Posted on 12/30/2004 9:13:24 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
It's still alive and well. It depends on what you use it for. It's very helpful for getting 'legally' distributed information, like Operating Systems and other things. Recently suprnova.org was shut down, it was the mother of all torrent sites, but there are many others out there.
Most definitely...I am not a Mac user....I browse with Xandros....Linux....and am having no problems with spyware..... I also have a couple of Xindows XP machines used for the normal sort of things that windows is good at....I just don't let them get on the internet and browse with them....
I am solving my problem with multiple machines....rumor has it that apple is about to announce a sub $500 machine that might be an answer....KVM switch and use current monitor and keyboard mouse between the two machines....one machine is never enough...
What's that?
Sounds like you're having trouble with some machines with minds of their own! ;>)
Are their Mac versions of the anti-spyware software listed above? I am full of questions because we are getting a Mac next week. I use my work laptop now, and it goes through my company intranet first, which has mega-firewalls and security, so I am almost completely pop-up free right now. Don't want to get into trouble with our new Mac!
VNC is cheaper, and perfect for lazy folks like me - unlike KVM, you don't even have to flip a switch ;)
So you have your own inhouse network?
Makes text more defined and clear http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearTypeInfo.mspx
Much to my wife's dismay, yes. She is somewhat happier now that I'm in the process of gradually ripping out the cat5 and going wireless ;)
I keep getting a suspicious looking screen that says something like "Your computer not be running at full speed. Click here."
Is that the result of spyware?
I'll bet he had a Spyware service installed. I'm seeing more and more of those these days. Windows Net Login for example. It sounds like a legitimate service. It's pure spyware.
My FR homepage has more detail.
I don't think you'll need it. I've been using a Mac laptop for 18 months now and have never had a piece of spyware. My Windows desktop is continually infested. BTW, I went to Apple's website support section and searched on the word "spyware" and got no hits. It's just not an issue. You will never regret getting a Mac.
That is more likely just a popup AD...what machine and software are you using?
Thanks. We also have a pretty sensitive fire-wall installed in our wireless router; it keeps out a lot of stuff. I'll have to be sure to instruct the kids never to click on a banner ad!
Windows XP. IE 6.0
You've been thru more stuff than I have, course my resume includes mostly big IBM Iron.
....excellent advice on your Home page, lots of work...I like my solution...keep Windows away from browsing the WWW.
See Malsua's ... FreeRepublic profile page.....
He has it figured out it seems to me.
GOOD LIST .... thanx
Why do say Norton anti virus is worthless? I use it.
Good luck with the kids. My teenage son's friends love to use our computers and I think their web-surfing is the source of most of the spyware. Of course they deny everything. I'm pretty indulgent about this sort of thing because I'd rather my son and his friends were at our house than someone else's but I think that sometime next year we'll get one of those slick flat-panel Imacs and end the problem for good.
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