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On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:16:41 -0600, Frank McCoy <mccoyf@millcomm.com>
wrote:
<snip>
>Most of that stuff is built to respawn itself if you try to delete it.
So I found out.
>That makes the proper removal of some of that stuff rather hairy.
>I know ... It took me almost two days to get rid of all the stuff on the kid's
>computer, so it *stayed* removed. That wasn't the OS, but the kid loading
>zillions of games on the system and accepting everything from each website.
>Spybot Search-and-destroy is kind of nice; not to mention Bazooka.
>Each one finds some stuff the other doesn't.
AdAware, also.
>
>Hell, I got ONE piece of ad-ware on my own computer the other day.
>How, I'm not sure. Probably some malicious website.
>
>>IMO, windows peaked somewhere around 98SE or W2K, and has been going
>>downhill since.
>
>98SE.
The only problem with 98SE, is that it can't mirror the hard drive,
while W2K (server) can. Also, if you need REAL user level security,
W2K would be better.
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