On Tuesday 24 August 2004 12:23 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Tuesday 24 August 2004 18:21, PM wrote: > > <big whack> > > > Hi Kaj, > > > > I see you've received plenty of replies re adaware, Zone Alarm > > etc. > > > > You say that you need XP for school related apps, but does this > > include internet access? > > > > If not, I would suggest you dual-boot, set up a FAT 32 partition > > to store data that can be read by both XP & Linux, and use linux > > for emails, web. file transfers, etc. yes, virii can be > > transferred by a linux box, but you'll stand a better chance of > > catching it. > > > > Paul M > > Hoyt, Bryan, Franki, Lyvim, Todd, Lanman, PM, Thereidos, Wally, > Charlie !!!!!! > > What a wonderful list this is. Thank you all. > > Here's a (compressed) battle report from the XP front : > > The fool (me) ran Windows-update first. Apparently a big mistake. > Next, I installed OpenOffice and Moxilla directly from the net, > using IE. Big mistake, I suppose. Then ZoneAlarm. Then AGV > antivirus. (which seems to work well). > > After that I cleaned up with XoftSpy, getting rid of another > [EMAIL PROTECTED] of malware. (some of it re-installs immidiately). > > Now - after about 5 hours of intense shelling, every time I daringly > peep up from my foxhole, this box attracts enemy fire from > artillery, flame-throwers, machine guns and whatnot. ZoneAlarm is > on overtime, popping up every other second. > > I guess all those defenses are chewing up most of my CPU cycles, > what with the system becoming incredibly slow. > > If I hadn't been warned of Windows by the years on this list, I'd > never believe my own eyes : what a mountain of manure, this XP ! > Crappy isn't the word.... Jeez...... > > Tomorrow I'll work on with this �%&## "operating system" following > all your kind advice, but : I WILL DO IT OFF LINE. I intend to > download the suggested programs onto my Mandrake box, burn the lot > to CD and install from there. > > Furthermore, I got an agreement with my daughter : until further > notice, she will do ALL of her networking from my Linux box (she is > a user here) and only do some schoolwork on the Windows box, as you > suggested. Clumsy, but necessary. > > If everything fails, I will buy a router or let her connect through > my Linux box, eventually, but I'm too lazy and frustrated to set it > up right now. > > I cannot for my souls sake get into my head, that some people > voluntarily runs this garbage OS. > > But that's me.... > > Thanks again, folks My Neighbor claims (with a straight face no less that his win boxhas never been hacked ..i didn't tell him ;-) ) > > Kaj Haulrich.
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