AnneL
SPFG, Supreme Picture Framing God
ResNet is the computer service for my daughter's college. A few months ago, when she was home for spring break, she went and checked her university email from the house and the next day the computer refused to boot up. It kept telling me it had a registry root failure.
We thought it had just given up the ghost. It never really worked right to begin with. It's orginal operating system was Windows ME but we got fed up and put XP on it instead. We wound up taking it to the local computer guy. He put XP pro on it and got it all up to date for $89.
This weekend, my daughter who is now home for the summer, went to check her campus emails and the next day the computer was dead again! Same problem as before, a registry root failure. This was too much of a coincidence! This time, my daughter goes "Oh, that's the same problem my friend had with her computer after she logged onto the university system from off campus!"
Now I'm mad! Unfortunately, in logging on, my daughter has to accept a liablity waiver that says they are not responsible for any damage that occurs to your system! I feel like calling them up and reading them the riot act anyway. At the very least, they need to fix their security so this doesn't happen. At least it wasn't one of our business computers that got hit, just the junker we use at home for internet and home finances. Luckily, I backup after every use. Now I have to reinstall everything again!
We thought it had just given up the ghost. It never really worked right to begin with. It's orginal operating system was Windows ME but we got fed up and put XP on it instead. We wound up taking it to the local computer guy. He put XP pro on it and got it all up to date for $89.
This weekend, my daughter who is now home for the summer, went to check her campus emails and the next day the computer was dead again! Same problem as before, a registry root failure. This was too much of a coincidence! This time, my daughter goes "Oh, that's the same problem my friend had with her computer after she logged onto the university system from off campus!"

Now I'm mad! Unfortunately, in logging on, my daughter has to accept a liablity waiver that says they are not responsible for any damage that occurs to your system! I feel like calling them up and reading them the riot act anyway. At the very least, they need to fix their security so this doesn't happen. At least it wasn't one of our business computers that got hit, just the junker we use at home for internet and home finances. Luckily, I backup after every use. Now I have to reinstall everything again!
