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Strategies & Market Trends : LastShadow's Position Trading -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LastShadow who wrote (27845)	12/24/1999 7:06:00 PM
From: Jeff Jordan	Respond to of 43080

I have been running some Y2K tests on my main computer this morning....the first thing I noticed was my 1999 did not roll over to 2000. I had to manually roll it over? Everything appeared fine until I ran my Norton virus scan...it does a quick scan at boot but I started a full scan...when I came back into the room after a few minutes I had the dreaded blue screen. Did a hard boot and started getting invalid date errors notices during the scandisk process. I had to hit the ok to repair button about 40 times as it went through all my programs...it all took about 15mins. I'm currently running my Norton virus scan of all my drives again....so far no problems. My Norton auto update expired about 2 weeks ago, so I guess I should go pay Macafee for atleast one more month for the current viruses....there are 15-50 new ones created everyday....I'm mostly worried about the Y2K ones. I keep my drives in optimum condition at all times. I've never lost any data and have only caught one virus last year...the Happy'99...it was sent to me by one of my Charting Vendors of all people.....no damage. I think they thought it was a cute new years card. Anyway, I'm going to start this whole process over one more time...setting dates back etc. One idea is for people to set their clocks back a month or two then wait and see if any problems materialize in other people systems...that way they will have time to correct the problems before they effect their own system. Fixes will be coming very fast for any viruses that turn up. Macafee should do a pretty good business in January I would think? Makes me wonder if lots of computers will have similar problems come January 1....I had no real problems....just the minor scandisk notices. I imagine the computer techs will me busy Saturday morning of the 1st. My full virus scan has just come up clean.....starting the process over one more time...date roll back, fresh boot etc.... I'm checking all my main programs....all working as supposed to so far.