This is good advice O. I typically recommend non-savvy users to get a hw firewall/router immediately if they have a broadband connection.
FWIW, AV, FW and patching make up the core of what MS calls 'Protect your PC' (their overall strategy for security guidance for end/home users). They've been recommending this route for a few years now: http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx --- Mr O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > XP Home and Pro both give any users entered during > setup Admin > access. > > "Any user not running FW or AV" is overrated. A > router does a > fine job of providing one with a hardware firewall > (although as > hackable as any other firewall), and you could get > by without AV > software if you know exactly what you're doing on > the web as > long as you have a firewall. Of course, I would > recommend that > 99.9% of Windows users have both. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
