Posted on 09/07/2005 12:00:32 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
I'm a subscriber to MaxPC, and I saw that editorial last week. I wondered at the time just what he was talking about. I maintain about fourty pcs with XP or Win2000, and none of them have been infected with anything after I installed a few reasonable, and mostly free preventives.
The XP firewall works. If you don't like it, there's free ZoneAlarm. If you don't like those, there are others.
MS Anti-Spyware works. It's free and self updating.
AVG anti-virus is free to non-commercial users.
The other really odd thing about the editorial is that Vista fixes the one thing Linux users say needs to be fixed, mainly root privileges. Anyone running Vista has a private copy of the registry and the programs directory. If a virus corrupts the registry or the programs, it doesn't corrupt the OS. this is important, because most modern viruses and spyware are installed with the explicit permission of the user.
Now that is interesting....
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