On Monday 20 Oct 2003 2:31 am, rikona wrote: > 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 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. > I have been well pleased with Kaspersky. The Lite is cheap, but you have to manually do the bases updates. If you want automatic updates (virus bases and prog updates) you have to get the second one, Professional, IIRC.
> 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. Run win4lin if she uses 98 or me. Then she can use any necessary M$ apps. If she does any and all on-line stuff outside of the windows she should be fine. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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