1. Educating users? That only works if you have the authority to fire the retards who refuse to listen. The same morons would set off a virus every single time at former job sites, without any chance of termination.
2. I disagree with not having anti-virus software running. While some are performance hogs, many are not. My AVG never seems to bog anything down. 3. Although Firefox may be more secure, it doesn't work on every site. 4. I would use thunderbird every time over outlook. --- Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Madigan wrote: > > 100% secure, but what about 95%? > > You get to 80% by removing Internet Explorer, > Outlook/OE, Office, and > Windows Media, replacing with Firefox, Thunderbird, > OpenOffice, and > iTunes. You get to 90% by educating the users about > safe surfing. You > get to 95% by having an effective perimeter firewall > (Windows Firewall > doesn't fall into this category). You get to 97% by > smartly installing > the needed Windows Updates (this means doing it > manually, not > automatically). > > Anti-spyware and anti-virus are performance hogs > that add no value, > except after your system is already hosed. So load > them when you need > them, but don't run them in the background unless > you like that false > sense of security and reading those annoying little > messages all the time. > > Note that the percentages given are relative to > possible security under > Windows, not to possible security under any > operating system. And this > is all in my humble opinion only... > > -- > pkm ~ http://paulmcnett.com > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > Searchable Archive: > http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox > This message: > http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ** 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. > _______________________________________________ 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 Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** 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.
