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Xeen:
Tomorrow is the new Personal Firewall Day, according to Microsoft. MS and another company are declaring tomorrow, 1/15, Personal Firewall Day. They will unveil a new website and focus on educating users about using Firewall software and antivirus software.

 
quote: The Web site is simple, with few graphics and no advanced features such as a search engine or online tutorials. It has a simple menu of text links to topics such as "Why You Need Protection," "Personal Firewall," and "Anti-Virus Software."
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I can answer that last question. Why do we need to use firewalls and anti-virus software? Simple! Because we want them to hog our CPUs and resources, making PCs slower, so that we'd eventually get sick of it and go buy a new faster PC.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1212&e=6&u=/pcworld/20040114/tc_pcworld/114318&sid=95612658

[ January 14, 2004: Message edited by: xeen ]

Kintaro:
Well it is better then having viruses and h4x0rs hog our processors.

Xeen:

quote:Originally posted by X11: doogee.is.dreaming.org:
Well it is better then having viruses and h4x0rs hog our processors.
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True, but what I meant is if you get a virus they say "oh well its your fault because you weren't running an antivirus program" instead of "its MS's fault because they dont write and test software well enough so we wouldnt have to use antivirus programs."

You can run a MacOS or Linux just fine with like a 1% chance of getting a virus. With Windows, theres a 90% chance you'll get one.

Kintaro:
Good point, Microsoft dont have much in the way of firewalls, the only reason they would advertise third party stuff is so they can get everyone into the firewall craze, and then realease a Microsoft Firewall suite or somthing.

WMD:

quote:Originally posted by xeen:
I can answer that last question. Why do we need to use firewalls and anti-virus software? Simple! Because we want them to hog our CPUs and resources, making PCs slower, so that we'd eventually get sick of it and go buy a new faster PC.
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Nah, firewalls don't hog the CPU/ram.  Also the antivirus stuff doesn't seem to, at least here.

But either way:
 
quote:You can run a MacOS or Linux just fine with like a 1% chance of getting a virus. With Windows, theres a 90% chance you'll get one.
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That is still true.

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