On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 00:52:45 +0000 Richard Urwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My sister currently has 1479 messages on her ISP's POP3 server waiting to > be downloaded, probably 99.9% Swen, so 100K each on a 40K dialup line. > She's ditched the ISP and gone to Compu$erve (argh!). Currently she still > doesn't have email setup, nor an email client apart from Lookout, an > antivirus package or a firewall. > > Can anybody suggest (probably offlist is best, my mailbox can stand the > traffic,) free packages for all the above? I would be grateful. My current > > thoughts are Pegasus, Mozilla, Spybot S&D. But I haven't used Pegasus > since 1995, is it the best? Don't know whether to go Mcafee or AVG (or > some other.) Howabout firewalls? I liked Tiny Personal Firewall when I ran win2k. Very simple to use, and quite secure. When first installed, it prompts you for every attempt for incoming or outgoing traffic, so it can be a little annoying, but it requires no configuration; you just choose allow yes or no - this time or every time. For a bunch of free software, take a look at WebAttack (yeah, I know, odd name), but a bunch of freeware for windows. I used alot of these when I had to boot back to windows, before I finally got everything I wanted to work in linux. http://www.webattack.com/freeware/freeware.html Tim -- I often read this forum on my PDA, please use plain text! _ ( ) ASCII ribbon campaign against HTML e-mail x registered Linux user # 329428 / \ GnuPG KeyID 6B5A70DF www.keyserver.net
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