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[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 03:14:24PM -0700, Anthony Terrible wrote:
> While all that may be true I have not had any problems. I am very connected
> via cable modem and yet I run no Anti-Virus virus and have yet to be hit
> with anything. I believe the reason is that I have tight security on all
> programs that touch the internet and very strict on permissions of those
> programs as well. This means that a lot of web sites don't work very well
> but I have found that those that don't aren't of much use to me anyway.

For what it's worth, I have a client whose machine both he and I have
used to access the Internet (among other things) from 1996 to date,
starting on a dialup, and for the last year on cablemodem -- only the
last month or two with a router.

No viruses.

No spyware.

No trojans.

How?

No Outhouse Express.

No Internet Exploiter.

The latter only gets fired up to do Windows Update and the occasional
Trend Housecall virus scan, which always comes up dry.  It's off all
the menus, I have to hunt for it.  It is also set to come up blank.

Netscape 4, 6, 7, up now to 7.1.2.

Runs like a top.

It *can* be done.  Infections have to vector somehow.  Just Say No.

Cheers,
-- jra
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