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I hate Windows
Nov. 13th, 2003 03:27 pm(Not that my particular computing preferences will be news to anyone who knows me.)
Our router (Asante Friendlynet 3004CL Firewall/Router) finally decided it no longer wished to communicate with us. Or rather, the router decided it liked us just fine and was perfectly happy passing information back and forth between the computers in our home network, but could not be arsed to communicate with our DSL modem and refused to allow us to view the up-to-now nifty web-page-based administrative area that might have allowed us to figure out why it was doing this. While I wrestled with this recalcitrant router, I hooked Yoko's PC up to the modem (and, by extension, the Internet) directly.
Less than 24 hours later, I had to reboot Yoko's machine in safe mode in order to remove a not-particularly-clever worm. This worm, which planted files (including the dubiously named secure.exe) in a folder called PS2 in the drivers folder, was designed to pass itself on and then erase the hard drive. Rather fortunately, Yoko doesn't log in with admin privileges, so nothing of the sort happened, but it was a close call.
I have since purchased a lovely D-Link Firewall/Router, and we are now all perfectly content being safely screened from the rest of your infectious machines.
All of us, that is, apart from the Asante Router (which is now not much more than an advanced network switch) and my iMac which, in completely unrelated circumstances, has croaked.
Sigh.
Our router (Asante Friendlynet 3004CL Firewall/Router) finally decided it no longer wished to communicate with us. Or rather, the router decided it liked us just fine and was perfectly happy passing information back and forth between the computers in our home network, but could not be arsed to communicate with our DSL modem and refused to allow us to view the up-to-now nifty web-page-based administrative area that might have allowed us to figure out why it was doing this. While I wrestled with this recalcitrant router, I hooked Yoko's PC up to the modem (and, by extension, the Internet) directly.
Less than 24 hours later, I had to reboot Yoko's machine in safe mode in order to remove a not-particularly-clever worm. This worm, which planted files (including the dubiously named secure.exe) in a folder called PS2 in the drivers folder, was designed to pass itself on and then erase the hard drive. Rather fortunately, Yoko doesn't log in with admin privileges, so nothing of the sort happened, but it was a close call.
I have since purchased a lovely D-Link Firewall/Router, and we are now all perfectly content being safely screened from the rest of your infectious machines.
All of us, that is, apart from the Asante Router (which is now not much more than an advanced network switch) and my iMac which, in completely unrelated circumstances, has croaked.
Sigh.
