Hello Richard, Sunday, October 19, 2003, 5:52:45 PM, you wrote:
RU> On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 9:05 pm, Dick Gevers wrote: RU> My sister currently has 1479 messages on her ISP's POP3 server RU> waiting to be downloaded, probably 99.9% Swen, so 100K each on a RU> 40K dialup line. She's ditched the ISP and gone to Compu$erve RU> (argh!). My sympathies. I used to use Compuserve. Yech. RU> Currently she still doesn't have email setup, nor an email client RU> apart from Lookout, an antivirus package or a firewall. This needs a bit of redoing. :-) RU> My current thoughts are Pegasus, Mozilla, Spybot S&D. If you use Proxomitron and DNSkong with the pre-configured files I mentioned in an earlier note, there is a rather small chance of getting any spyware. If you surf porn, hacking, or other nefarious sites, use Spybot once in a while, and it would be best to add a Trojan scanner as well. RU> Don't know whether to go Mcafee or AVG (or some other.) Forget Mcafee. AVG is OK. The MOST important thing is to get rid of ALL M$ software, though, except the OS. This will help you FAR more than all the after-the-fact fixes you can add to the M$ pile of junk. RU> Howabout firewalls? See my earlier note. RU> In the longer term she could probably handle Linux, but the lack RU> of an MS Publisher clone is holding her back. Any answers for RU> that? Two machines, or dual boot? Run MS Publisher only when she MUST do it, and run ONLY that on Win. Email, surf, news, etc, in linux. -- rikona mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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