To: Raymond Duray who wrote (20387 ) 6/8/2001 2:00:23 PM From: mr.mark Read Replies (2) | Respond to so ray"never open... anything at all from a less than fully accredited source" isn't airtight. lots of malicious code, trojans, viruses, etc. invade users mailboxes and send themselves off to everyone in that user's address book. the result is that you, much like former joe on this thread a few days ago, receive a perfectly fine looking email from what has up until that point been a fully accredited source (your friend), but without av software, you are about to be had bad."never go to anything other than commercial websites" isn't airtight. hackers home in on these sites all the time and create mirror sites and redirects and plant embedded code that will attempt to load trojans on your hard drive."I don't want to spend endless hours futzing. How can that be achieved?" ...naval-gazing seems to say that you have a less than high opinion of computer-related subjects. granted, people feel differently about technology, and some are more interested in it than others, but if you use a car, you also have to maintain it... and i think that the pc as a vehicle of transportation is a good analogy. until and unless this all gets less complex, what choices are we left with but to wade through the morass and strive for efficiency? <g3>"that's it, i've done enough" , and to heck with all the upgrades and installs and fixes and versions and warnings. it will never end. so we all have to pick a spot where we decide to climb off of the treadmill for a spell.
