On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 17:51 -0800, jdow wrote: > And for the type of applications he wants his best bet is Windows, > sadly enough. And, predictably, he's infected. He and I are paranoid > different ways. I am rather careful about my browsing and my system's > still clean. I got nailed ONCE so far - that's from being online since > the 80s. That was during an install. I simply started over with a full > format. Since then - negativum perspirium. And that is with using IE > and (mostly) FireFox on my part. Safe browsing is the key. > .... also a good anti-virus scanner with a current subscription and regular updates sitting behind a NAT firewall router with no port forwarding.
I've been online since '90 and no infections until I stopped using 'doze in 2002. None since then either. Martin
