Question: Could you do something on the Hare Krishna virus? It was supposed to trash people’s hard drives on Aug.22 a few years ago, and again on Sept 22 that same year. What – if anything – happened? –B.E.W. Answer: The virus you refer to is best known as the Hare.7610 virus, but is sometimes […]
Question: I have a rather bizarre problem. I was trying to set up a network game using a beta version of KALI when suddenly my system froze. I rebooted and got a major-league error: “sndport.386 not responding … blah blah,” you get the idea. This was a system error, before I even got into Windows’95. […]
Question: I’ve got a bit of a problem. I bought some memory (72 pin, 70 ns, and 4MB modules totaling 12 Meg) for my computer, but realized that it only took 30 pin SIMMS. I have since bought some more memory, since I’ve heard that the 72 pin to 30 pin adapters were unreliable. My […]
Question: I have a Pentium 100 MHz with 16 megs of EDO RAM as well as 256K of pipeline burst cache, running Windows 95. My mouse is installed on COM1. I recently bought a Cardinal 28.8 Plug-n-Play modem. It installed correctly, but because of the PnP ability, Windows assigned it to COM3, IRQ 9. It […]
Question: I have inherited a computer from a friend that runs Windows 95. The problem that I am having is with Explorer Version 4. The content advisory was enabled by my friend because she had children using this computer. I would like to disable the content advisory, but do not have the password to do […]