On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 23:19, Eric Huff wrote: > > Hell, I go for a much more subtle approach. > > "How have you guys been standing up to Sobig and MSBlaster this > > week?... got any idea of what it's cost you? I sure am glad I don't > > have to worry about that, if you ever want to try out Linux, let me > > know, I have a set of CDs in the truck, I can give you if you want,,, > > you know these virus only attack MS products". > > Isn't it true that if you are "fully patched" (as painful as that is) > that these virus's don't get you? >
my two baht worth: keeping yourself "fully patched" *is* painful enough - it leads directly to the reason I'm here. Just keeping AVG up to date alone: 1.5M every few days on a dialup that I have to pay for both by the minute and by the Meg, not to mention the times [often] when the connection drops almost at the end of the download, so you have to download it again... As for windoze update - don't get me started :) And in my case, even though I was updated and all, suddenly I had Zonealarm asking if I wanted to let all these "make money fast" schemes to act as a server. That's what pi**ed me off - the fact that something could get written to my hard drive and executed without my knowledge. If the casino crap could get through, what about those stories about kiddie porn and beasties and such - you hear about those lowlifes hijacking other ppl's computers for their crap... Just imagine a bunch of cops burst through your door and take away your computer and find some "extra"-naughty pics on it... "Oh it must have been a virus that put those there"!!! I could imagine that's a defense that wouldn't fly - and here in Thailand they put in [a really horrible] prison for a few years *then* kill you for that sort of thing... When the stakes are that high, windoze isn't worth it! -- Merlin Zener
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