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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Monday, July 09, 2012 - 1:20 pm 
I don't think it's crying wolf, they've been honest about the numbers of computers infected. Obviously there are still some computers that are infected. How else would they get those people to fix them, if they don't get the word out thru the media?
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Monday, July 09, 2012 - 1:34 pm
Again, 20,000 computers. Out of millions in the world. It's a teeny drop. If you have a computer that is using an ISP to connect to the internet, your ISP is more than likely going to ensure you can connect.
I'm not going to try to explain to you all any more. I guess if it makes you all feel better to run around in a panic mode, that's fine.
But really, if it was such a big huge threat, wouldn't that have been the top news story of the day today? Really?
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, July 09, 2012 - 1:39 pm
LOL - I won't buy a plane ticket.  I didn't even think about the ISP provider. Our Internet is handled through our Intermediate School District. We switched ISDs 2 years ago, and the new one's tech services STINK! However, I'm pretty sure they can at least handle anti-virus updates. The last week of July our high school's IT director will be taking a class on how to handle Windows7 on our school network (yes, we're that far behind), and my new laptop will be the guinea pig. I'm sure I'll find out then how well prepared the ISD was.
The joke at our school is that our tech service is so much better that other schools call US, not the ISD, when they have problems because they know we've usually figured things out. This last year they switched to a new student management program - everything from accounting office to gradebook - and those of us who received the extra training were being called by the ISD. Sad, but true.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Monday, July 09, 2012 - 1:48 pm
I'm not sure what you are seeing but I don't see anyone here who is remotely running around in panic mode. I see people calmly discussing an interesting issue.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Monday, July 09, 2012 - 1:53 pm
LOL Teach. I'm so confident you'll be OK, I'll pay for my own round trip ticket to come out and fix you if you guys are broken. (That's how sure I am that you aren't!)
Windows 7 is a breeze. I don't know what you've got now, but honestly, once you get used to it, it really is a more stable operating system. Much faster than XP and miles better than the joke of Windows Vista.
Really and truly, unless you are running a 512K modem out in a corn field somewhere, off of a telephone line, using an old version of Norton Antivirus (before it was acquired by Symantec), and you are still using Windows ME, before there WERE Internet Service Providers... well... you know!
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Monday, July 09, 2012 - 2:18 pm
Just said on news here in Chicago that the whole thing was overblown. Some got it, but as Costa said above "20,000 out of millions" = a drop. But if you're one of the comparatively few that got it -- not good.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, July 09, 2012 - 2:52 pm
Yes it was on our news as well. But they didn't sensationalize it and said it would effect a very few people.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, July 09, 2012 - 4:22 pm
Oh and I loved Y2Crazy, that was the best new years ever, getting to watch all the different countries ring in the new year.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Monday, July 09, 2012 - 4:30 pm
Well, there were some very real issues that could've been overlooked with the coding. I mean, waaay back in the olden days, who'd have thought that we'd have to think about what to do when the calendar flipped over to '00? Would computers recognize that as being 1000 or 2000? Hahaha!! What was more fun was watching all the developers I worked with feverishly trying to figure out all the code that could possibly break before it actually did.
But again, we knew we were all OK before the second hand flipped over into the new millennium. Once again, much ado about nothing.
This thing? Pffft.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, July 09, 2012 - 5:29 pm
We've been using Windows 7 at home for quite a while. My laptop for school (that has to stay at school - they don't trust us to take them back and forth and not bring in a virus: what does THAT tell you about the capabilities of our antivirus?) will be the first school computer to use Windows 7. They have to figure out how to make it work on our school server/network, and it seems to be a Big Deal to our IT person. This, however, has nothing to do with the malware warning.
It's just what happens when you can't afford to keep technology up to date. At least 3 of 20 of us in the HS use our own computers because the school's computers are so awful.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Monday, July 09, 2012 - 5:44 pm
No one was panicking, that's really an unfair characterization of people just sharing some information about something that *might* affect someone here, and simple info about how to check your own computer.
And frankly, we may very well have some users that have very old equipment, so it would be wise to be kind. Very wise.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Monday, July 09, 2012 - 5:45 pm
Hahahaha! That's hilarious. Plug it in to the network and it just works. Configure the IP addresses and lookie that. It's actually easier than anything previously!
Are the systems in the lab behind a firewall or otherwise protected with a content filter of some sort? Like if a student wanted to browse to a porn site or some random site in Iraq, could they? Or would they be blocked? If so, then your lab actually would be protected.
I used to work for another major AV company and yup, we'd get free software. None of us in our engineering group would take advantage of any of the free software; preferring instead to pay for the software from the company for whom I currently work. Ironic, isn't it.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Monday, July 09, 2012 - 8:07 pm
I used to work for a large financial organization and it was interesting how far behind the curve they were when it came to upgrading to the latest technology. But that is what happens when you have to consider upgrading thousands of PCs.
I'm kind of geeky and I like this stuff but if their computer is working fine and meeting their needs then I can see why someone would not have a burning desire to spend money on a new computer.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Monday, July 09, 2012 - 8:20 pm
Years ago when I worked in a mid-size law firm in Chicago, virus got in via e-mail. "I love you" e-mail. Got e-mails with subject line "I love you" from partners in the law firm. I don't think so. DELETE. But guess who mostly opened the e-mails and passed it on -- attorneys.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, July 09, 2012 - 9:12 pm
If it takes a week-long training on how to integrate XP computers and Windows 7 computers on a school server, I'm pretty sure it's not just a plug it in kind of thing. We use Novell Client for our intra-network, and it is WAY behind the curve! Novell was actually WRITING programming for our cloud server that we started 2 years ago because we had to log the computers in one at a time or they crashed. It is, to this day, unusable unless only 20 computers or less are connected to the cloud.
Trust me - it's not a plug and play situation!
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Landileigh
Member
07-28-2002
| Monday, July 09, 2012 - 9:28 pm
i had a boss who got a virus that had been sent by her daughter's computer (twice!) because she said, "why would my daughter send me a virus?", "I'm not going to not open email from my daughter!" uhhhhh... it's a VIRUS! told you not to open .exe files!
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Sunday, March 16, 2014 - 4:35 am
I'm sticking with Windows XP as long as I can  If necessary I'll try a library computer.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Sunday, March 16, 2014 - 7:47 am
High schools should have them, too, Ketchup. Just volunteer in the library (hardly any schools can afford an actual librarian any more!).
A couple of us at our school are pretty sure things are gonna' get VERY interesting in the next few months. We have ZERO computers that are Windows 7 for students (ALL are XP). A couple of us teachers have brought in our own computers that are updated, but the labs are filled with XP.
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Sunday, March 16, 2014 - 8:58 am
I actually like Windows 7. For us it has been extremely stable and, in fact, I can't remember ever having a crash due to the Windows 7 operating system which was not true with XP. The interface is the same so there's virtually no learning curve. I do have one laptop that runs Windows 8.1 and I have it set to the old desktop view so it's more or less like XP or Windows 7 but a little different. I've read that Microsoft is coming out with a new Windows 9, maybe late this year or next, that's more like Windows 7 than Windows 8 but don't know much about it other than rumor.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Sunday, March 16, 2014 - 9:40 am
I heard on the radio from "experts" that 7 is the best Windows OS. Stable and likely to be around for some time.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, March 16, 2014 - 10:15 am
The only problem being that you can't get Windows 7 on new computers anymore.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, March 16, 2014 - 9:58 pm
I love Windows 7 and have never had a problem with it.
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