Larry W4CSC wrote:
prodigal1 wrote in :


Larry W4CSC wrote:

and I have corrected through judicious snipping


One of the best things you can do to protect a Windoze computer is to
UNinstall Windows.

ahhh...that's better




The only problems are the alternatives.

no-no Larry, the alternatives _are_ the solutions

I use Linux on one computer here.
Nice O/S, works great, but, unfortunately, the hackers writing applications
for it have short attention spans...Snip

your perspective is valid, however updating is over-rated. Some of my
Linux boxen are 4 generations "out-of-date", still function perfectly
and are approaching the security through obscurity zone. I've been using
Unix/Linux/Mac for almost 15 years now and quite frankly there is
nothing one can do on a Windows box that you can't do on one of the
alternatives, and have it done in a more robust and secure fashion,
which I think was the gist of your response


I suppose you could buy a Mac, some do, but Apple has always been so
proprietary with their O/S it almost killed the company.

Have you checked Mac's stock performance in the last 6 months? I was
snoozin'...I be losin'

Mac, with its
training wheels you can't remove,

give it another look, OSX is really just the 2005 version of circa 1993
OpenStep/NeXTStep which was essentially BSD Unix. Now more than ever,
Mac is the way to go for non-technical people who want their computers
to function like toasters and with the vermin-free Unix OS under the
hood, and the more robust Mac hardware...you do get what you pay for.