RE: [newbie] HIJACKED: Linux viruses
I have Win 98 at work and I'm constantly being attacked by virii/worms/trojans (through email and an open share on the network), also gatorware, which once infected my pc and was a pain to disinfect... I have lately received many emails from [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc. etc. We have Norton as well as several specific apps running on boot/startup from the network to clean specific virii very time-consuming and still they come, several times a day. At home, on Mdk 9.1, I haven't had a single attack, all virii are blocked at the ISP (bless them) One day, when you lose five months worth of work (worth thousands of $$$) because of a virus, you will also discard your Windows CD in utter disgust and turn to Linux. Regards, Hendrik -Original Message- From: RichardA [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 4:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] HIJACKED: Linux viruses On 09 Jun 2003 09:13:25 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 02:00, Anne Wilson wrote: Look, even out of the box or brownbag - literally any linux distro upon initial installation and configuration (granted that passwords HAVE been put in place) is going to be able to sit nicely without very many issues as opposed to a Windows installation brownbag - the Win box is going to get hit FIRST TIME SURFING with either adware or spyware - irregardless of what or where the user surfs to - but that cannot happen on a linux box. I think that's a wild exaggeration. I surfed for years using Win98 and never once had a problem. Admittedly I was cautious, and later started using Eudora, Opera and ZoneAlarm, but I started out with IE, OE etc. Look at XP. It was released with a known vulnerabilty (UPNP), but many people are probably unpatched and still surfing without having been hit. Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org File: message.footer Disclaimer: http://www.sabc.co.za/disclaimer/emaildisclaimer.htm http://www.sabc.co.za/disclaimer/emaildisclaimer.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Reasons for Linux
I've been using Linux and Windows side-by-side (work/home) for a couple of years now. I've moved on from Mandrake 8.0 to 9.1, but I've never moved on to WinXP. So I was curious to see what it looks like when my father-in-law got it. Guess what! WinXP is for dummies! At least, that's what it looks like... I'd rather stick to Linux which is a serious computing environment. Regards, Hendrik Martin Disclaimer: http://www.sabc.co.za/disclaimer/emaildisclaimer.htm http://www.sabc.co.za/disclaimer/emaildisclaimer.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] great domain name for sale!
Sell it to Microsoft... ask what you want, they'll take it! Hendrik Martin -Original Message- From: Technoslick [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 June 2003 4:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] great domain name for sale! On Saturday 31 May 2003 10:18 pm, JoeHill graced me with: Wonder how much they want for it? http://microshaft.com/ The most perfect slander site could be setup there ...the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help us Linux. T File: message.footer Disclaimer: http://www.sabc.co.za/disclaimer/emaildisclaimer.htm http://www.sabc.co.za/disclaimer/emaildisclaimer.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Can't get a GUI boot
This makes me think: I've gone through a lot of WM's (but not pekwm) and I've more or less settled on Blackbox as the best for me. But I would like to set up a kind of launchbar for a few apps on the desktop to avoid rummaging through the menu's. Or even a kind of command line box, maybe one that remembers recent commands so you can select from a drop-down box. Regards, Hendrik Martin -Original Message- From: John Drouhard [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 May 2003 22:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't get a GUI boot On Tue, 27 May 2003 20:20:52 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ya know, when it gets right down to it, a lot of actions are actually faster if you do them on cli and not on a gui. Course you have to know the commands and what files to edit. but even so it looks faster than opening up MCC etc. Ya, I used to use GUI's for almost everything, but I got sick of rummaging around the menus, clicking on the different buttons, etc. I then began learning what the GUI's actually did, and began to learn how to do everything by hand. Everything seems to go faster now. And I am all for ease of use. -John Drouhard -- Tue May 27 20:28:27 UTC 2003 20:28:27 up 10:33, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.01, 0.00 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 File: message.footer Disclaimer: http://www.sabc.co.za/disclaimer/emaildisclaimer.htm http://www.sabc.co.za/disclaimer/emaildisclaimer.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
