Re: Successful Test

["Timothy O'Connell" <toconnel@xxxxxxx>]

Or you could just get a Mac and be done with the whole virus thing
entirely.....including the exploits of IE.  You can pick up a used iMac on
eBay for a few hundred dollars, it'll be faster than the PIII / 500mhz and
will come bundled with a bunch of apple software that'll make it super easy
out of the box.

Just a thought.

T.


> From: Sandwich Maker <adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: <mail-From-toconnel-mac.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:44:09 -0500 (EST)
> To: <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Successful Test
> 
> " From: farna@xxxxxxx
> " 
> " Unless you're into high powered graphics or games,
> " a high powered computer isn't necessary. A decent Pentium III 500 MHz or
> " an AMD Athlon around the same speed, 512MB memory (256MB at least), and
> " a 30-40GB hard drive would be fine.
> 
> you can get along with a lot less than that!  though computers of that
> class are easy enough to come by.
> 
> " The downside is WebTV isn't targeted by hackers, virii, or
> " ad-ware -- as far as I know -- like computers are. This is why you DO
> " NOT want to use Internet Explorer -- it's the most exploited software
> " (excluding Windows itself) in the world!. Use Netscape or Firefox. I use
> " Netscape at home and it ignores 90% of attacks. My daughter uses
> " Firefox, and I thought about switching (Netscape is a bit slow to load,
> " but fine after loaded), but Firefox has become popular enough that there
> " are a couple virii/ad-ware programs (I'm not sure which, or if both)
> " that specifically target it. I'm not aware of any that target
> " Netscape... yet. There are one or two other browsers out there, but rank
> " less in popularity. Popularity is MS Internet Explorer (comes bundled
> " with Windows, duh!!), Mozilla Firefox, Netscape, then others. All seem
> " to do the job, but there are a few web sites that will only
> " display/operate certain features with IE. Those are (thankfully!) few
> " and far between though.
> 
> nb. firefox is pulled off the netscape/mozilla codebase - essentially
> a browser-only mozilla.
> 
> opera [www.opera.com, current ver 8.50] is another good browser.
> 
> the only thing to use explorer for is windows update.
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