[plug] Gold !

[Mike Holland]

What can we tell the poor windows users?
Is it enough to enable the firewall before connecting, and then run
Update before running MS-IE ?

On Thu, 25 Dec 2003, James Devenish wrote:

> by inference...it has never been safe to connect any Windows PCs to the
> Internet and Microsoft's advise is decades late? I suppose this doesn't

except that the threats have changed. Ten years ago, most desktop unix
boxes probably had less security (due to bad setup) than XP has now. But
they didnt need it.