Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] good free virus protection for Win XP?

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 23:01:58 -0600 (CST), Mike Miller
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> My wife needs virus protection for her Win XP laptop.  Is there a good
> free product that does updates and doesn't prompt all the time?

Well, you could always sell the XP Laptop, buy a tricked out iBook and
get an OS that is essentially virus-free and puts out free feature and
security updates on a very regular basis.

(And, yes, I know that this isn't the question you asked.) :-)

On a more serious note, it appears that Firefox does do a pretty good
job at filtering out adware attacks, while GMail can sniff out
phishing, so now if we could get people to stop sending and using
attachments in insecure formats like .doc, there's hope that Windows
users could have much cleaner systems pretty quickly.

And, as much as Microsoft annoys me, I am pretty sure that the next
version of Windows is going to ship in a fortress-like configuration
and be substantially more secure than this one.  Basically, if they
*don't* fix this, they are really and truly asking to get stomped on
the desktop.  Lots more people are switching to FireFox and finding
that it's...pretty good.  I think that's huge, because those same
people are now much more likely to try out a free Office Suite or some
other handy tool, and I think it will be curiosity as much as anything
that will be the end of MS domination on the desktop.  In a day when
still a majority of users have MSN.com as their homepage, free
software will do nothing much, so getting past those days is very
important.

jking

 
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