---- William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Walter Hamler" > Subject: Re: OT: New Computer Questions > > > > Thanks Mike and others. I will try to learn this new system slowly. So > > far it is working pretty good. At least it works! > > I made a print from a file that had been corrected and it came out > > pretty close to the screen, especially after the print had a few hours > > to dry and stabilize. > > BTW, are there any recommendations out there for good virus software? > > I deleted Norton as soon as I fired up the computer the forst time and > > then turned on the Vista Firewall. It still reminds me that I have no > > anti-virus software. > > I've been using AVG (free). It seems OK. > You should also have a decent router (hardware firewall). > Something that doesn't respond to pings.
A router is even better than that. You can set your PC to be "inert" but stuff can still get through to it. The router is just a message passing device between your PC and the outside. If it receives a message that it has no instructions for (like your PC asks it to fetch a web page or a file) it discards it. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
