OT: MS Tried to Hack My Computer???

[Baron Munchausen]

Since most people do not have firewalls and there's no way to use a hardware router with a dialup connection (unless you get the more expensive 'network modems' I guess) I think Gibson's instructions are quite useful for most people. Several 'big name' firewalls that have nothing to do with Steve Gibson default to stealth mode, so I doubt that he's completely alone in his opinion. And I really don't see why I should care what anyone probing ports on remote machines thinks of 'stealth' mode anyway.

[Atrocities]

I do have two firewalls working. The crappy XP one, and the one that came with the Cable modem which is from McAfee.

And David, this weekend I saw a real life UFO. I was down in this cannon camping with friends, and we all looked up and saw the UFO. It was a bigg'in too. It had two yellowish lights in the front, and a whole mess of em on the top part. It made such a thunders sound we all though God himself was come back to Earth to exact his holly revenge upon whicked and unfaithful.

(About six minutes later God passed us in his 1978 Ford F150 Hiboy with his light bar on, and no exhougst pipes. We were in awe.)

It occured to us, as we all sat their drinking our beer, that we was in a canyon, and to get into the canyon, you have to drive down this long narrow windy *** gravel road. Duhrrrrrrrr. "Here's your sign." - Mine read: "Beer Makes You Stupid."

[David E. Gervais]

FYI, Service Pack 2 has just been released by Microsoft. It aparently addresses and fixes some 800+ bugs and loopholes. It might be worth installing.

Just thought you might like to know.

Cheers!

[Thermodyne]

David E. Gervais said:
FYI, Service Pack 2 has just been released by Microsoft. It aparently addresses and fixes some 800+ bugs and loopholes. It might be worth installing.

Just thought you might like to know.

Cheers!

Look out for SP2, it has a few unexpected results. Home Users "should" be OK with it, but any one doing dev or cad work should make sure they don't need patches that are yet to be released.

[Raging Deadstar]

Atrocities said:And David, this weekend I saw a real life UFO. I was down in this cannon camping with friends, and we all looked up and saw the UFO. It was a bigg'in too. It had two yellowish lights in the front, and a whole mess of em on the top part. It made such a thunders sound we all though God himself was come back to Earth to exact his holly revenge upon whicked and unfaithful.

(About six minutes later God passed us in his 1978 Ford F150 Hiboy with his light bar on, and no exhougst pipes. We were in awe.)

It occured to us, as we all sat their drinking our beer, that we was in a canyon, and to get into the canyon, you have to drive down this long narrow windy *** gravel road. Duhrrrrrrrr. "Here's your sign." - Mine read: "Beer Makes You Stupid."

I wondered what made my choice not to drink alcohol so rational, now i know That was great atrocities, i'm still laughing, Obviously it was the Old Testament God that visited you, only he would have omnipotent powers to drive one of them!

For the record i personally do not know what kind of veichle the new testament god drives, most likely a SUV

[Atrocities]

If God drove a truck, it would most likely be a Toyota. Those things are darn near industructable.

If God rode Quads, it would be a Bombardier 650 DS