From MegamanMUSH.com port 1997
2005.04.10
Solar Stega = Talec
Gemma & Gemini Man are the same person.

<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "Is anyone really good with computers? I have a problem."
<Public> Solar Stega says, "My dad is o.o I guess I could try to relay a problem to him :o"
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "I am getting this error that keeps popping up."
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "It says 'Error: The Service cannot send control messages at this time.'"
<Public> THE STRONGARM MASSIMO Steel Massimo says, "Do you have XP?"
<Public> BAM! Shield says, "huh. pester Seismic."
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "This error will pop up, and I'll click OK, and then it pops up again and again and again.  And yes, it's XP."
<Public> THE STRONGARM MASSIMO Steel Massimo says, "There's your reason."
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "OK, so how do I solve that."
<Public> THE STRONGARM MASSIMO Steel Massimo says, "No clue."
<Public> BAM! Shield says, "Seismic Earthworm can prolly help."
<Public> BAM! Shield says, "He knows XP pretty good"
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "Already cleaned up all my spyware. I'm gonna update Windows and see if taht helps"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "One moment. I am tinkering with my settings to try and reproduce your error, Gemma."
<Public> THE STRONGARM MASSIMO Steel Massimo says, "NO."
<Public> THE STRONGARM MASSIMO Steel Massimo says, "Updating Windows can be bad."
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "No updates anyway."
<Public> Solar Stega says, "Dad says: It /might/ be a virus or trojan that's trying to send something out and failing. --But if you've already done a sweep, I dunno."
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "I virus sweep once weekly and I did a full spyware sweep this morning."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Gemma, one program I always recommend is Winpatrol, which is free at www.winpatrol.com and that can help you see what your system is doing in the background."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Spyware removers will NOT stop or block viral IE toolbars."
<Public> Gemini Man says, "That is why I stopped using IE altogether."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Oh."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Well, I don't have experience with firefox."
<Public> Gemini Man says, "Firefox is better, but still not perfect"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "I preferred to fix the holes in IE. ;)"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "When you get this error, what is the Title of the window on the title bar?"
<Public> Gemini Man says, "'Error'"
<Public> Mid-Boss, Colonel says, "I AM ERROR"
<Public> Gemini Man says, "10 or 11 of them pop up all at once.  They're gone now."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Ah, okay... hmmm..."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Lemme do a bit of exploring on the page's source code."
<Public> Gemini Man says, "But it happened earlier today. I'm gonna run another virus scan and download this windows scan."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "What site is giving you the bug?"
<Public> Gemini Man says, "No site."
<Public> Gemini Man says, "It's happening at random on my PC itself"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "!"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "quickly run msconfig.exe"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "This isn't a firefox problem."
<Public> Gemini Man says, "OK, running msconfig, now what?"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "In the Services tab, you will find a list of all the background services windows runs constantly but doesn't tell you about. I will give you a list, and you should go down the list unchecking any of them that match."
<Public> Gemini Man says, "... Oh, I found one that is obviously spyware."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Get it too, then."
<Public> Plant Man says, "XXXnaughty?"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "And we'll see about removing it from startup."
<Public> Gemini Man says, "MoMoneyMaker X_X"
<Public> Renegade of Funk Umbra Phantom  e_e
<Public> Gemini Man unchecks that one
<Public> Renegade of Funk Umbra Phantom says, "HijackThis! Is good to find that stuff, too."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Application Management, Error Reporting Service, Event Log, anything matching the string "Remote Access*", Remote Desktop Help Session, QoS RSVP, SSDP Discovery Service, Performance Logs and Alerts."
<Public> Solar Stega says, "Is Error Reporting Service the thing that pops up (under that name) when something crashes? And if so, is that bad, and why? xP"
<Public> My place called Bat Vertigo, Flame Hyenard says, "It's annoying."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "It's bad because it pops up, wastes your time, reads and reports whatever you were doing, and nobody's gonna fix that crap anyways."
