Re: Virus problem?
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From: "Kenneth Rhodes" <guest at RapidEuphoria.com>
To: <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 3:26 AM
Subject: Re: Virus problem?
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>
> posted by: Kenneth Rhodes <wolf_man_jacques at excite.com>
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> don cole wrote:
>>
>> I have a new to me computer and I installed Win98 in it w/IE.
>>
>> I keep getting a couple of message boxes.
>>
>> One warning about viruses and one warning about spyware.
>> Both instruct me to download software at their website for money.
>> I am sure they both are scams.
>> How can I stop these message boxes from popping up?
>>
>> Does anybody have any experiance with this?
>> Any help appreciated.
>>
>> Don Cole
>> SF
>>
>
> I had my fill of that experience. Some files labeled as
> spyware or adware, I can't remember which, I couldn't even get off my
> computer.
>
> Drop MicroSoft completely. Install Linux. No more spyware, no more
> adware and no more virii, no more defragging your hard drive.
>
> You can buy cheap cd's of Linux Distributions here:
> http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart
>
> You can find a ton of information and download links for
> a zillion distributions here:
> http://distrowatch.com/
>
> If you want something to change, you have to change something.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Ken Rhodes
> 100% MicroSoft Free!
No easy to find fixes. No more easy to find help. No easy to use
software. No more lots of things that Microsoft has done to make
our lives much more Productive. Yes, Windows isn't as stable as
linux. Yes, Windows needs rebooting way too often.
No, I haven't found a Photoshop replacement in Linux. Don't try
and feed me Gimp, I've tried it and it isn't good enough. It isn't
friendly. Windows is friendly. Linux isn't. Have a problem any setting
in Windows? Just ask the closest half-wit of a geek, any 10-year old.
Have a problem with a setting in Linux? Looking for a command?
Just use man, sorry, I don't know what command I'm looking for!
Just ask the closest Linux geek. When you finally find him. Oh, that's
right, just use IRC. Wait, what's IRC? Um, try a web search. Oh,
you can't reach the web? Problem with getting a modem to work?
Can't figure out how to dial the internet? Linux is not friendly.
LINUX is not user friendly. It is getting their. It is much closer.
but the powers that be are making it pretty hard for it to ever happen.
WinModems, along with many other Windows only HARDWARE.
USB Printers with Windows drivers, USB Scanners, USB Cameras
USB this that and the other thing. Windows drivers all over. But
finding Linux drivers is very hard. You have to hunt for a LINUX
product. They don't come stamped "Linux friendly". Heck. They
don't even come stamped friendly to a particular Flavor/distribution
of linux. "RedHat Drivers" or "Mandrake Drivers included".
Don't go thinking I'm a Microsoft Lover either. I don't like Microsoft.
But I don't see Linux as being a reasonable replacement for the
usual Desktop User. I've got an uncle with both Linux and Windows
XP on the system. I set the default boot to linux. I told him how it is
much safer. He and his wife have attempted to use linux many times.
They simply prefer to use Windows. They use Mozilla as Browser.
My dad has Linux on one of his computers. He uses Windows instead.
I've had Linux on many of my systems. I've used Windows instead.
Why? Because I can get it done. Whatever I want to do. I can get it
done with Windows. It is like choosing Euphoria over C. I can find
out how to get it done and get it done much quicker with Euphoria than
with C. Will hand-crafted Euphoria code run as fast as the hand-crafted
C? Not, likely. But, I'll have a WORKING prototype much faster with
Euphoria than with C. I don't have to compile to test Euphoria code.
Save and Double-Click/Execute/Interpret. Versus Save, compile,
execute. Debugging is easier. You get more intelligent errors.
Same can be said of Windows. Sort of. It is easier to solve your
Windows problems simply because Windows is more popular. More
people use it. More people work with it. More people work on it.
More people talk about working with it and own it. More people
support it. And that doesn't even attempt to include Microsoft as
considered a center of support for Windows. Windows support is
much easier to find even without turning to Microsoft for help.
unkmar - Lucius L. Hilley III
PS: I'm sorry, but I'm getting tired of the Microsoft bashing.
Not because I think Microsoft is great. But because I don't
think Linux is so great.
A grapefruit is not an orange. They barely taste anything close to
each other. Yet people keep trying to compare them.
Linux is not a solution to Windows problems. Better Windows is
the solution to Windows. Just as better Linux is the solution to the
Linux problems
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