Ken wrote:
> As for code, I don't use it and will not. Entering code isone way to get
> a virus. It's silly to bother with virus protection if one simply picks up
> and uses loose codee people pass back and forth on the net.
Its difficult whom to trust, but there are computers, that dont know about
Microsofts problems. Hey, you are at a university, get a real OS ? Or a
mac ;-) Yes, its easy. You could have a second computer for your Microsoft
office things, if you realy need them (there is Star Office and
Wordperfect for everything.).
Better performance anyway.
And those multimedia datas are simple. Its a jpg or a gif or a mp3 or a
mid. So you open it and its a picture or a sound or broken.
And I suggest getting Eudora instead of "Microsoft Outlook Express". Which
is the target of all those "Melissa" etc viri.
Netscape looks much better than "Explorer" too.
I have never seen one of those email virusses. Well, I once got some kind
of "Melissa" thing, which spreaded around, but I was on VM/CMS,
bulletproof virus protection then. And I dont use "Outlook Express"
anyway.
But if you are a possible target of "Outlook Express" viri, you arent safe
anyway, whatever your virus protection software might say.
Its hard to imagine to care about Bill Gates problems.
Heiko
