I'll tell you a story.
My 2.26GHz P4 winxp is re-booting every 20 to 60 minutes because of the stupid msblast.exe virus.
It's 7K on the HD, but when it's running it is 2,628,000 to 3,100,000 bytes big!!!!! What kind of BS is that!?!
I was off of the net for 5 or 6 days because I couldn't re-install xp because I couldn't remember my password and didn't want to re-format the HD. It didn't look like it was going to let me anyway (re-format). I was off-line because of a different virus that norton anti-virus couldn't stop.
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The virus was msmsgri32.exe, it was talked about in a different thread in the "Alternate Operating Systems" section, under "Remote Procedure Call terminated" problem. I tried to get rid of it manually, but eventually crashed the os. Serves me right, my password in xp was "password". :-(
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I had to re-install 3 times, because I was trying to get out of re-installing my hardware drivers and games, but that never works. I thought I could just copy over the previous files, but ended up ruining the new installation which "only" took 45 minutes a pop. It takes 6 1.44 meg disks to get the system up and running that gives you about 40 ms-dos command, most of which don't allow wild carding, like for copy or delete. Then also, alot of directories didn't allow you to access, or erase them.
Then, after the install, I checked how many files are in question, in xp.
Turns out it's an insanity inducing,
561 directories, containing 9231 files!!!!
That's BEFORE umpteen huge drivers.
Then the crazy default swap file bulging out to 1.5 gigs (1.5 times the amount of ram you have.)
I realize that AOS has had it's fair share of virii, and it will always be with us, but my point is more toward the OS. NOTHING can keep me from getting an Amiga (4.0, that is), other than it not coming out.
It'll be SOOOOOOO nice having a fully functional OS below 30 megs, where you can almost memorize all of the names of the files that run it!
I'm sick of ms messenger poping up all the time, and how they totally buried the option where you turn it off. I found out on the web how turn it off, it wasn't "conveniently" mentioned in their help files. It's about seven layers in!!!
Every session with xp and 98se before it, has given me some reason to hate it more!!
Hmmmmm...I'm not sure if I said anything that's relavent,...just alotta steam! Sorry.
AmigaOne! Amiga, no compromise!
