Christiansen, John (SEA) wrote: >To the CRIME braintrust: > >A family member appears to have downloaded Bugbear (no, it wasn't me, nor >was it my computer) - an unfortunate "early adopter" who got hit Friday. I >had her download the Norton fix but it appears not to fully execute, and >attempts to update Norton antivirus since also fail. It's a Windows ME box - >aside from snarfy comments about the application, anybody have a suggestion? >THX! > Even among Windows OS's, ME blows big chunks. Consider it a good opportunity to upgrade that machine to W2K (the last usable Microsoft OS before Microsoft started pre-installing their own viruses). My wife's ME machine is horribly unstable. She's considering dumping it completely and turning it into a Linux server, and doing all her desktop work on her Apple iBook. Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. Chief Scientist, WireX http://wirex.com/~crispin/ Security Hardened Linux Distribution: http://immunix.org Available for purchase: http://wirex.com/Products/Immunix/purchase.html
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