<Public> My place called Bat Vertigo, Flame Hyenard says, "Thank you, Sy."
<Public> My place called Bat Vertigo, Flame Hyenard had all those checked.
<Public> Solar Stega says, "Ahh, okay."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Come on now, what is Microsoft gonna do with "SimCity3000 crashed because Windows tried to overwrite its memory adress with spam?""
<Public> Gemini Man says, "So uncheck all those things, Sy?"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Uncheck all those things, hit apply."
<Public> Gemini Man says, "OK, applied"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Let's take a walk through your startup. Go click on that tab."
<Public> Gemini Man says, "OK, on startup"
<Public> Solstis says, "Psst, anyone who has a Maverick that doesn't mind saving me from imminent ow is hungrily wanted."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Start listing for me everything that's checked, one by one, and if I don't recognize it, we'll figure out what it is/does and its usefullness. Not even things that are supposedly by programs you want are useful."
<Public> Gemini Man says, "hm, another one of these is a spyware too. Wish my spy tools had caught them"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Winpatrol. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Uncheck everything that is obviously spyware."
<Public> BAM! Shield says, "Sy. Anyway I can stop Msmessenger from ever starting up or running in the background again without my specificly starting it up again?"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "I can't fix two computers at once."
<Public> My place called Bat Vertigo, Flame Hyenard says, "Ahem. Please note. If I ever lose con-death, it will only make me stronger. Thank you."
<Public> BAM! Shield fingersnaps.
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "But yes, Shield, I can."
<Public> BAM! Shield says, "maybe later then. off to dinner!"
<Public> Gemini Man says, "ViewMgr, iTunes helper, jusched (this I think is my Java console), quicktime, mhmotor.exe (I do not know what this is), nwiz.exe, ditto... and my printer, and my motintor gamma corrector"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Gimme the names of those too. I need "Startup Item" and "Command" fields."
<Public> Gemini Man says, "mhmotor, c:windows\mhmotor.exe.  goknbi, c:\windows\system32\goknbi.exe.  nwiz, nwiz.exe\install"
<Public> Green Tea Sigma says, "ROLL CALL: Who is doing talent show tonight?"
<Public> Gemini Man says, "jusched, C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5\jusched.exe"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "I can't find mhmotor.exe in my file archives. Hold on."
<Public> Gemini Man says, "iTunesHelper, C:\Program Files\itunes\ituneshelper.exe"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "UGH. iTunes."
<Public> Gauge says, "What's wrong with iTunes?  I find it to be quite the capable little media player."
<Public> Gauge says, "Sleek, too."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "If you use iTunes, leave that in."
<Public> Gemini Man says, "Yes, I do.  Sorry :)"
<Public> Gemini Man found another trojan though, farmmext
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "But it continues to hijack stuff after uninstall, which is why I groan."
<Public> Gauge says, "iTunes does?"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Okay, write farmmext down in notepad next to the other stuff."
<Public> Gemini Man says, "Last one, CTPDPSRV, Windows\system32\spool\drivers\W32X86\3\CTPDPSRV.exe"
<Public> Gemini Man says, "(i assume this one is important)"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Because I can't find goknbi or mhmotor, we're leaving them in. nwiz goes."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "CTPDPSRV is your printer driver."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "It stays."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Other than that, you look clean... hmm..."
<Public> Gemini Man says, "farmmext might by the problem"
<Public> Gemini Man says, "It's replicating, clearly"
<Public> Gemini Man says, "Might be, rather"
<Public> Gemini Man says, "What is nwiz?"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "http://www.processlibrary.com/directory/files/farmmext/"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Nwiz is your Nvidia card installer."
<Public> Gemini Man says, "But uncheck it?"
<Public> Solar Stega says, "'Transponder parasite' sounds like something you'd see in an Alien movie. e.e"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Yes."
