[X4U] Good Reading

[john]

>On 7/18/05, Richard Gilmore wrote:
>>  Our PCs at work are loaded from a frozen disc image everyday. They have to
>>  be left on 24 hours a day and every night at 1 am the hard drives are
>>  automatically erased. The lengths they go to, to keep the malware at bay are
>>  extraordinary.
>
>That's quite an excessive length to go to, I think.
>
>When I first got a Mac, I did spend several months being mildly smug
>about not having to worry about viruses any more. However, I've kept
>my mum's PC virus/ad-ware free by swapping her over to Firefox, having
>a software firewall turned on, and installing a free anti-virus
>package.



>I do feel sorry for people who don't have a techie they can
>call on to set their computer up

But this is a VERY large group of people,,, they know how to turn the 
thing on and move around, but to "work" on maintaining the 
system,,,,,,,,,,,,,, you gotta be kidding!  (I have family members in 
this sort of group).

John Dach

>as Windows does seem very vulnerable
>out of the box, although apparently XP with service pack 2 installed
>is a bit better.
>
>Where I used to work the Windows IT chap had to spend a while
>installing fixes for the latest spyware when we'd get an outbreak, but
>it was relatively rare. We had a general problem where some of the
>sales staff would 'work late' and then come in the next day to find a
>porn site had welded itself in as their home page, but very rarely did
>anything need wiping and re-loading.
>
>Paul
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