Re: Best Firewall
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Re: Best Firewall

From: Volker Birk <bumens@dingens.org>
Date: Sat Sep 03 2005 - 07:50:42 CEST

J. E. Durbin <slothrop@example.com.invalid> wrote:
> Next come up with a way to convince a 79 year-old user or Joe the
> mechanic and his wife Marge the waitress that they need to spend
> another 50 bucks for a router and $100 - 300 + a $100/year
> subscription fee for a mystery box that, as far as they can tell,
> should have been part of the PC they already paid good damn money for.
> Got an answer the average, non-techie, user will understand?

Yes. Marge & Joe are completely right.

Microsoft should start to deliver their software with a secure basic
installation.

Windows XP SP2 is the very first step in this direction, and a long, long
way to go.

Say: Marge & Joe should by a Macintosh ;-)

Yours,
VB.

-- 
"Es kann nicht sein, dass die Frustrierten in Rom bestimmen, was in
deutschen Schlafzimmern passiert".
                                    Harald Schmidt zum "Weltjugendtag"
Received on Thu Sep 29 20:06:04 2005