I update nothing, period.

Lemme tellya a little story that happened to me recently. I had something called zarumba.exe or something like that. It was trying to install someting nasty on my laptop (Vista) and it somehow bypassed UAC. Well maybe not really.

I had been getting hags to update Java for some time but kept telling it no.. Every reboot, and I almost never reboot. However this virus or whatever it was seems to exploit a security hole you may have heard of in a certain Java update.

With this baby there it was nagging me every minute for the Java update.

I run bareback. I do not really suf, and I am not going to get a virus here, or from tvrepairtips or repairwold or americanfreepress or the other fora I haunt. I do not game and I do not facebook. I do not open email attachments unless they are pictures, and even then I am careful. Sometimes I am leery of something so I will download it and if a JPG I'll open it in Paintshop Pro, or other things in Irfanview. Media files if I have ANY doubt I will open them in VLC. I use Office 97 Pro so I doubt any macro type virus can get through that.

When I get bit by something I have not had system restore fail to fix it. That's what happened last time.

I take that back, this is Vista, on an XP box a few years ago system restore would not remove "Secret Crush" or something like that, but I think that is a very sophisticated virus which I believe infects the BIOS. I have my reasons for beliving that, because both PCs that got it had those types opf problems. One in the RAM controller. It would run fine with ½ GB RAM or 1½ GB RAM but not 1 GB (which is what it came with) It was ransdomly rebooting and I pulled a stick out and it ran fine. Put in a different ½ GB stick and same ****. switched them out and found out none of the RAM was bad.

Both machines benefitted from a total reset, I mean the kind that gives you the checksum error. You just have to ****up the BIOS bad enough that it reverts to ROM or whatever, and then you're clear.

The stupid **** who put that virus on BOTH my PCs no longer has any access. He has his own to **** up now. After all that, nobody touches my PCs. Where I live now my "server" I guess you would call it is on the network and if anyone wants the media or files off it they can just connect to the network. There are three people here and seven PCs, nobody has to touch mine.

The only thing wrong with the system right now is I got one of those laser printers (recently fixed you may have heard) that I set up to share on the network and that stopped working a few days ago. It prints locally but not from other PCs. Not a big issue.

I am going to continue to run XP on the one box forever. Some say that is going to let me open to fifty million virii and **** but that is bull****. There aren't going to all the sudden be more virii for XP, in fact more likely the opposite. The new bugs will probably be incompatible with XP.

I would go so far to say that you would probably be safe running 98 again because the virii they write now are too advanced to even load in it. Of course I could be wrong, but my **** runs.

And it runs well. I go up to people's PCs, even newer ones, and I cannot believe how damn slow they are. What's more, you shoud see how fast the old software is on newer PCs.

I'm a spoiled brat now when it comes to PC speed. What's more I am a cheap spoiled brat. I am out of the loop they got most people in, which is ; update the software until the hardware won't work, then update the hardware and find the old software won't work. Then update the software until the new hardware won't work, and on and on and on.

I'd run Win 3.11 if I could get it to get online. Technically I think you can but it's really more trouble than it's worth.