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XP somehow got corupted. A windows product that goes batty....who knew? Anyway Sir Death walked me thru the reinstall process but now it seems I have to reinstall all those files etc.. again. Oh well at least the girls in the porn collection are safe

If somebody plants a worm or virus on your machine while you're surfing for smut, is that considered a Sexually Transmitted Disease? Or does it mean you're letting just anybody use your back door?

Does any or all of the above apply when you install another fine Microsoft product?

Fethr

TD's Tips fer Winders XP Pro Happiness (most of these apply to ANY version of Winders):

1. Don't run XP Pro as an Administrator. If Limited User status is insufficient, and it is, create a Power User account.

2. Keep yer AV program up to date. I use Norton AV.

3. Get a real firewall. I like Sygate. It not only catches stuff trying to get in, it catches stuff trying to get out.

4. Set Outlook Express to send and receive PLAIN TEXT ONLY messages - it ain't pretty, but it's much more secure. Don't use the Preview Pane, cuz that's just begging for trouble. Set OE to remove access to attachments.

5. Get a real cookie manager, like Cookie Pal. Cookies are everywhere nowadays: in email, Windows Media Player, even Mercs.

6. Run Ad-Aware once a week, or immediately after any sort of update/upgrade or installation of anything remotely connected to MS.

7. Disable any unnecessary Services.

8. Install Linux.

TD