Re: Service Pack 2?

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In a way, it sure was, cause it really pissed me off.

But I was able to clean up my system and restore an older registry backup,
to get rid of those pesky trojan files.

It could have been a LOT worse, LOL I'm glad some of the signs of
trouble were so obvious on the screen - otherwise it might have slipped on
by me, and at next bootup, who knows what would have happened.


Colin Barnhorst wrote:
I figure it must have been a shocker! :)

"Bill in Co." <not_really_here@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You don't get it? Trust me, it was painfully obvious when it happened
(on some few occasions where I went off into the hinterlands). Or
maybe you got it, and just thought I went to some sex site - but that
wasn't it, lol).

Colin Barnhorst wrote:
Hmmm....

"Bill in Co." <not_really_here@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Because I can shut it down as soon as some of the crap comes in - as it
takes a "fair amount of time" to download anything (assuming I catch
it,
that is).

And that HAS (on rare occasions) happened to me (you know, where a
bunch
of windows start popping up uncontrollably, and your desktop starts
"acquiring" some mysterious icons, etc, and then I *immediately* did a
C-A-D and that stopped it dead in its tracks. (And then I worked on
cleaning up the system). (all of this cause I went to a bad site).

This was back on my Win98SE computer, back in the good old days when I
was
almost completely in control of the system, and could easily restore
the
registry, and ONLY the registry, if I needed to. With WinXP, trying
to
do this seems kinda convoluted, but fortunately we have System Restore
(which I have to admit is pretty slick - but not foolproof. :-)


Colin Barnhorst wrote:
Just out of curiosity, how is being on dialup less vulnerable? The
bits
coming over the wire are the same.

"Bill in Co." <not_really_here@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm not worried about these so-called vulnerabilities (and I'm on
dialup,
so it's much less of a threat), but what I really don't like is the
increasing lack of control over some things brought about by all
these
so-called "updates"!

One classic example that I miss is the automatic message compacting
in
OE
(and yes, I know what the rationale for removing that was).

I also don't like these occasional pop up messages, like about how
it's
now time to clean my desktop, or that "your virus scan is turned
off",
or
that "autoupdate is turned off and I'm gonna leave a yellow tray icon
here
to permanently remind you of that fact", or what have you. (in this
regard I miss Win98SE). Thanks, but no thanks.


Curt Christianson wrote:
Hi Bill,

Even if you *were* able to revert back to "XP Gold", your computer
would
be
chock-full of vulnerabilities.

--
HTH,

Curt

http://dundats.mvps.org/
http://www.aumha.org/


"Bill in Co." <not_really_here@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Are there any apps out there that require Service Pack 2? I had
thought
I had heard there might be, but I'm not sure. However, that
being
said...

Some days there are times when I wish I could uninstall SP2 as (I
believe)
it is problematic for some program installations. But alas, I
apparently can't uninstall it, as I just got this new Dell system
as
a
relatively new release (and I believe it is also integrated into
the
system CD, too).

BTW - Is there any way to go back to plain jane WinXP (i.e. without
SP2)
in such a case, and without completely messing up the system, and
requiring a clean install (wiping out the existing stuff)? I'm
guessing
that is NOT an option, if your system recently came preinstalled
with
SP2
(and uises one of the newer CDs, in which it is apparently now
integrated
into WinXP)


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