One Woman's Dangerous War Against the Most Hated Man on the Internet

Re:One Woman's Dangerous War Against the Most Hated Man on t... by lotsofcows on Sunday November 24, 2013 @06:38AM (#6789353)

I haven't had to deal with a virus for some time but the number of times I've formatted a hard drive and started again far outweigh the number of times I've removed viruses. These days, when machines don't come with the OS on a disk - often don't even come with the drivers on a disk - buying new tech could well be the cheaper option.

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Re:One Woman's Dangerous War Against the Most Hated Man on t... by Casseres on Sunday November 24, 2013 @07:01AM (#6789404)

If you're buying a computer with Windows installed, then it ought to come with a product key. Just download the appropriate ISO from Microsoft directly, burn it to disc or extract to a flash drive. For the drivers, just go to the manufacturer's website and download the appropriate drivers and burn that to another disc or copy to another flash drive.

Cost $1 for two discs, or $10 for two flash drives < Cost of a new computer

Even better, since you seem to be reformatting quite often, once you have the computer configured how you want, create a clone of the hard drive. That way you don't have to manually do everything over again.

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Re:One Woman's Dangerous War Against the Most Hated Man on t... by lotsofcows on Monday November 25, 2013 @05:13AM (#6793317)

I don't get viruses! If I'm dealing with a virus, it's on some other bugger's machine.

And they probably haven't even created the drivers disk let alone a restore disk. And what sort of idiot downloads an ISO onto a virus riddled machine?

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