Re: Attack Launched within Minutes of Signing on for First Time ...

You won't help your Bro-in-Law, and you "help" elderly folks by
setting up dangerous systems. Are you a Moth? I think you are THE
BUG in their systems. Some friend. NOT.


Lady Dungeness
Crabby, but Great Legs!
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On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:59:45 +0100, "Gerry \(The MOTH\)" <Gerry
(TheMOTH)> wrote:

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|"Malke" <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
|news:uEVGz7O2HHA.6128@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|>
|> Wipe the machine and start over. I can't believe you actually connected a
|> Windows computer to the Internet before you installed a firewall. This is
|> very basic security and perhaps you shouldn't be "helping" other people
|> with their computers. ZoneAlarm will run on Win2k and I believe Comodo
|> will also.
|>
|>
|> Malke
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|> "Don't Panic!"
|> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
|
|I helped a neighbour out a few months ago when her new PC wasn't working,
|she'd got a family friend to setup the system and he had told her you didn't
|need a firewall, Anti-Virus or Anti-Spyware for Windows Vista it was just a
|waste of money. Luck for her the Vista firewall was set on as default.
|
|Some, in fact most people are PC Dummies. Even when you sit them down and
|explain to them about it, they just ignore you. Classic example the
|Bro-In-Law, I setup his new laptop with ZoneAlarm, AVG, Spybot, SpyBlaster,
|Firefox, etc.. Told him if he was downloading anything from the internet to
|check it before he opened it, one month later he said his PC was slow and
|when i said have you been virus checking everything you download he said yes
|apart from music via Limewire (I didn't install that crap for him), he
|thought he didn't need to check that. Where did he think it came from?
|I left him to it as I wasn't spending hours trying to sort this problems.
.

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