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: Charles Newman <charlesnewman1@comcast.spam-me-not.net>
Date: Fri Dec 30 2005 - 00:11:30 CET

"Moe Trin" <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld> wrote in message
news:slrndr8fu0.dql.ibuprofin@compton.phx.az.us...
> On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.security.firewalls, in
> article
> <pan.2005.12.29.11.53.21.886690@yahoo.co.uk>, Geoff wrote:
>
>> Leythos wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
> We don't. We only use a floppy for maintenance or the initial install, and
> the floppy comes out once that is done.

And that is the way it will HAVE to be done in the future, as computers
of the future will have the connectors on the motherboard for a
floppy drive, but no bay to permenantly install a drive. That is
what a Compusa sales rep told me.
Received on Tue Jan 3 03:40:04 2006