<Public> Gemini Man says, "OK, done, and I'm deleting the farmmext files. Should I reboot?"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "It's the installer. You don't need to install it every time you run. It loads, sees that you've installed, and poks itself out of existance. But we can save time and memory by making it not start."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Hit apply."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Save your notepad file where we wrote down all the spyware names you unchecked."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Then reboot. I'll see you in a few."
<Public> Green Tea Sigma says, "Okay. If nobody volunteers for it who's supposed to do it in the next 5 minutes, I'mr escheduling the remnants of the talent show to mesh with the swimsuit in the middle of the week"
Gemma has disconnected.
Gemma has connected.
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "OK, I had a thing pop up bitching at me that I changed my startup settings. That's normal, right?"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Yes."
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "OK."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "See if you can make that error box come back."
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "Well, no error so far."
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "It wasn't popping up in response to my doing anything, however, it was popping up at random."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "I see."
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "Thank you for the help. I'll wait a while and see if it happens again."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "A lot of malware likes to use the Remote Access services to control your computer. In its natural state, this program allows a tech support representative to use the internet to offer to fix your computer. You click accept on the dialog box, and then he can monkey with your machine. When malware does it, the enemy host sends an invitation from his machine, and your spyware accepts it automatically without displaying the confirmation window. He can then do anything he wants."
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "Gross."
<Public> +finger deer! Javelin Whitetail says, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING."
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "Maybe those errors were hijack attempts"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "With that disabled, it's got nothing."
<Public> +finger deer! Javelin Whitetail says, "S'goin' on?"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "I'm fixing Gemma's computer. Then Shield's."
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "My computer was being evil. Sy fixed it though, I think."
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "Thank you Sy"
<Public> +finger deer! Javelin Whitetail says, "Mmm, computer fixin's."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "I still want you to install WinPatrol, Gemma."
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "I will."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "It gives you such a high level of control."
<Public> Solstis says, "Does it cost money?"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Nothing I offer will cost money."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Because -I- ain't got it to test with."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Winpatrol is like the reverse spyware."
<Public> BAM! Shield says, "Curse you msmsgs.exe! Take the hint and DIE"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "It spies on your computer for things that are being ADDED."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "And when it sees one, it offers to kill it for you."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Do not pass go, do not run on startup, do not steal my $200."
<Public> Solar Stega says, "Awesome. I'll have to download that later. ^^"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Shield. Run msconfig.exe"
<Public> BAM! Shield says, "I did. I unchecked it. later, after a few reboots or power offs, it returned. I go to msconfig, there's now /two/ msmessenger boxes. one unchecked, one checked. no matter how often Iuncheck the second one, it doesnt actually uncheck"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "...OH FUN!"
<Public> BAM! Shield says, "... hello, I think Winpatrol got rid of it somehow! I check again, and now its gone, and I didnt do anything but close it down thru winpatrol this evening."
<Public> BAM! Shield hugs Sy and offers babies
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Mwahaha."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Automated smackdown."
<Public> BAM! Shield says, "IN YOUR FACE BILL GATES!"
<Public> Barrage Grasshopper says, "SHIELD"
<Public> BAM! Shield will reboot now to make sure whatever I did will take hold later.
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "I had a program that was being a real pain once. It came back when I deleted it off the hard drive. It came back when I pulled it out of startup."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "It came back when I ended its task."
<Public> BAM! Shield says, "... sounds like msmessenger"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "But I figured out how to stop it."
<Public> BAM! Shield says, "threatening Gates?"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "I made a notepad file. I named it to badprogram.exe. And then replaced the program with it."
<Public> BAM! Shield says, "heh."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Now when I boot up my computer, I am greeted with "You are made of PWN.""
<Public> BAM! Shield LOL!
<Public> Solar Stega says, "Awesome. :D"
<Public> BAM! Shield says, "this computer runs pretty good now. I want to do the same for my mom's, but she wants to keep AOL on it, making it impossible to eliminate most of the garbage :("
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "FALSE!"
<Public> BAM! Shield says, "Oh?"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Very few of those programs are actually needed by AOL."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "And none of them need to be in your startup."
