Re: How to prevent malware from running on your PC

"Flash Gordon" <spam@flash-gordon.me.uk> wrote in message
news:vndd83xdo.ln2@news.flash-gordon.me.uk...
> Charles Newman wrote:
>> "Leythos" <void@nowhere.lan> wrote in message
>> news:NXPsf.5103$Pi.2465@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com...
>>> In article <0-idnYaDDqm8WC7enZ2dnUVZ_sydnZ2d@comcast.com>,
>>> charlesnewman1@comcast.spam-me-not.net says...
>>>> "Volker Birk" <bumens@dingens.org> wrote in message
>>>> news:432ad957@news.uni-ulm.de...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> - 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
>>>> 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. The floppy disk is
>>>> HISTORY, that is what someone as Compusa told me.
>>>> He told me that they dont make PCs with floppies any
>>>> more. So the next PC you buy will come without a
>>>> floppy drive.
>>> They still make PC's with Floppy Drives, in fact, Microsoft provides
>>> Licenses via Diskette for some products.
>>
>> The last PC I bought from them does not even have a bay to put
>> a floppy drive in. There is a connector on the circuit board for
>> one, but no drive put to mount a floppy disk. While the
>> motherboard makers still make floppy connectors, the
>> cases have no drive bay to put a floppy in.
>
> Just because the company you buy from does not put floppy bays in does not
> mean that others don't.
>
>>> The floppy was removed to save Vendors money, which they don't pass on
>>> to you as a savings, and as a means to limit exposure to more problems
>>> for warranty issues.
>>>
>>> In most cases, many home users won't miss the Floppy, but many business
>>> users and many technical types will. I always order the Floppy with any
>>> PC I order.
>>
>> Well, while you will have a connector on the motherboard for a floppy,
>> you will have no slot or bay to mount a floppy in. That means you
>> cannot install either a floppy, or even a Zip drive.
>
> Just to take the first example
> http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/global/products/dimen/topics/en/dimen_xps600_sp_specs?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
> are 4 3.5" bays enough for you to put in a couple of floppy drives, a zip
> drive and something else? This was just the first well known company I
> looked at (and the first machine I looked at on their site), lots of other
> companies that still have floppy bays.

Well, the eMachines PC, which serves as my network gateway, has
the connectors on the motherboard for a floppy, but there is
no place in the machine where I could mount a floppy, so if I
need to do anything with a floppy, I have to open up the
case, and temporarily hook a floppy drive up, and then
disconnect and close up the case again when I am done.
The Compusa sales rep who sold the thing to me told
me thats the way computers come now.
Received on Tue Jan 3 03:40:02 2006