Re: Losing Control of my Computer

From: Moe Trin (ibuprofin_at_painkiller.example.tld)
Date: 05/22/05 

Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 10:57:34 -0500

In article <TZCdneecFKiQOhLfRVn-vg@taconic.net>, Tony Lawrence wrote:

>PorkTeriyaki wrote:
>> I have popup blockers, a spyware remover, & a CWS shredder, but still
>> I'm spending more time clicking off popups, deleting unwanted bookmarks
>> from my Favorites list, & deleting unwanted shortcuts from my desktop,
>> than working with my computer. How do you keep free from these swarms
>> of pests?
>
>I keep free of them by using a Mac :-)

TRANSLATION: even virus writers don't support mac's anymore...

>But my wife uses a Win XP box,

Replace the wife with a more clued version - mine finally stopped using
windoze in 1995, although there hadn't been a system at home running
microsoft since 1992.

>One difference might be that she uses Firefox rather than IE whenever
>possible (everywhere but our stupid bank,

Replace the bank with a more clued version.

>but they don't give us spyware - at least not yet!)

Yeah, I'm watching for that problem. So far, the bank doesn't "support"
*nix, so any spyware is going to have to be in Java. But the only account
on these computers that has Java enabled is user "noone" (a close relation
to "nobody"), who has no rights outside of his chrooted home.

        Old guy

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