<Public> BAM! Shield says, "Then I shall go destroy them!"
<Public> BAM! Shield says, "To arms!"
<Public> BAM! Shield says, "(and reboot)"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Do you know why I ask the Command path, Gemma? :D"
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "Why is that?"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "When I had you give me the list from msconfig?"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Some programs will name themselves the same as legitimate programs to avoid detection."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "But they can't go in the same directory."
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "Ah, I see. Makes sense."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "So if it's named something that should be there, but is in a place it shouldn't be..."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "BAM, it's a virus."
<Public> Solstis maims his fifty thousand viruses on his puter.
<Public> BAM! Shield says, "Oh yeah! Who's your daddy MSMessenger? Sy's your daddy!"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Winpatrol notices when a program installs itself. It notices when your homepage is changed. It notices when you have bad cookies. It notices when something adds itself to startup. And it offers you a simple choice: "This program is doing this. A) No. B) Yes. C) Delete program.""
<Public> BAM! Shield says, "some day when I am not lazy and her computer is available, I will go thru and sort through the... 50? maybe /80/ processes running on my mom's computer. I know they can't all be needed, no matter how many legitimate programs I know she has running"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "I can't find -any- information on mhmotor or goknbi, Gemma."
<Public> Chris Mainards says, "EDT? What the heck is that?"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "That's usually not a -good- sign."
<Public> Amish Conspiracy Member Cygnus says, "Eastern Daylight."
<Public> Chris Mainards says, "Eastern Standard Time?"
<Public> Amish Conspiracy Member Cygnus says, "No, Eastern Daylight."
<Public> Chris Mainards says, "..."
<Public> Chris Mainards says, ">.>"
<Public> Chris Mainards says, "Which is...currently what?"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Not all Eastern recognizes Daylight Savings."
<Public> BAM! Shield says, "well poo. winpatrol /did/ get rid of the msmessenger in my startup, but not the one that's got an active process."
<Public> Amish Conspiracy Member Cygnus says, "EST, but if you have daylight savings time."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "So end its task, Shield."
<Public> Chris Mainards says, "The whole "set it an hour ahead" thing I had to do last week?"
<Public> Amish Conspiracy Member Cygnus says, "If you live in 'EST', but set your clocks forward last week, then you're on EDT."
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "The errors have stopped. Maybe they are related to a recent install I made (like 3DStudio)"
<Public> Chris Mainards says, "I see."
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "The weird processes, I mean"
<Public> Chris Mainards says, "Why the heck did they make it that complex?"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Or maybe it's related to spyware we just removed. ;)"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Let's find out!"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Ready to have some fun with me?"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "run regedit.exe"
<Public> Solstis says, "If you make Gemma's PC explode I'm going to hurt you!"
<Public> Solar Stega mmm, regedit.
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "OK, but regedit scares me"
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "running"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "First thing we're looking for is farmmext. Hit Ctrl+F and type in farmmext."
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "Found it"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "On the left, there will be a tree directory telling you where these keys are. On the right, a list of keys, and their value."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Now, did it find farmmext in a folder, a key, or a value?"
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "Folder.  MUICache"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Okay, so the Folder named MUIcache has a folder under it named farmmext? Or the folder has a key (on the right) named farmmext?"
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "Key"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Delete that key."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Click on it to highlight it."
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "OK."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "And hit delete."
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "It deleted"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Hit F3."
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "f3 didn't do anything"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "It didn't say "Searching the Registry?""
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "Oh, there we go. Finished searching, no more finds"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "And there was much rejoicing."
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "Yes, that is good"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "What other spyware did you find that we wrote down?"
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "momoney"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Ctrl+F, momoney, enter."
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "No more of those either ^^"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Spiffy."
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "So that probably did it"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "I think you're clean."
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "Thanks!"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Close regedit, no saving needed."
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "Cool."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "regedit can be a scary place. But it's useful."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "http://startup.iamnotageek.com/"

(Later. This isn't actually required reading, but it's amusing. :)

<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "WOOTBOT?"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm peers at his registry.
