off topic - worm warning

[CowbellGuy]

Most of the cases of the Cube case cracking were just people freaking out over seam lines from the mold. As for your paint coming off, well, it's painted titanium, not magic color-forged imaginanium. It's going to get worn, abused, and yeah, sometimes chip or scratch. If you'd rather have a cruddy black plastic case, go buy a Dell. Furthermore, chipping paint has nothing to do with the quality of components (if you need more help, that would be CPU, RAM, video cards, bus controllers, drives, etc.).

[nyc94]

Do you need to be so rude?

[CowbellGuy]

Only on days that end in "y"

[Greg Berge]

RichS,

This is a good example that it isn't from me, since you aren't in my address book.  I assume we are both in the address book of the person who is infected.

Someone asked me for the gory details of what I had to do in order to check my XP system, so if anybody else is in that boat (and note that I took the opportunity to upgrade to NAV 2003):

1. Download the Klez search-and-clean tool.
2. Uninstall NAV 2002.
3. Uninstall Liveupdate.
4. Disable system restore and reboot.
5. Reboot XP in safe mode.
6. Run the Klez search-and-clean tool which scans the entire disk painfully
slowly.
7. Do the follow-up maintenance after the tool finished.
8. Reboot XP in normal mode.
9. Reinstall NAV 2002 (at which point I realized I was screwed because I had downloaded it and the instructions called for system disks, so...
10. Buy, download, and install NAV 2003 and reboot.)
11. Run NAV to scan harddrive again.
12. Do the follow-up maintenance after the scan and reboot.
13. Reinstall Live Update.
14. Re-enable system restore and reboot.

[JohnnyB]

Man, after reading the posts on USCHO's message board, I did wish a nasty disease on some people, but this seems a bit ridiculous.  almost as ridiculous as the unending Mac vs Windows debate....

-J