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 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 core)
 MG>>>> run
 EH>>>>>>> Linux (Ubuntu) and viruses, spyware and
other malware can't 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 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 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 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 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 that

*YET*  :)

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

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

-- 
L'Chaim,
Mimi

fcpnmimi(at)cox.net


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