Posted on 08/18/2004 10:04:30 AM PDT by glorgau
I've been on computers since '82, with my old IBM PS2/50, and have never had a virus hit any of my machines.
Norton and a few other apps do all the heavy lifting. I just make sure they're properly installed.
Macs have their own set of problems. I worked on them at an evening course learning Photoshop, Illustrator and Quark. They were always crashing and we spent way too much time re-loading software. Never again.
If 90% of households had a mac then we will all be talking about mac problems with security.
By the way, the new G5 iMacs will be announced in 11 days. The case will have a major redesign - with the main circuit board mounted behind the flat-panel screen. It should have a lot of power without taking a lot of desk space.
And, yes I can't stand Steve Jobs.
I got a few minor ones in the early 90s.
That's true, but since the Mac OS is a Unix variant, its architecture vastly diminishes its potential security exposure.
Who wants to waste time doing that stuff every day? It simply reinforces the fact that Mac OS is better than Windows.
A five-year-old Imac will work fine for surfing the net, word processing & fit in easily with any home network.
Sorry, but Macs are inherently more secure and stable. Being Unix based, one cannot bypass permissions and compromise the system.
I'm on RoadRunner (Cable Modem) here in Houston. I connect the cable modem to a 802.11b AP and run everything wirelessly.
Good advice...I haven't had much trouble with popups. I run ad subtract..I have all the stuff you reccomend plus pest patrol (paid version/quite good worth the $19.00). Yet Trojan Downloader got in..I suspect my kids took down Zone Alarm while on EBay...I put a password in so this can't happen again. This downloader is causing havoc. I went on a couple of threads and as of Saturday, there was no real fix. I know something about computers so between escan and manual removal I got rid of it. I hesitate to post my fix because if you don't know what you are doing, you can really damage your pc.
That is very interesting. I have heard this is a good way to go. I am sick of Bell South. They charge higher and higher prices and make no effort to improve security.
Norton? Don't need it. Download something from the internet? Of course! Install it? No worry.
Macs make life much easier.
I have an Apple Airport (wireless) network with 4 Macs and even 1 PC connected, but I would never use the PC for e-mail.
See #19. ZoneAlarm. Sptbot SD. Adaware (even though it's recommended, I have never found much with it, and Spybot picks up WildTangent and others that AA misses - even the new SE version). SypwareBlaster for sure. Along with "Hosts" file in Spybot (there are others that block more "bad/nasty" sites.
Add AVG antivirus from Grisoft. Update automatically daily. There's one or two better, but not for free.
It's worked well for me. I have 4 notebooks and one desktop all running wirelessly. One in the kitchen, one in the living room, two in the family room (the mrs and I surf while watching TV), and the desktop is really nothing more than a print server.
The notebooks are great cause we fold them up and slide them under the sofa..
Thank you for doing your part to keep my computing safe.
I suspect that a large number of people (including those who are "doing everything right") have no idea that their systems have been compromised. There was junk on my system that didn't show up until I tweeked scanners way beyond the default settings... It was enough to make me blanch considering the daily updates to everything I'd been running since my systems initial smoke test nine months ago...
Take a look at this post.
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