Re: IE Browser redirection

From: Leythos (void_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 07/18/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 13:23:45 GMT

In article <WOoKc.2570$iK.791@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>,
dkelloway@commodon.com says...
> "Leythos" <void@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.1b63a33769aa951898a7ae@news-server.columbus.rr.com...
> > I hate to say this, as I make a living designing MS Networks for
> > businesses and run my own business on MS servers/products, but, after
> > this being the fifth time I'm going to have to wipe/reinstall my
> mother-
> > inlaws computer (WinXP, AV, Firewall, IE 6, Router, etc...) I've
> decided
> > to move her (and others like her) to the linux platform.
> >
> > Since she only does email, browses, quicken, and a couple other things
> > on her home computer, I don't think there is anything that SUSE 9.1
> > Personal can't deliver. In looking at CodeWeavers "CrossOver Office"
> > package, I may even be able to run Office 2000 on her PC along with
> > Quicken.
> >
> > I'm sticking with MS for my own company and clients, where I can
> control
> > the environment, but if I can swing it, it's going to be Linux (SUSE
> 9.1
> > or Fedora 2) for non-technical users.
> >
>
> Sorry, but I've got to ask what are your in-laws doing to their computer
> that would require it to be wiped five times?

As best I can tell, she's not doing anything questionable, at least not
that I can tell. I think she's being pulled in by the 'social
engineering' hacks that are going around.

> I've been using the same WinXP Pro system for the last three years. I
> have installed and uninstalled many an application and utility, blah,
> blah, blah and I have never been forced into a corner where I had to
> wipe the drive and start over.

Yea, me too - I've got tons of XP and 2000 systems that have no problems
at all, but most are under our control or run by technical types. In the
case of home users, or office types with laptops, they seem to find ways
to get "things" that the others don't. While I've never found a virus or
spyware/ad ware that I couldn't hack out of the registry, it's getting a
little old. As I said before, it's not that I can't secure the machine,
it's that they unsecured it and then run click happy. I have 2 120GB
drives in my main workstation, run VS.Net and the newest version too,
have a MSDN Univ. Subscription and use all of it, even my laptop is XP,
and I have no problems - as I said in another post, I manage the
environment and know what I'm doing.

I still push MS solutions, it's my business, and I use them in our
development group, heck I've got LOTS of money invested in servers and
workstation environments that I'm not about to abandon since we're not
having the problem.

It appears that I can use SUSE 9.1 Personal on home users computers,
install a product called CrossOver and still let them run Office XP
Professional and Quicken - I'm going to do a test install this weekend
and see how it goes. 

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