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Re: Daughter's computer
From: "Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:16:15 -0500
On 4/27/06, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:
Is there some? I'm not too keen on installing software that's been written and tested and distributed in less than 24 hours.
Decent anti-virus software, yes. Perfect anti-virus software, no. Norton will catch 99% of what you see in the wild....from my experience and I'm pretty loose on the 'Net.
point her to the various adware and spybot cleaners available - which are also free.In my experince of a driveby, cleaners didn't and I had to reinstall.
In the case of adware and spybots, the cleaners work very well - and you should use more than one to make sure you get it all.
And Microsoft says the same. I rather like the idea of following the Microsoft recommendation and reinstall Windows,
The quote I read was in reference to rootkits. Viruses, adware and spyware rise to that level of urgency. I haven't seen any adware or spyware that installed itself in the boot sectory, for instance, anyway...
even though in this case, it means I'll be installing Linux (if I can talk her into it).
Linux isn't above adware or spyware - that's a "function" of your browser, not the underlying OS. Further, she'll lose a lot of functionality going to Linux if she uses her computer for things like school or work. Word doesn't translate well - I don't care who says otherwise. I finally installed windows back on my laptop after getting fed up with trying to do my windows work in a VM because the linux replacements weren't up to par. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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