Re: Knocking at your backdoor

From: Br0wnbear (browbearat_at_canadadotcom)
Date: 02/24/04

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    Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:16:25 -0500

    On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:14:20 -0000, "Keith MacDonald"
    <nospam@parasites.com> wrote:

    >Still no support in this forum for encouraging Microsoft to fund an
    >advertising campaign targetted at people who haven't a clue how to protect
    >their PCs from viruses?
    >
    >http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/221
    >
    >See my thread "Microsoft have got to make PC users aware of the problem" in
    >this forum, started on Jan 27, for an example of how to stir up apathy.
    >
    >Keith MacDonald
    >

    I thought they did.
    hmmm Protect your PC in 3 steps?
    http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/default.asp

    Funny when people asked for protection against email viruses they put
    in the switch to block attachments. Now people are peeved because they
    can't get their attachments that they wanted protection from.

    MAKE UP YOUR MINDS!!!
    Sorry, bad day going back to hibern8

    jbrown
    "A Computer is almost human. Except
    that it doesn't blame its mistakes on
    another computer."

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