Hi :)

Martin, i wasn't referring to you having bad Cd images, i was referring
to the person that seems to have had multiple problems that the rest of
us hasn't (or only had in certain unusual cases when doing something
quite peculiar).


I am curious about setting up a login to a Ctirx server btw.  Could you give 
links or contact me off-list?
tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk

I wasn't aware of the options to over&under clock systems from inside
OSes.  I've only ever done that sort of thing inside the bios and by
carefully selecting appropriate hardware (well, i have a  colleague who
sorts my hardware tbh).  Also i've played around with quite a few fairly
low-spec machines but not actual netbooks.


With regards to supporting other people i tend to find that it really doesn't 
matter which OS they are given or how much help and advice they are given they 
somehow always manage to stuff up whichever system they are given.  Of course 
some few exceptions.  Typically i find the easiest ones to recover from and 
solve are Ubuntu or other OpenSource systems.  The most intractable ones tend 
to be Windows systems that have become infected or where the user themselves 
has managed to actively destroy things.  


Wrt the banking sector's idea of security i have to say that banks seem to have 
the number 1 most appalling security.  They have insisted on me installing 
ActiveX and Java in order to use their systems despite many high profile cases 
of malware and remote attackers using those to compromise systems.  It seems 
they want me to installing unsafe systems in order to be able to blame me when 
things go wrong.  If they used the same type of security advice for their 
physical assets then they would regularly be getting robbed by kids with 
water-pistols or old men with a bottle-in-a-bag.  It honestly would not 
surprise me to learn they were using Windows 1998 server (home), unpatched, and 
with passwords such as "password"


Wrt the virus resetting DNS to Google servers that somehow seems a bit toooo 
obvious.  The fact that there was a problem was found fairly easily.  
Presumably even the weeu (wide eyed end user) noticed their machine was having 
a problem.  

Also a LOT of times i find that people claim to have become infected by
some sort of virus as a way out of admitting they might have done
something themselves to create the problem.  It's better than them
admitting to having gone to a reported attack site, downloaded
something, chosen to run it and ok'd the computer's grumble!  Ok, so
i've not found people doing that but they do somehow install all sorts
of strange crap and then blame anyone but themselves for having tons of
toolbars in their web-browser.


The only time i have heard of Gnu&Linux servers getting compromised was 

1.  Under coordinated attacks from thousands or millions of machines all at the 
same time
2.  One network of servers that was left unpatched for 6 years and didn't even 
have a maintenance chap sweeping away cobwebs between machines!  Not even so 
much as a reboot or even a glance through their logs.  

On the other hand i have seen people having to reboot Windows servers
every few days and keep patched wekly and put a lot of time into dealing
with all sorts of petty issues even for a simple internet-gateway,
little more than a router really.


As for Gnu&Linux getting infected it's a relative term.  People i have had to 
trust have given me infected files which my system remained immune to and 
oblivious of and then i have passed the file on to other people.  Nowadays i 
tend to run an antivirus program purely to stop myself accidentally passing on 
such infected files from other people.  

People such as Google are known to respond quickly if/when problems
arise.  They don't spend the best part of 3 years adamantly insisting
there is no problem and that you should buy certain stuff to fix it and
then finally admit that there was a problem all that time but buying
their newer release fixes all that.


Regards from
Tom :)

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