[ale] Scare tactics

[Richard Kolkovich]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On 09/26/06 16:48, James P. Kinney III disclosed::
> On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 16:37 -0400, Billy049 wrote:
>> Recently I have noticed news items saying the internet bad guys are now 
>> targeting home users who need a security suite to protect them.  It 
>> seems firewall programs no longer support some of the older Windowses.  
>> Upgrade this, buy that, argh.  Oh yeah, and they're saying Firefox has 
>> lately had more vulnerabilities that the other guys products.
>>
>> Ok, so they have my attention now and they are scaring me towards using 
>> Linux for my online work.  I hope some can reassure me that this move 
>> will greatly increase my home computer's security.
> 
> The best part is that NONE of those virus/spyware problems that plague
> windows machines will even run on Linux unless wine is loaded up.

WINE does not run viruses very well at all:

http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/25/1430222&from=rss


;)

>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> I have one of those used/cheap external modems on the way.


- --

Richard Kolkovich
sarumont at sigil.org


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFFGrPCKTYpNZ5U71kRAgzFAJ49nr3js6DIg8GhNWSO87mo5uo6cwCgp6Ch
aaFVtaOE37HIezmERupl4hM=
=kBuJ
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----