On Sunday 07 September 2003 02:52 am, HaywireMac wrote: > > You could save yourself a whooooole lot of money, flush McAfee, AVG, and > whatever whatchamacallits that make $ from Microsoft's egregious > incompetence, down the toilet if you would get rid of at least Outhouse, > at best the whole Windows thang. The only *reason* people who run Linux > even *use* anti-virus software (which is free BTW), for the most part, > is to be nice and not allow viruses to spread to people who are unlucky > enough to use Windows. >
on my windows side, i do run AVG, that's the only virus program i run, and it's free, does updates for free and when in windows, i have it running all the time (although i rarely use windows anymore). i havn't ever seen the need for 3 or 4 virus programs running at one time in windows, i've only ever run 1 at a time. and over the course of a year before i started running virus programs, i only ever picked up one virus. EVER. and to top it off, i spent years on AOL and only ever got that one virus. over the next few years running virus protection all the time, i never picked up a single virus and was never alerted to any viruses in my system or e-mails. people i knew on aol used to pick up viruses left and right, but they'd only be running a single virus program that did free updates whenever needed and the viruses were always blocked before they infected their computer. you don't need to be THAT worried, just pick one program that automatically does updates and you'll be fine. Mike
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