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Thread #41734   Message #603405
Posted By: JohnInKansas
04-Dec-01 - 11:38 AM
Thread Name: BS: Computer Virus's
Subject: RE: BS: Computer Virus's
Mrrzy

We had some problems getting hooked up to the net when the S.O. got her new computer with Win2000Pro. - Found out that our big difficulty was figuring out what access privileges are required for making the appropriate changes.
I hate connecting "outside" when logged on as Administrator, since the machine is wide open; but we found that a few settings that looked like you were doing them in User or PowerUser logon didn't actually "take" on the machine.
Using Win2000 is nice. Managing Win2000 made us learn some stuff.

Certainly, you're in the best position to know if you actually may have a virus - and a sneakernet import of updated sig files is a good plan, if you can get the files.

John