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New Just spent a second night with an HP XP box
The one last night was painful: 1.1G 128M AOL dial-up ... sloooooowwwwww. The one tonight was at least newer: 3G 512M DSL. Followed the advice from the [link|http://twiki.iwethey.org/Know/WinXPLockdown|twiki]. Will see if the first one recovers, and the second one stays clean.


Funny thing tonight, the guy is an accountant. After the AV stuff I installed Firefox and the tabbrowser extension. Showed him how it works. Showed how it deals with popups. He told me that at work -- an accounting firm -- he keeps getting popups for online poker, even when he's not using IE for anything. Two "IT guys" have looked at it without luck. I suspect this is typical of small businesses.
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New Not typical - universal.
If there's an Internet connection the computers are ifected with parasites.

There's big money and venture capitalists behind this stuff now, so I'm telling my clients that if the current trend continues it will be impossible to use a Windows computer on the Internet by the end of the year. So far they give me blank looks and none are asking about contingency plans.
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New Is a $50 hardware firewall good enough to stop this? (new thread)
Created as new thread #193056 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=193056|Is a $50 hardware firewall good enough to stop this?]
     Windows XP Pro doesn't answer pings even - (Andrew Grygus) - (20)
         Have you tried the arp trick? - (jake123)
         Post output of "ipconfig /all" -NT - (inthane-chan) - (8)
             Don't have that in front of me now, but . . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (7)
                 Just tried - (jbrabeck)
                 Speaking of Norton crap - (drewk) - (1)
                     Well, Norton will make it slow right there . . - (Andrew Grygus)
                 Here's a little problem - (Steve Lowe) - (2)
                     They don't "wrap around" (so 322 would be = 67) ? -NT - (CRConrad)
                     Ooops, type - is .122 - but that part works. -NT - (Andrew Grygus)
                 You've probably got the long and the short of it. - (inthane-chan)
         SP2? - (andread) - (9)
             He specifically stated firewall is disabled. <EOM> -NT - (inthane-chan) - (4)
                 Re: He specifically stated firewall is disabled. <EOM> - (andread) - (3)
                     Nope. - (pwhysall)
                     Well, it claims it isn't running and can't start. - (Andrew Grygus) - (1)
                         No vpn running? - (Silverlock)
             SP2 Yes, but . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (3)
                 Just spent a second night with an HP XP box - (drewk) - (2)
                     Not typical - universal. - (Andrew Grygus) - (1)
                         Is a $50 hardware firewall good enough to stop this? (new thread) - (Another Scott)

Did you hear the one about the priest, the rabbi, and the gloat?
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