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Are there time pirates?
Dec. 11th, 2003 01:50 amYou know that computer I was fixing? I gave up on rescuing its existing setup. Spyware has rendered the existing system inoperable. I have installed a bigger drive, partitioned and formatted it from scratch, and am now installing a fresh copy of a stable Windows (2000). I will bring the owner's files to the new machine after I've gotten everything working.
Now I'm left with a gnawing question: why would anyone devise software that ties up a computer so completely but doesn't make the computer do anything other than be tied up? When someone steals a car, one takes parts for other cars or goes for a ride or sells the whole car; one doesn't get in the car, rev the engine to 5000 rpm and leave it in neutral while the owner tries to open the door. ( Easy to follow logic ahead. If I'm wrong, tell me so. )
Update: After days of work on this computer, I think the motherboard may actually be shot. It lights up and turns on the computer, but throughput keeps leading to data loss. CD-ROM drives fail, all sorts of stuff goes off but works when I put them in other computers. Things just fail to recognize. It's like Alzheimer's for electronics. I'm sad about this.
I also found out the XP Pro drive that is the original drive had the SubSeven trojan horse on it. That's why it crashed every time I plugged the ethernet cable in -- it really does report to a central machine the the host is online and brings it down.
Now I'm left with a gnawing question: why would anyone devise software that ties up a computer so completely but doesn't make the computer do anything other than be tied up? When someone steals a car, one takes parts for other cars or goes for a ride or sells the whole car; one doesn't get in the car, rev the engine to 5000 rpm and leave it in neutral while the owner tries to open the door. ( Easy to follow logic ahead. If I'm wrong, tell me so. )
Update: After days of work on this computer, I think the motherboard may actually be shot. It lights up and turns on the computer, but throughput keeps leading to data loss. CD-ROM drives fail, all sorts of stuff goes off but works when I put them in other computers. Things just fail to recognize. It's like Alzheimer's for electronics. I'm sad about this.
I also found out the XP Pro drive that is the original drive had the SubSeven trojan horse on it. That's why it crashed every time I plugged the ethernet cable in -- it really does report to a central machine the the host is online and brings it down.
