RE: HANG time...

Good point, Tom.  Does it help that I'm connecting thru a firewall/router
(Gigafast)?

Does Klez infect without having to be on a certain site that has it?  I
would think that if you clicked on Windows Update icon, you'd never be
anywhere but on a MicroSh*t site.

BTW, ended up scratching the drive.  The Advanced Recovery Mode on Norton's
DISKEDIT looked like it would never end after 40 hours of "scanning" the
drive.  (Those were 40 hours I was too busy otherwise to do anything with
the PC.)  Ran Maxtor's PowerMax diags, third test down the list detected
"defective" drive, thought I was SOL as this drive just fell out of
warranty.  However, fourth on the list was the option to do a low-level
format, which surprises me, I thought LLF's were obsolete as of about ten
years ago (onset of IDE drives???).  But I ran it anyway, finished
successfully, ran all the other tests again, clean as a peach.

Used Maxtor's MaxBlast to set up partitions and format.

Then I started the reload... (continued under new topic)

db

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Tom Liotta
> Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 5:30 AM
> To: pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PCTECH] HANG time...
>
>
> daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >   Once it's initially up and
> > running do a Windows Update first thing before you start
> loading software
> > and setting things up.
>
> This is the only point of disagreement I have. Load something like
> ZoneAlarm _before_ connecting to the Internet. I made the mistake ONCE.
> AVG reported Klez almost as soon as I got it loaded and running later.
> Protect first, THEN update.
>
> Tom Liotta