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Re: [IRCA] (OT) Spam
*slaps self on wrist* I normally run with an admin account (I'm also behind a hardware firewall/router which I'm sure helps). There are a lot of things I do that require admin access and I get sicker of having to authenticate every few minutes than you guys do of hearing IBOC hash. ;) I haven't suffered much from viruses, although I'm starting to get a little suspicious as sometimes I'll see hard drive activity even when I'm not sitting at my computer. (It could be caused, though, by the fact that I often intentionally have so many things running simultaneously that my pagefile USAGE is upwards of 1.5 to 3 times the CAPACITY of my physical RAM! (I have 4 GB, but 32-bit windows only addresses 3 GB.))
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From: Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx>
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] (OT) Spam
Just out of interest, how many users of Windows normally run their computer using a limited or standard account rather than using administrator privileges, and how many of those limited users have suffered from viruses etc.?
Thanks, and sorry for OT.
best wishes,
Nick
At 21:09 28-01-12, you wrote:
> Back up everything you want to see again and do it often. As I told Paul off-list, I got hit with a virus or something from one of those mouse-over things on a legitimate site about 3 years ago and lost my hard drive. Because I was well- and recently-backed up, I lost only a few files. But getting the hard drive replaced wasn't fun at all.
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