Windows users, security is Now!!
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chickenWhy Windows users may be inadvertently enabling LJ's problems.
If you are a Windows user, do as the man says -- install Spybot Search & Destroy, AdAware, ZoneAlarm, etc. And try to use Firefox instead of IE when you can.
I know people have been repeating this warning ad nauseum in every security forum on the planet for the last zillion months, but it bears repeating simply because a lot of people aren't really hooked into security awareness.
And OS X users, you don't get off scott free either. Be sure to turn on your Firewall (System Prefs->Sharing->Firewall tab).
People using any OS (OS X, Linux, Windows) should also install an Anti-Virus program.
If you are a Windows user, do as the man says -- install Spybot Search & Destroy, AdAware, ZoneAlarm, etc. And try to use Firefox instead of IE when you can.
I know people have been repeating this warning ad nauseum in every security forum on the planet for the last zillion months, but it bears repeating simply because a lot of people aren't really hooked into security awareness.
And OS X users, you don't get off scott free either. Be sure to turn on your Firewall (System Prefs->Sharing->Firewall tab).
People using any OS (OS X, Linux, Windows) should also install an Anti-Virus program.
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Date: 2004-06-30 10:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-30 01:01 pm (UTC)OMG
Date: 2004-06-30 02:56 pm (UTC)Re: OMG
Date: 2004-06-30 03:28 pm (UTC)Re: OMG
Date: 2004-06-30 04:33 pm (UTC)....see? There I go again....
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Date: 2004-06-30 02:27 pm (UTC)and we're still switching to Firefox, at the insistence of the spousal overunit (programmer who saw some horrifying news stories about IE security). Hooooo boy.
On the upside: oooh! Firefox themes! Shiny!