at risk of sounding like a gouged or cracked 78 (look! he got back on-topic!), one easy way to find help is to go here with credit card in hand:
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa as with anything else, there's always a point where it's time to cut one's losses and move on. the amount of money time and grief each person is able/willing to spend varies, but at some point enough is enough, and they just go buy a mac. and i know of not one person who has gone over to the Mac side, and then returned to windows. -- peter On Nov 22, 2006, at 3:07 PM, Rich wrote: > The real sad news is that IE-7 and Vista offer no improvement on > the present situation. > > Most people who end up with an infected computer have absolutely no > idea how to install an > alternative to either internet explorer or either outlook let alone > how to keep all of the other > deadly windows "features" from running quietly in the background. > Nor do they have any idea > how to find someone who can help them. > > Rich > > On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:11:34 -0800, Peter Fraser wrote: > >> sure there were a few Mac virii back in the Jurassic era, but I >> haven't used Hypercard for at least a decade, and thus feel safe. It >> took Gates and crew to truly inspire the scriptkiddies to their >> current heights of achievement! is the number of windoze virii in >> the tens of thousands, or the hundreds of thousands now? > >> your basic advice is extremely sound - if you don't feel like >> spending $600 on a new Mac (firewall built into the OS, standard, >> btw), at least chuck anything with the name "Outlook" in its title, >> for safety as well as ease of use. > >> -- peter > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > [email protected] > > Phono-L Archive > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ > > Support Phono-L > http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank
