rec.autos.simulators

by **Steve Smit** » Sun, 23 May 2004 03:23:21

Alison H. says she solved her probs just be switching to onscure browsers
and mail clients (almost all the evil stuff is designed to attack IE and
OE), so she still has Windows avail for running favored apps (GPL, etc.).

> > Best piece of software I've ever had for increasing performance...and
> > privacy.

> Linux works quite well in all these aspects, too ;-)

> Cheers,

> Uwe

> --
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> Uwe Schuerkamp //////////////////////////// http://www.racesimcentral.net/
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by **Steve Smit** » Sun, 23 May 2004 06:08:42

...erm, make that "oBscure browsers," etc.

> Alison H. says she solved her probs just be switching to onscure browsers
> and mail clients (almost all the evil stuff is designed to attack IE and
> OE), so she still has Windows avail for running favored apps (GPL, etc.).

> > > Best piece of software I've ever had for increasing performance...and
> > > privacy.

> > Linux works quite well in all these aspects, too ;-)

> > Cheers,

> > Uwe

> > --
> > mail replies to Uwe at schuerkamp dot de ( yahoo address is spambox)
> > Uwe Schuerkamp //////////////////////////// http://www.schuerkamp.de/
> > Herford, Germany \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ (52.0N/8.5E)
> > GPG Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

by **Uwe Schürkam** » Sun, 23 May 2004 05:58:51

> Alison H. says she solved her probs just be switching to onscure browsers
> and mail clients (almost all the evil stuff is designed to attack IE and
> OE), so she still has Windows avail for running favored apps (GPL, etc.).

Hi Steve,

I can well imagine that picking lesser used browsers like Mozilla and
Firefox reduce the risk of infection as their security settings tend
to be a bit more stringent out of the box. Good to hear that Ali is in
good shape OS-wise ;-)

Personally when forced to use windows, I prefer firefox for browsing
and firebird as a mail app (although mutt works well within cygwin,
too).

All the best,

uwe

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mail replies to Uwe at schuerkamp dot de ( yahoo address is spambox)
Uwe Schuerkamp //////////////////////////// http://www.schuerkamp.de/
Herford, Germany \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ (52.0N/8.5E)
GPG Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

by **Mike Beaucham** » Sun, 23 May 2004 09:18:57

Being the nerd of the neighborhood, I usually have to look at everyones
PC's. I got sick last year of cleaning off viruses from people every week,
despite telling them "Microsoft doesn't email you patches!" or that .exe's
aren't the "document they requested". So I don't usually go to people's
houses any more for that stuff

--
Mike Beauchamp
http://www.racesimcentral.net/ - custom electro-theremins and stuff.
http://www.racesimcentral.net/ - mike's personal site.

by **Ruud Dingeman** » Sun, 23 May 2004 12:58:25

>>Or, just use a Mac ;)
>>installed - it makes virtually immune :)
> But the big disadvantage it that I couldn't run a lot of the stuff that I run
> now.

True. Well, you run Explorer, M$-Office, NR2003, Unreal, MoH, CoC, or
Quake? In that case, no problem then ;)

I did it the other way 'round: use a Mac (well, as said, on OS X
basically a BSD Unix machine these days) and do most of my work and Net
stuff on that. (Tiny risk of security breaches THERE). Then bought a
very cheap PII pc for $ 80 to fill my GPL racing need.

Sure, it cost a bit of money but buying a PC emulator like VirtualPC
(legally) would've cost more, really. For the PC I've got a
Live-Linux-on-bootCD distro, for HD checking in dire emergencies.

Regards, Rudy
--------------------
GPLRank: -22

by **Damien Evan** » Sun, 23 May 2004 13:23:33

I like Firefox. Trouble is, there's a lot of sites that use non-compliant
javascript that messes it up. My bank's site for one. Naturally they work
with IE and that's probably all the web designers seem to care about.

by **Damien Evan** » Sun, 23 May 2004 13:26:33

Or you could just have a Windows PC that can play absolutely anything.

I hate Microsoft as much as anyone but I don't let practicality go out the
window because of it.

by **Steve Smit** » Mon, 24 May 2004 01:31:22

Tnx, Uwe!

> > Alison H. says she solved her probs just be switching to onscure
browsers
> > and mail clients (almost all the evil stuff is designed to attack IE and
> > OE), so she still has Windows avail for running favored apps (GPL,
etc.).

> Hi Steve,

> I can well imagine that picking lesser used browsers like Mozilla and
> Firefox reduce the risk of infection as their security settings tend
> to be a bit more stringent out of the box. Good to hear that Ali is in
> good shape OS-wise ;-)

> Personally when forced to use windows, I prefer firefox for browsing
> and firebird as a mail app (although mutt works well within cygwin,
> too).

> All the best,

> uwe

> --
> mail replies to Uwe at schuerkamp dot de ( yahoo address is spambox)
> Uwe Schuerkamp //////////////////////////// http://www.schuerkamp.de/
> Herford, Germany \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ (52.0N/8.5E)
> GPG Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

by **Slug** » Mon, 24 May 2004 06:42:16

On Thu, 20 May 2004 07:40:07 -0500, Dave Henrie

> Cleaned out this lady's virus ridden system last night. A fairly new HP
>computer with an AMD XP 2800+ cpu. It had a small flat LCD screen and a
>Geforce 2 MX onboard video. It should have been a fairly speedy system.
>But it took hours to update. The Hard Drive was incredibly slow. I
>couldn't beleive, with the fast cpu included, how pokey that *** was.
> They had 3 different viruses, 80+ infected files and about 150 spyware
>programs. You shoulda seen the husband's face go slack when I told him
>that somebody knew every site he had been too. :)
> So I spent hours installing a firewall, and spyware programs and then
>doing the windows updates.
> Charged my usual fee...a 12 pak of diet coke.

> Here I sit with 7200rpm ATA drives, a non pro 9800 vid card and the same
>2800+ cpu and I keep thinking how outdated my rig is getting. :)
>It's good to get out amoungst the commoners now and then.
>dave henrie

I did the same thing recently on someones computer. I tell you, we are
sorely underpaid. I spent a good four hours getting everything in
order.

by **Slug** » Mon, 24 May 2004 06:44:41

I live in a very small town and they have only one computer store. And
the morons only sell Macs, duh!

by **Slug** » Mon, 24 May 2004 06:46:52

Or you can just dual boot Windows and Linux and have the best of both
worlds. No need for a Mac to run more securely.

by **Slug** » Mon, 24 May 2004 06:49:52

Evidence Eliminator is a known major spammer too. I don't buy anything
from scum sucking spammers.

by **Uwe Schürkam** » Mon, 24 May 2004 21:25:32

> stuff on that. (Tiny risk of security breaches THERE). Then bought a
> very cheap PII pc for $ 80 to fill my GPL racing need.

GPL & friends also run fine under WINE in Linux, using OpenGL drivers.

Cheers,

uwe

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