail and download porn. Microsoft has to babysit them.
Instead of bashing microsoft about it's "crappy" file system why not prove to me why it sucks. All you slashdotters can go around bashing everything microsoft makes just because it's microsoft. If you would actually look into some of the stuff they make instead of going "oh it's from Microsoft it must suck" you might see they have some honestly decent things.
Windows XP with SP2 (which isn't out yet). You know how Microsoft is always having problems with people not updating / running firewall / or AV scanner and they have all these problems. Windows XP SP2 will bitch at them untill they get what they want. Also, microsoft has kept the same "GUI" for how long. You might say it's stupid but it does make sense. New users to a new OS don't want too sharp of a learning curv. "They just want it to work".
Instead of just sitting there bashing shit cause it's from Microsoft why not try it out... and give it a chance. NTFS is honestly not a bad File System. It does Compression , Encryption , Permissions , Multiple Users and has Journaling. What more do you want on a file system. Last time I checked Ext3 and 2 are very similar to that.
Im honestly just sick of hearing people complain about that.
If you don't like what im saying don't read it... but think about it;-)
As you can see there is about 1.2 Million people on IRC. Even including clones (people on more then one network) there surely is more then 50,000 people on IRC at one time. Also what about the small networks that are not on that list but exist. I run a small one my self. It doesn't take much to get one going. 2 Servers and hybrid. Also running your own network ensures that all the "problems" of the bigger networks (floods and idiots) are not a problem.
[14:10] ùíù There are 5561 users and 116121 invisible on 52 servers
[14:10] ùíù 401 IRC Operators online
[14:10] ùíù 45736 channels formed
[14:10] ùíù I have 7408 clients and 1 servers
[14:10] ùíù Current local users: 7408 Max: 7846
[14:10] ùíù Current global users: 121682 Max: 125316
[14:10] ùíù Highest connection count: 7847 (7846 clients) (136448 connections
received)
That is EFnet alone. Although im sure enough of them are bots it's still alot of people.
I remember watching some video of the google guy discussing how google works. The Machines are middle end PIII's. (I believe) but I remember hearing him keep mentioning that as the way to go.
Flac is only good because you get the full quality music which you can encode to your own mp3 preference (using your own encoder and what not) or you can burn it to audio disk giving a perfect quality snapshot.
Bittorrent is a good form of P2P. It FORCES people to share thus the speeds are usually very good. Plus there is alot of BIG collections offered on there. (Where else can you download 3gb of ACDC all in one click). Also the lamers havn't hit Bittorrent yet so all the shit is named correctly and encoded properly.
Naw, I found a better way to get all the music you want for a fraction of the price (Free).
Suprnova offers alot of CD's which are free. I don't care about legalitiys. I get all the tunes I want and don't have to pay like you suckers.
Meh, the artists arn't losing anything because im not costing them a cent to steal there CD's nor would I buy it even if I couldn't download it. Plus full CD's have the advantage of not sucking like P2P downloads. P2P downloads are bad for children encoding them wrong or fucking with the EQ so it's 99% bass and 1% highs.
Of course you guys are going to take a shitfit cause im not buying music and mod me to oblivion but please do. All I know is I don't have to spend a penny of my hard earned dollar on 1's and 0's. And who would "buy" a compressed medium. Like Mp3 or AAC it does have sound loss. I would almost consider purchasing flacs or some other one of the non lossy codecs. But it seems the ratio for bandwidth to cost would be too much.
Why not winrar for linux. I use it for most of my archive work. It seems to do a quick good job and most people I know can support it. It also supports breaking up the archives and a ton of other nifty stuff.
Download it here (Note it's not free and it does mention trial but ive never seen it expire or anything)
I might not be the best but it does a good job of compressing files and lets you compress them to exe for your windows using friends.
