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  • Re: Fumbling1

    From Holger Granholm@2:20/228 to Ed Vance on Wed Jul 5 09:42:00 2017
    In a message on Wednesday 07-04-17 Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

    GE Ed,

    but being offered by Microsoft would seem to be something safe.....

    Who said somethig from M$ would be safe??
    Look at their record of programs having barn doors open for virii etc.

    Yes, and noting the experiences of the first users sold me on Win10.

    Who is 'Wcry'?

    WannaCry, WannaCrypt and various other abbreviations for last months Malware.
    This month the most recent Malware I've read of is called Petya.

    Dunno where you find all those malwares. I've seen nothing of them!

    Maybe AVG and ZoneAlarm has taken care of them in the Win 10 machines,
    and OS/2 is by design immune.

    I have really been fumbling with this XP computer.

    It's your choice.

    When the Wizard gave up trying to find what it thought it needed it
    showed a window that said "Cannot Install this Hardware" and had a
    Check Box at the bottom of the window saying "Don't prompt me again
    to install this software." to tell IT not to bother Me again asking
    to Install a Printer that I don't have.

    Hi, hi.....

    The above is one of the fumbling arounds I've done trying to tame
    the XP beast.

    I won't bore You with the other Fumbles and Foul Ups happening here
    in the past several weeks.

    I've still got XPpro on one of the laptops, and it behaves quite normal whenever I start it up.


    GN es 73 de Sam, OH0NC

    aka Holger


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  • From Ed Vance@1:2320/105 to Holger Granholm on Sat Jul 8 20:57:00 2017
    07-05-17 09:42 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Fumbling1
    Howdy! Holger,

    @MSGID: <59609F36.15181.windowsa@capitolcityonline.net>
    In a message on Wednesday 07-04-17 Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

    GE Ed,
    GE,
    -snip-
    Who is 'Wcry'?

    WannaCry, WannaCrypt and various other abbreviations for last months Malware.
    This month the most recent Malware I've read of is called Petya.

    Dunno where you find all those malwares. I've seen nothing of them!

    Maybe AVG and ZoneAlarm has taken care of them in the Win 10 machines,
    and OS/2 is by design immune.

    Those two malwares are called Ransomware.

    I would had thought information about them would be published everywhere. -snip-
    I've still got XPpro on one of the laptops, and it behaves quite normal whenever I start it up.

    I'm glad it does.
    My Media Center 2005 copy of XP says it is XPpro plus additional features,
    and it misbehaves quite often by being slow to respond to what I want it
    to do and oftentimes not doing what I asked it to do.

    I would think with 3 GB of RAM and the Dual Core AMD 3800+ CPU it would
    always do what I ask it to do and never slow down or tell me the program
    I am using is not responding.

    GN es 73 de Sam, OH0NC

    aka Holger


    .. I don't have references, I just 'know' - spooky heh!

    Not spooky, just experience, isn't it?

    I'm here to learn of others experiences and to share my own experiences
    with computers.
    If my comments cause You to grin (or grimace) I can't help that.

    GE es 73 de Ed W9ODR . .

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