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First... sorry for messing up the subject line... Second... to stretch the medical/disease/pandemic analogy a bit further: I believe there is a cure, and those "in the know" could end all of this virus nonsense. Unfortunately, there's no money in the "cure", only in "managing the illness." Maybe when I get my Java skills up to snuff, I'll get a Mac G5 and start rewriting stuff to avoid the virus' du jour. I also run several Windows machines (as a hobby, at home) and they are continuously connected to the 'net. The only time I've had a problem with viruses was with my Win98 machines awhile back before I learned to properly configure services (I learned alot from Gibson Research - http://grc.com - and his ShieldsUP utility.) This has long been corrected, and my Win2k, WinXP, and Win Server2003 boxes have been immune. -William date: Tue, 04 May 2004 16:44:53 -0400 from: michaelr_41@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx subject: Re: MIDRANGE-L Digest, Vol 3, Issue 666 I find that the best method of protecting a Windows PC from a virus is to switch to a Mac. On Tue, 04 May 2004 22:38:18 +0200, ouuch@xxxxxxxxxxx said: > On 4 May 2004 at 16:01, Adam Lang wrote: > > > Say your network is your local city. Windows is the crack head prostitute > > running around open to disease and helping to spread them. Sure you don't > > get infected if you don't use with her, but you still have to waste money > > paying for her welfare. > > The real problem is, that there is no really working cure. We have about > 90% PC's > as a standard install - same hardware, software installed from a general > pool of > packages, automatic virus scanner updates und patch installation. > > The other 10% can't be updated due to different reasons, some even don't > run a > virus scanner as it interferes with the special software running. And > unfortunately, > these machines are quite important to our business. > So we are now working on a internal firewall to gather these machines in > a special partial LAN. > > It's at least good to know that one's not alone with this problem. Some > bigger german > companies already had to admit problems with Sasser, too. > > On the other hand, one can protect a windows PC quite good. My XP machine > at home has > no firewall, no virus scanner and only Service Pack 1 installed. But > since I've switched off all > windows services with network connections, neither Blaster nor Sasser had > a chance. > > Regards, > > Oliver
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