Re: How to prevent malware from running on your PC
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Re: How to prevent malware from running on your PC

From: Quaestor <no-spam@my.place>
Date: Thu Dec 29 2005 - 17:08:00 CET

Charles Newman wrote:

>"Volker Birk" <bumens@dingens.org> wrote in message
>news:432ad957@news.uni-ulm.de...
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>>- you should use your brain before inserting disks into your PC, and
>> a virus scanner will help also, if you know, that virus scanners cannot
>> be perfect
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>I guess this must be why PCs dont come with floppies anymore.
>All the computers at the Compusa store close to where I
>live all come with no floppy drives.
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compusa is not the computer market.

> The floppy disk is
>HISTORY, that is what someone as Compusa told me.
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They will tell you anything that will make or save them a buck.

>He told me that they dont make PCs with floppies any
>more. So the next PC you buy will come without a
>floppy drive.
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Cars with separate left and right side doors are also obsolete. :-\

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Godwin is a net-nazi
Received on Tue Jan 3 03:40:01 2006