Also winrar supports extracting tar archives (im not too sure about tar.gz) but I know it extracts tars. Since I use.tar for putting my mp3's into one file. Compressing it anymore isn't going to make much of a difference if it's mp3 anyways.
Windows 95 was the 100% layer above DOS. Heck in Windows 95 install you can choose to keep program manager and didn't even need to use that new crummy GUI MS was offering. Heck Microsoft still offers program manager in all it's windows versions. Look in the windows directory on your computer and find the file "PROGRMAN.EXE" (I think or somthing very close) and run it. It will look just like the old windows.
Windows 98 and 98SE started to branch off DOS a little bit more but was still DOS based insanely. Windows ME tried to fool people into thinking it was not DOS based by removing the "Shutdown Windows and Goto DOS" menu.
What's sick is Windows XP was the first OS MS produced for the "average" consumer that wasn't 9x or DOS based.
Windows Neptune was MS's first attempt at making an "easy" to use Windows 2000. If you find some screenshots on the internet your sure to see them show off the nice "Add User" menu and such. It was just basicly Windows 2000 Optimized and slapped some more "Wizards" in there to make it easy.
If linux had the power it has now during the Windows 98 days im sure a ton more people would be using it now since Windows 9x was very unreliable and didn't like to be booted for along time. It would slowly get slower and use more memory.
Still, even tho these stations are 128 and such they still sound like shit.
Hitzradio (top 40) sounds like CRAP. I can hear the noise and the audio loss big time. While sometimes stations with 128 sound perfect. Why is this ? (honesty).
I find the only stations which are 100% clear are a few trance ones. Other then that it's not somthing I would play loud but just have playing quietly in the background.
Windows Longhorn (beta) is brutal. We had a AMD 1400 with 512mb of RAM and it fucking CHUGGED. IE used over 100mb of RAM. Somthing aboutt he development librarys or somthing. It's a bloat piece right now and it's basicly Windows XP with some GUI enhancements. Nothing has been done to the core (that I noticed)
I also could not get the internet going. It refused to work and shows it on... we could acess the drive and such but could not acess the internet.
It has ALONG way to go
Of course Suprnova.org should have a copy for you.
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For sure it is not a long term solution. But one big enough to make some effect on the way they go. With the death of Windows 98 support and most people moving to XP this should solve some of the problems and hopefully slow down some of these virii. They also make it much harder meaning less "crappy" virii will float around
Atleast we can all hope so...
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Microsoft has nipped these issues in SP2 Rc1.
You now have a "Security Center" which houses such things as your "automatic update", "firewall" and 3rd party anti-virus. These will constantly bug the fuck out of you untill you make them happy. (trust me I had to fuck around quite a bit to get it to shut up, I like doing my own updates). This should solve ALOT of these issues since "users" will be forced to run a Firewall and a Virus Scanner. It even makes sure it's upto date. This way the latest worm can hit you, all the Virus Companys release a patch boom... most of the Windows XP SP2 users are safe.
It's finally come to the time when microsoft has to FORCE the user to do these simple chores. They tried asking, and bugging and everything and no one listens.
I for one am quite impressed with MS and there doing a really good job on that service pack
Windows XP SP2
If your intrested in checking it out it is quite impressive. Fixed alot of little problems SP1 never bothered to fix:/
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Norton does fix some things and prevents you from using system restore. Norton also speeds up some things that system restore wouldn't do.
Windows has such a feature called "System Restore" or even getting a 3rd party program "Norton Ghost" would solve your issues.
Also... for someone trying to keep many systems the same all the time (only doing simple work like word processing or the such) install a program called
Deepfreeze and it can "freeze" your drives so when you reboot it goes back to a safe setting. This of course can be disabled to install new things.
If you where to use ONLY Certified Products for windows im sure your issues would happen alot less. Installing Kazaa and all these "dirty" 3rd party programs will eventually lead to issues.
In my long time of fixing machines I noticed the "triple combo" I like to use while fixing my machine.
