On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 13:19, Paul Kitchener wrote: > For the poor PC users among us (and our friends); along with Firefox I > advise the use of AVG antivirus over Norton$ as it does actually care > about little, merely anoying trojans etc whereas norton ignores some as > they arent 'viruses', just annoying:( > > To finish the job, Zonealarm firewall, easy enough for novices to use. > The lack of an effective firewall will always allow a PC to re-infect > itself, as the article states, immediately. It will still download > gremlins but they are then trapped and unable to phone home.
One thing you mac folks can do to help stranded WinXP users (Can't connect to the 'net to get the updates they need to make it possible to use the 'net - hehe) you run into is keep the odd CD around with WinXP Service Pack 2, ZoneAlarm, AVG, Spybot, Ad-Aware, Firefox, and Thunderbird on it. Sort of a portable WinXP rescue float to hand to somebody. Those of you so inclined can no doubt hand it over with comments about not having to worry about viruses or spyware (yet! - though I think Linux will probably get hit first at this rate) and being able to use the 'net without getting cracked. I'd provide an ISO (CD-ROM image), but I'm not allowed to by the license agreements of the software in question. -- Craig Ringer