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "The hell did I catch wootbot?"
<Public> El Scorcho says, "What's Wootbot?"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "It's a worm."
<Public> Barrage Grasshopper says, "Anybody else up for a game or two of Starcraft?"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Slows your computer down."
<Public> El Scorcho acks.
<Public> Solar Stega says, "I've heard of Wootbot. :O"
<Public> Sera says, "I would if I still owned it."
<Public> Jetter! Top Man says, "the thing I wanna know is, who the heck is Arrow_Seven?"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "It listens for ICQ commands to tell it what to do."
<Public> Barrage Grasshopper says, "Ring Man."
<Public> El Scorcho says, "I guess you're not safe no matter what, eh, Seismic?"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Nah, I think I know where I got this."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "I brought it home from work, where I was using my laptop on the LAN to diagnose the other computers."
<Public> El Scorcho ahas.
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "*clicks* It's off my machine now."
<Public> El Scorcho says, "Did you send it... TO THE NEXT DIMENSION!?!"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "No, I sent it to the bit bucket."
<Public> El Scorcho says, "That's a bit like the next dimension..."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "I have a USB ramstick drive called 'bitbucket' where I zip and store all the viruses that infect my computer."
<Public> El Scorcho says, "That's what the world needs: A Vegeta themed virus scan."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "I later dissect them."
<Public> El Scorcho says, "You crazy you."
<Public> Solar Stega says, "Heheh. X)"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "One time though someone pissed me off."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "So I unzipped all those bugs to his computer and ran them."
<Public> El Scorcho eeks.
<Public> Solar Stega makes a note never to get on Sy's bad side. :D
<Public> BAM! Shield LOL
<Public> El Scorcho always wanted a virus collection...
<Public> El Scorcho says, "My collection of rare, incurable diseases -- Defiled!"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "The USB thing is cool. All the good viruses will get bitchy if you try to just delete them. "Windows is using this program" and such, so you can't delete it. But they forget about MOVE."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "I move it to another drive."
<Public> El Scorcho heehees.
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Then I can zip them."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "And once it's zipped, it's not doing anything."
<Public> El Scorcho says, "And that's that, eh?"
<Public> El Scorcho is old school so viruses scare the crap out of me.
<Public> El Scorcho says, "It seems like in the old days the average virus took your whole computer out."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Those stopped for a reason."
<Public> Barrage Grasshopper is about to start without you, Rush.
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "In the old days it was cool to erase someone's hard drive."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Hard drives were so small you couldn't have an entire company's worth of data on them."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Now a virus that just flat out wipes the hard drive gets you sued. HARD."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "By people who have WAY deeper pockets than you."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "It's better to steal from them with viruses."
<Public> My place called Bat Vertigo, Flame Hyenard says, "Please note. I hate Envy's American voice."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Steal money, information, time, productivity. Use it yourself."
<Public> BAM! Shield says, "Mr. Miyagi rocks."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Also windows won't let you just casually delete the C drive."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "DOS would."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm <3 DOS.
<Public> El Scorcho remembers my friend finding a glitch on the BBS code...
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "When you tell DOS to do something, it doesn't whine and kvetch."
<Public> My place called Bat Vertigo, Flame Hyenard says, "I did that once, Sy."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "It does it. And leaves you to deal with the aftermath."
<Public> El Scorcho says, "he was logged onto a BBS and he made it crash in a way that dropped him into the C: prompt. :P"
<Public> My place called Bat Vertigo, Flame Hyenard says, "You can't delete the whole C Drive."
<Public> El Scorcho says, "DOS isn't presumptuous."
<Public> My place called Bat Vertigo, Flame Hyenard says, "Once you hit a few files, it will stop."
<Public> My place called Bat Vertigo, Flame Hyenard says, "You can delete MOST of the C drive."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "I deleted all of the C drive with 3.1"
<Public> BAM! Shield says, "deltree :)"
<Public> BAM! Shield says, "deletes the whole drive in one command"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "It loads into memory."
