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 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 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 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 McAfee is
 MG> way slower on my machine than AVG free is. Personal preference Norton's
 MG> is good too, but prcey these days. :(

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

The nice thing about Linux is that there are no viruses or spyware that
effect it. That and it blows Vista/XP/etc. away.

Ed

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