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From: David W. Hodgins on 9 Feb 2010 02:32 On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:02:52 -0500, The Central Scrutinizer <gcisko(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Please ignore everything about this post... > Whoa!!! Please clarify. Are you suggesting Bill is correct in saying m$ should be trusted to provide and maintain good anti-virus software, or are you agreeing with me that their history has demonstrated, that they are not capable of doing so? Also, Please trim articles you are replying to, to only the parts you are replying to, and then add your responses to after the parts you are replying to. Regards, Dave Hodgins -- Change nomail.afraid.org to ody.ca to reply by email. (nomail.afraid.org has been set up specifically for use in usenet. Feel free to use it yourself.)
From: David H. Lipman on 9 Feb 2010 16:30 From: "Char Jackson" <none(a)none.invalid> | On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 07:36:44 -0600, Bill <wsblevins(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>In article <op.u7um8m2da3w0dxdave(a)hodgins.homeip.net>, >>dwhodgins(a)nomail.afraid.org says... >>> Are you suggesting Bill is correct in saying >>> m$ should be trusted to provide and maintain good anti-virus >>> software >>I'll chime in here. I took a brief look at some independent comparative >>tests, which would conclude that MS Security Essentials Anti-Virus would >>be adequate for most people's needs. No AV product is completely >>effective without some common sense being used. Personally, I choose to >>use NOD32 because I have used it for years and don't mind paying for it. >>As for a firewall, the one included with Windows 7 does just fine >>according to tests performed at Shields Up on the grc.com website. It's >>fully stealth, and that's good enough for me. | If you're using a router, as many of us do, then Shields Up is testing | your router rather than your Windows firewall. +1 -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: Bad Boy Charlie on 9 Feb 2010 18:00 > >| If you're using a router, as many of us do, then Shields Up is testing >| your router rather than your Windows firewall. > > >+1 +1 here too. Hard to believe I agree with Lipman on this one!! :)
From: The Central Scrutinizer on 9 Feb 2010 23:48 "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins(a)nomail.afraid.org> wrote in message news:op.u7um8m2da3w0dxdave(a)hodgins.homeip.net... > On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:02:52 -0500, The Central Scrutinizer > <gcisko(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> Please ignore everything about this post... >> Whoa!!! > > Please clarify. Are you suggesting Bill is correct in saying > m$ should be trusted to provide and maintain good anti-virus I am saying you appear to be a whacky nut-job that thinks MS is incapable of having an AV product because of who they are. > software, or are you agreeing with me that their history has > demonstrated, that they are not capable of doing so? And you just proved my point. > Also, Please trim articles you are replying to, to only the > parts you are replying to, and then add your responses to > after the parts you are replying to. Hey pal I am the central scrutinizer not you OK. I'll tell you what to trim and what not to trim. You dig? > Regards, Dave Hodgins > > -- > Change nomail.afraid.org to ody.ca to reply by email. > (nomail.afraid.org has been set up specifically for > use in usenet. Feel free to use it yourself.)
From: The Central Scrutinizer on 9 Feb 2010 23:54
"Char Jackson" <none(a)none.invalid> wrote in message news:g4a3n5hs9bek7qjm7k33f8bl0badpmg77s(a)4ax.com... > On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 07:36:44 -0600, Bill <wsblevins(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>I'll chime in here. I took a brief look at some independent comparative >>tests, which would conclude that MS Security Essentials Anti-Virus would >>be adequate for most people's needs. No AV product is completely >>effective without some common sense being used. Personally, I choose to >>use NOD32 because I have used it for years and don't mind paying for it. >>As for a firewall, the one included with Windows 7 does just fine >>according to tests performed at Shields Up on the grc.com website. It's >>fully stealth, and that's good enough for me. > > If you're using a router, as many of us do, then Shields Up is testing > your router rather than your Windows firewall. And that matters how? Or are you just pointing out a detail or nit because he referenced the windows firewall when the action may well be going through the router? Please point out one example where the windows firewall being enabled was a problem in that it allowed inappropriate access. |