On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 14:15 -0700, Bart Garst wrote:
> der.hans wrote:
> ...snip...
> >
> > A quick question for those who use m$ desktops but don't use eXploder and
> > LookOut: do you still have to run anti-spyware and anti-virus stuff all
> > the time? If you do run them, do you constantly find stuff that needs to
> > be removed?
> >
>
> I use Mozilla on my WinXP machine. I run adaware every month or so. It
> always catches something, cookies mostly. I then block cookies from
> those sites (using mozilla's cookie manager). The number of items
> adaware finds gets smaller, and smaller...
>
> As for virus scanning, I update frequently, run constantly in the
> background (checking every file that gets accessed), full system scan
> every week. The only virus's I've ever caught came in as e-mail
> attachments. Never once been infected (knock-on-wood).
>
> Incedentally, I use Norton Antivirus (Symantec product).
>
> I also got a spam e-mail once that was advertising Norton's Spam
> blocking stuff. Talk about mixed messages...
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of course had you clicked that link about Norton's Spam blocking stuff,
it would have taken your credit card info ;-)
www.clamwin.org
bye bye Norton...
Craig
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