Hear! Hear! about staying with the church you was raised in, to which
I've often compared the Mac/Windows debate -- and, years ago, the
Word/Wordperfect debate.
And about virus software and keeping it uptodate -- I use ZoneAlarm
Security Suite, which the virus part is McAfees in different clothing,
and I, too, have never had a problem.
Don Ferguson wrote:
> OMG Roger!! You Mac guys always go there!! (BTW, I chide Mac people
> the same way I chide attorneys - with love and respect - my dad was a
> lawyer and many of my friends and relatives use Macs). MacOS may in
> some ways be marginally more secure than various versions of Windows
> (especially older ones), but I noted today in one of the technorati
> blogs that there is an increase in the speed at which hackers are
> turning out attacks to take advantage of identified security holes in
> MacOS. Price of fame, I guess. No more security through obscurity!
> :-)
>
> It's like cellular providers -- each has its strengths; each its
> exposures. In all the years I've used so many Windows computers, and
> across all the hundreds of client computers for which I've been
> responsible over the years, I've just kept Norton Antivirus in place and
> up to date and have never had a problem with a virus. Not one. Not
> ever.
>
> Cheers,
> Don
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> Roger Prokic
> Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 1:26 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Treo] Palm-related problems with MS Office Apps
>
> Sounds like you got infected by a virus or the like... Exactly why I now
>
> own a Mac. :-)
> ---
> Roger Prokic
> Baltimore, Maryland USA
>
> -=[ This email was sent from a Palm Treo 680 palm computer using
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> ...... Original Message .......
> On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 06:28:28 -0700 George Kontos
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
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>> This morning when I tried to open PowerPoint on the PC, and then later
>> Excel, I got error messages indicating there are "serious errors"
>> experienced due to add-ins qpoint6.ppa, presentertogo.ppa, and
>> palmapp.xlt, and I was prompted to disable them.
>>
>> What's up with that? Are these all Docs To Go files? What do you think
>> has happened?
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>> (Running Win XP, Office 2003, and Treo 700p)
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>> Geore
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