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To be or not to be ............................. online
® Melba (in the United Kingdom) 24 Dec 2003 at 13:23 GMT


Apparently Microsoft are advising people not to connect new computers to the internet until they have a firewall, up to date virus software, and the latest security patches for Windows.

All very sensible you may think, but where do you get the security patches? Oh yes, Microsoft's website. Doh!

(and they're still shipping XP with the firewall turned off by default).

http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/news/story.jsp?story=475921
Typical!

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Re: To be or not to be ............................. online
® mouse (in the United Kingdom) 24 Dec 2003 at 14:25 GMT


And more money in their pockets, no doubt!
Microsoft are slightly more kind to Internet Novices than AOL - but I doubt they tell you the best places to shop around!

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Re: To be or not to be ............................. online
® Melba (in the United Kingdom) 24 Dec 2003 at 14:57 GMT


Just for once, no. Microsoft security updates and patches are free. I don't know which anti-virus vendors they recommend or what financial connections they may have with them but MS, as such, don't sell AV software, something which has always struck me as strange.