Re: Losing Control of my Computer
From: Tony Lawrence (foo_at_pcunix.com)
Date: 05/22/05
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Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 12:13:40 -0400
Moe Trin wrote:
> In article <TZCdneecFKiQOhLfRVn-vg@taconic.net>, Tony Lawrence wrote:
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>>PorkTeriyaki wrote:
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>>>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 :-)
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> TRANSLATION: even virus writers don't support mac's anymore...
You are out of touch. Macs have become quite popular with us old Unix
folk. But this is not the place to argue that. OS X Macs avoid viri
the same way Linux does: we aren't running as root and we have to sudo
for anything that needs root.
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>>But my wife uses a Win XP box,
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> 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.
Unfortunately, we have that stupid killer app - QuickBooks (not Quicken
- there's plenty of Linux apps that can replace that). It does run on a
Mac, though it's often behind in features, and the SOB's won't port it
to Linux - even though it would obviously be much easier now that they
have done OS X.
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>>One difference might be that she uses Firefox rather than IE whenever
>>possible (everywhere but our stupid bank,
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> Replace the bank with a more clued version.
:-)
There's more annoyance in that than firing up IE to get there..
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>>but they don't give us spyware - at least not yet!)
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> 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
-- Tony Lawrence Unix/Linux/Mac OS X resources: http://aplawrence.com
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