Hello Stephen, Thursday, June 5, 2003, 7:35:34 PM, you wrote:
SK> usual McAfee and Symantec that MOST people use are quite SK> ineffective to catch them right off the bat; Speaking of bats, I use TheBat! in Windoze for email. FAR better, safer, and more private than any M$ email software. It, too, is not bothered by such things. I can look at the virus and do whatever I want with it (except run it, of course). No problem. It's the M$ stuff that's the problem. SK> but just overall - it's the Windows "public" that suffers this SK> inherent lack of security and has to live with the brunt of virus SK> attacks - which only makes linux (whatever flavour) all that more SK> attractive - One can make Win much less vulnerable to viruses, etc, but the vast majority of people have no idea how to do that. [First thing - use as little from M$ as possible.] A question: many viruses are nothing more than an executable script. In Win, it is rare that one needs to run a script, and a 'good thing to do' is to simply disable the scripting capability. But - in Linux, scripting looks like it is essential. Wouldn't it be relatively easy to write a script virus as an attachment and do the kinds of things that happen in Win? SK> (and it's even funnier when it's an XP machine that has to be SK> reloaded say, seven or eight times and they have to purchase that SK> said-same in-secure OS again...) Interesting idea. :-))) XP was 'the line in the sand' for me. Ungodly intrusive and restrictive. A major reason why I looked at linux. SK> Gosh - linux is rather attractive after all, ya reckon? (g) I rekin so, y'all. -- Thank you, rikona mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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