25,611 viruses!!!!
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Topic: 25,611 viruses!!!!
Posted By: BoLt
Subject: 25,611 viruses!!!!
Date Posted: 30 April 2004 at 5:47am
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You will love this. I have had a PC in to fix with connection to Internet fault and found 25,611 viruses and NO virus software. I don’t like computer users like this as they help spread viruses on the net. I wish we could put a detection page into our sites to say you have no virus software installed. If this can be done can someone let me know how? ------------- BoLt (Computer Engineer) I suffer from Dyslexia, it means I can not spell to well not that I am thick. www.welshlens.co.uk |
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 30 April 2004 at 9:33am
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I wish so as well. I get loads of people bring me computers to fix only to find 90% of the time it is a virus and they have no, or expired anti-virus software. To make it more annoying, even after telling them 80% of these poeple bring their computers back to me again, to find that they have another virus and still no anti-virus software installed. Only when they loose all their documents on their computer do allot of people bother doing anything. I just wish everyone would run anti-virus software, as currently I'm getting 3000+ virus infected emails a day, which is making email for the site almost un-usable as I don't have the time to go through all 4500+ emails a day. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: Semikolon
Date Posted: 30 April 2004 at 9:40am
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I'm lucky that the only virus I have ever had was MS Blaster.. but that
thing was almost un-avoidable with WinXP, even with Antivirus software BTW, PC Cillin, as you Bruce suggested is a quite good AV program! I like it |
Posted By: BoLt
Date Posted: 30 April 2004 at 10:07am
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I guess all we can do is inform them that having no upto date virus software is like standing in the middle of a busy road, It won’t be long until your hit, big time. Maybe one day IPS’s will take responsibility to kick users off that are not using upto date virus software or ISPs will include virus software when registering with an ISP. I would not be suppressed if B Gates combines this into windows and crate another monopoly and court battel. ------------- BoLt (Computer Engineer) I suffer from Dyslexia, it means I can not spell to well not that I am thick. www.welshlens.co.uk |
Posted By: Semikolon
Date Posted: 30 April 2004 at 10:12am
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many ISPs ARE (not IS LOL) giving away AV software for free. at least here in
Norway.. but when it comes on a seperate CD to users who have NO IDEA
how to insert a CD into the tray and install a program, there's no use
in it.. I think that's the problem.. Loads of users have a copy of
Norton without knowing anything about it.. but putting an AV software into Windows wouldn't be a bad idea at all, as long as it is possible to configure it (unlike this f**king WinXP firewall  ) |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 30 April 2004 at 10:28am
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Micorsoft use to have Anti-Virus software as part of windows, back
sometime with MS-Dos 6 and Windows, I think it was only dropped when
Win95 came out.
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Posted By: BoLt
Date Posted: 30 April 2004 at 11:14am
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LOL I go with that one
You learn something every day I did not know that interesting, so thinking about it if Microsoft did add virus soft so to speak, they would be only putting it back into windows not adding it. ------------- BoLt (Computer Engineer) I suffer from Dyslexia, it means I can not spell to well not that I am thick. www.welshlens.co.uk |
Semikolon wrote:
Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 30 April 2004 at 11:36am
Yes, I remember it on Windows 3.1 |
Posted By: BoLt
Date Posted: 30 April 2004 at 11:43am
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I guess this is a case of Microsoft having a good idea on starting off then lost it LOL. I do sympathize with you -boRg- big time. ------------- BoLt (Computer Engineer) I suffer from Dyslexia, it means I can not spell to well not that I am thick. www.welshlens.co.uk |
Posted By: the boss
Date Posted: 30 April 2004 at 1:24pm
some isp's here have a system to detect if u r contribuing to spread of viruses and they will temporary suspend ur account , i seriously wish that an antivirus software should be built into windows.. even if it drives the OS cost a little bit or even if the AV software is thirdparty ------------- http://www.web2messenger.com/theboss"> 
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Posted By: BoLt
Date Posted: 30 April 2004 at 3:33pm
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All I can say is top marks to the ISPs that do suspend ur accounts for this. This seams the only way to get the point over to PC users. I have seen solicitors, accountants and doctors PCs all with no virus software and yes loads of viruses, no backup and also connected to DSL the open hackers gateway to your PC. This Internet needs a big shake up against spam, hackers, viruses and the only ones that can help in this is the ISPs and operating system creators. ------------- BoLt (Computer Engineer) I suffer from Dyslexia, it means I can not spell to well not that I am thick. www.welshlens.co.uk |
Posted By: Coco Brown
Date Posted: 03 May 2004 at 1:15pm
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Yeah, I remember "Disk Doctor" that came with 3.11. There was also a way to salvage files off the hard disc even after you have deleted them. As long as they weren't overwritten by another file, you could recover them. Windows 3.11 was the best version of Windows ever. It was all downhill after that. |
Posted By: Semikolon
Date Posted: 03 May 2004 at 2:01pm
Win 3.1 was before I knew what a computer was all I can remember is Win95BTW, new  virus out. It's called Sasser and it's quite similar to Blaster/MSBlast.. |
Posted By: BoLt
Date Posted: 04 May 2004 at 6:19am
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One of the computer buffs I work with remember it, It only shows you win 3.1 was advanced for it’s time and loads of good thinking behind it. What happened???? ------------- BoLt (Computer Engineer) I suffer from Dyslexia, it means I can not spell to well not that I am thick. www.welshlens.co.uk |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 04 May 2004 at 10:26am
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I remember 3.1 as being a real PITA to get installed, and then crashing a lot it you ran more than a couple of apps. Used task switching instead of multi-tasking. Couple of DOS things did a better job of task switching. Once it was set up for your hardware though, it didn't change a whole lot. Of course that was pre-internet. Seems like 90% of the issues with 2000/XP are internet security related. ------------- 
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Posted By: BoLt
Date Posted: 04 May 2004 at 12:07pm
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The main thing I remember about 3.1 is having for some strange reason to copy it to a cd disk and copy it back to the pc. I then got course if it would run off the CD disk it did slow at booting up but run as if still on the hard drive. ------------- BoLt (Computer Engineer) I suffer from Dyslexia, it means I can not spell to well not that I am thick. www.welshlens.co.uk |
Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 10 May 2004 at 8:34pm
| 3.1 kicked ass. It ran Captain Comic really well. |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 11 May 2004 at 12:12am
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Captain Comic - Some form of early porn? -------------
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Posted By: BoLt
Date Posted: 11 May 2004 at 4:32am
LOL ------------- BoLt (Computer Engineer) I suffer from Dyslexia, it means I can not spell to well not that I am thick. www.welshlens.co.uk |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 11 May 2004 at 8:52am
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Stay away from my sister! -------------
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Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 11 May 2004 at 11:12am
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I went from even older OSes (does older sometimes mean better - any Amiga or Atari music buffs out there?) and DOS to Unix and then 3.1 very briefly and liked it because it still had lots of DOS power. Then I ended up on a Korean version of Windows 98 and had to learn Windows entirely in Korean. Or was it that I had to learn Korean entirely in Windows... ------------- http://renegademinds.com/" rel="nofollow - Renegade Minds - Guitar Software http://renegademinds.com/Default.aspx?tabid=65" rel="nofollow - Slow Down Music |
Posted By: BoLt
Date Posted: 11 May 2004 at 11:40am
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The Amiga and before that the good old ZX81 was my best friends.
And from there over to the old PC... ------------- BoLt (Computer Engineer) I suffer from Dyslexia, it means I can not spell to well not that I am thick. www.welshlens.co.uk |