Norton Windoctor
Lavasoft Ad-Aware (or somthing of the kind)
Norton Speed disk (not really needed but does make some speed improvements)
These 3 will usually fix a machine to the point where it is usable. Removing some of the slowness and such. Heck it made a Windows ME install last almost 2 years doing it weekly.
Windows XP SP2 solves ALOT of these issues. Microsoft has made you almost FORCED to keep a AV scanner running , Firewall and Automatic Windows updates. If you don't have one of these running the new "security center" will bitch at you till you do. The new Windows XP firewall is similar to Nortons where you can set what programs are to have access to the net. (unlike the old firewal which basicly blocked all ports and made direct connections almost impossible). The new automatic update wizard is also very impressive and Windows update has a much cleaner GUI. I can't wait till that one comes out in final.
It's no so much the Operating system as it is the user of it. You install the wrong shit, stuff will break.
Slashdot Mirror
Just open a new window and let it load. It goes but REALLY REALLY slow.
:)
Im lucky enough to have a tab enabled browser so it sits nicely loading on the side.
Why microsoft did just that. Windows XP SP2 has a new "security" center. It makes sure you have the 3 things which have haunted windows for ages.
- Automatic Updates
- Firewall
- Anti-Virus Solution
Windows XP SP2 has a new "Security Center", it will popup and complain to the user and tell it WHY it's enabling these things. Of course for people like us (mostly geeks) it's very annoying having Windows tell you what it's doing and if you choose not to it does it anyways.
Example: I am behind a Router/NAT and it complained it wanted it's firewall. It took me 20 minutes to find out how to disable that menu so it doesn't come up going "your computer is insecure".
The good thing about this is people who are open to the internet no longer worry about crap like this. Windows updates them , makes sure the AV suite is upto date and enables the firewall on all internet connections. The Firewall is better now not just blocking all the ports but it asks "Hey yahoo wants the net" so you can accept or deny it.
Once SP2 is out in final im sure all these little problems windows has with users hopefully will be solved.
haha ... me too ... same box Dual PPro 200MHz. These PPros are insanely powerfull for it's age. The only problem im having is heat controll.
I got a front intake fan and a out fan plus 2 80mm fans on my CPU's. I also installed an extra 120mm fan on my PSU. There is no keeping this machine cool.
I do just about all the same stuff as you do too and it's nice and quick. Linux does a good job at SMP working. I like how it divides the workload so well.
Realtime Sysinfo
Screenshot
You know those pentium pro boards support PII Overdrive chips. They can also get a conversion kit and run a 533MHz Celeron. Quite the amazing chipset and chip for it's time.
Long live Pentium Pro !!
I completed it many times. You can actually choose anyone but you have to include benard. If you don't then you can't fix the wire to get the arcade machine working to find the secret code for the safe.
... if you find yourself getting cought inside of the dungeon you can snag yourself the key for it from the top of the light thingy in the room with the stereo infront of the library. You go into the tenticles room snag his mating CD then record it from the tape in the last panel in the lirary. Once you have that tape you go into the room with the piano upstairs and make a recording of the tenticle mating call onto the tape. Take it downstairs into the "Living Room" (room right before the library) and play the mating call. The Light thing will fall down and you will get a rusty key. That key is the key for the dungeon. Also you can push a brick in side of the dungeon and let one player out (you need one to push the brick and one to run out)
If you choose Benard and Michael (the developer) then you can develop photos (which isn't an important thing to do). If you choose syd you can make a recording contract and fuck the Tenticle over. If you choose the librarian you can publish your "Manuscript". So each character can do somthing "unrelated" to winning the game.
Ive only beaten it by the meteor police, and sending the tenticles mail out to that publishing company which publishes anything. I will prolly try to beat it some other ways tonite.