<Public> My place called Bat Vertigo, Flame Hyenard says, "Once Deltree hits Command.com it goes ARGH."
<Public> El Scorcho says, "Windows presumes it knows better than you."
<Public> My place called Bat Vertigo, Flame Hyenard says, "And dies."
<Public> El Scorcho says, "What's wrong with 'format' :)"
<Public> BAM! Shield says, "what DOS are /you/ using? o.O"
<Public> My place called Bat Vertigo, Flame Hyenard says, "Plain DOS."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Not in 3.1, when the entire OS fit into conventional memory. ;)"
<Public> My place called Bat Vertigo, Flame Hyenard says, "No Windows."
<Public> My place called Bat Vertigo, Flame Hyenard says, "Just Dos."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "DOS 3.1"
<Public> My place called Bat Vertigo, Flame Hyenard says, "This was DOS... 6.9 or something."
<Public> El Scorcho says, "DOS is hardcore."
<Public> El Scorcho says, "Sixty-nine, dude!"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "right."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Bigger versions of DOS support windows, not the other way around."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "WINDOWS used to be a DOS program."
<Public> My place called Bat Vertigo, Flame Hyenard says, "Correct."
<Public> El Scorcho says, "I remember."
<Public> Solar Stega says, "Ahh, all this talk about DOS is making me wish the Pentium 90 wasn't in pieces.."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "DOS 3.1 had no trouble deleting command.com and when it was done it returned you to a C:"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "And the next time you rebooted, your computer STARED at you."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "With that vacant drooling expression."
<Public> El Scorcho remembers the first family computer... A 286 that was pretty top of the line at the time.
<Public> Seismic Earthworm remembers playing Sopwith.
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "You flew a biplane, and dropped bombs, and there was this other plane that tried to nail you."
<Public> El Scorcho says, "Sopwith was awesome."
<Public> Barrage Grasshopper remembers when we MUSHed through the post. Man, it took forever to get a scene done.
<Public> El Scorcho says, "Sopwith 2 was better. There's an official site where you can download a Windows-enabled Sopwith?"
<Public> El Scorcho says, "Did you know? :)"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm did not! I've been playing The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "The text adventure?"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "YES!"
<Public> 11* Cuteness: Jazz says, "I remember that."
<Public> El Scorcho says, "DId you know the author programmed that himself?"
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "I have that, but there's something wrong with saving states, so I have to just gun all the way through."
<Public> El Scorcho says, "Douglas Adams?"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "I managed to get myself onto the starship, but I died from lack of protein."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Yes, Adams did that."
<Public> El Scorcho says, "That game is cruel."
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma says, "I can get all the way to Vogon Poetry before dying. you do die a lot."
<Public> El Scorcho says, "It will kill you at the end for something you failed to do at the beginning."
<Public> Just kidding about PonyCon, Gemma nods.
<Public> El Scorcho spent a lot of time in a vogon's armpit.
<Public> El Scorcho says, "But how many game versions of novels are written by the original author? I always thought that was awfully cool. :)"
<Public> >"< <3 - Dr. Holtz says, "Was Mega Man 2 the first time Mega Man was helmetless?"
<Public> 11* Cuteness: Jazz says, "I don't think he was in MM1, so... sure."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "I kept getting killed by a brick from my house. No matter how far I ran, that brick could hit me."
<Public> El Scorcho says, "He takes it off in the last half of the ending in the first one."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Aha. I turned my security off for the network session and forgot to turn it back on. That's my problem. Winpatrol hasn't been running for a month! :D"
<Public> Barrage Grasshopper says, "BRUCE"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "OOOOOH, lookat it kill the buggies!"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "It's like putting a swarm of angry bees..."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "In the microwave."
<Public> El Scorcho says, "Is it full of spyware and viruses?"
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "My machine's a bit dirty just now, yes."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "I'm killing them."
<Public> Seismic Earthworm says, "Done."

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