For the longest time, I had put off upgrading from Windows 98 SE. I finally got around to doing it this weekend and upgraded to Windows 2000. I chose the upgrade option rather than the clean reinstall option. Of course as all windows upgrades go, it wasn't as smooth as I would have liked. The very first time I connected to the Internet, my computer got infected with the Blaster worm. I tried to download a fix from symantec for this fix, but the virus successfully aborts the download. I finally managed to outsmart the worm by downloading the fix from a different website that I found googling. But the saga wouldn't end there. When I ran the fix, the worm managed to avoid detection. Trying a different tack, I tried installing Windows Service Pack 4, but again was unsuccessful because the worm sabotaged the download.
I finally managed to get a copy of the service pack on CD and installed it successfully. I tried to install McAfee Anti-Virus software, but the worm again aborted the installation. As a last ditch effort, I then kept an eye on the processes running in the Task Manager and the first time I saw the blaster worm exe running (msblast.exe), I ran the fix that I had downloaded earlier. This time the fix caught the worm and repaired the registry that had been corrupted. I re-ran the McAfee installation and this time it installed correctly. The Anti-Virus software was able to find a half dozen more viruses. After that, I downloaded all the windows hotfixes from the windows update website. Now my system seems to be running quite smoothly. Hopefully it is the last that I have seen of those worms.
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Yep, I guess some of us can be slow to upgrade! But I guess I did it b/c MS 98 served my needs and it was pretty stable. I was reading today about the problems companies are having installing Windows XP SP2. So I guess I won't upgrade to XP anytime soon :-))
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