Oh a tip too
w00t w00t
w00t w00t
Microsoft has fixed alot of this with SP2 (which is only in RC1) but I noticed it fixed up Active X. Active X does not run with bad scripts. Also Windows detected some spyware found on a website and noted it would not install. Also, Internet Explorer for XP SP2 has a popup blocker which works well. It also has the ablitity to see the list of IE plugins installed and to block them with ease. Sadly enough to say Microsoft is getting off there Asses. I just hate when people bitch about somthing and have nothing to prove it wrong. If your IE users wouldn't click yes to everything that they see they wouldn't get hit so hard.
;-) and you go "oh my windows machine is safe it's behind a firewall. then think about the 30,000 other users who don't have a clue the internet can do more then send e-mail and download porn. Microsoft has to babysit them.
Firefox got it's first spyware yesturday that I saw on my linux machine. Don't think it's 100% fool proof. I went to a website and it said "Valid Win32 OS not found" then I got a "Install MySearchSomthing.xpi".
Anything that is the most popular has the most problems.
A- Morons use the most popular wares
B- More people to write exploits
C- You do more Damage with somthing more people use.
Microsoft has alot of problems to deal with. They need to make an OS so easy that anyone could admin it yet make it apealing and work well. No one on here can tell me linux is as "User" friendly as windows (for basic tasks).
Example: Setting up Internet
Windows - Chances are your nic got found if not you got a floppy disk or CD rom with the driver. Pop it in restart. Then Right click on my computer , goto NIC card and change values (if DHCP is not supported)
Linux - find the kernel module for your nic , if dhcp is setup then simply run the DHCP program. If not it requries you to edit some confs and such.
To most of you the linux one prolly seems easy but you have to remember joe user likes his GUI and won't read help files. So oviously the windows one is more simple. It's not to bash it, it's just to prove how microsoft did a good job on somthing. It's usability. It's hard to keep everyone happy. I am a linux user but I have a windows box in my house. The only thing I find is the windows box requires me to run the schedule thingy to run Ad-Aware and Norton Windoctor every 3 days. I find with that you can keep even the crappyest windows working fine.
I should prolly shut up now, but seriously microsoft has alot of shit to deal with. People won't update there systems and install all this garbage, im surprised 1/2 of the windows systems out there even run.
Just think about it the next time the latest problem hits the net
Not everyone is as smart as you think they are.
Instead of bashing microsoft about it's "crappy" file system why not prove to me why it sucks. All you slashdotters can go around bashing everything microsoft makes just because it's microsoft. If you would actually look into some of the stuff they make instead of going "oh it's from Microsoft it must suck" you might see they have some honestly decent things.
... and give it a chance. NTFS is honestly not a bad File System. It does Compression , Encryption , Permissions , Multiple Users and has Journaling. What more do you want on a file system. Last time I checked Ext3 and 2 are very similar to that.
... but think about it ;-)
Windows XP with SP2 (which isn't out yet). You know how Microsoft is always having problems with people not updating / running firewall / or AV scanner and they have all these problems. Windows XP SP2 will bitch at them untill they get what they want. Also, microsoft has kept the same "GUI" for how long. You might say it's stupid but it does make sense. New users to a new OS don't want too sharp of a learning curv. "They just want it to work".
Instead of just sitting there bashing shit cause it's from Microsoft why not try it out
Im honestly just sick of hearing people complain about that.
If you don't like what im saying don't read it
w00t w00t
w00t w00t
I like the background music for the Windows XP install. It's actually not too bad.
Click Here for a Copy (7.79mb)
Well not according to here
As you can see there is about 1.2 Million people on IRC. Even including clones (people on more then one network) there surely is more then 50,000 people on IRC at one time. Also what about the small networks that are not on that list but exist. I run a small one my self. It doesn't take much to get one going. 2 Servers and hybrid. Also running your own network ensures that all the "problems" of the bigger networks (floods and idiots) are not a problem.
