The current virus attracks are ALWAYS against Microsoft software, because people are mad as hell and fed up with their crap.
Get a Mac, and you will have a TOTALLY different computing experience.
C.
I suffered through Windoze from 1995 - 2000. NEVER AGAIN!
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IMHO, an os that requires you to check for daily goldanged updates has rocks in its head. If automobiles were as reliable as computers, we'd all be riding horses (or mebbe goats or bicycles).
-Lon
John Coyle wrote:The main point here is surely that Microsoft released a secuirty patch in
July to deal with this: anyone running XP with Live Update enabled should be
secure even without a firewall in place. In today's environment, if you are
running XP and you're not checking for updates on a daily basis, you got
rocks in your head!
My own systems, which have been on 24/7 since 21/7 (nice alliteration
there!), and on which I run both the built-in XP firewall and the cable
modem firewall, have been tottally unaffected. Each, in addition, has
up-to-date anti-virus software running all the time.
I'm not sure that I understand the difference betweem "hardware" and "software" firewalls - it's all software of one sort or another!
John Coyle Brisbane, Australia
