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What is the scariest moment in security in your life?
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<blockquote data-quote="Chuck57" data-source="post: 1036781" data-attributes="member: 75774"><p>Just thought of something even more frightening than my previous post. Many years ago, probably in the late 1990s, there was a great little piece of software called Tiny Firewall. I used it, not having a clue what it did. Later it improved to Tiny Firewall version 4 that had all sorts of very simple ways to adjust it to make it more secure, mostly by just clicking on boxes. Simple and easy. Well, genius that I am, I checked boxes left and right. Not a clue what they did, but by golly my computer was going to be absolutely secure. And it was. After shutting down for the night, I turned it on next day and couldn't get to my desktop. I'd locked myself out of my own computer. It proved Tiny v4 worked. I spent hours trying to find a way to get to the desktop. Even safe mode didn't work. I was locked out. </p><p></p><p>Fortunately, I had all the floppy disks to reinstall the OS, either Win 95 or 98, and that worked. I did not reinstall Tiny firewall.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chuck57, post: 1036781, member: 75774"] Just thought of something even more frightening than my previous post. Many years ago, probably in the late 1990s, there was a great little piece of software called Tiny Firewall. I used it, not having a clue what it did. Later it improved to Tiny Firewall version 4 that had all sorts of very simple ways to adjust it to make it more secure, mostly by just clicking on boxes. Simple and easy. Well, genius that I am, I checked boxes left and right. Not a clue what they did, but by golly my computer was going to be absolutely secure. And it was. After shutting down for the night, I turned it on next day and couldn't get to my desktop. I'd locked myself out of my own computer. It proved Tiny v4 worked. I spent hours trying to find a way to get to the desktop. Even safe mode didn't work. I was locked out. Fortunately, I had all the floppy disks to reinstall the OS, either Win 95 or 98, and that worked. I did not reinstall Tiny firewall. [/QUOTE]
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