From: Jeff Shultz 

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 07:16:25 -0400, Mike N. wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 22:47:16 -0400, "Rich Gauszka"

> wrote:
>
>> This XP variant, Windows XP Starter Edition, strips
>>out features such as multiple-user capability and home networking, and it
>>only lets you run three programs at a time.
>
>   The reason they removed home networking is that otherwise you'd have a
> spiral of death - as spyware accumulates from the network, they count as
> programs.   After there are 3 trojans / spyware running, you can't run
> anything....

New record today - 1135 hits on Ad-Aware 1.05 w/updates on a single
machine. And that's after some cleaning, like the 233 trojans that AVG took
care of, and deleting a bunch of temp files and whatnot.

The machine was restored back to Day 1 w/format before it left the office.

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