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to: Antti Kurenniemi
from: Mike N.
date: 2007-04-26 06:27:38
subject: Re: Microsoft troublshooting page needs troubleshooting

From: Mike N. 

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:16:11 +0300, "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote:

>and have Windows find the drivers online, like it always suggests? I
>keep trying that, hoping I won't have to do a search on the manufacturers
>website, but so far out of the zillion installs I've done I have 0, zero,
>none, where the driver was found online...

   I think it was just another excuse to go online more than anything else.
Perhaps they discovered a security vulnerability where a hacker could get
the online search to download random malware.   Most people would accept
anything found by windows online search, not realizing that it might not be
from Microsoft.

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