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Cool! Foiled virus attempts
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You guys worrying about a virus in a .zip attachment are right. I got 3 e-mails this morning with .zip attachments from one of those "blind" NetZero addresses. This means of course that it was not passed on by the address book of anyone here, but from somewhere in the random cyberworld. Beware attachments, especially those that the sender asks you to open, no matter what they claim they are. With some virus software programs, you can highlight a suspicious file, right-click and do an instant "Check for Viruses" instead of waiting for the software to run on its own time and find it, by the way. Good virus software can check inside compressed files -- unless you have changed the settings so that it doesn't.
T. Jefferson: "[When doing Constitutional interpretation], let us [go] back to the time when [it] was adopted. [Rather than] invent a meaning [let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed."
T. Jefferson: "[When doing Constitutional interpretation], let us [go] back to the time when [it] was adopted. [Rather than] invent a meaning [let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed."
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I was able to get things fixed without major construction because a guru befriended me and helped me clean up a DNS cache in the registry which was at the root of the problem. Now I have both firewalls operative again and some strong words for the individual who disabled them.
Linux is fine for servers, but their acceptance in the consumer market is still miniscule, as you know. Try to find an over the counter PC equipped with it at Best Buy, for example.
And of course if you need to share files with co-workers and clients out in the world you are the one who will have to convert your files as needed to assure compatibility and useability on their Windows systems. Then you have the learning curve of a new OS; I used Unix 10 years ago and it was a lot like writing DOS commands at that time. Linux is an offshoot of Unix -- I'm sure it's all icon-oriented now (Lindows even approximates a Windows environment) but it's still a journey into the unknown for most private users and compatibility with other people's systems and software is probably the biggest worry I would have.
T. Jefferson: "[When doing Constitutional interpretation], let us [go] back to the time when [it] was adopted. [Rather than] invent a meaning [let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed."
That's the purpose of WINE (Windows Emulation); as long as you have a reasonbly capable computer, you can probably successfully emulate windows and run windows-only APPs to your hearts content. Regardless though, I'm glad you found someone to give you a hand and more or less get things up and running again. I feel pretty much crippled whenever more than one of my pc's goes down for any length of time.