Work Computer Laugh

Beatnik

Beatnik

What's this ?
Guy is complaining his computer here and had me look at it, he complains, they fix it and he's down waiting a lot. It's one of those little black boxes with win 7 on it, constantly slow and giving printer problems. They use these things and are pay supported by an outside service, I'm still using my XP machine and told them to keep their effing hands off it.

I brought up task manager and the CPU is pegging 100% just sitting idle ! Think about it, then check the drive and it's solid blue on used space. Pull out an old XP machine and move his stuff to it (excel and office stuff). Internet was slow, turned off all the windows security stuff and it whips around just fine.

Go back to the black box, and just removing enough to give a little pink line on it brought it back to life. Why would a company of supposed experts on this fill a drive with so much crap it can't run ?

Rant over
 
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Thing is they have control and allow you to do nothing to these little black boxes. He says he'll be sitting there and they take control of his mouse. lol
 
You generally have to grant control to IT for that to happen. (The mouse thing). Sure beats having no where to sit while the IT guy works on your machine.

Windows 10 has been by far the smoothest Windows experience I've had and I've been on the platform since Win98. As someone with an interest in infosec, I hope you don't connect anything running XP to the internet.

Sounds to me like you need to hire a new IT crew.
 
EngineerNate said:
I hope you don't connect anything running XP to the internet.
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6 days a week.

I'm just a craftsman/maintenance guy, but half of the production facility and 100% of inventory runs on my excel programs lol. The other on an old dos program from before I was there.

I'm not bragging, it would still all be done on paper with calculators if not for excel.
 
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I'm serious it looked like this, but on win7.

disk_properties.png

And after we removed the excel files it had a little pink line.
 
Yeah that'll bork just about any operating system.

I hope your security via obscurity policy works out for you. It's ugly when a business critical machine gets compromised.
 
Beatnik said:
Why would a company of supposed experts on this fill a drive with so much crap it can't run ?
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People are stupid.

When I was working at a college, after napster came out, we would get weekly calls from one of the top three highest paid employees at the college for computer errors because the hard drive was full. Weekly I would go over and delete hundreds of music files and uninstall napster. As soon as I left she'd reload it and start downloading. After two months the college bought her a zip drive.:rolleyes:

Went out for dozens of calls for lock ups and slow downs. Ask them if they'd downloaded anything, installed anything...
"Oh no, just work stuff."
As far as I knew Comet Cursor was not approved by the college .
"What, that's not really anything, is it?":rolleyes:
 
When I worked at MegaCorp, the PCs were all on a single image, centrally managed, locked down tightly. Couldn't install anything except from the company software store, which installed it remotely. 150,000 employees, never once a security breach. All emails were centrally scanned, any attachment with even a remote possibility of infecting a PC was removed, before moving from the horrendous M$ Office to the far more secure Google G-Suite.

Smaller companies that aren't taking security seriously are just ripe for ransomware. Not a laughing matter.
 
chicks said:
When I worked at MegaCorp, the PCs were all on a single image, centrally managed, locked down tightly. Couldn't install anything except from the company software store, which installed it remotely. 150,000 employees, never once a security breach. All emails were centrally scanned, any attachment with even a remote possibility of infecting a PC was removed, before moving from the horrendous M$ Office to the far more secure Google G-Suite.

Smaller companies that aren't taking security seriously are just ripe for ransomware. Not a laughing matter.
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Yep. I work in Aerospace. Win XP isn't even allowed on a network connected to the internet at my job.
 
All this "software security" stuff is worth nothing if you let "some company" take control over your PC.

For safety, some "restorable" backup is needed.

The "restorable" being the most important thing, which includes hardware, and the knowledge whether the backup is still restorable on new hardware if the hardware is obsolete.
 
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