On Saturday 23 October 2004 08:04 pm, Tom & Karen Pino wrote: > I keep getting things "from" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am well aware > that I did not send this and so assume that a lot of the spam I get is > from a bogus adress.
Yeah, you're right there. I've had people email me asking why I sent them a virus... I only had to say "I'm running Linux, so I can't send you a virus". That and "check out the headers - that's what tells the truth". I recently had about 10 viruses come into my inbox, and the funny thing is, they were all supposed to be FROM me TO me. Doing a little checking, I found out that one of my contacts had gotten a virus, and of course it was spoofing everything. What happens is, the virus raids their address book, and randomly sends out viruses to everyone in that address book, and it picks a random user from the address book to spoof from. It took all of about 30 seconds to figure out where it was coming from - I ended up going over to her office and cleaning up the system, and the emails disappeared. Funny how that works... > We bought this computer, our first, 6 years ago. I have files, saved > through reformatting, from 3 months in to working with Win98. My > experience prior to that was with just DOS machines. I realize that all > Windaze dose is to work dos for you. A rather silly thing if you ask me. Yep... Actually, in XP (and possibly in 2000), it's the other way around I believe... Everything is run from the within the Windows environment, and the dos prompt is just an emulation of Dos gone by. Either way, it's all about the same in the Windows world... > That said, I must say, that I have not been tempted to "upgrade" to a > newer Win version. I abelong to a Win list and have come to the > conclusion that 98, maybe 98SE, are the pinacle of Win developement. I > would like a newer computer that is a bit faster but 98 is doing the > job. When we do it will be linux. I actually prefer 2000 over the rest of the Windows versions, mostly because it LOOKS like 98 but is easier on the eyes. Then again, who's counting votes? Hehe > My son, poor guy, decided that he needed to "improve" and so went to > 2000 and ME (I think that ME was to convince people that they needed > XP). He wants nothing to do with Windoze what so ever. He still does > have an ME machine but I got email from him off his linux machine > (kmail). He did not get his system straightened out throught the > information that I ineptly got from this list but he did find some other > resourses on his computer (documentation) that has helped greatly that > he found through some of the (undoubtedly grabled) info that I tried to > give him over the phone. He has been rooting through your archives > also. Seems to think that there is good stuff there. Actually ME was a version of 98 which they were trying to port over to NT... It came out WAY ahead of time as far as the development goes, and it was just bad all the way around. Windows 2000 was a whole new design (from the ground up) with the look of 98SE, so it worked a lot better. As far as searching through the Mandrake Linux archives, you can't get much better than this. He will find that Google is his friend though (especially Google Linux - http://www.google.com/linux). > I have had the guts to try Mandrake Move. Yes had to change my bios > settings to boot from the CD. Was impressed with the speed working off > a CD. I do have a 3 CD version (download I think of 9.2) and have a > some what older machine that needs only a couple of things to work that > may well get that loaded on to it in the next few months. Sounds good. I think you'll love it when you do switch over... > Back to the virus stuff. I just seent that in because I thought that it > was information that someone may want. I have never had a virus because > we do not have our adress all over the web and I had Norton system Works > installed when we bought this thing and I keep it updated and actually > run it. We also have Spybot Search and Destroy. Between that and not > installing MS Outlook and using Netscape 7.1 with fairly high security > settings, we seem to do all right. Our ISP seems to have a good filter > too which is a fairly new development. Yeah - I do IT work on a bunch of PC's at work, and I always put on Spybot S&D (with the teatime settings), Ad-Aware, and we purchased "CleanMyPC" registry cleaner. With that I've been able to get rid of all the extra unnecssary junk on those systems. The final thing I did was put an actual administrator account on the system, and put the users in a limited account. That prevents quite a bit of garbage from collecting as well. Needless to say, with me running Linux, I never have to worry about any of that. > The biggest security risk we have is a 13 year old with the normal lack > of descretion in where he goes on the web. I know that about half the > sites he "visits" try to install spyware. So far they have not. All I > can say is that if we can avoid this most people should be able to also. Yeah, I understand there. Well, give it a little bit of time, and when you DO get Linux installed on your system, you can let him surf on pretty much any website and you won't even have to worry about popups... > A lower profile OS is very atractive. Then you're looking at the right one! -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com
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