At 08:37 AM 12/20/2006 -0500, Ted Roche wrote: >On 12/19/06, Charlie Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Nope. For monitoring your computer, MS cannot be trusted IMO. > > > >Gee, Charlie, if you feel that you can trust them to monitor the >application space, how can you trust them to run the OS? > ><g,d&r>
Tee hee.... In fact, I don't really trust them at the OS level either. Remember rootkits? That niftly little backdoor MS left in the OS? To try and feel more safe in the MS world, I use ZoneAlarm, Avast, yada yada. Nothing from MS there. But even then since the OS sits under everything there could be something else. So every now and then I'll just reach around and unplug the network cable and see what happens. If something shows up, I start tracking it down and figure out a way to kill it (e.g. Windows Media player was one such culprit - Quicktime for me...open source has some goodies to of course). At the moment, most of my time is spent serving clients that only use MS Windows. They're getting fed up. Even the 'big' guys. In the meantime when I get some spare time I dabble in Linux and other open source software. A lot of my clients are already dropping MS Office and going to OpenOffice (and MySQL and PostgreSQL). When they finally go to Linux I'll be better able to junk all of MS's software and sleep easier at night. ;-) -Charlie _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
