Re: Windows Firewall any good?

On 11 Feb 2006 18:14:44 +0100, Volker Birk <bumens@dingens.org> wrote:

>Craig Davies <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>> Is Windows xp Firewall any good, or should I get another firewall program.
>
>It's adequate.
>
>Additionally, you should not use Internet Exploder but another browser,
>not use Outlook or Outlook Express but something else, and you should
>keep your programs up to date, which are used in the Internet or are used
>to manage or view data, which you have from other people in the Internet.
>
>If you want to, you could use a Virus Scanner. Beware, that Virus Scanners
>cannot detect every virus by concept, so a Virus Scanner is handy but never
>can be totally secure, even if you'll keep it up to date all the time (which
>you should).
>
>Yours,
>VB.

 It is pretty easy to get away from IE, still there are web sites,
particularly government sites and some financial sites, that will only
work with IE. I keep it around for those sites but I don't use it
unless I have to.

 While there are a lot of mail clients out there, it is tough to find
a replacement for Outlook. Outlook integrates with such programs as MS
Project as well as having the ability to request meetings, view other
people's calendars, request meetings, set appointments, set tasks,
etc..

 Many of the business that I work with use Outlook. It would be
difficult if I could not request meetings, share calendars, etc with
them. Is there another email/suite program that can do all these
things?

 I heard that Open Office did some of these things, does it have a
mail client?
Received on Mon May 1 00:50:17 2006