>You're worrying too much. Just go download AVG or such and quit being so >paranoid.
As a Windows user you are going to have to adjust your anxiety levels. Just as if you had moved into a bad neighborhood, it would be impractical to lock yourself in and never venture out. Risk is the price of admission into the world of Windows. You need to learn the first names of the drug dealers and ladies of the night on the street corner and try to develop a friendly relationship. (I'm not going to ask why you did such a bone-headed thing in the first place.) First question is if you really need anti-virus software. If you do your web browsing with OS X and use the Mac version of Office you will eliminate most of the risk right there. The need to run Windows should be for a very narrow purpose, e.g. some custom-written software. You need to consider if this software offers any real virus exposure. If you use it in a confined way you may have no real problem. The biggest thing you need to worry about is not viruses, but invasions. Bad guys can reach through the Internet to take over a Windows computer. To protect against this you need to run the firewall that comes with Windows and you need a hardware firewall between your computer and the outside. Your Internet router may already be doing this (via NAT). ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
