Mr O, Ya I know you do that. My response was directed at this message. You sent on the 12th, see below.
Just tell them not to buy a new printer, digital camera, DVD burner, webcam, mp3 player, or flash drive. Also, don't upgrade to any new Symantec, AOL, McAffee or any other software for that matter. Just keep playing Solitaire and checking email on your low cost DUN connection. They'll be fine that way. Looking back I see that your comments were passably made in jest? -Miller On 2/14/07, Mr O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't get why that was addressed towards me!? I always tell people to update their AV and do security updates from MS but avoid IE7 for now. Also tell them to use Firefox and/or Thunderbird depending upon their problems. I advocate safety and security so I don't have to fix the same fsck'ing problems day in and day out. Cleaning up malware and viruses is not on the list of things I enjoy doing. It just comes with the job. At the same time, having to clean off bloated AV software the brings machines to a crawl is also time consuming. NIS 04 through 06 have been horrible products. People have had issues with every commercial and/or free solution available. All of the nightmares I face everyday with crappy hardware or a crappy operating system that requires constant reinstalling and calling folks on the other side of the world to activate is maddening. Many comment that I probably don't want to use a computer when I get home to which I reply "I just don't use Windows". They are welcome to gather any information from there that they please. On the flip side, I don't advocate Macs to these people either. Just safety. </eh?> Mr O. --- Michael Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mr O, > > Due to the many problems with Windows (X Product) and the fact > that > Microsoft does not spend lots of time searching for defects. ( > I do > have to say Microsoft has done a 180 on the security front.) > You > can't tell people not up date there virus scanning software. > If you > can't afford to update the software download ClamAV. There is > a > majority of security analysts and researchers who own Apple > Macintosh > and use ClamAV. Why because the OS X versions of Symantec and > McAfee > products are not as good as ClamAV. ClamAV does a good job > for a > OpenSource product. If you have a server and can afford other > software you should run ClamAV as well as X product. Defense > in depth > is what it's called. I have always been a believer in the > layered > security approach. > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by "Green Rating" at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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