In article <7pednW4e8YMz_ZLdRVn-hw@comcast.com>,
Kyle <RaVeNlI666@hotmail.com> wrote:

how many of you ppl have to reformat and reinstall ur os every 3 months or
so....? I have used the gui verson of seti on a win 200 and xp pro and it
seems like every 3 monthes or so sys files start to disapear and things go
funkey. i have a firewall and anti-virous, both uptodate. anyone else suffer

>from this?

I rarely have to reload anything in my farm (a mix of Win95, Win98, NTWS4,
Linux, and IRIX). Are you running a lot of Microsoft applications, like
Office?

Two things to do with 2K or XP is to install all appropriate updates,
and install SpyBot Search and Destroy to clean up any spyware on your
system.


Gary

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