swsamurai
Premium
join:2002-04-17
Bakersfield, CA
clubs:
 ·Bright House
| reply to mustang03282
Re: Teach People
I just do the OVERLY causious thing...
I tell anyone who wants to email me to put a certain phrase in the email, and any email that comes in without that phrase is sent to a holding area. I will occasionally look through it to see if there is anything worth saving, but most of the time it just gets deleted.
Add to that the fact that I only use Firefox, and I am running a pretty safe machine
No one is perfect, though, and I am certain that I will get hit again (Last time was about two years ago.) |
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radarman
join:2005-06-01
Odenton, MD
| reply to mustang03282
True, but there are two ways to approach the problem. I run my Windows PC as safely as I can, but I don't run any A/V or firewall software. I depend on an external gateway router/firewall and keep all my files on a file server. I'm also good at filtering my email the old way - if it looks like crap, it probably is.
This way, should something go terribly wrong - I just blow away the machine and start from a fresh install. I have a custom WinXP w/ SP2 slipstream install CD with the most heavily used utilities on it - so it usually takes about two hours to get back to where I was.
It's cheaper in the long run - and I'm guaranteed that the machine will be free of problems when I get back online. I've operated this way for over 8 years, and I've still only experienced one virus - a boot sector virus from a floppy disk I loaned a guy in 1995. (the floppy, and the virus, are long since gone) |
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mustang03282
join:2003-01-10
Bridgeton, NJ
clubs: | reply to wilburyan
i agree anyone that thinks there pc is 100% secure and uses it on the net is a fool at best |
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