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That's true that firewalls and good antivirus help as well as the
fact that the whole Microsoft programming is extremely vulnerable to
viruses unstable and insecure. All serious programmers I talked to
say Microsoft platform is garbage. No serious programmer takes it
seriously. Historically Bill concurred the market with his user-
friendly Windows looking Dos stuff for dummies like most of us
(including myself).
All serious fellows use Unix. Hope this situation wouldn't turn into
conspiracy against average consumer and we will eventually see Unix
based Windows- real thing that is as user friendly as Microsoft's.
There is Linux, but after I tried I found it too much for me. It is
still based on command lines, you can't move just on mouse clicks as
in Microsoft. It may happen that eventually MS Windows will be
overpowered by hackers and viruses and software market will have to
switch to Unix.
In meanwhile we have to learn to live with MS junksoft.
Check you network settings especially in windows2000 file sharing is
on by default. Means anyone can enter your system and you will be
surely hacked in no time by some amature hacking punk. If you are
running a network and need it on, make sure all drives and files are
password protected, because by default they are not. This is another
Microsoft stupidity.
Those are important things to know when you go online.
Greg
--- In realtraders@xxxx, Clyde Lee <clydelee@xxxx> wrote:
> I am getting sick and tired of people blasting Outlook for something
> that they should take care of regardless of what their email client
is.
>
> I have a simple setup.
> 1. I'm running XP and Microsoft's firewall.
> 2. I'm running Norton Anti-Virus with an update subscription
> 3. I don't open attachments that I have not requested someone
> to send to me.
>
> I did check out one that was on the Omega list and sure enough
> Norton/Symantec let me know it was infected.
>
> Really simple, whatever email client you are using, a good firewall
> (there is a great one free that I used before XP) and a good anti-
> virus program running ALL THE TIME REGARDLESS OF HOW
> MUCH SYSTEM RESOURCES IT TAKES.
>
> Clyde
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Nelson
> To: Gary Fritz
> Cc: Jim Johnson ; 'Omega List' ; 'Realtraders'
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 9:13 PM
> Subject: [RT] Re: Security Alert -- KLEZ virus
>
>
>
> Yeah if I didn't know better, I'd say Microsoft deliberately
designed
> Outlook to be susceptable to viruses.
>
> -- John
>
>
> On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Gary Fritz wrote:
>
> > LookOut Express is the worst piece of virusware on the
internet. It
> > is seething with bugs and security holes. It is also one of
the
> > biggest targets around, since so many people use it, so it's an
> > attractive target for the virus writers.
> >
> > Pegasus doesn't have all of OE's cutesy features. You won't
find too
> > much mail from Pegasus users with background GIFs and
watermarks and
> > other bandwidth-wasters like that.
> >
> > Pegasus also doesn't have any special security features. It's
just
> > not as buggy nor as popular as OE.
> >
>
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