[iBook] Second Hand Mac woes

[Alex Santos 100MB Neostrada Mail]

In fact a friend of mine took it to his work place and will wipe the 
drive and get an OS on it…that will be the end of the problems.
>
> You need to wipe the hard drive and reinstall the OS. Not only do you 
> NOT know what kind of garbage was installed by the previous owner 
> (would you be happy if there was a Trojan Horse running that sent 
> everything you typed to a hacker someplace?), you have no idea if the 
> machine is even working correctly and you don't have passwords so you 
> can't really even use OS X.
>
>
>    DMC
>
> David M. Converse
> www.lumigraphics.com
>
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