i'm trying to install windows xp on a system that doesn't boot from usb and i have no cd-rs and it is a daunting task that has taken me over 2 days now
a pentium III with 512MB RAM is still all you need in 2023 to listen to soma fm
this computer already has malware in it
@mavica_again Did the MBR get fucked?
@jake no since this is coming _from_ the MBR. somehow a broken boot.ini got installed fresh
@mavica_again Enjoy your exorcism!
@mavica_again secret agent station playing right now (via beaglebone though)
@mavica_again i installed a copy of Ms Office for Mac purchased from my campus computer store, on my new white 2006 intel MacBook (1st gen). I happened to launch Word on -the- weekend a particular benign “happy birthday” macro virus was programmed to trigger.
I was livid. Ms allowed an infected CD to ship. The updates available had nothing to address this cross platform macro vulnerability, that rendered Word useless for the weekend.
@mavica_again I’m running msconfig on it
@aquinton it's so cursed. empty folders started appearing in program files referencing software i didn't install like xerox and frontpage and you can't delete them. the firewall is disabled for like 10 seconds each boot. it's amazing how these things even still proliferate to this day without intentionally downloading anything
@aquinton i once had one of these malwares like this show up on a Windows 2000 install last year. only it was completely unconvincing because it disguised itself as a version of Firefox too new too run on 2000
@mavica_again@computerfairi.es @aquinton@computerfairi.es Xerox.. wait.. I remember some reason why you couldn't delete that folder on XP.
i managed to rebuild the boot.ini but now the bootstrapped xp install can't see the usb drive to install from ... so i'm once again booting from a really slow ubuntu 10 livecd to copy them off the flash drive to the partition... this is cursed