Author: Pete Galati
Date: 14:37:14 08/05/01
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On August 05, 2001 at 09:01:25, Rocio Rohan wrote: >On August 05, 2001 at 01:18:58, Pete Galati wrote: > >>On August 05, 2001 at 00:30:57, Lin Harper wrote: >> >>> I'm not much of a techo, but others here are. Is it possible to >>> get a computer virus simply by reading CCC posts? My computer is >>> playing up lately, at the same time there are reports of a virus >>> doing the rounds. My CD driver won't work, even the CD icon has >>> disappeared :( I'm using Windows ME, and just lately the comp >>> will only start after a couple of hits on the reset button. I'm >>> assuming this is a software conflict of some sort. Maybe others >>> are having similar problems? Any ideas what my problem is, and how >>> it can be rectified? Thanks in advance. >> >>WindowsME IS a virus. I had it on this computer when I got it, and it was one >>headache after another. Fortunatly, a brownout destroyed that harddrive, and >>when I installed a new one, I used Windows98 instead, and it's roughly 5000 >>times better and more stabile. >> >>Have you checked you computer for viruses? >> >>You could try reinstalling the driver for your CDrom. Or you could use >>WindowsME's system restore feature (I forget where that is) and restore your >>computer to a date from before you started to experience problems with the >>CDrom. That's probably the only worthwhile feature of ME's. >> >>Pete > >Windows ME a virus? hehehe. I have a question, when you installed ME was it a >clean install? or did you install it over Windows 98? If a clean install then it >should be pretty stable... It came on the computer. The company installed it. If I ever bought another computer that had ME on it, the first thing I'd do is format the harddrive and install Windows98 SE. There's no way I'd mess with that ME again. My father just bought himself a laptop by Dell that has ME on it, and I tried to put Wordstar on it for him, but WS won't work on ME. So I told setver to tell WS that the OS was Dos 6.22, but config sys isn't used anymore, so I can't figure out how to load setver (even though setver.exe is on the computer!). So it's going to be a trick getting him to learn to use Word instead because he's been using Wordstar since before IBM PCs had harddrives. He'll do just fine with ME if we can get him to learn Word, that'll be a trick. Pete
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