You install a fresh copy of Windows XP, and the exact nanosecond you click on "Windows Update" you get like 450960989078960 different kind of viruses and spyware...

I mean, how does Microsoft expect you to have a secure system when you can't even ****ing update the stupid thing... This happens EVERY ****ING TIME and I usually have to reinstall Windows like 500 times before I actually don't get any viruses. Not to mention the lovely "RPC" error that only appears when your half way through installing all the updates so when you start up Windows Update again, your SURE to get a virus...





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Massassian since: March 12, 2001

Ouch

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

Wow that sucks....
Never has happened to me though.

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Install virus protection and stuff before updating windows, maybe?

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Do you have stairs in your house?

if u dont have a firewall installed that could explain alot

Same thing happened to me when I reinstalled XP. I think I got most of the Blaster and Sasser variants before I finished patching, and I'm on dial-up.

[This message has been edited by Ictus (edited July 25, 2004).]

Ditto.

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What I did was I downloaded all the updates and patches, stored them on my HD, -then- installed XP and patched it before connecting to the internet.

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WAITER: Here’s your green salad, sir.
ANAKIN: What? You fool, I told you NO CROUTONS! Aaaaaaargh!

Que gbk and his "switch to linus its teh roxors!!!lol wtf lol!!!"speach

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It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.
When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.
Join the Army, Go to distant lands, meet interesting people, kill them!

Don't draw fire, it irritates the people around you.
Intel: We put the 'um...' in Pentium

Que gbk and his "switch to linus its teh roxors!!!lol wtf lol!!!"speach

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It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.
When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.
Join the Army, Go to distant lands, meet interesting people, kill them!

Don't draw fire, it irritates the people around you.
Intel: We put the 'um...' in Pentium

He probably doesn't have to any more, thanks to all of the willing souls who post it for him...

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Daddy, why doesn't this magnet pick up this floppy disk?

[Hmm... I wonder how this happened. Double Post.]

[This message has been edited by Axle (edited July 25, 2004).]

Dang, must be hard. Personally, Win2K is the only OS. Ever.

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Massassi - Muh-Sah-See

/me snipes Delphian

/me snipes imsoshort (for the hell of it)

/me prepares next shot for GBK when he finally shows up

-- SavageX



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I could take a crack at Microsoft, but I wont. I know exactally how you feel....Ive spent many long hours fighting Sasser, et al in their various incarnations. Its not pretty, but its my job...

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Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.
:wq

That's my thrid sniping in 1 1/2 days. People really hate me.

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Massassi - Muh-Sah-See

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/cd/order.mspx
Free Update CD! I just ordered a second one this week

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What happens when you cast heal on the undead?

But Win2k IS a damned good OS. It has it's share of viruses, but it seems as though XP has much much more. One of the reasons I don't ever want an XP system. That, combined with the fact that once I turn off all the worthless garbage in XP, it's basically 2k. So why upgrade to an OS plagued with loads of viruses? I think I've only been hit with a virus 3 times since I installed 2k over a year ago.

Still, I'll have to admit that does suck for you. I'd tell you to get some anti-virus software on there before you hop online to update too, but that might not do too much good if the anti-virus software isn't up to date.

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Put me in the hospital for nerves and then they had to commit me,
You told them all I was crazy,
They cut off my legs now I'm an amputee, God damn you.
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Frogblast the Vent-Core!

Here's what you do. When you format, leave the ethernet connection unplugged. Then when you first boot turn on the windows built-in firewall. Then start > run > and type "services.msc" and press ok. Double click on "Remote Procedure Call (RPC)" and go to the recovery tab. Set all the failures to restart the service instead of the computer. Get all the windows updates, and then you can turn the windows firewall off if you'd like.

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http://www.sporkaudio.com

sounds like sol is pissed off.

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Pissed off?

I'm ordering a second, just so I can say "I got another free CD and a package that said something bizarre".

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Wise men say that fools rush in where angels fear to tread, so look before you leap, so to speak, because the grass is not always greener on the other side of the hill.

I've never had this problem. Maybe it's because i'm behind a router

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WARNING: THIS POST MAY CONTAIN TRACES OF PEANUT!
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It's never happend to me.

Before you connect to the internet, install Norton, then do it!

Or just get Linux!

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"Bantha's are filthy animals.......I don't eat filthy animals."

"Laugh it up Fuzzball!"
-Han Solo

The copy of Norton we got for our laptop required you to go online to register before it works. As soon as the laptop was connected, we got the msblast virus. That pissed me off.

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"This hole is octogo. Ogiganeel. It's Octa.. It's got eight sides."
"He's a dead man! I'm not havin' a dead man in my cemetary!"

Norton Firewall? Why not throw your computer out of the window? That makes it secure, too.
Easiest way is just to disable all listening services you don't need. I don't have any English source for this but if you trust google translation or your own grasp of German you should read this. There you can download a little tool that does all this for you but you have to make sure to take the LAN option.

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Sorry for the lousy English