[14:10] ùíù There are 5561 users and 116121 invisible on 52 servers
[14:10] ùíù 401 IRC Operators online
[14:10] ùíù 45736 channels formed
[14:10] ùíù I have 7408 clients and 1 servers
[14:10] ùíù Current local users: 7408 Max: 7846
[14:10] ùíù Current global users: 121682 Max: 125316
[14:10] ùíù Highest connection count: 7847 (7846 clients) (136448 connections received)
That is EFnet alone. Although im sure enough of them are bots it's still alot of people.
w00t w00t
I remember watching some video of the google guy discussing how google works. The Machines are middle end PIII's. (I believe) but I remember hearing him keep mentioning that as the way to go.
Flac is only good because you get the full quality music which you can encode to your own mp3 preference (using your own encoder and what not) or you can burn it to audio disk giving a perfect quality snapshot.
Bittorrent is a good form of P2P. It FORCES people to share thus the speeds are usually very good. Plus there is alot of BIG collections offered on there. (Where else can you download 3gb of ACDC all in one click). Also the lamers havn't hit Bittorrent yet so all the shit is named correctly and encoded properly.
Just thought I would correct that.
Naw, I found a better way to get all the music you want for a fraction of the price (Free).
Suprnova offers alot of CD's which are free. I don't care about legalitiys. I get all the tunes I want and don't have to pay like you suckers.
Meh, the artists arn't losing anything because im not costing them a cent to steal there CD's nor would I buy it even if I couldn't download it. Plus full CD's have the advantage of not sucking like P2P downloads. P2P downloads are bad for children encoding them wrong or fucking with the EQ so it's 99% bass and 1% highs.
Of course you guys are going to take a shitfit cause im not buying music and mod me to oblivion but please do. All I know is I don't have to spend a penny of my hard earned dollar on 1's and 0's. And who would "buy" a compressed medium. Like Mp3 or AAC it does have sound loss. I would almost consider purchasing flacs or some other one of the non lossy codecs. But it seems the ratio for bandwidth to cost would be too much.
Till then Suprnova is my friend.
Why not winrar for linux. I use it for most of my archive work. It seems to do a quick good job and most people I know can support it. It also supports breaking up the archives and a ton of other nifty stuff.
.tar for putting my mp3's into one file. Compressing it anymore isn't going to make much of a difference if it's mp3 anyways.
Download it here (Note it's not free and it does mention trial but ive never seen it expire or anything)
I might not be the best but it does a good job of compressing files and lets you compress them to exe for your windows using friends.
Also winrar supports extracting tar archives (im not too sure about tar.gz) but I know it extracts tars. Since I use
Windows 95 was the 100% layer above DOS. Heck in Windows 95 install you can choose to keep program manager and didn't even need to use that new crummy GUI MS was offering. Heck Microsoft still offers program manager in all it's windows versions. Look in the windows directory on your computer and find the file "PROGRMAN.EXE" (I think or somthing very close) and run it. It will look just like the old windows.
Windows 98 and 98SE started to branch off DOS a little bit more but was still DOS based insanely. Windows ME tried to fool people into thinking it was not DOS based by removing the "Shutdown Windows and Goto DOS" menu.
What's sick is Windows XP was the first OS MS produced for the "average" consumer that wasn't 9x or DOS based.
Windows Neptune was MS's first attempt at making an "easy" to use Windows 2000. If you find some screenshots on the internet your sure to see them show off the nice "Add User" menu and such. It was just basicly Windows 2000 Optimized and slapped some more "Wizards" in there to make it easy.
If linux had the power it has now during the Windows 98 days im sure a ton more people would be using it now since Windows 9x was very unreliable and didn't like to be booted for along time. It would slowly get slower and use more memory.
