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To: Don Green who wrote (700)	5/21/2007 1:23:17 PM
From: dybdahl	of 923

Don... that's not a good list. 1) Surge protection is expensive and solves a non-issue for most people. 2) What's a firewall? By most definitions, most people surf without, safely. I surf completely without much protection many times a day, from my mobile phone. Is it safe? I don't care and I never heard about anybody having problems doing what I do. There are much worse things you can do. 3) Neglect antivirus and antispyware. You cannot always fix a broken security system by inspection. The most secure systems are usually not running antivirus and antispyware. 5) Who cares about fragmentation? 7) That's why my wife loves her laptop - she may click on everything without getting into trouble. What about these: - Neglect security updates. - Test your backups. I have seen too many users unhappy about finding out, that CD-R's don't always keep data readable or that their backup system hasn't been running for a while. - Use Internet Explorer. It enables activex controls and COM access, which means that a security problem can quickly escalate to a major problem. - Give yourself administrative rights on your Windows and maybe even disable Vista UAC. This is the best way to ensure, that malware is able to infect your computer well.

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