More money disappearing from your pocket....

[da SLUG man]

Or *BSD Unix if you really want to go the full hog. Must admit, I've
switched back to a M$ machine in the house, (wench wanted to play
the blo0dy Sims), and that's the worst part to get used to. The fact
that you can get affected by virii and trojans again. I really hate this
O.S. And trying to find a decent e-mail client for windows, just don't
get me started.

so, what's wrong with the stuff it comes with??
i just use outlook express with mailwasher for email... and AVG for virus... never had any problems??

[MattF]

so, what's wrong with the stuff it comes with??
i just use outlook express with mailwasher for email... and AVG for virus... never had any problems??

When you start wanting things like proper, (not the half arsed attempt
most clients use) multiple account support, full views of the headers
without having to jump through hoops with hidden options to get them,
resilience to html/clsid and just about every other scripting exploit that
windoze machines seem to love in e-mail.............

The list goes on. Plus, a lot of the *nix clients either aren't ported or
lose some functionality within windoze, provided they work correctly at
all. Not fun.

Oh yep, forgot to add, I hate Outlook with a vengeance. Biggest piece
of tatware humanly imagineable.

[da SLUG man]

don't think i need any of that... so... i must be ok??

[MattF]

don't think i need any of that... so... i must be ok??

Yup. Although, using something a bit more secure and resilient never hurts.
Thunderbird is apparently a decent one. Personally, I like Sylpheed, but I can't
even get that to run correctly across roaming profiles, mapped drives and such.
For single locally stored accounts, they're both nice alternatives on windoze.

[CaptainBeaky]

Thunderbird works for me! No email problems since ditching Outlook.

[Gizmo]

When you start wanting things like proper, (not the half arsed attempt
most clients use) multiple account support, full views of the headers
without having to jump through hoops with hidden options to get them,
resilience to html/clsid and just about every other scripting exploit that
windoze machines seem to love in e-mail.............

The list goes on. Plus, a lot of the *nix clients either aren't ported or
lose some functionality within windoze, provided they work correctly at
all. Not fun.

Oh yep, forgot to add, I hate Outlook with a vengeance. Biggest piece
of tatware humanly imagineable.

Linux still has its virus vunerabilites...admittedly far far less than Microsoft....anyone used Lindows [supposed to be able to support both OP Systems]

[MattF]

Linux still has its virus vunerabilites...admittedly far far less than Microsoft....anyone used Lindows [supposed to be able to support both OP Systems]

Last time I checked, seem to remember there only being about three for *nix.
And I think two of those needed some form of user interaction to work.

Never tried Lindows, but everything I heard about it sounds like it's a bit of
everything, but not very good at anything. Bit like the saying: Jack of all
trades, master of none.

[Tallyman]

and even worse!... AVG anti virus free isn't gonna be free from 15th Jan 2007!!

OMG!!

That's because it's been upgraded to V7.5 which is still FREE. If you've had a message from AVG then it should have contained a link to the download site for V7.5. I've already upgraded and it's still great.

[gillcover]

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HIya
getting back to the question of money going from the old sky rocket(Nov 5th pun,,,get it !) Anyway I just got back from Blackpool and went on the toll M6..£3.50 each way ,,, going there paid the toll and a couple of miles down the road got into a jam ,,road works ,,,what a joke,,, some express way that I thought, still the ol surf did well 851 kilometers on just over a tank and a quarter at around 65/70 all the way ....except for the ffffing jam... ho hum

[peter026]

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