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Posted by Morgan Ohlson on December 28, 2005, 4:50 am
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 07:37:27 -0800, Offbreed wrote:
> Morgan Ohlson wrote:
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>> ___All security software must improve it's cooperation with the pc user in
>> a simple but realiable way. Scanners are not magical, and they shouldn't try
>> to give that impression, as most (all I have seen) do today.
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> Well, they have a wide range of customers with a wide range of
> expectations, and every one of them is going to complain if the program
> does not behave as they expect or want. Most don't know enough to
> criticize intelligently, or use more versatile tools.
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> Your name does not stand out in my memory. If you are new, you might go
> back through the old posts and see how many times people complain about
> "friends" shutting down fire walls or anti virus programs in order to
> view or run something the safety program does not like, and the computer
> gets some sort of malware.
>
> At the other end, you have people like Art, David, and several others
> (some not currently posting) who only need anti malware programs in case
> some new approach slips something in on them. They don't really need
> "consumer quality" safety programs.
>
> In the middle, there's a wide variety of people who want to control
> their computers but don't know enough to be as safe as Art, David, etc.
> And that sounds like where you are, right now.
>
> Study more, gripe less.
U sound like some kind of pro status quo fighter.
Isn't that way too defensive when it comes to a global growing problem for
the masses!?
Morgan O.
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