"...know people [don't have] virus software [and/or]
never do the updates, and don't get viruses..."
laylow,
It might be beneficial if thecow and others on the bandwagon
to rattle our personal computers and inflict in us all
a fear of the powers of Microsoft to lay waste our ability
to use the internet, by allowing evil stuff onto harddrives,
be it released Windows software or spaggie coded updates,
this parade of them huges floats of The Worm, The Virus,
The Trojan Horse are very similiar to the images we all have
of those long haired hippies of the 60s wearing white sheets
on the New York City street corner of Lost and Hope
as they shout in alarming voices "Doom & Gloom",
"Sky Is Fall'n", and "The End Is Near".
Rumor has it that a man-eating-mad-cow is terrorizing
the villagers where tc lives, so this may explain the
why and how of such a panic for protection.
Myself, my new e-machine with WinXP has been running
for a month now with only the Zone Alarm firewall up,
and no Microsoft updates and no virus etc protectors,
and all is the same as day one.
Only difference I can tell is that just maybe those
that report hacker problems use Microsoft's e-mail
Outlook Express. I'am on AOL dial-up, and have not
and will not use Outlook Express, but only receive
e-mail via AOL which I have heard screens all mail
to a degree that some non-spam and non-hacker mail
is sometimes prevented from reaching me,
but I keep aware of what incoming mail to expect.
There is other avenues hackers can infect a pc other
than the e-mail as the vessel, but here I'am clueless
but it might be a good topic to explore incase other
equal good programs are available to replace those
being now used with security risks. Seems like a
better route to take than the updates the fix parts
of the Windows OS that seem to be never ending buggie.
Doug |
