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A funny little thing happened today. My friend and his wife purchased a Dell Pentium 3 a while ago. I tried to convince them to go with Apple, but they couldn't justify the price of a Power Mac G4 ($1700 without a monitor @ the time) vs. Dull 1.3 GHz P3 with monitor & printer ($1200). Anyway, I sent them this email today:
Their response was:
My response to their unfortunate experience was:
Now they're trying in vain to back up their files to CD to wipe the HD clean and reinstall Windows Me. I suggested zeroing the HD before installing, just to be sure. And my friend's wife NEEDS the computer for college classes taught over the internet through distance learning.
[Snicker, snicker, snicker]
I try to preach the Gospel of Apple and it falls on deaf ears.
BTW, their argument for not getting the Apple: "It's not compatible with Windows and it costs too much." - BAH!
There was another serious security hole found in Internet Explorer.
Here are the links to explain the security hole: http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/020604/microsoft_security_flaw_1.html
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/05/148244&mode=thread&tid=109
This affects all versions of IE. So far, M$ has not made a patch to correct the problem.
Their response was:
Hey Niles, you think that is bad, well Microsoft IE also has a vulnerability
for the "Klez" virus and guess what we got. As a matter of fact, we
received 2 Klez viruses via e-mail, you don't even have to open the
attachment, as soon as Outlook Express accepts the mail you get it, however
if you open the attachment you get a double dose. We received 2 infected
e-mails with the worm virus in it, screwed up our computer for awhile, this
virus affects the registry system so your computer will start up but after
that it freezes but works in safe mode, it makes it impossible to reformat
your hard drive because nothing works. It wrote itself into the system
restore files and if you know anything about computers you nkow that those
files cannot be deleted, touched, or anything. Just be careful because
according to Microsoft antivirus software cannot help you. I got another
infected e-mail yesterday but Norton anti-virus found it. It is sent
randomly to computers who use Outlook Express, yippee.
My response to their unfortunate experience was:
Here is the link to solve your problem the RIGHT WAY:
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore
Here is the quick and dirty solution for your woes:
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/
Hope you get your computer fixed soon. I've never had the experience of getting a virus with my Apple - ones of the perks I suppose. You get what you pay for.
Good luck,
Niles
Now they're trying in vain to back up their files to CD to wipe the HD clean and reinstall Windows Me. I suggested zeroing the HD before installing, just to be sure. And my friend's wife NEEDS the computer for college classes taught over the internet through distance learning.
[Snicker, snicker, snicker]
I try to preach the Gospel of Apple and it falls on deaf ears.
BTW, their argument for not getting the Apple: "It's not compatible with Windows and it costs too much." - BAH!