; > DiG 9.2.3 > google.com
;; ANSWER SECTION:
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
;; Query time: 103 msec
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;google.com. IN A
google.com. 285 IN A 216.239.57.99
google.com. 285 IN A 216.239.37.99
google.com. 285 IN A 216.239.39.99
google.com. 257237 IN NS ns2.google.com.
google.com. 257237 IN NS ns3.google.com.
google.com. 257237 IN NS ns4.google.com.
google.com. 257237 IN NS ns1.google.com.
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Thu Apr 22 00:26:08 2004
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 148
For the lazy people
Still, even tho these stations are 128 and such they still sound like shit.
Hitzradio (top 40) sounds like CRAP. I can hear the noise and the audio loss big time. While sometimes stations with 128 sound perfect. Why is this ? (honesty).
I find the only stations which are 100% clear are a few trance ones. Other then that it's not somthing I would play loud but just have playing quietly in the background.
Windows Longhorn (beta) is brutal. We had a AMD 1400 with 512mb of RAM and it fucking CHUGGED. IE used over 100mb of RAM. Somthing aboutt he development librarys or somthing. It's a bloat piece right now and it's basicly Windows XP with some GUI enhancements. Nothing has been done to the core (that I noticed)
... we could acess the drive and such but could not acess the internet.
I also could not get the internet going. It refused to work and shows it on
It has ALONG way to go
Of course Suprnova.org should have a copy for you.
For sure it is not a long term solution. But one big enough to make some effect on the way they go. With the death of Windows 98 support and most people moving to XP this should solve some of the problems and hopefully slow down some of these virii. They also make it much harder meaning less "crappy" virii will float around
...
Atleast we can all hope so
Microsoft has nipped these issues in SP2 Rc1.
... most of the Windows XP SP2 users are safe.
:/
You now have a "Security Center" which houses such things as your "automatic update", "firewall" and 3rd party anti-virus. These will constantly bug the fuck out of you untill you make them happy. (trust me I had to fuck around quite a bit to get it to shut up, I like doing my own updates). This should solve ALOT of these issues since "users" will be forced to run a Firewall and a Virus Scanner. It even makes sure it's upto date. This way the latest worm can hit you, all the Virus Companys release a patch boom
It's finally come to the time when microsoft has to FORCE the user to do these simple chores. They tried asking, and bugging and everything and no one listens.
I for one am quite impressed with MS and there doing a really good job on that service pack
Windows XP SP2
If your intrested in checking it out it is quite impressive. Fixed alot of little problems SP1 never bothered to fix
Norton does fix some things and prevents you from using system restore. Norton also speeds up some things that system restore wouldn't do.
Windows has such a feature called "System Restore" or even getting a 3rd party program "Norton Ghost" would solve your issues.
... for someone trying to keep many systems the same all the time (only doing simple work like word processing or the such) install a program called
Deepfreeze and it can "freeze" your drives so when you reboot it goes back to a safe setting. This of course can be disabled to install new things.
:)
Also
If you where to use ONLY Certified Products for windows im sure your issues would happen alot less. Installing Kazaa and all these "dirty" 3rd party programs will eventually lead to issues.
In my long time of fixing machines I noticed the "triple combo" I like to use while fixing my machine.
Norton Windoctor
Lavasoft Ad-Aware (or somthing of the kind)
Norton Speed disk (not really needed but does make some speed improvements)
These 3 will usually fix a machine to the point where it is usable. Removing some of the slowness and such. Heck it made a Windows ME install last almost 2 years doing it weekly.
Windows XP SP2 solves ALOT of these issues. Microsoft has made you almost FORCED to keep a AV scanner running , Firewall and Automatic Windows updates. If you don't have one of these running the new "security center" will bitch at you till you do. The new Windows XP firewall is similar to Nortons where you can set what programs are to have access to the net. (unlike the old firewal which basicly blocked all ports and made direct connections almost impossible). The new automatic update wizard is also very impressive and Windows update has a much cleaner GUI. I can't wait till that one comes out in final.
It's no so much the Operating system as it is the user of it. You install the wrong shit, stuff will break.
Im done rambling