LETS ALL START TO TELL THE TRUTH

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Originally posted by lencho Quote: Originally posted by Cypress lencho, Fried the whole system. Went into one of those endless loop-dee-doos. I'd be happy to put a round thru the brain pan of whatever idiot responsible. Based on the info you've given I can't tell if you actually have hardware damage (pretty rare that a virus can do that) or sofware corruption/infection (remediable by doing a clean install of all the software from scratch, including perhaps a low-level format of your hard drive). The latter is potentially much cheaper to fix, since it doesn't require purchasing new iron. It's sort of moot since you've already bought another system, but your old one may be perfectly good if someone wants to just clean it up. I agree on punishment. It's terrorism and should be treated as such. --Larry

If you do get rid of your old tower, maybe you could consider reformatting the drive yourself before you get rid of it.

I'm a Mac user and not really familiar with your operating system, but with a Mac one can easily (and inadvertently) store information to automatically fill in fields. Information like names, addresses, emails, even possibly birthdays and SS#s. You indicated that you want to keep that info confidential so be careful.

Besides being careful about what you receive, take care with info you send. Some site registrations ask for birthdates; use a fake. Take care in letting your computer "remember" sensitive passwords or personal information.

I also password protect my computer; you need a password to log on so if it is stolen, the bandito cannot log on to Baja Nomad and impersonate me.

Thanks nomads for the information. Will be more careful with volunteered info and have an ungraded security sytem. Will play around with old tower and see.