First off, I would suggest you respect decorum and refrain from personal attacks and profanity in your posts and on the messages you post on my
profile. And based on the comments you left there, I assume that the "artists" you mention here as "know it alls" is a direct reference to me
so... since I'm still waiting for my coffee this fine morning, let me respond...
Originally posted by endisnighe
reply to post by metamagic
Ok, for one thing, a fresh install has no viruses or trojans. I am talking about, before even connecting to the internet image. Do you know what I
mean? Yes I do have my work computer totally setup than my surfing computer. Yes MS sucks but I know it like the back of my hand.
You originally said that you re-installed an image of your drive, not that you did a fresh install from scratch. My point was that it is possible
that the image is contaminated, a situation which I have seen as I commented in my post. As well, even if you are installing from scratch, if you are
using a copy of Windows there is a small chance that something may have been inserted in the copy target media if the machine actually performing the
copy was infected. If you are using a pirated copy of Windows, the probability increases dramatically.
You totally missed the point of my comment about Windows. I did not say MS sucks, nor did I criticize your skill with the OS. I commented that fresh
installs of Windows are infected in minutes unless they are secured. I guess I should have explicitly stated what I thought was obvious.. check your
security settings!
XML drive backup is a software. You use it to back up your HDD at a point in time, my surfing computer is backed up at the point of no internet
connection. No possibility of little nasties. Yes, I know social networks are bad, that is why my main computer never goes internet and I use the
Image software on my surfer.
Well in this case you didn't use the actual name of the software. XML is "extensible markup language" a ubiquitous structured information
protocol that is well known. I did a quick google search and found out that what you were referring to probably was "Driveimage XML" The name of
the software is not XML so my original response is due to your not using the name of the software but a term that has common usage instead.
Social networks themselves are not "bad" but they are a significant point of distribution for malware. Especially if you are using Windows that is
unsecured.
And what I was trying to say with the info I gave, was that their was no possibility that it was my computer. But assholes will be assholes. I was
trying to escape the bull# artists that tend to think they know everything but I guess you know everything. Wow, anyway what I was trying to say is I
have never seen the slow down of the internet info like I have today.
If only I had a nickel for every time I hear that "it can't possibly be my computer" when in fact it is. And I guess I should explain why I said
that the "Internet" is not your problem. And I should point out that your complaint was also about strange search results, not just response
times.
The "Internet" is not a system that is out there but is a collection of collections of networks using common protocols. Certain portions of those
networks can experience traffic slowdowns due to hardware issues, failures at different nodes on their portion of the network, DDOS attacks and a host
of other things. The most common of which is the last point in the connection -- your computer.
But those are all local so that while you may experience local slowdowns, the "Internet" is not slow. Generalizing your experience to the whole
"Internet" is akin to you going outside on a rainy day and assuming that it is raining all over the world (apologies to Tony Joe White and Brook
Benton).
[edit on 13-9-2009 by metamagic]
