I use AVG free for anti-virus, Webroot's Spy Sweeper for anti-spyware
and Zone Alarm Free for firewall. It's absolutely imperative that you
have these three areas covered (by whatever programs you choose),
especially if using IE and Outlook. I also use Firefox and Thunderbird
to avoid the MS
I stopped using ZA recently when it was blue screening my laptops when they
connected to my .org's network through a VPN. Worked fine one night, then
the next day, WHAM. Never could figure out what changed in ZA.
Why not use a stateful hardware firewall for this kind of protection?
Oops, I
Winter Banana? Really? Where can you get them?
I can buy Grimes Golden, Black Twig, York, Winesap, etc. from Heyser
Farms, but they've never had Winter Banana. Do you have a source?
--Constance
P.S.: My husband works at an Apple retailer. I can ask him about some
specialized technical Mac
YEAH! Darn that windows vista for being too advanced...darn dirty vista!
Oh and linux too.
On 9/27/07, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oops, I just read on Wikipedia that Vista does something that breaks
stateful firewalls.
Finished the clone process and all's well ...hooked the old drive to my
desktop machine and cloned it to my 120gb ext USB drive (fully compressed
took 16gb while the drive was 40gb and was almost full with ~2gb left)
...clone successful and formatted the 40gb drive now having a handy backup
drive
I think Mike is drinking the koolaid on this one.
I don't know about Apple but 15 years of familiarity
with Microsoft makes it clear to me that software
changes (i.e. features) are meant to drive marketing,
except unlike model changes in cars they are more pernicious
in that breaking old versions
While some will continue to defend MS's stealth patches, it is now
revealed that sloppy programming creates a situation where the stealth
patches block many (around 80) other patches to XP.
The problem happens if you reinstall XP and then try to run Windows
Update. Apparently the stealth
At least with Zone Alarm you will know what programs on your computer
are trying to access the Internet. It does require some judgment on your
part because you will have to decide what gets permission and what
doesn't. The neat (or scary thing you find out is how often all of the
Microsoft
I bought an apple called a Grapple that smelled and tasted very grape
like last year. It came in a plastic box of four and smelled
wonderful. I saw it at Wegmans and either Giant or Safeway.
On 9/27/07, Paul Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the Splendid Table table episode last week they
Absolutely; I fully agree - just ignore the various asides, like my
commentary about the fundamental problem of humanity, in response to Betty's
observation about people not considering consequences. Computers, of course,
are products of people asking questions, including about implications,
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