[AT] OT - Spyware problems

[charlie hill]

David, you should be a Red Hat man!

Charlie
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From: "David Bruce" <davidbruce at yadtel.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Spyware problems


> The only problem I've found with various "flavors" of Linux is finding 
> drivers for things such as digital cameras, camcorders, scanners and 
> some printers.
> I tried Ubuntu and it never was able to connect to the internet through 
> my router although Fedora Core did (go figure).  Otherwise I liked 
> Ubuntu and if spent some time researching the issue I'm sure I could 
> find the problem and fix it.
> I dumped IE and Outlook Express years ago on my Windows machine.  I use 
> Seamonkey [similar to a combination of Firefox  (web browsing) and 
> Thunderbird (email)] and offered by the same people.  Stops a lot of the 
> viruses and spyware but not all. 
> David
> NW NC
> 
> 
> Mike Sloane wrote:
>> You really don't have to do much to get and use Linux. You can get 
>> Ubuntu Linux for free, and it installs itself with very little effort 
>> on your part and can run pretty much like Windowz (only better). The 
>> distribution CD comes with just about any kind of application you 
>> might need - Email, word processor, spreadsheet, "powerpoint", Web 
>> browser, even some games. You can run it from the CD without touching 
>> your machine, install it as a separate partition, replace your Windoz 
>> system, or (what I did) install it on an older machine and fool with 
>> it until I got comfortable with it. Go to <www.ubuntu.com> for more 
>> information or just to to <www.shipit.ununtu.com> to order one or more 
>> CDs. (it does take a few weeks for the CDs to arrive. I have it 
>> running on an "older" 800 mhz machine that I picked up free from 
>> someone who thought it was trashed. The only thing wrong with it was 
>> that the hard drive was crammed with viruses and spyware. I 
>> re-formatted the drive, installed Ubuntu, and it works fine.
>>
>> Mike
>>
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