Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 MG> Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 EH>> Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:


 BK>>>>>>>>>>>  So, don't download the
latest version of Internet explorer 7
 BK>>>>>>>>>>>  from some link sent you in an email.

 RC>>>>>>>>>> All common sense...

 RC>>>>>>>>>> Dont download Windows Antivirus
2008/2009 or you will be
 MG> sorry.

 RC>>>>>>>>>> If one bothers to follow the
tech blogs via RSS feed or
 EH>>>> otherwise,
 EH>>>>>>>> one
 RC>>>>>>>>>> can get a feel for when
Microsoft and other software companies
 EH>>>> are
 MG>>>>>>>>> gonna
 RC>>>>>>>>>> roll something new down the
pike, as far as Microsoft goes, if
 EH>>>> one
 RC>>>>>>>>>> doesnt have time to read the
tech blogs, then only trust
 EH>> Windows
 MG>>>>>>>>> Update.

 MG>>>>>>>>> I have my machine set for automatic
updates. The only things I
 EH>>>> ever
 MG>>>>>>>>> download are audiobooks and after
downloading them, before I
 EH>> even
 MG>>>>>>> look
 MG>>>>>>>>> at the files I run AVG scan
selected files on them.

 EH>>>>>>>> I am virtually free of M$. I only have
one Windows box and it
 EH>> runs
 EH>>>>>>>> Win2k. The rest of my boxes (including
this new AMD X2 dual
 MG> core)
 MG>>>>> run
 EH>>>>>>>> Linux (Ubuntu) and viruses, spyware and
other malware can't
 MG> touch
 MG>>>>> me.

 MG>>>>>>> (I'm knocking wood as I type this) The
*ONLY* virus I've ever
 MG>>> gotten
 MG>>>>>>> came from my husband the day after we got
remarried. It was
 EH>>>> called "I
 MG>>>>>>> love you". It didn't hurt my machine
but a little worm got
 MG> into my
 MG>>>>>>> address book and sent itself to everyone in
it. (still knocking
 MG>>> wood
 MG>>>>>>> ) I never open attachments sent to
me in email, I practice
 MG> safe
 MG>>>>>>> computing. :)

 EH>>>>>> Heh heh... I remember cleaning that one off of
several customers'
 MG>>>>> systems.

 EH>>>>>> I worked on one guy's computer that had over
100 viruses on it. Of
 EH>>>>>> course, he had no anti-virus software at all.

 MG>>>>> Sounds like one of those kind of folks who you see
doing something
 MG>>>>> *REALLY* stupid and you think "how did that guy survive
 MG>>> childhood?" :)

 EH>>>> Someone had told him that anti-virus software would slow his
 MG> computer
 EH>>>> down. He soon learned that the alternative slowed it
down even more.

 MG>>> I would never advocate having no protection for a machine, but
 EH>> McAfee is
 MG>>> way slower on my machine than AVG free is. Personal preference
 EH>> Norton's
 MG>>> is good too, but prcey these days. :(

 EH>> I don't have any protection on this system or six of my other
 MG> systems. I
 EH>> do have protection (avast! anti-virus and a couple anti-spy/malware
 EH>> apps) on the only Windows computer I have, though. :-)

 EH>> The nice thing about Linux is that there are no viruses or spyware
 MG> that

 MG> *YET*  :)

I doubt there will be anything to worry about anytime soon.

 EH>> effect it. That and it blows Vista/XP/etc. away.

 MG> Your preference, my machine does everything I need it to do and doesn't
 MG> require me to learn too many new things. :)

You'd be surprised at how little you would need to learn to do everything you do now.

Ed

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