Saving "youtube" videos to disk ??

[Trevor Nye]

There is a cd available which has SP2 on it.
I run and install windows daily, and yes it can get the virus that
quickly I always unplug while installing,,,,,,,,




On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 07:40 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> Wade Smart <wade at wadesmart.com> wrote:
> > Vince, I do not doubt the ease of which windows can get sick but, that
> > sounds awful fast. It sounds to me like there was a sickness already
> > there and it wasnt removed before installing the new OS. I could be
> > wrong - it just sounds too fast. 
> 
> Yes, I too did think it was too fast. But really, I installed it oj a
> brand new, blank hard drive, using an official XP PRo CD, not a backup
> of an already infected installation ! So technically, the only way I
> could see that malware, was to have gotten it from the net which was
> the only link to the outside world ! :-O
> As someone mentioned it, I indeed had an old/SP1 (early 2002) Windows
> CD. But then again, in order to install SP2 I had to download it.. 200
> + MB, so still no way to avoid that malware... unless Microsoft
> expected me to buy a new updated disk of XP Pro just so I can have SP2
> straight from installing.... dream on MS ;-)
> 
> Anyway, end of thread I think, but let's just say I am sooo glad someone
> introduced me to Linux 2+ years ago, it completely changed my computing
> life to say the least...
> 
> --
> Vince, super happy with his Penguin... :-)
>