Open File - Security Warning

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Uggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - this is really frustrating.

OK I download heaps of pictures - "SAVE AS" etc., and then I want to
look at them later and I double click on them and up pops:

"Open File - Security Warning

Do you want to open this file

"tree on hill.jpg""?

The things that I find annoying it this has only come about in the last
few months since MS ascribed some updates for me.

Sure there are plenty of stupid and lazy people who are totally
clueless and know nothing about security settings - e.g. firewalls,
antiviral, regular scans etc...

Not that the totally insane, poorly explained, spread over the internet
with more guessing games from half baked Microsoft help sites, than
facts... along with MS's idiotic security settings themselves - actually
help or encourage most people to use the MS security stuff anyway.

I mean schitzophrenia is fine - add Microsofts mind messing crapfest...
- from Windows 95 right through to Vista...

(Groans quietly in disbelief)

Anyway, I never asked for this idiot function to start working on my
system - and that is irritating - because it serves no useful
purpose.and;

The second thing that is utterly stupid - is that I am supposed to
click or not, that I want this warning to appear or not, every time I
open it?

I mean what is with that?

The third thing that really ****s me is that this thing only functions
for JPG's...

And the big annoyance is that there is NO way - either listed in the
box, OR in any of the microsoft software / support sites, saying how to
turn this function off.

So after having had a total gutfull of this Microsoft bull****, I
actually rang them - the corporate office in Australia... Automated
connection to a call center in Malaysia.

OK but the guy who was the support person, well when the issue went
from getting a simple answer to a simple question - when he started to
guess at solutions like turning the MS firewall off - that I didn't have
on anyway... I knew he was guessing solutions - because he didn't know
the answer.

Because he didn't know, I then asked to have the call escalated to his
supervisor... he just wanted to run me around in circles... and he did
everything except what I needed, in order to get rid of an idiot
function I never asked for by NOT escalating the call to his supervisor

So that was the waste of nearly an hour....

I then hung up on him and rang through to the MS head office in Sydney
Australia and got talking to someone in my own country. I explained the
problem and the customer service I had thus received.

I also told him that I want to talk to a person who had the solution to
a problem - not of my own creation.

So he said that a) there was no tech support in Australia anymore, and
b) he would try to get me to a more senior level of support in the
Malaysian call center.

Uggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh more of, more of the same....

The guy who I got put through too, was asking me all sorts of dumb
questions, as per the script.. like is my copy of MS registered? Well it
would be hard to be getting the updates that caused this if it
wasn't?....

This crap just went on and on and on and on and on - with everything
except answer the question - how do I switch this function OFF.....

It's like this. If I want to put the car into reverse - there is ONLY
one answer.

Make sure the car is stationary. Place your foot on the brake. Put your
other foot on the clutch. Move the gear lever into the R for Reverse
position - that's it - the car is now in reverse.

I don't want to know about putting the car into 1st to 5th gears. I
don't want to know about the air conditioning, the wipers, the steering
lock, the spare tyre or checking the oil level.....

But that is exactly what I am getting from "MS's tech support -
everything except a straight answer to a straight question.


You know when companies outsource their tech support to the lowest
bidder, that your in for a bad time.


And I am not allowing other people or companies and their machinations
to waste hours or days of *my time*, clearing up the problems that they
create for me.

"Your fired" - is a nice solution to poor customer service.


But for me, this is the very last of the microsoft crap I am wearing.

XP is only going to be a legacy application and I am going to go
totally with Linux.

If anyone here has a solution to this issue of Microsoft's stupid and
pointless "security warnings" - by all means let me and the rest of the
world know.

But between me being in the now and then being dead, Microsoft is not
wasting ANYMORE of my time with stupid functions and under performing
solutions.

As far as I am concerned, this company is on the scrap heap.

The years of corrupt software, the years of FORCED inclusion of stuff
that is hard coded into the operating system... eg. OuthouseExplorer,
Oulook Express etc..

Ugghhhhh Linux her I come. The ende of Propriatry monopolisitic,
anti-trust corporate software is in sight.


The function is in these files.

81dc6.msi
msoeres.dll
System.Windows.Forms.dll

I no longer have the will or the inclination to batter my head against
unyeilding stupidity.

The words "Your Fired Microsoft" are so much easier.


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