In <vpi7h3itfhfbed@corp.supernews.com>, "Tom R." <tom42344@snotmail.com> writes:
>A pretty strong security message to the business world that purchase pcs for
>home and family
> http://ptech.wsj.com/ptech.html
>
>From a post in another group.
>TR
>
>

Thanks for the link to the WSJ article--it has good
advice on waiting for MS-XP, SP-2. I already made
that decision and have stored the two drives with
XP on the closet shelf. (Microsoft's cops would
probably arrest me for having the drives in the
closet and the stickers still on the machines.) [:-(

My wife uses a Mac, upgraded with OS/X, for all
of her personal work. Handsome, quiet (no fans),
fast, easy-to-use interface. We hide that machine
behind a simple NAT box and have never bothered
to install any anti-virus or firewall software on the
machine itself.

The machine has never suffered a casualty in the
over four-years that it's been in service!

The downside of course is that she can't view some
of the email attachments and insertions that depend
on Active-X or Microsoft's latest multi-media protocols.
We've never bothered to search for utilities to handle
this--she forwards the problem stuff to me and we
view it on one of my PCs. We usually wait a few days
to do this so that Norton can update to face the
inevitable virus or worm.

The Chip Merchant, here in San Diego, uses a point-of-sale
system based on iMacs. I believe that their back-office
for accounting and inventory is all Mac as well.

Regards, "Mike"
-- mikeellison3xxxatzzzyahoo.com --