{"id":981,"date":"2005-04-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=981"},"modified":"2005-04-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-08T12:00:00","slug":"tips-for-a-clean-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/08\/tips-for-a-clean-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for a ‘clean’ PC"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m extremely relieved that the ongoing problems with my daughter’s PC seem to have been rectified and haven’t appeared for a couple of weeks now. Here was the approach I ended up taking :-<\/p>\n

1) Buy Zonealarm Security Suite on CD.<\/p>\n

2) Reinstall Windows (The SP1 version that came with the PC)<\/p>\n

3) Install Zonealarm.<\/p>\n

4) Install Broadband Access.<\/p>\n

5) Go to Windows Update and install all outstanding updates.<\/p>\n

The bit where it had previously gone wrong was step 5. Looking at the ZoneAlarm alert logs, there were over 100 unathorised access attempts while I was trying to get SP2 downloaded (with it’s firewall), of which around a dozen were serious. The internet has got very messy indeed and not a place to enter without a firewall in the way.<\/p>\n

Still, good news in the end …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m extremely relieved that the ongoing problems with my daughter’s PC seem to have been rectified and haven’t appeared for a couple of weeks now. Here was the approach I ended up taking :- 1) Buy Zonealarm Security Suite on CD. 2) Reinstall Windows (The SP1 version that came with the PC) 3) Install Zonealarm.… Continue reading Tips for a ‘clean’ PC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":983,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/13\/the-dangers-of-windows\/","url_meta":{"origin":981,"position":0},"title":"The Dangers of Windows","date":"March 13, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"The thing is, I've read all of the articles about viruses, worms, adware and so on (and I've had my browser redirected a few times) but you never really think the worst will happen to you.Today I spent 5 hours trying to fix my daughters PC, which has become seriously\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1314,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/09\/one-day-soon-ill-install-something\/","url_meta":{"origin":981,"position":1},"title":"One Day Soon, I’ll Install Something","date":"September 9, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"What a horrible week it's been from a technical perspective.I decided mid-way through the previous week that I was going to bite the bullet, give up on DTrace for a while and install Linux on the server so I could run the PX tests on 11g. 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