Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 EH> 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
 EH> 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
 EH> companies
 EH>>>>> are
 MG>>>>>>>>>> gonna
 RC>>>>>>>>>>> roll something new down the
pike, as far as Microsoft
 EH> 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
 EH> 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
 EH> 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*  :)

 EH> 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
 EH> doesn't
 MG>> require me to learn too many new things. :)

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

 EH> Ed

New technology intimidates me. I'm sure that my cell phone does lots of
things besides phone calls (I have a Motorola Razr) but I'll be darned if
that manual is in English.  :)

-- 
L'Chaim,
Mimi

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