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To: Sawtooth who wrote (13456)	8/7/1998 1:22:00 PM
From: JMD	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Tim,all. This post comes under the heading of "Surfer Mike's Tech Tip of the Week" [and you guys know how valuable that is] so listen up: SM thinks all this virus/e-mail fatal flaw stuff is a bunch of horse feathers. I use Outlook '98 as my e-mail client and it's supposed to have some form of creeping crud, but guess what? It's working fine, and I haven't bothered to break my neck getting to MSFT's web site to download the mother of all fixes. I'll do it when I'm REALLY bored some month. I spent $50 for some anti-Virus program that ran all around my system for 20 minutes and then announced that everything was clean as a whistle. Whew, what a relief! Not. Here's what I SHOULD have done--spent the $50 for a UPS. Power surges are real. My snazzy new machine just had its whippy-skippy hot damn two trillion MB video card absolutely fried as the local electric company sent a spike down the line during a recent heat wave. My surge protector was about as worthwhile as a post from chuckj: zero, zip, nada. I think the virus thing is a scam cooked up to get us all to part with a few bucks for one of the utility programs to "protect" us. Besides, I don't think any self-respecting virus could live on the same hard disk that stores all the raunchy jokes my buds send me over the net. The current Lewinsky series probably kills all the viruses better than Quarterdeck anyway. So, SM says y'all hustle down to your favorite local discount store and buy something that will do you some good. The utility companies are much bigger threats to your PC's health and well-being than all the supposed hacker attacks combined. SM