Re: Is Zotob A MS Plot . . . .

Tech-Archive recommends: Repair Windows Errors & Optimize Windows Performance

On 18 Aug 2005 11:11:09 -0700, "Dimple Wathen"
>NoStop wrote:

>I want my computers to just work! I want to plug my new USB printer/
>scanner/ camera/ whatever and have it work.

Fair enough. I don't see a reason why PnP should be exposed to the
Internet to accomplish that, yet part of August 2005's pain is a
defect in PnP that may be exploitable from the Internet.

>Actually, all Windows machines slowly degenerate over time.

They don't have to - it depends how you set them up. For example,
smart use of partitioning, reducing those absurdly-huge IE web caches
and SR stores etc. can help systems hold their performance whether the
HD is nearly empty, or nearly full.

>They are like old cars where the transmission is going, the brakes
>are wearing... It needs constant maintenance.

Cars wear out their load-bearing surfaces, and are designed so that
these items can be replaced as needed with a minimum of labor and
downtime. PC software's "load-bearing surfaces" are those that are
exposed to external material, and smart design would limit the biulk
of these, and make it easier to amputate and replace them.

Instead, we have deeply-embedded subsystems that are
needlessly-exposed to the Internet on the basis that the Internet is
"just another network", and as a consequence of NT's original design
as corporate network fodder. Drop that design into consumerland, and
you can expect as much trouble as putting wings on a train and calling
it an airliner. Expect a bad safety record to follow.

>Just look at the thousands of Hijackthis logs people keep posting all
>over the Net saying "My computers is ^&^#$$&*&% please help!". Ninety
>percent of those Hijackthis logs have some sort of anti-virus,
>anti-spyware program installed!

The blind spiot there is that MS does sweet FA to help users maintain
their PCs, once the PCs can no longer safely boot Windows for any
reason. It's just a shrug and "wipe and re-install".

We didn't notice or care about that in the Win9x era, because DOS mode
functioned as an adequate maintenance OS, and tools for that abounded,
so data recovery, malware management and interactive file system
repair were possible, if not always easy.

But capacities over 137G and NTFS break that maintenance environment,
and there's nothing to replace it - at least, nil MS will let you use.


>-- Risk Management is the clue that asks:
"Why do I keep open buckets of petrol next to all the
ashtrays in the lounge, when I don't even have a car?"
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