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Old November 21st 18, 08:52 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 16:51:45 +0000, Mark
wrote:

On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 10:38:09 -0500, Bill wrote:

Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

My best guess it's Firefox secretly scanning installed programs ?!

Instead of trying to figure out what's happening, just clean
install EVERYTHING including Window$?


That is the LAST option, no?


Yes. The OP needs to do more investigation, obviously being very
careful.


Of course. The backup/install would be contaminated. I'd shut
down the system, then make a Kaspersky Rescue Disk on a "safe"
computer. Boot the suspected computer with it and scan.
NEVER run a backup if you suspect ransomware.
The Mr Man Pang Wang guy is a psychotic off his meds.
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Old November 21st 18, 11:18 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 17:52:49 -0200, Shadow wrote:

Of course. The backup/install would be contaminated. I'd shut
down the system, then make a Kaspersky Rescue Disk on a "safe"
computer. Boot the suspected computer with it and scan.
NEVER run a backup if you suspect ransomware.
The Mr Man Pang Wang guy is a psychotic off his meds.


Backups are multi ... common is the TOH.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup_rotation_scheme

Hence, the Tower of Hanoi is French, and whereas Kaspersky is Russian.
Three "tiers of Hanoi" is comfortable for me, although probability,
being a branch of statistical means and measures, as they say, is for
'Liars, damn liars, horseshoes and hand-grenades.'

To be is to not be connected to the WWW when backing-up is another.

As is, to lessor degree, common sense;- someone with skills, another
extensive exposure, presumably common sense may mean something
entirely different than, say, to Chang Man-wai Mr.

A-Man-wai would appear to have reversed Canton for given and surnames
into Western romanization conventions. I suspect any extensive
exposure to Russian-Chinese Sin Wenz and Pinyin studies might tend to
do that.
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Old November 22nd 18, 04:39 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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On 11/22/2018 2:48 AM, Paul wrote:

But you install for any possible reason.

If the sun goes behind the clouds outside, you reinstall your OS.

If a black cat crosses your trail, you reinstall twice.


Which makes no sense, as you well know.


I Repair Install here, as part of experiments, but I hardly
ever Clean Install on a main OS. It would take too much work
to whip into shape.


I agree it needs time. But it's the easiest way out when you just
couldn't figure out what's going on inside Window$. We are not Micro$oft
engineers and programmers.

Anyway, I agree that clean install is the last resort.

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Old November 22nd 18, 03:22 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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On 11/22/2018 9:05 PM, Yrrah wrote:
Bill :

Instead of trying to figure out what's happening, just clean
install EVERYTHING including Window$?


That is the LAST option, no?


Ditching Windoze is the best option imho ;-)


Suggest this to the big companies worldwide!!! Micro$oft is definitely
serving their interests only.

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Old November 24th 18, 05:48 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 11:39:48 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"
wrote:

But it's the easiest way out when you just
couldn't figure out what's going on inside Window$. We are not Micro$oft
engineers and programmers.


We are, besides an age of programmers and engineers, the easiest way
out, but we are also an age of armies of entrenched legality in
defense of fees derived from patent and governmental lobbying
interests. It's precisely what figures in an alternative *NIX
platforms, which delays and stump further technological development.
The easy way then to continue to ensure that what you believe they're
selling is best of all, ipse dixit, because they own and control it
all.
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Old November 25th 18, 11:32 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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On 11/25/2018 12:48 AM, Flasherly wrote:

We are, besides an age of programmers and engineers, the easiest way
out, but we are also an age of armies of entrenched legality in
defense of fees derived from patent and governmental lobbying
interests. It's precisely what figures in an alternative *NIX
platforms, which delays and stump further technological development.
The easy way then to continue to ensure that what you believe they're
selling is best of all, ipse dixit, because they own and control it
all.



I don't get paid to solve Micro$oft's problems. It's not my business.

So I will just take and recommend the easy exit: do a clean-install
after data backup.

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Old November 25th 18, 07:43 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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On Sun, 25 Nov 2018 18:32:14 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"
wrote:

I don't get paid to solve Micro$oft's problems. It's not my business.


Neither do I. I was reading an article about a freeware *nix
derivative, difficulties involved with having to push the development
of the OS through Microsoft copyrights. It was probably an *nix OS
for concentrating on running programs written for Microsoft, just not
written by Microsoft, nor otherwise owned and affiliated and
controlled. If for some reason Microsoft cannot help any longer -- I
consider that within backup plans: Having to move along into a *nix
project. Backups within installation strategies could be more or less
a different OS bridge to build to cross.
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Old November 26th 18, 03:48 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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On 11/26/2018 2:43 AM, Flasherly wrote:
On Sun, 25 Nov 2018 18:32:14 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"
wrote:

I don't get paid to solve Micro$oft's problems. It's not my business.


Neither do I. I was reading an article about a freeware *nix
derivative, difficulties involved with having to push the development
of the OS through Microsoft copyrights. It was probably an *nix OS
.....


I don't get paid to solve Unix and Linux problems as well.

Window$ is a common OS for the world. So we just cannot avoid it. And
most importantly, it runs Micro$oft Office, Photoshop, .... that are
needed by the business world!!!

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Old November 26th 18, 05:10 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 22:48:56 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"
wrote:

I don't get paid to solve Unix and Linux problems as well.

Window$ is a common OS for the world. So we just cannot avoid it. And
most importantly, it runs Micro$oft Office, Photoshop, .... that are
needed by the business world!!!


Pay is neither an exclusive *nix criteria for what business means to
Office and Photoshop, nor would how uncommon it might seem, to
actually be in need of avoidance, matter to what nonetheless runs
behind a greater infrastructure to freely provide the Western approach
what is the World Wide Web. What business means to that freedom, of
course, has evolved for what business layers can be placed, on top of
the *NIX infrastructure, from the earliest dial-up fees to access ISPs
by telephone companies, from two-dollars to now two-hundred dollars
monthly, within the United States, to exclusive rules of connectivity
to clouds, VPNs, to whole countries surrounding themselves with rules
to filter information by firewalls, to promote themselves to other
countries, or interests, to curtail and contain a business of what,
indeed, it may mean to assume freedoms of a uncommon political agenda
or persuasion.

A computer is and never has been a Wide Business World. A computer
does not intrinsically contain instruction sets, a logical capacity
capable to embody an entity such as greedy and vain. At least no more
than it can be said a computer is importantly, above all, the guidance
systems behind surreptitiously avoiding, or detecting, warhead
ordnance delivery methodology.
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Old November 28th 18, 11:02 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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On Sun, 25 Nov 2018 18:32:14 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"
wrote:

On 11/25/2018 12:48 AM, Flasherly wrote:

We are, besides an age of programmers and engineers, the easiest way
out, but we are also an age of armies of entrenched legality in
defense of fees derived from patent and governmental lobbying
interests. It's precisely what figures in an alternative *NIX
platforms, which delays and stump further technological development.
The easy way then to continue to ensure that what you believe they're
selling is best of all, ipse dixit, because they own and control it
all.



I don't get paid to solve Micro$oft's problems. It's not my business.


No, you are currently unemployed. Something about psychosis.
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