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To: Gottfried who wrote (33815)	4/16/2003 11:51:17 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) of 110653

a pretty cool post from about three months ago on wilders... [excerpted] "I'm beginning to think that safe is an illusion and an arbitrary concept. I went to a site two nites ago, lets say a site of questionable lineage, and clicked on a link to download a file. Something I've done before. Well, about two seconds later, I had a BSOD that locked me up tight as a drum. Every program I had running resident was corrupted. My browser would not browse, my email would not mail and my AV was toast. My firewall configuration was corrupt. My wife wouldn't even talk to me. Had to restore an image. I have no clue what happened, but it happened in spite of my best efforts to avoid such stuff. There is no substitute for a recent image of your drives stored in a safe place. When all else fails, it saves the fresh install route." - posted by "root", a firewall moderator

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